(Featured image: My wife had planted Daffodils, and they popped up the other day and yesterday I saw this rather impressive fellow mooching around – SPRING IS HERE!)
IBS attack last night. Didn’t get to bed until I’d say about 5:30am or so. Just exhausted. Was supposed to go for a run and didn’t. Was supposed to get two pages of pencils done and didn’t. Was supposed to not spend all morning in bed and didn’t manage that either.
Honestly it’s a little dispiriting. On the plus side, the pain is bearable. (And in the past it hasn’t been) but what caused it, dunno? Maybe some cadbury’s chocolate? maybe too much greasy food? Maybe I ate too much? Maybe nothing? Maybe the weather?
It’s not even worth a doctors visit. For what? for him to tell me what I already know? There’s no good way to find pain relief, except, for me, sitting with a hot water bottle (and I tried a tens machine for a while and that seemed to work a little). So I sat with a hot water bottle glued to my belly and watched some tv.
I watched an episode of Star Trek Starfleet Academy. A show I’m enjoying despite lots of factors. I feel too old for a lot of tv shows now. I’m not just not the target audience, I’m about four demographics too old for many of them.
I’m older (by three years) than Richard Wilson was when he started playing Victor Meldrew.
I’m older (by one year) than Batman is in the Dark Knight Returns.
I’ve always felt somehow the demographic tv shows were aimed at was just slightly out of my grasp. I think the last time I felt like – oh yes, this is aimed at my age – was seeing Why Don’t You in the 70s.
As a kid I’d see stylish ads for perfumes with sexy people on yachts and think, oh yeah, that’ll be my kind of life. Then I was that age and didn’t see a yacht (and I wasn’t sexy) and now I’m so old the thoughts of a party on a yacht with sexy people horrifies me.
Man on the Inside at least has an older than me cast, but it won’t be long, it won’t be long before I’ll age out of that show too.
Anyway, hoping tonight is a little better. I have work today, and I’d like to get it done tomorrow.
