Click images for desktop size: "Untitled" by Equinox It looks like I fought the snow and the snow won . . .
Near crippling pain in my back today and yesterday. Still I managed to walk to the store. Either I'm tougher than I think or food and addictions are rougher to deal with then mere pain.
Part that irks me is that I'm starting to feel a bit better.
I'd give up feeling better and double the pain (or at least let it increase by 50%) if my little blind dog would continue to get well.
He seems to have reached his own plateau.
I understand plateaus. They're hard to explain to other people.
You want to convey that you're not feeling any better but your nerve synapses have calmed down and the pain that is there your brain and body have adapted to. You can function nearly as well as you do when you're feeling 100% perfect.
That last part is probably the lie your brain tells you to fool you and encourage you to keep going. Who am I to argue with an evolutionary tactic like that.
Especially when it works.
My little blind dog kept me up past 4:30. He was having a bad time and just wanted comforting.
I wish I could give him something more. I wish he didn't hate taking his medicine. Or hate me for making him take it.
He's finally sleeping now. At my feet. I guess he's forgiven me.

Still adoring the Apple TV.
I'm growing fonder of the H264 codec. Its definitely more efficient and sharper than DivX or Xvid. The only drawback is that the H264 is so damnably slow!
When you could rip a movie in about 90 minutes using Xvid, it takes H264 about 3 to 4 hours.
I'm ripping some DVD's and such to H264, so they can be easily available for my friend, so she can watch the 3 Stooges every Sunday morning kind of thing.
I also like that H264 recognizes Chapters! Makes it easy to scan a movie and gives me some ideas for all the old time serials I like to drift off and think to.
I'm still enthralled with podcasts.
Click images for desktop size: "Equate" by Envy It reminds me of when I liked listening to the radio. When they played new music, when there was such a thing as local bands and it was a rush to hear the guys you saw Friday night get played on local radio.
It seems a shame that podcasts have become so popular that the major networks have rushed in to try and monopolize. I'd still rather listen to a guy with a squeaky voice play stuff I never heard before than be fed the latest payola scam artist.
For the record, my fave podcasts (at the moment) are "Coverville", where the guy plays nothing but covers of big hits . . . I guess the title sort of explains that, and "Blues In The Night" where this down home voiced guy plays, well, blues. Both these guys are genuinely excited about what they're playing, so even when you don't like the track you can still enjoy trying to hear what's fired them up!
Other than that, just holding on. Being happy.
Pain never trumps happy.
Honest.