Salt

Getting the opportunity to EXPRESS my anxieties in yesterday's post helped me to at least get the feelings OUT so that I could find a way to push them aside.  This was helpful.  It really does not change that these feelings are real.... and that I will be anxious about the "unknowns" of what may transpire beginning from Friday through Sunday.... but at least I can have today, and Friday (and yesterday too) be ok.  

With my running, I find I must utilize and ultimately sweat out a lot of salt.  Before I started to run (hell, now about 10 years ago), I never added salt to anything.  But, now, I tend to like and sometimes even "crave" salt.  Today, I sprinkled a bit of salt (and a whole helluva lot of pepper) atop of the hard boiled egg I ate. 

My wife has ordered a pair of the plantar fasciitis gizmos I bought... for herself.  She believes some of the residual pain she is feeling may be alleviated by wearing them.  She cannot use mine, because she had to buy a different size/version.... as her feet are "thicker" top to bottom than my rather paddle like feet, and we could not get her foot positioned properly when she tried one of mine.  Variation in feet seem so strange.... my wife wears a rather common, Female Size 9 (US) compared to my much larger Male Size 12 (US).... but the proportion of the top to bottom portion of my foot is rather thin and hers is probably a bit more than twice as thick (top to bottom).  

I am very much looking forward to the Retiree's Cigar Group tomorrow.  I do hope I will be able to go and I hope at least one or two of my friends will be lagging behind as I will be (as usual this semester) quite late.

The cigar is NOT a pipe.  But, it is a reasonable, enjoyable time to be with friends.  And, I know it is easy to NOT "overindulge" in a cigar (meaning I can easily maintain having just one a week).  I tend to think it would NOT be easy for me to "just one a week" with the far more enticing, beautiful, flavorful, ethereal, and invigorating pipe tobaccos I have.  If only it were so.

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