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Windy morning this Wednesday morning! Winds howling and whipping the trees around. No power outages though and only a modest amount of rain. Originally, forecasts included flash flood warnings, but rains never fell in those amounts.

Was a challenge to take my walk this morning, but did so. Wasn't too cold then. But, getting cooler tonight. Winds shifting around from the South to the North.

Picked up some hand weights--two 5-lb and two 3-lb dumbbells for starters. Found some example workout videos on the web so I have a place to start. Will insert some workouts with the weights into my daily schedule of exercises (Qigong, Life Force, and Tibetan Five). May need to put some items on alternate days so I don't injure myself in some way. But, weights feel right--as do the other things I do, including taking rests/naps and so forth.

The PD book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PD, is full of good information. I've started reading it thoroughly, keeping an eye out for helpful ideas and suggestions. It's written by medical people, but ones who have the patient in mind. Good stuff!

I've read two short story collections--one by a Southern writer who has a really unique, quirky style and one by a Hungarian ex-patriot with stories that range across the landscapes of Europe as seen from living in Canada. Both were excellent!

And, I'm more than half way through the Murakami collection. He is a master! He is also quite strange sometimes, but entertaining even so.

Tremors were somewhat lighter today (I kept myself quiet today). Cognitive fuzz still present for most of the day. Had occasional, brief periods of momentary clarity, but bulk of the time was murky. I spent parts of the day pretending that I was going about my life in a fuzz--nothing else--just feeling/being fuzzy and going ahead anyway. What else is there to do? If not that, then what? Didn't make things any clearer, but it gave me something to watch and observe.

Maybe could/should invent a host of mind games to play while I'm waiting to recover? Like things to do until a breakthrough happens! Hmmm! Time to go horizontal! It's been a long day!