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Darn. I'm actually making an effort (okay, a really small effort) to post something daily. This mostly has to do with some stuff I'm tracking that probably doesn't interest you folks, but it's kind of useful... but I just skipped a couple of days.

In summary: Thursday, felt vaguely crappy, but then I saw my massage therapist, my chiropractor, and my physical therapist. These helped a lot, even though I have giant hickeys on my back from the weird massage with a plunger and ultrasound gel my PT has been doing. But the horrible thing in my back calmed down. Went to bagua, did a bunch of stuff, didn't feel great, but it didn't suck either.

Today (friday). Woke up feeling pretty good. Did some house stuff, went hiking with tshar. Very good hike, for all that it's uncertain if we found either the falls (okay, we probably found the falls, and they were whimpy in August) or the meadows.

Went to C's for dinner of seaweed salad, salmon and blackberry pie. All in all, a fine day. Got to try that seaweed salad.

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Oh, and a quick reminder -- the Tonga Ridge hike is tomorrow, meet at Victor's Coffee in Remond at 10:30, info has been posted to fgp.

yow!

And then there are the days when you wake up and clean 150 worns out of your inbox.
When I finally move my mail stuff over to hearthmagic, I really need to set up a different address for admin issues from the lists I run...

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Sometimes I wonder if it's true that pretty much all I have to do anymore is feel reasonably physically decent, and my life just seems wonderful. Spent much of today, like yesterday, hiking, and I feel positively suffused with contentment. (Of course, being stuffed with tastey food from the sultan bakery doesn't hurt either.)

I did not write that yesterday, before we found the trailhead that we ended up following, we found what has to be the most majestic hollow tree I have yet to see. Dry and nice on the inside, hollowed apparently by fire, it seemed almost like a temple, with high arches wind-eyes, the most perfect little alcove on one side, and an amanita pantherina just hatched from the soft floor, dark gold cap with white patches. Sometimes there seems to be such a crazy abundance of riches...

Today six of us trekked along Tonga ridge. We only made it as far as the meadows, and spent a while hanging out there, listening to odd birds and checking out the flora. (It's blueberry season, if anyone has missed that. As usual, the smaller the berries, the better -- the dwarf scrub blueberries taste like essence of blueberry dipped in honey, while the others tended to just be good. And some were oddly garlic-y...)

My lungs did there recently typical freak out at the altitude -- I think I'm more likely to have asthma trouble (not that it was anything major) when there's any other inflamation in my body (this is clearly true with wushu)... But I think what I'd like to be doing, and what I'll be working towards is hiking with some pretty physically challenging sections... and also some sitting around and looking at stuff sections. Left to my own devices I sometimes get a bit relentless about the walking bit... I really want to get in a little bit of backpacking before the weather turns. I was hoping to work up to something halfway serious this summer, but the accident slowed things down a bit.