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tired and sore
2025-Dec-11, Thursday 06:53 pmToday was the first day of my "weekend", but it really didn't feel like it. I had only 2 goals today: pick up my blood pressure medication at the pharmacy, and post a package for delivery to Texas for the holidays. Goals achieved, but at a price.
I got up with sunrise (which is late for me, thanks to "weekend") and checked when the post office would open for business. I was going to ride the micro transit bus there to buy a box suitable for the gift and card. But the app would NOT show me any micro transit bus options. Strange. Not the usual message to try again if there were no available drivers. Instead, the app would sort of hang with an icon suggesting network communications... until it gave up and showed me regular bus routes instead. Okay, so it'll be that kind of inconvenient day.
Click to read the various trip details...
Trip #1 and 2: Ok, so no help from the micro bus, so I walked there, sometimes through unshoveled snow about half a foot deep. I got the cardbox box that I needed, then I walked back through the snow again. That's a decent walk for an old guy with arthritis, but it was successful.
Trip #3: I went to the regular bus stop to get a less-convenient ride to the grocery/pharmacy. I waited... and waited... and waited. I checked this route, which I thought was a bus every 20 minutes. No. There are only 2 buses each hour: one 20 minutes after another. Afterwards, there's a 40-minute lull without service. ARGH! I spent a very long time in the freezing weather, noticing my face and lips starting to feel weird. Eventually, the bus arrived. I climbed a snow bank on the roadway to get inside to warmth.
Trip #4: I got groceries and medication without incident, then I went to get another regular-bus ride back. I saw the route "14" bus again heading the right direction, so I climbed aboard. Later, it detoured slightly. I was confused. When it became clear it wasn't returning along the same route as earlier, I got off as near as I could to my destination. Then I walked an extra 3 long blocks through a lot of unshoveled snow to get back to the bus stop intersection where I started. Not walking sometimes, so much as plodding through unshoveled snow. The arthritis complaining.
Trip #5 and #6: Back home, I got the gift wrapped and addressed, then it was time for yet another walk in the cold. I was much slower this time, feeling the arthritis in both my back and feet. Post office achieved. Gift sent. Walk back home, again even slower, this time with my hips aching too with a kind of muscle (not arthritis) ache, complaining at too many heavy steps in the snow.
At home, finally done with chores for the day, I tried to play a computer game for a while but started nodding off, so I crawled into bed. My body ached at getting into bed, even turning from side to side in bed. But at least I slept a while. Now up again. Feet are feeling better, but back and hips are still complaining. The walk upstairs to the bedroom isn't fun.
Now, it's dark outside already. The day is gone. More computer gaming, if I'm able. More sleeping, otherwise.
