October 12-13, 2009:

The ear, the nasal stuffiness, the raspy throat continued to plague me these two days, making a lot of stuff simply harder. Concentration shot because of labored breathing and a strange occasional clicking in my right ear which I found I could control by pressing on the lower part of the trigenimal nerve under my chin. Bizarre, but doable.

Heidi and I went for a morning at the Paradise City Arts Festival on Monday, and I actually bought stuff for me (for once)–an autumn coat (size small!!...