Midday

One step nearer going to England. This morning a bank-person called and my English money is in. It cost me as-near-as-makes no difference twice the dollars as I got in pounds! So, if something costs me, say, 10 pounds, I have to think of it as $20.

I have been for a walk even though at first, my hip hurt a lot. But I did take my naproxyn {generic Aleve} and once the iPod Shuffle started playing something brisk, I dropped into brisk walking, and, interestingly, my hip eventually didn’t hurt at all. I am still amazed that moving is the way to reduce pain from arthritis. I mean, it is against all logic, right? If something hurts when you do that, then, common sense tells you to stop doing that! But this is not true of arthritis pain. The more I move, the less pain I have. The main reason, I think, that I was in pain this morning was that I have not been walking in this hot weather. Well, if I can walk in below-zero temperatures, I guess I can walk when it is humid! And, of course, the naproxyn dulls the edge of the very small amount of pain I do have.

The loaf in the bread machine is smelling very good.

Mike forgot to come up and get the old monitor to take to recycle.

More later…