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I am not feeling most of the other flu-like symptoms.  Or, not yet.  That does come and go.  My ribs feel like I have gone a full match with a near equal.  It's not as if the wounds were fresh, more like a few days to a week old.  Not fresh, but no really mended yet either.  The guy I fought with has a heck of a hook, is primarily right handed, and has a bit of an uppercut.  Going by the pain, and how it sits on me.  Yeah, I've actually been in enough fights to put these things into play.  It doesn't always, exactly, line up with what I have remembered from the fight.  But you never know which punch will get through your defenses, or which one was thrown with all he had at the moment.  To be honest though, I would rather feel like I had been in a fight than have that feverish panoply of flu symptoms.  Then again, I know that will be returning before long. 

More?  My heart is stumbling.  I thought it was just while I was in bed.  It is not.  Troubling, to be sure.  Especially since I am taking medicines correctly.  Oh, it happens from time to time.  It hasn't been, so far, more than something that makes me nervous.  And it does.  It is so rare that I have never gone through when being checked by a doctor.  Once to three times a year, at most.  Actually, the first time it happened, I did tell my doctor, back in I.C.  He attached a device that would read any problems, and found nothing.  Then again, I can't remember if my heart actually stumbled while the device was worn.  I think so, at this time, but don't recall for sure.  Then again, most testing doesn't even show that I have heart problems.  It takes rather intensive testing for it to show up.  Never mind, as I said, that comes and goes.  I just hate when it arrives when other stuff arrives.  Doubly nervous.

Alright, I'll admit it.  I have had an odd dream four times in the last few months.  I think I am channeling the guy who first owned this home.  Three wives.  Various stories.  Last night he started out with two wives and then ended up marrying the third time.  Various details I don't with to surrender until I know if they fit historically.  And, I won't swear that it was the guy, I just have a sense.  From my dreams, I am right that multiple marriages aren't as fun as most think, they aren't quite as horrible as I had presumed, perhaps even dreamed before.  No, not an endorsement.  It's actually easier for women.  But for men, as usual, it is a lot more work.  A man has to solid up in such a case.  He has much less room for negotiations, and once those are settled, he cannot abide changes, save for his own purposes, literal needs and changes, and such.  If he changes things, after an agreement, he will never know a night's rest the rest of his haunted days.  And while some men love the idea of that, the reality of it is a little stifling.  And it is much easier to make mistakes when you are indeed king.  And, remember, even a king is a slave to his people.  He really is.  There is no easy way in life.  Different ways, wiser and more foolish ways, but easy is not in there.  Actually, the simpler you try to force it to be, or the more gain you attempt to dig out of reality, the harder it gets.  Ask drug addicts.  Even if they do quit, and never start again, they will always be an addict, broken and weak to ideas, substances, and such, which eat people alive.  The wealthy and powerful have it no differently.

As for today?  Just in recovery of sorts.  It feels so hot, and yet the sun has been mostly under for days.  I have the AC running, but it just isn't enough.  If what I am dealing with is a fever, at least it doesn't feel like a fever.  It just feels like a heated environment.  Much preferred, given the option.  I can't really eat.  I am a bit nervous of illness returning.  Maybe a glass of milk, from time to time, perhaps something else.  Rice, with butter, isn't too hard on my system.  I need to recover a bit, so as to get some shopping done in town.  That will happen when it will.  I don't have much input on when health returns.  I will take my medicine, eat what and when I can, keep cool, and rest as I may.  I've had worse.  And will probably go through worse on the way to doing well again.

If healthy, may you stay that way.  If ill, I hope you find your way to health sooner rather than later.  Good day.