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This past Quarter might be considered the ''Pain Chronicles'' -- my left arm, which I'd continued to push limits on but was not very much hopeful of any further improvement actually toward the end began showing surprising improvement, most notably in its ability to reach up behind my back again.
Considering that all of this arm pain and discomfort was the unwitting result of my attempts to lose the extra baggage around my middle and perhaps hopefully even build a bit of noticeable muscle mass on my arms & chest, it becomes the irony of ironies that on the last day of the past Quarter, while formatting and naming some of my backlog of photographs that are still stuck in an unsorted state, and having come across a couple of nude ''full body'' shots when I was in a considerably leaner shape in and around my waistline, that I'd now deemed the look ''unattractive'' and suddenly no longer felt any desire to revert back to such a body shape -- (this does not mean that I'm no longer desiring to lose any of the extra weight; I'm just no longer enthusiastic about trying to rid myself of ''all'' of it).
As far as the pain in my toe is concerned, it still flares-up, but typically whenever I've placed even the slightest bit of pressure against it from any number of unusual angles.
The whole ''dating apps'' experience has been going somewhat according to expectations, even though it did result in producing a couple of short-lived conversations: I'd managed to engage in off-site conversation with one of the ladies-- as self-described formerly [same-sex] married ''Lesbian'' Adoptive-Mom from Puerto Rico --at her direction ... but in an attempt to assure that any conversations with her would be legitimate, it resulted in my establishing an entirely new email account to use as a direct messaging and ''chat'' hub ~ I also got the impression that she's been using ''translation'' software to continue engaging in our conversations, as her chat texts are often unclear and raise questions about what thoughts she's actually trying to convey; I also seemed to be maintaining some regular-ish contact with another, heavier-set with possibly rosacea, woman who described herself in her profile bio as a ''Baby Gay,'' which I'd responded to despite her admonition that she was not interested in contact from ''Men.''
September 1 - 3, 2023 (Friday - Sunday)
Made an after-work shopping trip to ''Sam's Club'' two day in a row, both Saturday (Sep. 2) and Sunday (Sep. 3) with my renewed but ''downgraded'' membership: first trip was to get a rotisserie chicken, a pack of ground buffalo, a case or ramen, and some assorted snack chips; then went back to grab a couple of cases of that ''Lipton Peach Tea'' and a couple of packages of ''Gorton's'' fish fillets the following day.
Proceeded to work on finishing the oven cleaning job I'd started earlier in the week and had let sit after finally returning to the apartment Sunday, and determining that it was going to require at least one more spray & wipe down session before I could declare it a job complete.
Unmentioned Highlights from Previous Quarter...
''Weekend in Review''
September 8 - 10, 2023 (Friday-Sunday)
I sent follow-up messages on Friday Night (Sep. 8) to the two persons with whom I'd established ongoing conversations via the matching/dating apps, informing them that I'd planned on being in Tampa City proper next week (for the purpose of renewing my working permit) and trying to get one of them to commit to a ''Meeting in Public'' situation on one of the available days -- and was not entirely surprised that both had declined choosing
Expressed concern for my helmet camera after work Saturday (Sep. 9) as I'd gotten caught in the rain while I was en route to the nearest ''Walmart'' for some produce items and replacement nail clippers before continuing on to my local ''Publix'' to return the boxed tacos kit I'd purchased when I'd last gotten my eyes checked, because the shells were staler than all pfukk.
I noticed sort of issue with the sight in my left (recently operated-on) eye early at the jobsite on Sunday (Sep. 10), where I'd become unavoidably aware of the fact that tiny spots of darkness were appearing in my line of vision which were interfering with my ability to focus on & read text, mostly by blurring out portions but which seemed to be affecting my overall ability to properly focus -- a problem which was lessened, but not entirely corrected, with the wearing of my prescription lenses; and as the hours passed, so did the condition seem to clear itself up for the most part.
Over the Weekend, I'd discover that two of the apartment units had cleared out of their former occupants, including (thankfully) the loud and irritating outdoors yell-talking Spanish-speaking couple next door to me: I've no idea if these were the result of lease expirations or were due to any other factors.
