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Zero day

Posted on | February 24, 2010 | Comments Off

In hiker parlance, “zero day” means a day with the hiker spending two successive nights off trail. No hiking. A bit of a misnomer, as there is almost always a lot of work to be done: buying food and repackaging it, laundry, post office visit, route review, and lots of town food eating.

To me today it means nothing done. Zero. If I don’t take pain medication, I’m incapacitated by pain. If I take the pain erasers, I’m incapacitated by them. It is a loss of freedom. I rail against this loss.

Except about Republicans — and that’s understandable — I think that I seldom complain. But I do not like losing a day.

Walk well. God is love. At least I used to think so.

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