Friday, August 7, 2020 – Work and Recovery Day

Hi Sweetie,
Well, despite my best intentions to ride today, it just didn’t happen. I woke up in with so much back pain, it was making spasms when I moved. I could hardly reach down to put my socks on just getting out of bed. I promptly took three ibuprofen, and headed out to take care of the horses. Moving helped, except when I twisted in a certain directions, then for a moment I could hardly walk. I’m not sure what set this off, but there was no way, even after the drug kicked in, that I was going to be in any shape to ride today. As it turned out, it took me most of the day to finish writing my analysis to each of the individuals in last week’s workshop, something I promised our client I would do, and I didn’t get that wrapped up until nearly 6:00, so at least the day wasn’t wasted. I also finally got an email from our other client in Las Vegas, they’re ready to start looking at the calendar to reschedule the postponed workshop from last Spring, so another job is on the way, yay! I also got an email from Equity about my submission for a contract for myself, they seem open to the idea of the contract except for the crazy Covid restrictions they’re trying to impose. Apparently following the local and federal guidelines aren’t enough, they want to research every county I’ll be “performing” in for some reason. I swear, if I can through this process, I can get through anything! Anyway, by the time I was feeding the horses at dinnertime, my back seemed to be improving a bit, though I still get a massive twinge if I turn the wrong way. I’ve got some friends coming out to ride here with me tomorrow, I’m just going to load up on painkillers and hopefully that will be enough. I tried an experiment today, I didn’t start the generator this morning, and I let the solar panel charge the batteries all day. Typically by morning, I’ve have to use the jump starter to get the generator going, but with a sunny day like today, my voltage went up from 11.8 to 12.3, even with me drawing power to charge up my electronics all day, and when I went to start it at dinnertime, it actually had enough of a charge to start! That’s a breakthrough bit of knowledge for me, I thought I would always have to run it both morning and evening, but it looks like half an hour once in the evening might be enough, at least when it’s sunny. That will certainly save on propane! Well, that’s all the news, time for shower and bed. Good night, babe! Love you!

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