Listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go

Last week I had some pain at my implant site.  Usually I just wait for things to go away, and I actually did wait four or five days with this.  But it didn't go away, so I made an appointment with my CI surgeon, and today was the first available appointment time I could have. Naturally, over the weekend the pain receded and it really only hurts now if I poke at it.  But I went anyway, because it's my CI and my hearing and, you know, my head.   It snowed today so it took me an hour and a half to get into Minneapolis, and then Dr. Huang looked at it and said, well that looks great, I don't see a thing wrong here.  She said she could take a CT scan but completely expected it to be clean. Okay, but any idea what could have caused it?  Well, she said, can't say for sure, but there are a lot of really big muscles right under your ear there (they  hold your head up), and maybe you had a muscle spasm or something that created an ache right at the base of...

Today we went out to our new house and spent the day there.  We'd ordered a chest of drawers and a dresser and had to schlep them from the living room to the room they go in, which meant stairs.  Once we got them in the right spots and the drawers in, and even some sweaters in, we went on to other things that needed doing. My husband was wiring a new switch in the mudroom - we needed an outlet, since there wasn't one, and he was bothered because the garage lights have to be turned out from switches in the garage and he wanted one in the mudroom.  He also wired an outlet to the switch and put a nightlight (shaped like a rubber ducky, we're just classy as hell) so that if the duck is lit up, we'd know we left the lights on in the garage and we could switch them off from inside the house. But this involved pushing a wire from downstairs up through the wall.  So he asked me to stand in the mudroom and wait for the wire to appear, and pull it up.  He went downsta...