May 2 2016 - Less Lyrica, More PLP

01:00
Whew... what pain! My stump is jumping around. LOTS of PLP. I was in bed at 10:30. But wide awake by midnight. I am drinking Horlics and listening to LOUD music. I only got 2 hours sleep last night, and I am so tired and sleepy. It looks like tonight will be about 2 hours sleep also.
This sucks. It is so hard sometimes, to remember why I allow this to continue.
Surely this can not be part of some "bigger plan".

Cutting back on the Lyrica and Cymgen makes my brain more of my own now, than for many past months. But at what cost? I just took my first Robaxin ( muscle relaxer ) in about a month. I also just took another Tramacet pain killer.
I fear a Lyrica and Cymgen is what I really need, but I am doing so well getting off them, I don't want to screw up the good brain. So I take opioids? Duh! Who am I kidding?

It is cold today. Yesterday morning was 8 C. ( 46 F ) Winter is coming.
I sit here in long johns, fluffy sock, and a balaclava.

I just bought online R300 data airtime for my internet. I bought R300 a few days ago, but had to download lots to try to get my project up and running.

My new project is to make some parts of my house to be voice controlled. Like turning on lights and fans with voice only. I am using an Arduino. I can program the Arduino using my Linux computer, but the voice programming library is a windows only trick. Nothing in my house runs windows.
So I am having to visualize Windows XP in my Linux desktop. I really battled because there is not a lot of support for XP anymore. Yesterday my computer power supply quit, and I had to buy another and replace it. But a whole day finally got XP with Service Pack 3 running in a virtual machine.

Next was to load all the Arduino libraries, example code, and IDE. (Integrated Development Environment)
All that was about 2.5 G of downloads.
There are many tutorials on the internet. But they all assume that I know what I am doing. That is not always the case.
My next task was to get the USB port working on the Virtual machine. That was a convoluted process.
The Arduino is programmed via the USB port.
My next mission will be to make the Arduino listen to me talk. It knows 24 preselected words, but can also learn another 32.

My good leg is swollen, dry, red, and itchy. I just rubbed Volaren on it.

In April I walked 24km. This week I have walked to the local shops 3 times. It is 1.8 km there and back. Not a long walk, but it does get me out of the house. Putting on the leg is a pain in the ass compared with zooming around the house in the wheelchair. I am becoming a house hermit.
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03:30
I am not hungry, but that Robaxin will tear up my stomach if I don't take it with enough food. So I am eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. That will fatten me up some.

"Does anyone know, where the love of God goes,
when the pain, turns the minutes, to hours."

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