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Well I'll be! This sounds exactly like me! The only difference being that depending on what kind of moving I'm doing, my back may feel better but my hips might start hurting. Long walks seem to have that effect on me. I'm sure Megan would love having some sort of machine that moves me around every now and then while I sleep. She has enough trouble sleeping as it is, without me being mechanically forced to kick her every couple of hours. I guess this is just one more vote for Remicade treatment. I need to look up Dr. K's phone number (why don't I have this saved in my cell yet?) and call to schedule an appointment for him to review my MRI's. If he can't see me before June 6th (my appointment at U. Penn.) I may just stop seeing him altogether (He was the jerk, remember?) and find someone much closer to our house.

When life gives you lemons, — no wait, that's not it. When you fall off the wagon horse, — no, that's not it either. What I'm trying to say, if you haven't figured it out yet, is whoops/sorry. Being an internet celebrity is hard work. It's like a second job. Some days I'm taking a shower or sitting on the throne when I'm struck with a really great idea for a post, but unfortunately I don't keep a pen and paper with me in the shower. Not to fret – my guess is that most of them would fall into the "it sounded better in my head" category. The fact of the matter is that I had one hell of a week! Saturday I got more exercise and sun exposure than I normally budget for an entire week, Sunday (Mum's Day) I ended up working for almost 11 hours, and then Monday through Wednesday I was up to my neck in meetings discussing how to fix the customer website code that broke with the latest software upgrade… and then fixing it. Thursday I started work far too early for the purpose of deploying more new code, and by 11:00 I had hit 40 hours for the week. Somewhere during that work-induced coma I managed to go tree hunting with Megan (elusive buggers, ar'n 'ay?) and pick out some green stuff to replace some other green stuff in our back yard. (I'm sure this is all just a conspiracy to keep me outside.) I took the second half of Thursday and all of Friday off and mostly just worked on my florescent skin-tone and rebuilding the callus on my buttocks. If you're a nerd, and I know some of you are, you may appreciate this: I started writing a program (a website, really) that will plan out your entire month's dinner menu based on your recipe book. In doing so, I successfully avoided doing any of the dishes collecting on the counter in the meantime. The goal is to have the program save us a bunch of time, thereby creating more time to do things like the dishes. If that doesn't qualify me for BS excuse of the year, nothing will.