2:25 p.m. - Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003
A Mystery Within a Mystery
I have received my Craftmatic bed and slept in it for the first time last night. I was disappointed. It's not a s comfortable as I had hoped. I kept raising the head and foot areas of the bed to several different levels. Then I began having cramps in my left leg. I get those a lot lately. The left one is what I call my "bad leg" because that's the one I have the most trouble from. The right one is more normal.
The left one is the one that I have the cellulitis in. So lately I've noticed that I'm beginnin' to have a lot of leg cramps in the bad one. These are bad cramps too. Really bad. The entire leg from the knee down draws and stiffens until the pain is nearly unbearable and I have to stand up on it and apply pressure to get the crampin' to stop. Then horror upon horror, most the time once I sit back down it will begin the awful crampin' all over again. I think I remember hearin' that there is a vitamin or mineral that can be taken to ease leg cramps. I will have to see if I can search it out on the 'net.
Last night the crampin' began. Finally when I lowered the foot of the bed nearly back to flat, but not completely, the crampin' stopped. I had the head raised up a little bit too. I slept finally, but not soundly, wakin' up off and on durin' the night, just like in the other bed. I may have blown some money big time on this for certain. Oh well, live and learn. It was worth a shot. The crampin' was so bad that I couldn't even enjoy the massage. It did help some to take my mind off of the hurtin' for a little bit, but not for long.
I received the last of my items from Ebay that I've bid on recently. So I have everything now. The last item was a keychain with a clear plastic photo holder with my favorite photo of Matt Damon in it on both the front and back. I'm very happy with that. I have my car key on it now. I put in the last of my recent feedback about the delivery and condition of the item.
I usually try to watch the ratings of people I buy from and avoid dealin' with those who have bad historys on Ebay. So generally I have no trouble with the sellers I purchase from. Normally the items I purchase or win in auctions are mailed quickly and come within the expected time allowed. I rate most of the sellers I deal with A+++ or higher. I appreciate doin' business with people who are true to their word. I think too it has a lot to do with the fact that I pay for the item immediately after the auction with PayPal and they receive their payment quickly too and don't have to wait for a check that might not come and then they would be stuck with havin' to put the item back up on Ebay again. With me they get their payment within the first half hour of the win. They know they have their money and they are anxious then to send it on especially since I pay for the postage too as is understood.
For those of you from DiaryLand, I have visited Andrew's site, "Swappington's" but I can't really use that. I am physically unable to make trips to the post office to mail items out. It's difficult for me to do that. So usually I only buy on Ebay. I wish on Swappington's there were a way to pay for items instead of just swappin' them. I would love to be able to buy some of the things on there.
J and his wife will be comin' to visit with me next week. I will be lookin' forward to that. I haven't seen J in over six months now. It will be so good to see him agian and to meet L for the first time.
I was very upset with myself yesterday because I inadvertantly erased (I suppose) all of the Ebooks I'd saved on a disk. I don't know how I did it. I was movin' an ebook from the disc to the computer so I wouldn't have to insert the disk each time to read and all of my other books just up and disappeared. I have tried re-insertin' the disk again and even re-bootin' the computer before insertin' the disk but they're just gone. I have no idea what I did wrong. *sigh* Oh well, they were free anyhow. Just that a couple of them were books by Robert Ludlum that I was so lookin' forward to readin'. They're not offered again by MSN and there's no way to obtain them again unless they're purchased. So I will have to purchase them. I will wait until I'm ready to read them before I do that.
Yesterday I finished readin' "The Devil's Banker" an Ebook by Christopher Reich. I found it highly interestin' in the fact that this ebook mentions a character from the "Bourne Identity". Carlos the Jackal was mentioned in both. And in both cases the crime was happenin' in Paris, France. Wonder if there really is such a person? No, not accordin' to the Internet search I did. But it's strange. This same character is mentioned. Same name and he's described as a criminal in both places. But the author is different...unless...Maybe Mr. Ludlum possibly writes under the pen name of Christopher Reich. Very possible...very interestin' to consider. Writers have been known to do that from time to time, write under another pen name. The mystery of Carlos the Jackal remains unsolved.
So I'm goin' to want to read some more of Mr. Reich's books/ebooks. I had read one before called "The Persuader" and it was about spys, etc. just like in Mr. Ludlum's books, but the story took place here in the US rather than Paris or some other foreign country. Hmmm....highly interestin' to ponder about the possibility of the two writers actually bein' one and the same.
Mr. Ludlum is a prolific author with so many books out that it boggles my mind. And now to think that I may have stumbled on something highly interestin' like this Carlos the Jackal thing. Hmmmm....yeah, of course maybe there really was a Carlos the Jackal in Paris. But you'd think it would show up on the 'net. My search didn't even turn up "The Bourne Identity".
Anyhow...I have begun readin' a new Ebook now called "Death Watch" by Elizabeth Forrest. This book is about a serial killer. I've read several chapters of it already. It's very entertainin'. And the killer is so gruesome. I love murder mysteries, hahaha.
