I’m going to write a very brief post today, just since I didn’t write anything yesterday. I was out from work with a rather severe exacerbation of pain, from head to toe. I actually thought about just sharing here an embedded or linked connection to my “bad cover” of Hurt, by NIN/Trent Reznor (and which was so achingly covered by Johnny Cash). I shared it directly on Instagram, partly just to see if it was possible to share whole longish “videos” there, and it was. So I shared from there to Threads and Facebook, TWFKAT*, and BlueSky and so on.
I think I’ll embed that video here below, or rather, I’ll link to the YouTube video.
Anyway, then I just tried to lay down and rest, and I dosed myself up with stuff to try to help diminish the pain and to help me sleep (I didn’t really get any more sleep than usual, unfortunately).
You know what, I think I’m also gonna link to one of my own original songs on all these various new social media sites with which I’ve been halfheartedly dabbling. I’ll link that here, too.
As for why I’m in so much pain, well, the abrupt shifts in weather haven’t helped. Also, I tried a new form for my ab exercises, since I’m always trying to find ones that reduce my pain, but this one backfired.
Then, I had such a stressful day at the office (payroll, loud and chaotic noise, tinnitus acting up like a diamond tipped drill driving from one side of my head to the other, people acting like idiotic children) that at one point I beat myself in the forehead with my fist so often and so hard that I gave myself a mild case of whiplash and possibly a mild concussion. I certainly felt loopy afterward.
Unfortunately, there was nothing immediately life-threatening, so, as Bob Seger put it, “here I am, on the road again”.
Anyway, I’m off work this weekend, and I’m still quite sore and whatnot, so hopefully I’ll get some rest but will also have the gumption to walk some.
Meanwhile…I guess I hope you all have a good weekend. “Like and Share if you agree.”
*The Website Formerly Known As Twitter. Presumably because of an overabundance of musk, my feed on that site is no longer showing any posts here on my site. Right now, I can’t be arsed to try to figure out how to fix it.
Robert Elessar 
I especially like the second song. I listened to it on the Youtube app and couldn’t find a way to “like” it (give the little thumbs up). Don’t know why. I signed in, too. That’s something YouTube’s begun to do rather frequently as of late. It’s my account on my phone and it annoys me to have to to it. Often I just say, “screw it” and don’t bother watching what I came to watch. In other words, they’re screwing themselves with the addiction of this unnecessary step. Anyway. Nice song. I hope you can get a little walking in over the weekend. I’ve just decided that I need to get out there and do some walking myself, so, think of me… Thousands of miles away trying the same things, experiencing many of the same emotions. As I’ve said here before, you’re not alone. That won’t mitigate your physical pain or change your tragic story, but maybe it could help to keep it in the back of your mind. Like a smooth, small rock held in one’s hand for connection and comfort.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.