Monday Starting Another Week

I rose later than I would like to admit, approaching 8, and it felt good to sleep in. I had been up twice to spend time being reminded that my colon cancer surgery removed 25 cm of my colon, and sometimes my colon wants to empty and get my attention. Nothing on the floor or anything like that. Just reading at 4AM while I wait. It then, as often happens, went for a second round an hour later. It is part of my life and, while annoying, is not that troublesome (compared to cancer). I am a morning person, though I do not get going that early now, and I did not get tired until the early evening.

I rose and found I was out of bananas (I forgot to get some on Monday, too) and had the end of the raisin bread from Karen W with my reheated coffee (there was enough left for two cups, and I made an instant cup for the third cup). I wrote the blog and did the usual chores of downloading transactions, checking balances, and reading the news and email.

I assembled the blog from my Sunday memories and managed to complete it about 10:30, a bit late, at 900+ words. With the clear skies and no rain, the coughing and sneezing got worse and then better. My usual morning.

I remembered to start the laundry, just a few items, as I washed the sheets over the weekend.

With the blog and basics done (a short run for the laundry in the new machines), I shower and dress. I have a game at 6 at Sean’s house. Pathfinder version 1, sort of Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, which later became version 4, disappointed many players (3.5 is a min/max, almost super-hero-assembler version of D&D with folks spending hours creating the most perfect fighting-machine character). My experience was that an Excel spreadsheet was often the character sheet for this version, with all the buffs and math. Still, it is interesting to return to this version after so many years (2009).

I went to Cedar Hills to Powell’s in Air VW the Gray and picked up my new books, one poem by an indigenous church leader in Alaska, and the other a used book on the final battles of the Confederate Army in the American South. The text covers one of the battlefields we visited last year (though just part of a greater campaign). I started that one. The poems I have heard at the beginning of some church meetings.

I then returned home and transferred some money to help cover some of Mom Wild’s bills. Next, I returned to The Book of Revelation and worked on my Sunday School Plan. I am trying to stay high-level, but I did check the Greek words for some of my selected text. I am connecting the text without difficulty to Rome and other ancient empires. I get about five pages of notes done. I will try to complete them on Wednesday/Thursday, and more than a week before the class.

With that done, and reading more about the American Civil War (ACW) until the clock reads about 4:45, I soon head out to Sean’s house. I take the slower trip that crosses the hills and avoids most of the highways as I have plenty of time, and it is a lovely day. Bikes, nonstop cars, and unexpected lane changes mar the beauty of the drive, but it is still great, and the mountains are visible in Portland, St. Helens, and Hood (BTW: It is named for a British viscount, not the ACW general).

Bill was hosting at his house, and I found it with less trouble this time. Sean briefed me on my missed session (two), and we started back in. We do get pizza delivered while the game is going on. The four of us explore Sean’s homebrew world and start to find our next adventure. This involves a fierce negotiation in which my character, a wizard, sets the building on fire with a surprise blasting spell and threatens to make it worse. This works to move the story forward (though I suspect it would have gone forward anyway, but it was fun). We continue to explore the city in the game. We will meet again at the end of June.

I returned home and read more, and soon, very tired from a lack of sleep, slept in the chair, woke, and headed to bed. I managed to wake after the sunrise.

Thanks for reading!