Rant #3,234: What Am I Doin' Hangin' 'Round

That is exactly what I am doing ... hangin' 'round until.i have my surgery on Wednesday.

I literally cannot do much of anything.

I sit in a recliner with my legs up, and I can't go into my bed because I might not be able to make it up the stairs, so I am stuck downstairs until the day we move into our new apartment ... and again I am faced with getting up the stairs that the new place has.

But I won't have a choice then ... I am hoping that the surgery allows me more range of motion, and that I can get up the stairs and not down until I have to.

I can't sleep, taking catnaps more than anything else.

So as I type this out, I have slept about two-and-a-half hours, and that is it, and it is about 1 a.m. in the morning.

Maybe writing will make me tired and I can get some more sleep.

Later today, I have to go to be fitted for a brace for my soon-to-be-repaired left leg, and then later, I have to go to by doctor to get fully cleared for surgery.

It is a mess, I am a mess, and I am still days away from being able to post on Facebook, and that is why I am not there.

What I did do this weekend is to get my records organized and ready for the big move.

Look, I had to compromise.

We simply do not have the room for 10 000 or so LPs and 45s, so the LPs will have to go into a storage area in plastic crates--I hope they do not warp--and the 45s are coming with us to the apartment.

Before I hurt myself, I bought a nice, heavy plastic drawer to transfer as many of the 45s to these drawers as possible.

This weekend, my wife went out and bought another such unit, and you can see them in the picture accompanying this entry.

Anyway, I decided that no matter how much pain and discomfort I was in, I was going to transfer as many 45s as possible into these two units.

With the help.of my wife and son--who brought down to me the smaller bins I had these records in in perfect alphabetical.order for years--I actually got up from my chair and filled up these two bins with 45s, again in perfect alphabetical order.

Those two bins have three very wide and deep drawers, and I was able to get all the 45s into the bins working from the bottom and starting with the letter "Z" and working my way forward, I got the bins to hold all the 45s through the letter "E."

(Each drawer is wide enough for two rows of 45s, so the two units house six rows each of 45s, or a total.of 12 rows between the two of them.)

Well, what about "A," "B," "C," and "D"?

In a perfect world. I really could use one more of these bins, but we simply do not have the room.

Prior to my injury, I threw out a lot of clothes, and the clothes I did keep were pretty much put into the top two drawers of the bedroom dresser my wife and I share--and that includes shirts, pants, underwear and socks.

So that leaves my end table--which had housed my socks and underwesr--which is niw completely empty ... but not for long, as this unit will now be used to house the remainder of my 45s.

Whatever excess i might have can go in the bottom drawer of my part of the dresser, but I am hoping that they will all go into the end table.

And I won't know until someone can bring down the end table and I can work.on that--hopefully after my operation.

So at least I was able to do something to contribute to the move even though I really can't move around too much.

It made me feel real good inside.