On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:09:51 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"all my troubles seemed so far away..."

Yah, right...

Yesterday wasn't a good day for me...

It started with me on my back under the keel, sanding off the the shine on
the extra epoxy layer we'd put on under there, so it could take bottom
paint, before we got dropped back on the blocks (we'd been hung in the
slings over the weekend so we could add some fiberglass to the lower area of
the keel, which went very well). Very sore muscles from all the sanding
I've done, exacerbated, now, by the contortionist position I was in.
Then...

I discovered a couple of places on the leading edge of the keel, to which we
were about to add a couple of layers of fiberglass, which had to be ground
out to a degree which would require filling with more glass. Not a biggie,
but a nuisance, and a delay.

The day improved when Lydia started digging at an area under the entrance to
the forward head, where we'd done lots of leak remediation. Prior owners
had masked the problem with a sheet of melamine under the door - which when
opened up, showed lots of rot. Dug it out, and are considering how to
handle it short of dismantling the panels which hold both the saloon and
forward berth doors into that shower/head.

It had the icing on the cake when I put my new jug of Gatorade I'd mixed,
just before going to bed, into the freezer. It was just a LITTLE too tall,
making the latch not seat properly before my usual (double seals, so takes
some effort to make latch) forceful seating. Since the latch wasn't in the
receiver, that whack made it break out of the top of the lid. More
nuisance, made more so by the need to have the lid open while I redo
whatever damage has been done.

But wait...

All this physical work with the sander and grinder is taking a toll on this
66YO body, and by morning, I was having difficulty finding a comfortable
place to sleep, as my right shoulder hurts too much to lie on my right side,
my left shoulder hurts enough that I can't lie on IT very long, and, this
morning, my left hip woke me up.

Since I'm up, I might as well get to work!

L8R

Skip

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Ibrofen is your friend. Take 400-500 mg. three times a day directly
after a meal and try to get the coated tablets that dissolve a bit
further down the digestive tract.

They can cause an upset stomach or bleeding - much like aspirin - but
they do reduce muscle pain dramatically.

By the way, 66 isn't old :-)
Cheers,

Bruce
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