Wanderings of a RuinExplorer

<warning>this post contains far more unrelated detail than you're probably anticipating</warning> Last night was a ton of fun. Had a dozen friends over for a card game tournament which went late into the wee hours (2:30am before the after-game games started - I went to sleep, sorry Liz - should have warned you...). It served as a fantastic distraction to the 'real world.' Woodworking as recently evolved for me. It use to be something I simply enjoyed. You're might be familiar with various species of wood, their different grains and characteristics. Woodworking has always appealed to me on some level for its intention to abruptly bring amazing order to the product of decades of uninhibited entropy. But that's tangent for another day. Recently, due to a desire to wrap up or at least make great strides on the bunk bed project, my wife has been playing interception to allow for greater stretches of uninterrupted time working on it. I'm more frequently fi...

Didn't get near the progress I had hoped over the last week. I've read in a couple articles now that people tend to paint a clearly positive view of their lives on social media, Facebook in particular. The admonition from some is to share the trials and tribulations too so that readers understand that there is still diversity and in doing so, perhaps help them through something of their own. To that end, progress has been slow because I'm in pain. Four weeks ago I got off a plane and proceeded to limp for the entirety of a business trip. It felt like those charlie horses you get in your calf that will jerk you out of a deep sleep. Usually stretching helps ease the pain and eventually it ebbs. My leg hasn't. It's that same intensity constantly. I finally made it into a doctor who rushed me to an ER. They did ultra sounds to verify it wasn't a clot. I came up clean. Apparently that was sufficient for the doctor as I was sent home with painkillers. A week later, I...