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Sunday, April 29 2018
I awoke to find my right thumb aching whenever I moved it (the issue seemed to be with the second joint when counting from my thumb's tip). I hadn't remembered doing anything to, but perhaps this was a reaction to some of the recent carpentry I'd been doing. Still, I wasn't as bad off as Clarence, whose left paw was not like a little catcher's mit. He hobbled around, never putting much weight on it. I carried him to the his dish so he could eat, and though he had a good appetite, he was mostly listless for the rest of the day. I was so concerned that I thought I should start him on a course of antibiotics. So I managed to give him about 150 milligrams of cephalexin (dumped out of a bigger capsule intended for dogs). My internet research suggested this was an appropriate (though somewhat high) dose for a cat.
Later when Ramona came from a walk I'd taken her on in the forest, damned if she wasn't lame too. She'd had something wrong with one her front paws but now she'd done something to one of her hind legs.
It was a cool and cloudy day, and these were good conditions for working on the screened-in porch project. I unloaded the lumber I'd bought yesterday directly onto the places where it would form the decking and fired screws through most of the places where screws needed go go. By the time I was done, more than half the decking was in place.

Later this afternoon and the clamminess drove me indoors, I sat in front of the teevee (for the first time by myself in weeks) and watched some of a couple of episodes of a Showtime series entitled Dark Net, which is designed to showcase lesser-known aspects of networked technology to a wider audience. It wasn't very good, but I was a little intrigued to learn of the existence of the Nintendo DS, a cheap dual-screen gaming platform popular in Japan. Not that I actually have a use for such a thing, but I'd never seen one before, and in Japan they're apparently ubiquitous. I often find that things I imagine using that don't exist in America have already been invented and are even popular in Japan. This was true, for example, of on-demand hot water pots and small laptop computers.

Gretchen returned home around 10:00pm from her multi-day poetry workshop in Manhattan. She had some leftover Indian food, and I was most intrigued by a container of greasy spicy-fried okra. Gretchen hates okra, so it was all mine. It was delicious.


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