Final work week

It's hard to believe, but this time next next I'll be unemployed. I've been unemployed before, of course, laid off a couple times thanks to republican recessions, and once while I was trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life and education. But this time I'll be unemployed by choice, and permanently (except a little bit of contract work to help ease the transition to my successor.) I am very much looking forward to it.

I'm also looking forward to having arthroscopic surgery to repair the rotator cuff in my right shoulder. I've been essentially a one-armed man since January when I first fell and injured it. I wish I had dealt with it promptly instead of waiting to see if it got better. It didn't, and it won't. I have less pain now but no more use of that arm and it won't get better until the torn tendon is reattached to the bone. I had an MRI recently and saw the surgeon on Monday. It's scheduled for later in April, shortly after our week long retirement/exploration trip to Lille. 

I got Bailey out for a four miler today, my first in several days it seems. As soon as we started my legs were telling me I had been too long off the trails, although really it's only been four days. Bailey kept me moving and we saw deer, which made her happy. 

When we got home I hung out with Woody in the dog yard and played ball while waiting for some buyers to show up to pick some things sold from Facebook Marketplace. I can't throw with my right arm now and I'm not coordinated enough to use the chuck-it to throw a tennis ball with my left, so we had to settle with me flinging the big rubber ball on a rope using my left arm. He didn't seem to mind. 

We have visiting Danes coming tomorrow! It will be nice to have some big dogs around the house again.

She was unusually insistent that we stop long enough to give this spot a thorough sniff.

I don't know who creates this cairns but there's a couple of them along the trail.