After two or three days of fairly rapid recovery, the improvement of the Knee From Hell (aka the Ex-Knee) is fairly stalled. Sunday I had to do laundry, and it took me a full day of taking stairs one step at a time (and one flight at a time, with ample rest at each stage) to get the clothes clean and back up to my room. If my knees are going to continue to crap out on me (and since osteoarthritis is both incurable and degenerative I expect they will) then I'm going to have to seriously look at finding a place that's all on one floor.

I hate single-floor places, but there it is. With my abysmal credit rating I'm going to have a lot of trouble finding anything nice, so that's grim too. On the up side, the condo should go for roughly three times what I paid for it, and at least twice what I owe on the mortgage. If I could just get a regular job (with a predictable paycheck) I could probably manage to get something acceptable. Of course, that means getting the current place cleaned up to sell, and getting rid of enough stuff that packing is feasible.

Hmm... sounds like a goal for 2004. Get the house ready to sell/pack up by the end of the year. Getting a real job is already on the list, but it has been for the past 3 years, and we know how well that's gone.

Otherwise, I'm still spending much of my non-work time horizontal, as that way I don't have to take as much in the way of painkillers. I'm still much sleepier than I think is normal, but no longer completely nodding out at odd moments. Every improvement is... well.. an improvement.