Jungle

I'm so close to calling wimp on the rest of physical therapy. Two more weeks this month, and the last one is assessment, so since we've backed off on upper core strength again, maybe just stick with one more maintenance. That one spot in my neck wound up becoming key target and has turned more into muscle stripping now. "Rapid Muscle Stripping is the most aggressive and painful of the techniques discussed here, but may also be the most effective in extreme cases such as chronic pain conditions caused by incorrectly-healed or untreated past injury...The goal of muscle stripping is to actually reinjure the muscle tissue in order to allow for proper healing to occur." I can still tell it's working, but the healing is a bit longer. I've been trying to keep up my stretches and nerve glosses, but a little localized swelling has been making it harder. To be fair, this is the most mobile my neck has ever been since I was 19, and the pain isn't anywhere near what I've endured in the past, so I'm not complaining at all. Just finally calling wimp. I concede to big whiny baby this round. I can tell the therapists are feeling frustrated after all this time of marked improvements. My last therapist seemed a little disturbed when asked how I did after last session and I said I cried all the way home, something pretty rare with me when it's pain related. Personally, and I told her this, I don't think dealing with such a huge blood pressure med change is the ideal time to do deep tissue work. I've got little bouts of tiny muscle twitching all over and I'm still dealing with the fight or flight default response being reset. It doesn't exactly feel like depression or aspie overload, so I'm thinking this is actual physical response. My body just had enough that day.

LAST NIGHT. Ran into a good sync night, so I got to same-page some MoCreatures with Kai, and then we took off on our flying horses to search out a jungle biome. The only jungle biome I've dabbled in, and that only briefly, was on Kai's private realm, and that was ages ago, so this was like an all-new thing. We ran across several more villages along the way, plus this desert temple that had generated half in water. Sadly, someone got there before we did and pillaged it. I took the empty chests, though. I'm very pragmatic.

By the time I logged off, Kai had started a tree house in the jungle, so I'm wanting to go back now and see how it's looking so far.

Kinda revving up again at SyfyDesigns. I was wanting to do more of this work awhile back already, but I keep feeling knocked down. #setlock is on full blast right now, so that's got me pumped up again, live Sherlock filming at my fingertips. I've got bets on that HiddleSwift is a game the boys are betting each other on, seeing who can make front pages while Benedict is owning everything as the most retweeted, reblogged, reshared man in world history. Tom grabbed the headlines yesterday, now watch all Ben's buddies jump in one by one. Who's next?

What did you guys think of that last Houdini & Doyle? The Pall of LaPier I wasn't that terribly impressed when the series started, but watching Doyle literally play out his character solving his own personal cases for him in his head while he himself is wasted has been very intriguing, and the friendship with Houdini has been delightful. Here is a recap of this last ep if you don't know the show but might be interested. I'm not crazy about the author, but the overall recap isn't too shabby.

Ok, gonna be one of those days, I really need to stay off twitter today. Back to the jungle!


Wo, there's a Sherlock fanvid with a jungle song, lol. Kinda moody, but it's dark and rainy out, so there we go.

Trogsmaug

This delightful #bencongruity asploded the internet last night.

Of course that was only a tiny part of a very long convo thread. Bcuz THIS. Wait, hang on... Here you go, in case what you're reading on is having trubbas showing the gif. Well, it downloaded as an MP4, blogger (middle one) won't let it play because it's not a gif and it's not loaded as a vid. If it plays for you, awesome. If you're getting a gap on the first one, it's coming in from photobucket, it's loading. I think it actually plays nicer than youtube.

And of course, we've got to add those consummate Vs.



That can only make your entire week better. You're welcome.



So far I have unfollowed a little over 550 accounts on twitter. So far it looks like I've lost only about 55 followers doing that. What you guys don't see is nearly all the accounts I'm unfollowing unfollowing me right back, sometimes within minutes (holy cow, y'all, calm down) and more following filling up that growing hole, you know, kind of like the bathtub problem we used to get in middle school math. If water is running into a tub from a spigot at this rate, and draining out of the tub at this different rate, how long until yadayada, or what amount of water have we still got at such and such a time given this amount of time passing, if you like going a little deeper into your math cave. So the automatic thingy here really is misleading.

Anyhoo, in between chores and projects I've become a little obsessed with scouring my twitter out.

And trying to figure out how I messed up my lighthouse. This is /gamemode 3.

Selfie from the other day.

Learning about pressure plates and pistons. I stood in the way on purpose and even in /gamemode 0 it never killed me, just squished me out one way or another when the blocks slammed together.

Children are so precious. This one has no idea he's going to be bait in a very bloody zombie trap. Isn't he cute? He thinks Kai is hella cool.

Teaser. Bcuz I'm mean. One of these days...

Ok, need to focus. Big day today. Scratch that, huge day today. I see psyche guy first and I need to address the carnage issue from the other day. Then a couple hours later is neuro guy, because I need to address a growing neck issue, and hopefully get back into physical therapy or something. I'm used to numbness and pain and all that, just years of it, but the spot where PT broke down that hard capsule of scar tissue in between a couple of cervical processes feels like a fountain of numbness now whenever I sit a certain way, making my entire face go numb (laying down makes it worse), and then if I ignore it long enough it turns into burning pain and the nerve is just on fire and there's nothing I can do about it. This could all be part of continuing nerve healing, or... ?? It'll be up to neuro guy whether he wants to scan for changes and what direction to go next. Just crossing my fingers it's therapy, because that always helps. It's possible that I need to relearn how to move with that scar tissue out of the way and work on core strength in that area. Basically, it sucketh mucheth to intimately feel the inside curves of the bones in my spine going up to my head. (New readers- thrown out of a violently flipping vehicle years ago blahblah, lucky to be alive and not paralyzed kind of stuff.)

Srsly tho, I'm fine, not whining (too much), just a thing in the background of my life, and it's all good. Need to find some GO jam. Me & Kai irl.