Day +10: Getting better all the time

 No more ouch in my right arm which I celebrated with something like 15 hours sleep at various times through the day.  I may have missed a day as I could type with only one hand and was too lazy to try dictating which I really must do.

I spent a short time tutoring one student yesterday and can't say it was one of my most fruitful sessions ever.  Perhaps the concept of multiplying by 299 by multiplying by 300 and then taking away the number you first though of is just too difficult to grasp.  Go ahead - try it.  Think of a number.  Then multiply it(on paper, not on a calculator) by the traditional "put down the two and carry the 7" method.  Then try slapping on two zeroes, multiplying by 3 and taking away the original number.  It's how I've been doing it for the last 60-odd years, much to the disgust of the headmaster at Fairways who made the mistake of challenging me to a public test of mathematical skills.

It's warmed up a bit here in Charlotte today so a walk around a local park or even the rather pleasant city streets, being careful not to fall over the ubiquitous electric scooters, is called for.

I was knackered when I went to bed last night but for some reason best ignored I lay awake for a couple of hours deciding how I would spend a hundred million if the lotto ticket that I never buy turned out to be a winner.  Major contributions to the GOP did not feature highly.

Today brings another round of having blood sucked out fo me and finding that 3 or 4 of my numbers are a bit outside the acceptable range.  Doesn't bother me much as I fell a hell of a lot better than when I arrived.  There again, I felt like I'd been hit with a wet elephant a couple of days ago.

 

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