Grump

[flemmings]

Heat turned up, muscle relaxants taken, bundled in quilts in bed. If I had my druthers I'd stay here till spring. Knees hate me, which is fine. Five more months of this and I won't *care* what happens with the replacement operation, as long as I'm rid of the crunch of bone on bone. Work is all plague all the time- norovirus and hand foot & mouth- except this time it's hitting the adults as well. So is Silliness, the details of which I haven't inquired into because I'm so tired of work Silliness. Several people are overdue for retirement, chief among them me. And my cousin Pierre died the other day, long before he hit eighty. None of my Mathieu cousins inherited their parents' longevity. Maybe because they never lived through world wars and occupations? Except they did, and the deprivations that followed. No explanation then.

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[incandescens]

Much sympathy. Let me know if there's anything I can send you.

[flemmings]

Thank you. Nothing occurs to me offhand, but I'll keep the offer in mind.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Do you need more rice bags? Sorry to hear about your cousin Pierre.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I have many rice bags, thanks, including your originals. But let me pick your brains. What I need is a bag that fits around the elbow and fastens, and I'm trying to figure how that might work. Right now I use the u-shaped neck ones, that wrap but don't fasten. I wonder if velcro would be a possibility to hold them closed? I also have a long tube-shaped flax one that's useless as a bean bag because the instructions say not more than a minute microwaving, which barely gets it warm, but maybe if it had strings? What do you think.

Thank you. He was one of Joseph's lot, who turned out much better than Edmond's brow-beaten sons.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I've found the rice bags aren't good for wrapping around body parts, the rice slides to the bottom. The flax bag should be good, add strings to it to tie it in place. Also microwave 1 min, then take it out and shift things around, then microwave for an additional 30 seconds at a time. The problem is you're heating the oil in the seeds and it heats faster than rice.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thank you. That's why there are oily stains on the bag. I'll sew some shoelaces to the bag and see how that works.