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Sunday, November 14, 2004
Ah, Sunday morning. I sit and read, drink coffee, periodically throw the dog's toy across the room. Today is not much different, with the exception that I will get up soon and install a brand-new toilet in the bathroom that I worked on all day yesterday. Oh, and I'm doing all of this with a bulging-or-crushed-or-slipped disc in my lower back which has caused my right leg to be numb for three weeks and for the feeling and motion to be gone completely in the side of my foot, and with a sprained knee in a brace on the other side, which causes me to yelp out loud in pain when I accidently put pressure on it in the wrong manner. Oh, yeah, and I had to crawl under the house last night, as a last part of the construction from yesterday, to re-insert the toilet supply through the new flooring that I installed yesterday, right after I finished adding an entire new layer of plywood on the old subfloor, for underlayment. Oh, yeah, and I had to do this around priming all of the dining room chairs so that my wife could paint them, except for one chair. That one I had to take outside, let her spray paint remover all over it to get off the coat she tried to put on a couple of days ago without any primer, and then hose off and scrub the loose paint away. And I did this while I was in agony from going to the storage shed, looking for my spray nozzle for the hose, and popping my knee out of joint again by taking the step up to the shed. Oh, yeah, and I stopped everything in the middle of the day because I was outside and heard a car hit my neighbor's puppy, so I went to the street and got it and got the neighbor, who was home with no car and three kids, and showed her what happened. They're young, barely in their twenties, and poor. I knew they didn't have the money for a vet, and I also knew that the puppy would not make it. It was in shock and crying. So I offered to take it to a vet center, and had it put to sleep. The vet confirmed that it would not have made it. It was badly crushed and had severe internal damage. So I drove it there, and back, and paid for it. I did not bother telling them the cost. That kid did me a favor last week, when a guy at his house backed out of his drive and broke my mailbox post, and the kid got a new one and replaced it. I felt bad that he had to do it, because the other guy should have paid for it (and may have). So, all in all it was just another day. Man, I hope today is nothing like that. I used to keep in mind always a Bible verse, "In all things, give thanks." I forget that sometimes, anymore. Yesterday was a beautiful day for things to do and things to give. Thanks.
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