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despite how frazzled
Tuesday, July 29 2025
The project manager guy left work early yesterday, and today during the court of the lunchroom king, he showed us photographs of his leg that were taken yesterday. It featured a distinct bullseye, the kind one gets from a tick carrying lyme disease, though the center looked almost like it was suffering from necrosis. His doctor thought it was so bad that he put my colleague on intravenous antibiotics. By today, though, the project manager was feeling good enough to come to work. Remembering my two experiences with the lyme rash, I asked if it had itched and he said it had. I think I would've looked at it before it got as bad as he'd allowed it to get. By the time he went to the doctor, he'd been suffering from body aches and other flu-like symptoms.
Back home in Hurley, Charlotte came with me on a walk down the Stick Trail. Temperatures were in the mid 90s and the humidity was high. As always, I put a few rocks on the Chamomile Wall extension west of the Stick Trail just so the progress on it will be continual.
Meanwhile, Gretchen was off at pilates and then having dinner with Kate at some new (to her) pizza place north of Red Hook. When she got home, I'd drunk a bit too much kratom tea on top of a 150 mg dose of pseudoephedrine I'd taken this morning, so I was hoping Gretchen would want to watch Jeopardy!, which (under my personal rules) would've unlocked my ability to drink a single beer. But she ended up reading instead, so I went to bed. Fortunately, despite how frazzled I was feeling, I was able to fall asleep quickly. Before falling asleep, though, I heard the first ominous ch-ch-ch-ch of this season's crop of katydids.
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