All Else Is Dusty Dracularity

Morning weigh-in: 177.5#, 11.5% BF

Got a call yesterday: nursing service needed another vial of blood for doctor visit today. I snuck out of work a little early and hit Quest Diagnostics, a sort of cross between Red-Care and a blood-test clinic; maybe they also do the actual lab work, I don't know. Anyway, got that done, then went home and did my biz with the PICC line, and my evening responsibilities were over.

Dinner was tuna w/ wilted greens (with stone-ground whole wheat linguine) left over from Monday night, and a second dinner was the last of the pot roast -- I wasn't really hungry, but I wanted to get the crock pot ready for another meal. All of this was done early, so I went for a walk, took a few pictures of the alley behind my house. Kind of a disappointment, since the light wasn't right, or the photo composition or something, and I had high hopes for at least one of them. It was good to get out, but I didn't take much pleasure from the walk (foot wasn't happy), and didn't stick around to take in the sunset on the porch.

My foot worries me, it felt better a few days ago. I see one of the doctors tonight (infectious diseases specialists, who I'll be questioning closely anyway); I'll have him take a look but I think the go-to guy will be the surgeon, who I see next week. I fear that I'm not actually winning the battle against infection, but that may really just mean that I'm starting to be less worried & freaked out about the PICC line...

Linux Voyager, trying to get the speedboat running: I had a little time on my hands, so I finally took a look at that DSL stuff. Among the things I got was an Ethernet card, but I found (via lspci) that I already had one. Next step was to recompile the kernel, and compile a driver module for my Ethernet connection, then restart the computer. After that I hooked up the DSL modem/router thingie, but have yet to get the computer to be able to talk to it. Maybe tonight, maybe more research...