Winter has returned

Yesterday, I did something I haven't done in a very long time. I took the afternoon off. The defunct project is now over at work. They came and picked up 67 boxes of documents that the bucket teams worked so hard to assemble. My project, the recovery of company equipment and materials is down to 5 outstanding investigators, all who are TDY so I won't be seeing that stuff till the end of the month. There were 7 people in a suite that used to hold more than 60. It was like a morgue. With the weather being so nasty yesterday, overcast with freezing rain, it clearly was day to be spent home in front of the TV. I asked my boss if he had any objections to my leaving 2 hours early and since I had started at 6:30, I was able to leave at 1:00. I got out ahead of the really nasty weather and settled into a lazy afternoon. Jake and I spent some quality time in the recliner trying to see who could stay awake the longest. I think he won.

I had a bad start to the week, however. My back had been a little testy with all of the physical work I had been doing for the past month so I knew better than to try to lift something heavy. I had a big box of documents on a side cabinet and I knew I couldn't lift it so I got a chair with wheels on it and was going to slide it off the cabinet onto the chair, and then roll the chair to it's final resting place. Well - - - - as I tried to move it from the cabinet to the chair, I pulled something in my back and thought I was going to die - right then and there. At closing time I did manage to get to my car and drive myself home, but could not put any weight on my right foot because of the pain in my groin area. There are many muscles and tendons (so I am told by David)in that area and I seem to have really hurt one or two of them. It was quite a sight, me crawling up the steps on my hands and knees to get to my chair. I knew I could sit there till David got there, but I just couldn't stand. He was very upset with me for being so stupid. He worked me over for over an hour and 45 minutes. When he left I was at least able to walk, although with quite a limp. I took a large dose of ibuprophen and slept the night. In the morning I was about 75% better. Still in pain but at least I could walk. By Wednesday I was doing pretty well, but still not 100%. That evening I slept wrong and snapped something in my neck so there I was. A real mess. Thanks to David, he made an unschedule stop by my home to fix my neck. Today I'm a lot better, but still an gun shy of both my leg and my neck. It's hell growing old.

Other than falling apart rather quickly, I had a decent week. Hopefully in the coming week we'll be assigned our new office space and we can move in. It should be interesting. We are moving into hostile territory. The people on that contract don't like us at all and will like us even less, when they see we are the new management. ARRGGHHHHH - I hate this.

God bless you all.