@thatkruegergirl I stepped away during the 1st and just came back in the 4th and WELP
@thatkruegergirl aren't they your home team? Sick of hearing about them?
Today I finally went to PT for my foot and was diagnosed with Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome, which, now that I know what that is...yep, that's it!
Partly relieved to have a solid diagnosis, I've been told to take a break from bike riding for at least 1.5 weeks, which is terrifying (mostly from a mental health standpoint).
Lockdown had some silver linings for me. I forgot about this event. I was poking around my long-dormant short story collection project and was trying to find some feedback I'd received from a fellow writer I know here in Dallas. The email search surfaced this post about a reading of his work (that I had published on a writing site I was part of at the time). I've copied it to its appropriate spot in my blog's chronology.
The just-the-facts 2023 year-in-review: daniel.industries/2024/01/06/2023-in-review/
Ya'll who get your year-in-review posts out in the same year you're writing about are such overachievers...
"Paging through somebody’s CD book, in the mid-’90s, was the single most intimate activity you could engage in with another human being. It was like drinking beer out of someone’s mouth. Paging through somebody’s CD book was like 75 percent of the way to just making out with them. You might as well make out with them at that point. No modern equivalent."
"Consider the lillies of the goddamn field" might be the best slightly modified quote-as-dialogue ever written. I think about it often.