That's mostly what I have been doing the last few days outside of watching the eclipse. I had wanted to buy a Makita cordless electric screwdriver for them to automatically screw in the various pieces for them. However, they wanted to do it all by hand which is something I prefer not to do since I have had some tendonitis in my hands since I was 32 from building houses and working as an electrician and carpenter and landscaping contractor in my 20s then. Though I was also a computer programmer I am a very out of doors type of person so working in an office isn't going to keep me alive and healthy like working with my hands did. I'm grateful now because I"m almost 70 now and can still hike, ski, snorkel, ride a motorcycle specifically because my work kept me in shape building and lifting things and creating things for a living with my hands. Your body retains the muscle memory for years and years from doing this. So, if it weren't for my burst appendix operation and resulting hernia I likely still could lift 300 pounds easily without killing myself like it might if I did that now.I probably in an emergency could still lift 200 pounds if I wore a weight belt to keep it all in one place but in an emergency often there is no time to put on a weight belt. Typing isn't that bad usually but harder work causes more pain than I want to sublimate on a daily basis. But, we have worked hard on things like lounge chair recliners with leg rests and stools for a breakfast table and desks and one bed upstairs in their loft. We set up two portable air conditioners because it got pretty hot downstairs because the original
portable air conditioner we put upstairs because that is where it gets the hottest here in the loft. But, that left the downstairs sweltering hot. I was learning about when to close windows (around 11am when it's hot in the summers here for maximum cooling effects of their place. Today since I installed a 2nd air conditioner downstairs it is a lovely temperature both up and downstairs today with no headaches indoors from the heat. But, where I live on the coast almost no one has an air conditioner because most of the year it is under 70 degrees except for a few weeks in August and September and possibly October. But this year the northern Coastal June Glooms of California have gone into August and might even go into September this year because of Global Warming, very unusual.
However, if you go south of Big Sur and San Louis Obispo it isn't usually like this in the summer in California (only in the far north from Big Sur northwards). But, often when Monterey to Eureka is cloudy Big Sur is sunny too so go figure.
Anyway, building Ikea stuff, watching the eclipse and watching HBO Go of "Game of Thrones" and writing in and for my blog has been mostly what we have been doing since we went to Thai PK over the weekend. (I love their Orange Salad by the way).
I've made it as far as episode 1 of the 3rd season so far. I find it more pleasurable than the first time because you know kind of who is going to die next that you might like. So, I know when to fast forward through the deaths of those I like as characters in Game of Thrones.
So, like I said I find the 2nd time through Game of Thrones series much less traumatic than the first time when characters we all loved died horribly. fast forwarding through the worst spots is lovely.
I was from the 1950s where my Dad and Grandad mostly taught me if I was in physical pain not to think about it if I wasn't bleeding to death or needed serious medical attention. I suppose this is a warrior's stance in life.
So, sublimating pain was something I was taught from a very early age rather than taking any pain medications. I still don't take pain medicine ever unless I can't sleep at night from the pain then I take one of my wife's Advils but only one so I can sleep and bring down the pain. Also, I think Advil is an anti-inflamatory too so this can help bring down the swelling in an injury too.
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