Just a bit done, mostly resting and a nap.

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I painted the back hall, changed some bulbs, read, and pretty much just tinkered.  I have tried to massage my sore muscles, which actually helped quite a bit.  The problem is I can't reach my back muscles, which are still tight enough they twitch from time to time, if they are getting a bit better over time.  If I had the money I would get in for a massage.  I don't like the hard massages.  My body is usually tight, it has been forever, as far as I can remember.  I need a more gentle massage.  Odd how I can, or used to be able to, take punches as if I hadn't even been hit, and yet a deep massage would make me yowl in pain.  I just need the muscles shaken and warmed by the hands, that seems to really do me some good.  If I remember right, that was even helping to lower my blood pressure the last time I had it done, off medicines.  At least my head doesn't feel like my shoulders and traps are going to simply pop it off at the neck, mostly, today.

The pan still isn't washed.  I may run a clean soak yet tonight and try to finish that, kicking out the breakfast pan and dish while at it..  I did move the 'bookshelf' in to this, the computer room, in order to begin working on it tomorrow.  It is one heavy son-of-a-gun.  It is stainless, and has the strength to hold 600 pounds per shelf, on three or four shelves, if loaded correctly.  It is actually a culinary shelf, but looking at "wooden" and real wood, and other shelves, at the price, it could not be beat.  I would love to get another one, just for the kitchen and my pans, for ease of use.  With rollers, it is even better as it is mobile.  Adding a sheet fitted to it, yet somehow made easy to open, for neatness and keeping everything clean, would improve it and keep my pans in better shape.  But for now my money is focused on just what is absolutely needed for very specific things.

While the missionaries were here, as usual, they tried to get me to read their book, alone.  As I said, I don't do that.  I told them I would think about it, which I have.  Not even the bible has been read alone, even when young.  I had reference materials, and even some atheist stuff I smuggled home for a more full assessment.  As secular as my mother was, she didn't 'go for that kind of shit'.  Hehe  Then again, she is a woman.  Religion, for her at least and for many women, is in the doing, feeling.  It isn't related to laws, it isn't binding, and it is a very general thing.  But she had very distinct limits, atheism was one of them.  Or, uhrm, used to be.  :p  Now she dates an atheist.  Gah!  (If I have my doubts about his atheism.  I'm suspicious from nosing around in his mind, as is my wont, that his atheism is mostly a good stab at g.o.m.i (grumpy old man itus).  It woks on most folks, women especially, too.  It just doesn't fly so well on us curious sharper than average young(er) pups.  Still, I let him alone with his version of his story, mostly.  W.C. Fields, only not quite that convincing, ma boy.)

Anyway, after doing some more reading, and I still have a bit more reasearch to track down more specifics regarding reason, and how it needs to be a strong, equal, component to faith, I will be ready to answer that question.  It actually came to me, what my problem with reading a simple seeming book, standing alone, was.  Now I know.  Hit me like a bolt, if I knew there was a problem, several of them actually but this being the one I had been trying to put to words.  The problem with their book is there is no archeological history to it, there is no other books accepted by most of the Christian faith like it of which I am aware.  As an anomaly, therefore, it is even more important to read it carefully, with context, and understand it through reason.  Which means it won't be just a read, it would be a study.  And, I am not up to a full study, even if I had the necessary extra tomes on hand, let alone named.  In time a study may go forward, but not for some time.  For now I have about fifteen to twenty books to read to mostly catch up on my list, some of them are doozies, such as the Summa Theologica, plus definitely finding and getting in recordings for use in learning Latin (a task shelved until I have aural and vocal learning material).

 Tomorrow?  I am mostly concerning myself with getting the shelf together.  If that does go forward, and is done, and it doesn't kill me, then perhaps a bit of house cleaning.  If some part fails I will leave off and pick up where and when I can.  There is some business I ought to tend, phone calls to make and such.  But I am, again, on somewhat light duty, in hopes that swimming will happen Friday.