No, I agree with you, Nancy. It's a bike website and content should be about the bike. I just haven't completed the Anout section for this journal yet to explain its relationship between the two tracks. I guess I'd better prioritize upward that piece, but I've been too busy off bikin'.

OK.

Hello Nancy,
Scott and Rachael are an integral part of Cycleblaze and have helped the site develop right from the beginning. I’m glad that Scott has chosen to share his health issues with his readers. For one thing, describing his GCA symptoms could help others with similar symptoms diagnose their condition more quickly (since medical professionals often seem to be clueless). Also many people are facing possible knee replacements and can identify with Scott’s concerns. If you don’t care for his posts, just don’t read them.

I hope I am not totally out of line here, but your recent past posts seem to not be at all bicycle related — other than that you have a bike and plan to tour on it in the near future. I think we should keep Cycle Blaze as it is intended to be — a Bicycle Touring site. I empathize with your health issues and conditions, and hope you will be better and well enough for you and Rachel to continue your cycling lifestyle, but for now that is not the case and this does not seem to me the right place for your journaling.

I am sorry if this is inappropriate to voice my concerns for the site and its intent.

This got me thinking about Gramma W also. So many of her favorite phrases I see now were just the idioms of the day. Gramma was a nurse in WWII, and probably pretty fetching. I wonder if she was a flapper back in the day.

"It's the berries" is another of my fave flapper-isms. Also "cat's pajamas/cat's meow" and "fuddy-duddy". Thanks to my Grandma Gracie we thought this was normal speech. Sound your klaxon.

Thanks for the advice, Dottie, but yes I'm aware of all that about the ibuprofen. I don't think the prednisone in any way helps with the knees though - if anything it made them significantly worse at first due time the swelling. And now that I'm transitioning into a new drug I'll be getting regular broad spectrum blood draws that test for many things because Tyenne has its own potential side effects.

As you taper off your Prednisone you nay find that the knee pain returns. Your high dosage of oral corticosteroids may be in some part mimicking knee injections, but only in the short term. Also, re using regular Ibuprofen, please check with your most trusted Doctor since all medications have side effects and sometimes unintended interactions with other drugs. You do not want to get out of your Prednisone frying pan just to land in a failed liver fire. Love, Dodie

Heather Cox Richardson's daily summary is the first thing I read each morning as well. It's comprehensive enough that I try to force myself to not look at other news, but that's hard for me most of the time. The exception is when I'm on tour, and I don't read any news or watch any tv when on tour - it's really quite cleansing. Enjoying your narrative, best of luck

No. I'd still love to return to Provence in midsummer, even with the unbearable heat. It really is a remarkable scene.

And I wonder if my new frame of mind would make me a better go player. I've still got the go and chess sets in storage, and will likely never let go of them. I stopped playing competitive games like this years ago because I didn't like the side of me it brought out. I really did love both games for years, but it wasn't worth it.

Yes! After I quit moping around about my tree of life I started in on this wild creation and was still steaming away late into the night. I'm still quite happy about that post, and plan to copy it across the wall and publish it as an entry in Cortisone Dreams as another window into what this period of time has been like. I was so relieved to have saved this work at the time, not like at least two other small but similar books I spewed out but actually did lose completely.

I'm glad it survived, both because it's a window into the experience, but also because but for all but the typos, repetitions, and so on, it's pretty much a true story about a crucial time of my life.

Got it! Thanks!

Oops.. We both need to “sleep on this”.. Thank you for your understanding and patience, Scott! 🙏

I couldn't say. I'm pretty selective and don't opt for sweets very often. Their lemon raspberry scones are excellent though, as near as I can tell. But then I can't taste either, but they have the right look and feel.