Returning to the apartment after having waited for about a half-hour in line at the ''Ridge-19'' Walmart, where I'd stopped into after my workday for a new pair of work shoes and a couple of bell peppers, I was greeted to the rest of the rotisserie chicken that I'd taken out to add to my a salad I'd made for my work-lunch still sitting out of the refrigerator on top of one of the kitchen tables because of my absentmindedness hours earlier, thus forcing me to discard literally half of what I'd purchased.
And since there was no updates/changes Re: my First-Meeting invitations with either of the Match-Site individuals, I proceeded to schedule my appointment in Tampa for Tuesday Morning.
''Weekend In Review''
September 11 - 14, 2023 (Monday - Thursday)
Didn't do much of anything on Monday (Sep. 11) outside of spending much/most of my time splicing & editing a new video upload project of more local trip footage I'd recorded while returning from work the previous day, which I didn't get rendered into a completed video until the post-Midnight hours of the following morning (Tue., Sep. 12).
I had hoped that I'd managed to depart with sufficient enough time to arrive at my scheduled appointment on-time... but as a result of heavier than expected traffic, a turn-off that was way too early (onto ''Interstate 75,'' rather than onto ''Florida Highway 301,'' as was intended), which did not provide me with any convenient ability to double-back, resulting in my remaining on the route until veering off onto the ''Hillsborough Ave.'' exit, I'd managed to arrive a half-hour later than my entered time -- but despite the missed target, they were still able to accommodate me even as I'd shown up when I did.
Immediately after I'd completed with everything, I decided to venture on to ''Ybor City'' for lunch at ''New York, New York'' pizza, where I came to realize that it was not so much the pizza itself that makes that place standout for me, but rather it comes down to the fact that for some reason they manage to get the crust just about perfect.
It was when I was as I was preparing to leave from ''Sam's Club,'' where I'd decided to detour into before returning to the apartment (armed with a couple of plastic bags I'd acquired from the minor/pretend shopping I'd first done at the ''Publix'' on ''Sunray Dr.'' in order to have them on-hand for one of Sam's ''roto-hens'' which I couldn't get anyway because there would've been a 70-80 minutes wait time) that I'd discovered that the cable connection port on my helmet-cam was not maintaining a proper connection, thus again, with a SECOND camera, rendering my ability to directly power and/or recharge the battery of the unit pointless.
It was also during the ride back to the apartment that I'd realized that the general focus in my left orb had indeed seemed to have worsened, as I'd decided on the last leg of being on-road to switch out my prescription megane for the sun shades.
Back at Base, I proceeded to tackle my credit card bills and pay my ''ObamaCare'' premium before moving on to reloading my smartphone for another year's worth of service. (Any thoughts I might've had about re-activating the old ''LG'' phone were flushed down the toilet when during the previous week the screen had decided to develop those annoying end-of-life ''vertical line streaks.''
I had waited until after I'd returned from my appointment in Tampa before deciding to re-establish contact with the two individuals I'd been in conversations with through those dating app things -- and it was genuinely no surprise that neither of them made any effort to re-connect... especially ''Ms. Purtho Rico,'' whom I suspected was stringing me along the entire time anyway.
What did come as a surprise was when a new ''match,'' to which I was alerted to earlier in the day, decided to reach out and responded to my follow-up inquiry with a phone number right out of the gate! -- to which I'd expressed concern that it was way too early in the discussion to be connecting directly via phone and that we should first establish preliminary communication through email or webcam chat: what didn't surprise me in the least though was the fact that this cautious ''scammer-foiling'' approach I'd taken was met with deafening SILENCE. I would then come across another of ''her'' posts on one of the other sites, whereupon I'd used the information ''she'' had provided there to sent off a final message addendum proclaiming that I was no longer interested in engaging in conversation because of openly revealing ''her'' COVID-prevention status as, ''Unvaccinated,'' which I'd stated (truthfully) was an absolute ''Deal-Breaker'' for me (...along with proudly identifying as ''Politically Conservative'' or revealing/bragging about being a ''frequent'' marijuana user... or ''Flipping the Bird'' in any of the posted Profile pictures).
Wednesday and Thursday (Sep. 13-14) were pretty much lost to me thanks to a lingering migraine.
