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Went to play ultimate under threatening skies. We watched a thunderstorm pass by to the south, hunkered in our cars for a bit while it rained, then played for about twenty minutes after things cleared a bit.
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This was the last day that we had all of our crew in the Challenge Course before the college kids headed back to school: Katie, Tierney, Kevin, Lucy, Kendall, Emily, Adam.
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Drove down to Shunk. Nina and Isaiah arrived that evening.
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Mommy and Daddy were brought to Shunk by another couple who stayed the night and signed the Lake Log in the wrong year.
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Floor of the barn, where i was sleeping for the week.
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Isaiah and i made an effort to locate Casey’s doorway to another universe. I had taken a few laps around the lake in the previous couple days looking for it, but no luck. This time i wandered a bit inland from the trail and found it.
My friend Damon arrived that afternoon.
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Drove Mommy and Daddy back to Philly (in Nina’s new car). Stopped for lunch at Panera in Buckhorn, stopped for an accident on I-80 for a while, but got them home pretty easily. I stayed for about half an hour, then returned back to the lake, tunes blasting the whole way.
Nice clear night for stars, but the nearly-full moon made it a little too bright to get a full panoply of stars.
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Drove home. Damon and i left at the same time—he to Toronto, me to Vermont. It’s possible that i stopped by the Lego Store in Albany on the way home.
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At work today there was a group of girls getting harnessed up for the challenge course and there was a mom with them who had a medium-sized dog on a leash. The dog growled at me as i passed near it, which i shrugged off. A couple minutes later, i put the back of my hand out, about a foot in front of this dog to see if it would decide to be friendly or not. It was still growling (maybe because i had my harness on?) but its tail was wagging, so i figured that it was just a little nervous. Well, it lunged forward and chomped down on my hand, which was less painful than surprising. I wrenched my hand free and found some antiseptic wipes, then, when it started bleeding more, i decided that i’d better see Ski Patrol. Tim cleaned it up and bandaged it and all seemed well. –To be continued...
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Went to Vermont Orthopedics to have a doctor examine my elbow, which was all hurty. Tennis elbow, essentially. He gave me exercises to do and said it’d heal in 12–18 months.
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Hiked to the apparent end of a trail up at the end of Beaver Meadow Road. Since i didn’t want to backtrack, i cut through the woods to the Forest Service road that i knew was nearby. Took a while of bushwhacking to find it, but got there eventually.
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I awoke to discover that my arm was itchy and swollen. I figured that it was something that i must’ve brushed against while thrashing through the woods the day before.
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My arm was more swollen that morning, so i went to the Ludlow Health center before work. Diagnosis: Infection from the dog bite. I was given a tetanus shot, put on antibiotics, and went to work where we sought to discover the owner of the dog, but couldn’t, so when that failed, i had to drive down to the Springfield Hospital emergency department and treat my arm as though the dog might be rabid. I got a couple more shots in the arm, then a series of very painful shots right around the wounds in my hand. I think i nearly passed out. The doctor at one point asked me to squeeze his hand and i couldn’t quite process what he was asking because i wasn’t holding his hand at the moment. Fun.
By the time i got out of there, i was told that i didn’t have to come back in to work and to go home and rest up.
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Drove down to Springfield Hospital again before work to get my second rabies shot. In and out a lot faster this time, but still took a while. I also asked if i could get the final two shots in Ludlow instead of driving all the way down to Springfield.
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Hiked all the way around Spring Lake on a path that i didn’t know existed until i stumbled upon it.
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Bulo always looks cool when he lies on the couch in the morning sun.
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Went to the Ludlow Health Center for my third rabies shot on my lunch break.
Big rainstorm passed though in the evening.
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I stopped by where some logging was being done on the trail up to Wallingford Pond on my walk with Bulo in the morning. Then i drove over to Claremont, NH for a blind date. We met at a nice little coffehouse and had lunch. I had a BLT and a chocolate milk. She had a chicken salad. We chatted amiably but there was no spark at all from the get-go and neither of us seemed interested in the other. Oh well, nice drive in the Mini.
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