Equinox of Bluster

I had a strange and unrestful night last night. Lots of joint pain, lots of waking up, followed by sleeping long enough to have a weirdly specific and vivid dream about some well-groomed psychopaths who were using a thing like a smartphone, but before the invention of smartphones, to lure people to isolated situations and then rob and murder them. I wanted to warn the potential victims, but I was also trying to escape the killers myself before they realized I was onto them. As usual when I have this kind of dream, I woke up with my hypervigilance turned up to eleventy and lay awake for a long time before I could convince myself it was really not necessary to go get the Louisville Slugger out of the closet and recheck all the door locks.

So I woke up later than planned. I couldn't drink my tea till I had gone to the blood lab to get the tests my doctor reminded me to get when I saw her yesterday. Mostly just a check on my A1C, which was slightly elevated and then went back to normal. She wants to keep an eye on that. I'm hopeful that it will be good, because of this infernal eating plan I've been on for about nine weeks now. I've been saying that on some boring night, I'd describe it for those who are interested. People who are bored with food/diet neepery can stop reading now.

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