Monday

• Regular workday until
• Appointment with Barbara Courtney of Medtronic re: educate me on use of their Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. At Dr. Desai’s office in Eau Gallie. Left work at 1430. appt. from 1530 – 1630. Went home afterwards.
• Evening. Always the same. TV, surf interwebs

Tuesday

• Regular workday until
• Appointment with Dr. Lagergren at 1345, his Titusville office. Re: results from my x-ray and blood tests regarding my problems with shortness of breathe. He recommended I get in to see my cardiologist, as the lungs appeared fine. Continue Lasix/furosemide .
• Evening. Always the same. TV, surf interwebs

Wednesday

• Regular workday
• Evening. Always the same. TV, surf interwebs

Thursday

• Worked at home until time to go to Dr. Watts office to see Laurie, the pacemaker tech
• 0850 She made adjustments and warned me about NOT putting my smartphone into my left breast pocket
• Regular workday after that
• Didn’t get short of breath waling in from parking lot or going on stairs walking route 3 time. Couldn’t do this yesterday!
• Evening. Always the same. TV, surf interwebs

Friday

• Regular workday
• Easi ESC contract Hodiday Party at the Atlantic Grill on the Cocoa Beach Pier. Easi, or Enterprise Advisory Services, Inc, is the company I work for.

Saturday

• Went shopping for ingredients for corn pudding and wassail. Tried to buy ice at vending machine near Ace Hardware. It didn’t take my money, though.
• Made both corn pudding and started to make wassail. Note: today (Monday, 12/12) I read to NOT eat any raw egg dishes. The wassail requires putting beaten egg whiles and yolks into the heated liquid mix. It probably isn’t enough heat to kill Salmonella, so don’t do this again.
• SAAZ holiday party at the Vila’s on Dairy Road in Titusville. Took corn pudding, St. Bernardus Abt 12 for the bottle exchange, and ice. Had a great time talking with the guy from Michigan, Dave Webb, Dick, many others.

Sunday

• Went to Cypress Cove Nudist Resort for some naked walking and sunbathing. Stayed all day.
• Evening. More TV, looking at pre-recorded shows and the current episode of Leverage, which I also recorded.

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Not much, which is why I’ve changed the title. Again. The tagline stays the same to reflect my passion for naturism.

Tomorrow i will have surgery on my pre-cancerous (hopefully) actinic keratosis growing on my lower right leg. The 0.5 inch diameter mass is about 3/8 in thick/deep and located over the left of the shin bone about 4 to 4.5 inches abov e the ankle. I t started about 4 months ago but didn’t get much notice until about 2.5 to 3 months ago. I called the Associates in Dermatorology in Orlando to set up an appointment with the Physcian’s Assistant in their Lake Underhill office only to find out that she was on an emergency family leave of absence. They said someone would cover for her and they would note that I wanted an appointment. About Thanksgiving or before they finally got back to me and said someone would be there on Dec 3rd. But I had a pre-existing conflict on that date. I called them again in early December with the intention of going to one of their other offices to see a Dermatology MD doctor and found they were completely booked throughout December. With prodding on my part, they made an appointment for me on Jan 7, 2011 at their Sand Lake office. My leg was huring by this time, kind of a burning sensation of pain.

Because by now I was overly fretting about this and losing sleep over it (middle of the night), I then made an appointment with my primary care physician to look at it in 4 days. He called it an actinic kerotosis and said it would get larger, then probably stop growing. He said it was probably benign but that there may be some cancer cells down in there somewhere. Also, he said it was infected (the cause of the pain) so he gave me an antibiotic.

He set me up with an appointment with a local surgeon that I’ve seen in the past, but this took another week. The surgeon confirmed what it was and that it was infected but the infection appeared to be receding. He wouldn’t do surgery until the infection was gone. Furthermore, he said he couldn’t do the removal in his office because the location and what he needed to do were too complicated. I would have to go into the hospital and go under mild anesthesia (twilight sedation) for a same day surgery. He tried to schedule it the next week, but that day was only one day before I was going up to Michigan for the holidays.

The next appointment was set for 03-Jan-11, but his office eventually moved it to Jan 5 instead. Surgery was set up at that appointment for Jan 13, but the next day I had to postpone it because I learned that the new contractor had set up an open house to meet old contractor personnel on that same day. So now surgery is scheduled for the 20th. On Jan. 5 i also went to Parrish Hospital and went through registration and medical tests: bloodwork, EKG, urine and a visit with a nurse who explained the surgery pre-surgery and what i had to do. The surgeon had me going off of warfarin on Friday Jan 7 and on a somedrug bridge until the night before surgery then back on warfarin the day after surgery and still on the bridge drug for 4 or 5 more days. I shifted all this by one week when I had to postpone the surgery, though. Sorry, I feel I’ve written enough for now.

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As practice for when I retire, I’d like to cut way back on the number of clothes that I have ‘in circulation’. This fits in with one of my new goals, voluntary simplicity. A big part of my clutter problem is piles of clothes strewn throughout the townhouse. Some I obviously haven’t worn in quite a while. So. . .

All clothes I have at present. Wear until they need to be thrown out. If I lose enough weight (yeah, right) throw out earlier when they look too loose or bad on me.

Actually, do this now. Select these items from current inventory and cycle through them. When the active ones, see list below, are worn out, replace them from the stored ones.

Wash clothes once per week, or less. Anytime I’m inside, I’ll be living naked, so this alone will make for less dirty clothes.

For 9, or more, months of the year

• Underwear 7, or make gauze fundoshi
• T – shirt 7
• Shorts 3
• Pants
• Jeans 2
• Better 1
• Shirts
• Hawaiian 3
• Polo 3. (I have TONs of these)
• Jacket, pullover
• Fleece 2
• Zipper 1
• Exercise
• Shorts 3
• T‐like shirts 3
• Swim suit 1
• Shoes
• Dress 1
• Sneakers 1
• Exercise 1
• Socks
• Dress 1
• Sneaker 3
• Exercise 2
• Sandals 2
• Flip flops
• Inside 1
• Outside 1
• At resort 1

‘Winter’
Almost everything above, plus

• Shirts
• Long sleeve 3
• Flannel 3

Sweater 2

Buy more stuff only as replacements when the stored inventory gets depleted. This will probably take quite a few years.