February 26. Hardly any of the points of contention that are even possible between us is worth spending any time or energy on.
February 26. Hardly any of the points of contention that are even possible between us is worth spending any time or energy on.
February 25. Morning swim, a thousand yards. Later tried for a long time to get Kerbal Space Program 2 to run, together with my son in Sweden. Bug reports in the forum.
February 24. I thought long about this translation. “That nerve is famous for acting up”, is what my neurologist said, and all German options sound like a system of order for which you should pull yourself together: rumzicken, ausflippen, Anstalten machen.
February 23. My neurologist says this nerve is famous for acting up for no reason. She thinks a hemorrhage in the brain stem is unlikely, because then I would have to have more symptoms. But if I develop other symptoms, I should go to the ER immediately. – At eight in the evening, the ophthalmologist texts to ask how I’m doing and whether I’ve talked to the neurologist yet.
February 22. I have been seeing double for a week. It’s not as limiting as it sounds because often the better eye takes over completely, and at closer range the effect disappears. Today at the ophthalmologist. Suspicion of paralysis of an eye muscle, which could indicate that something happened in the brain stem. Request new MRI. It’s to be expected that the angiomas in my brain will sometimes do this sort of thing, my neurologist said in December. I still plan to live to be ninety with this brain, even if there’s some rattling here and there every now and then.
February 21. Super Bowl addendum: I found much of Rihanna’s show pornographic. Which is delightful to me, but the fact that undisguised copulatory movements and repeated, prolonged pointing at one’s sex are considered normal now did surprise me somewhat. J, on the other hand, finds this the most scandalous, old-fashioned, daddyish remark she has ever heard from me.
February 20. Rain in Gothenburg, back in New York.
February 19. Ice-skating. I am very afraid and can only move with very small steps. It is almost impossible for me to turn the steps into any kind of glide. My son becomes my teacher right on the spot. – Breakfast discussion about whether there is any fundamental difference between bacteria and humans, or whether both are just fulfilling a biological program. AI and economics.
February 18. Repaired the wheelchair with the help of the neighbor – he glued the broken bracket of the joystick, soldered together a ribbon cable of which several wires had been cut, and we bent back a steel pipe using a manhole cover as a pivot point for two metal rods we used as levers.
February 17. This time the airline broke the wheelchair.