{"id":341,"date":"2019-01-19T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=341"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T20:55:43","slug":"january-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2019\/01\/19\/january-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"January 19 2019 Not smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
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Benjamin Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n

2nd day of the snowstorm. I went out for a walk to assess the possibility of chopping some wood.
\nNo. There is a windstorm. The snow is blowing sideways. There are big drifts of snow, some two feet deep. If I was not hurting and stupid ambitious. I could\u00a0carry the generator down and fire up the snowblower. Head out and just try to clear a path to the chopping block, just to find that the path would fill in behind me. Nope today is a snowday. I will have to ration the wood I have left to make it last till tomorrow.
\nPain is worse today.\u00a0 I am guessing that low pressure is a trigger. Pain in both elbows. Knees. Ankle. Electric shocks to one heel and to a spot mid thigh. Dizziness and fatigue at ten. Walking through the snow was really a slow shuffle.<\/p>\n

There was other pain outside. The snow is moving at a high speed. Icy daggers stabbing at my face. The pics are fuzzy because of the heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n

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Knowing me the way I do I will probably go out and try to push the wheelbarrow through the deep snow and biting wind and try to chop wood.<\/p>\n

Why, cause that’s how I roll baby.(the wheelbarrow hahahaha) It needs doing. I am still the same man who stood at the bow of my Navy Destroyer during the worst storm in the Pacific and dared God to do his worst.<\/p>\n

And funny enough he answered. With A barrage of flying fish that hit me in the chest. They hurt. He won.\u00a0 And people think I am smart, fools.<\/p>\n

Same man a lot older and a lot of broken parts. I will fix the spelling later eyesight is fuzzy again today.<\/p>\n

Well I was about to suit up and got a low battery warning on my phone. It was really a message to me. I noticed that the snow bowl was empty.\u00a0I grabbed my jean jacket, fur hat, and put my snow boots on. It was a short trip to fill that since there is snow everywhere.<\/p>\n

I was out maybe twenty minutes ago for my assessment walk. I opened the door and there was a two-foot drift of snow at my door. My footprints were completely gone the path now had three-foot drifts filling the gap. There is no way I was going to get a wheelbarrow through that. I laughed again this was God hitting me with flying fish all over again.<\/p>\n

I remember a plaque on my grandfather’s wall, that I never forgot.“Too soon we get old, too late we get smart”<\/strong>. <\/strong>I am old, and not that smart. But I can see that God won out again. I just poured a coffee. I will drink that, finish my daily ramble and fire up the generator, put it in it’s little shack, then decide if it is cult members or bounty hunters that I kill on my xbox.<\/p>\n

I guess I am a little smart, I caught the drift (how punny). Have a great day whoever is reading this. And a message for God try not to laugh too hard at me, after all you made me.<\/p>\n

And a note for me I took the vitamins. And stay inside<\/p>\n

Update:<\/p>\n

The grader operator that cleans the snow on our roads did me a favor.\u00a0 He cleaned more of my driveway more than usual. The bad part I have a 6 foot high pile of ice and snow. Sitting on my path to my chopping block. I will deal with tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I have extreme back pain. I didn’t do anything physical except move my generator outside and back in again. I did eat a bag of mini chocolate eggs. It may be that chocolate or sugar is another trigger. More research to do.<\/p>\n

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