Tue 03 Mar 26: Today's a pretty busy day, but thankfully all piled into one part of the day -- so they're all over with at one time. Not frequent, but blissful when it happens Am better... but still not 100% Have congestion lingering, as well as coughing fits that last only a few seconds, drat. Was going to chance doing laps today but thought better as my schedule's going to be rather draining on the whole. Knee thankfully is the least of my concerns (again, doing the post-meal walking in place 10 mins, has been super-effective at preventing the usual stiffness prior to injury). Well enough to work and am not contagious, main thing Starbies has gone to plastic cups again, will small miracles never cease Am pretty much over leaky, lid-ejecting paper cups that soften to fruit leather if an iced drink's brimmed in it >10 mins. Do like the environmental responsibility of paper... but if the plastic has enough organic, compostable content to offset its environmental impact, please greenlight that sh*t yesterday Hate having no say in leaky cups because it's too expensive to mfr ones that don't, for a multinational One improvement over the older no-conscience-plastic ones: the lids are of a breakaway design -- so you can hold a full Trenta drink with fingers around the rim, as myself and obvi many others do on a daily basis to lift out of a car's drink wells... and the lid perimeter's designed so it non-destructively breaks away, rather than 'un-lid' -- dropping your $8 Venti 24oz of Java Chip Frap onto your kicks, or your white carpet. For liquid drinks it's again a sippy-cup design, which unsurprisingly I hate but isn't going away, also a breakaway design. The tradeoff (because there's always some), is once snapped on, the lids are quite difficult to get off, ime needing a special tq (take both thumbs about an inch apart, and watch the top of the cup rim through the lid -- wedge thumbtips under the lid and push inward / upward with both thumbs until it clears a few mil; only then can be lifted off. Doing it w/o this method ime, usually results in destructive modification So make sure when you order, to give the barista every optional ingredient -- because taking it off because you're helium-blonde today, will take a while Weather's all over the place here -- have seen cloud formations in shapes and sizes and altitudes I've never seen all my years being raised and living here, multiple times in life. Mornings are almost always 'red sky in morning, sailors take warning'... supposedly due to a wonked-out La Niña... who knows. But a much more dynamic and rainy Spring than last year (to my car's filthy detriment). Oh -- for those who do lots of hard exertion with the hands on a daily basis (radio antenna techs, pro rock climbers, bakers, pottery throwers or sculptors, massage therapists, bodyworkers) -- pulling the fingers and twisting them, staves off the encroachment of osteoarthritis, esp in those who used them hardest. My own fingers are beginning to show the effects of all this dead-weight-lifting of 230-lb men atop my palm-up hands, feeling for and treating TrPs in the back and shoulder girdle. But steady use of this tq when they bother me, defo keeps me working. Works for toes too, for those who depend on proper function and strength in the toes (comm'l painters, arborists, masons, trail guides, martial artists / grapplers)
