Oh how I love bone marrow biopsies

A longish day today, most of which fell upon the shoulders of Susan, my wife, driver, emotional support and generally wonderperson.  A not very early start got us to Charlotte a bit early to have a dollop of marrow and a chip of bone removed from my pelvis for lab examination.  All done at Atrium with amazing skill, kindness and gentleness, it was all over in an hour.  The twilight sedation left me feeling a bit dopy and they loaded me into a wheelchair rather than have me stagger around the place drunkenly.  I dozed most of the two hour drive home so I can see why they insisted on me having a driver.  It's now 8:30 and I can barely keep my eyes open.  I've also got typos in about 20% of the words so I will call it quits for tonight.  Another 3 hour trip to Messino Cancer Center here in Asheville tomorrow accompanied by a handful of steroids so tomorrow night may be a Flying High and rugby marathon.

It  actually turned out to be half a night's normal kip though the following two days were spent frantically doing long overdue odd jobs around the house:  We had all our downstairs sanded and varnished a couple of years ago and the company that did it (brilliantly and quickly) put quarter round timber over the bottoms of the skirting boards to cover up the dings - it was all agreed in advance.  It looks pretty crappy so I ripped it all out of the downstairs bog yesterday and repainted all the baseboards - it looks loads better. That's about 20' of quarter rounds taken care of - about another 200 feet to go when I feel like it.  It's not too easy to do a bit at a time as the quarter rounds are pretty much continuous except at doorways so I will need to take up 60 feet at a time.  Definitely a job that calls for steroids.

Other job today was replacing the $1.95 curtain rails in Sam's bedroom with something decent.  It's amazing how you can drill into a wall at random and just manage to catch the edge of a joist enough that you can't get a wall plug in but the screw won't bite into wood either. 

I still haven't taken down his skateboard themed border and I suspect it is now permanent.

Right then - back to the bloody jigsaw,  best memory exercise going.