Last day at home before I go into hospital for a few days to finish up round three, and I have been gathering up a few items to keep me company while there. The laptop of course with its new wireless card (Thanks Jimmy) – It’ll be interesting to see if there are any networks available to me at DFBWCC. A few CDs including new arrival “Musical Evenings with the Captain” to accompany the Aubrey-Maturin books. I’ve not done much reading while I’ve been home. Also a couple of DVD’s, including the Roger Corman classic “Rock and Roll High School” Also, some snacks.

Making progress on the long-term-disability front. I got a call from the Hartford looking for more details on admissions and discharges, so with any luck they can cut us a check this week. That’ll help since I’m temporarily off the CSC payroll. For those of you folks that don’t know, CSC stands for Computer Sciences Corporation, and has been around for eons, relatively speaking, having been founded in 1959. All-in-all it’s a pretty good company to work for, and still offers a pension plan, but following IBM’s lead I wonder how much longer that will last!

The weather today is unusually warm and windy, gusting to 60 mph apparently. I swear I just saw a squirrel blow across the front yard. I’m just hoping that the tall spruces in the front make it. Already we have some branches down in the back yard.

Woke up this morning rather stiff in the legs, probably as a result of too much time immobile in front of the computer over the last two days. I also suspect some water retention in the legs. I have the kitchen alarm set to remind me to get up and stretch and do my laps around the house every hour. We’ll see what the doctors say when I’m admitted tomorrow.

Curious to find out the results of the Blood Drivethat was held at the Volpe Center yesterday, under my name. (Again – thanks Jimmy). I’m off the rolls of blood donors permanently, I think, but I used to quite enjoy this social event at the drives held in Stow. You don’t need me to tell you, but if you’re not already a blood donor and are not medically ineligible from becoming one, it’s a virtuous thing to do!