''Week in Review''
September 26, 2023 (Tuesday)
Scheduled my appointment to refill my eye drops prescription this morning to beat the refill deadline, as this was the final day to do so. I paired this with my ''updated'' COVID and Shingles vaccines, along with my first ever annual Influenza vaccine. I kept the appointment at 15:00, then called my Mother about it after returning to the apartment, initially complaining about ''Tracfone's'' flaky/crappy service since having acquired by ''Verizon.'' Shortly after the call, I went to ''reddit'' to leave my anti-DeSantis flip-off on the COVID discussion page, where one of the posted comments reminded me that ''U.S. Postal Service'' was again distributing new batches of the C-19 home testing kits, whereupon I'd ordered a set for myself then texted my Mother alerting her to the offer as well.
20:35, Eastern Daylight Time
September 28, 2023 (Thursday)
Didn't start coming off of my post-vaccines side effects, which pretty much began partway into the day yesterday, subjecting me to a mild fever, some off-&-on chills, and tiredness, until later into this evening.
Ironically, it was the ''tiredness'' part that proved most problematic, as instead of its resulting in my getting hit with any sleeping spells, as would've been reasonably expected, the side effects instead perpetually kept me rushing to the toilet something like every 15-20 minutes or so, insisting that I emptied my bladder virtually non-stop, which was keeping me almost completely awake the entire time until I'd gotten up for the day to make my preparations to ride out to ''Sam's Club'' later in the morning for one of their ''Roto-Hens'' (I would wind-up actually purchasing two of them), a couple of packs of canned tuna, and a tub of peanut ''M&Ms.''
Returned to the apartment faced with the sight & sounds of new neighbors moving into the apartment unit next door to me... not thrilled.
Also learned later, during my search for updated versions of my computer apps/programs, that the ''official'' release of the latest version of the ''Mageia Linux'' distribution had finally been made available and had been offered for download almost a full month ago. So now all that remains is to see just how ''serious'' all of my bloviating about my intentions to kick ''Microsoft Windows'' to the curb truly was. The prospect of doing so is appearing much more than just likely, though... finally... now that I've found myself getting slapped hard in the face by the disturbing discovery following this latest update session that all web browsers (mainstream and alternative) have now essentially abandoned and will refuse to provide any further functional ability on ''Windows'' systems that are still operating within anything preceding the ''Windows 10'' platform -- which means there's practically no reason any longer for me to stubbornly remain locked within the ''MS'' environment (and I'm sure as hell not going to let ''Apple Mac'' make a fool out of me ever again).
23:35, Eastern Daylight Time
October 16, 2023 (Monday)
Inspired by today's dark gloominess and chilliness, I sent a text to ''Mimi'' (a short time after registering an account with ''Plenty of Fish'' -- the absolute worst dating app ever!) trying to get an update on her situation and to invite her over for some intimate ''Clitoral Stimulation'' time; she texted me back a few minutes later informing me that she'd been in and out of hospital, and had only just returned home Saturday (Oct. 14), following what she said was emergency hysterectomy surgery, as a result of the fibroid issues she'd told me about during her last visit with me, and she said she was feeling really awful post-operation ~ I tried to share what little encouragement I could.
21:45, Eastern Daylight Time
November 27, 2023 (Monday)
I did not realize until reviewing around 1:00 this morning the video footage my helmet-cam had recorded of a severely lane-breaking & dodging SUV during my trek back to the apartment following the conclusion of my workday just how frighteningly CLOSE that vehicle had come to making dangerous contact with me as it crossed over into the left lane coming from directly behind me while we were traveling northbound on ''East Lake Road'' ~ and had it not been for the speed and momentum I was traveling at, I'd have continued to follow behind that vehicle as it moved over to turn onto ''Perrine Ranch Road'' in order to keep recording.
Later in the day I finally got around to renewing my Post Office Box rental, pleased to learn that there had been no price increase for the service this time, so that's off of my bucket list.
And just a few moments ago, as of this typing, I'd discovered as a result of an accidental entry on my part, during an advance preparation of the next Quarter's ''Journal Season,'' that I'd yet again fallen self-victim to posting a completely inaccurate ''Archive Page'' -- having presented a page for the ''Summer'' Season, but with textual contents reflecting the previous (i.e. ''Spring'') review.
22:05, Eastern Standard Time
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