OFF AND ON

There is a grimness to early mornings in November. Especially when the weather is not cooperating. Yesterday was cloudy, rainy at times, and depressingly dark by teatime. Today does not look to be much better. But today I'm going to have to take the new leg out for a stroll, because the medical advice is that after one or two days of being a lazy ass with the leg elevated, I should gradually break it in to normal use.

Yeah, okay, no pipe smoking while wandering around the neighborhood. As a courtesy to the specialist who did the angioplasty. Also precautionary, don't want to jinx the healing process. But there are four lovely Peterson pipes from the nineteen sixties or earlier which would be enjoyable this coming week, along with three much more recent Petes. And I've sliced up some G.L. Pease's Géométrie in preparation. I will probably have a smoke once I get down to Chinatown after the follow up appointment tomorrow. If the leg is good enough to hike across town to the medical office, it's good enough for a slow quiet smoke.


Plus I need to be out of sight of at least two Cantonese women when I do so. The first one is my apartment mate, the second my landlady. Both know that nicotine is non-conducive to healing, and both sort of kind of in a way are disheartened by the horrible habits of men.
Most especially when convalescing.

Me is a men. I habitual horribilties have.
Especially when convalescing.

The Shanghainese woman who does dumplings probably assumes that men must have bad habits, why it's natural it's what the beasts do, so I guess I'll go get dumplings tomorrow. There is an area with sheltered doorways nearby in case it rains.


The combination of dumplings, tea, and a pipe afterwards is magic.
Sort of Dutch, English, Irish, and Hong Kongish.
Especially on a wet day.



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