Recap: Last Thursday -- Sunday

Blogger went down for about a day and a half, so I was not able to post on Thursday or Friday. Here's a quick recap:

Thursday, from the moment I opened my eyes, was a great day. I woke up refreshed, which almost never happens, and then felt the "emotional lightness" again that I'd felt after the amalgam removal on Monday. So now I know it's not a fluke. It's real, and it feels great.

Thursday felt like a brief glimpse into what it's like to feel healthy again, to have energy and clarity. I felt good all day and traded well -- 100% of my trades. Afterward, I treated myself to dinner. I ended up at a Thai place and had some amazing green curry while the beautiful Thai waitress shamelessly flirted with me. I know it helps that I have blond hair and blue eyes, and that I appear as exotic to her as she did to me, but wow.

Friday I felt okay, but had to deal with yet more computer issues. My other laptop just stopped dead. I've never seen anything like it, and it really flipped me out. Lucky for me there is an Apple Store here in Austin, so I raced down to visit the Genius Bar. Even more lucky for me, they were able to rescue it, but the tech guy said he'd never seen anything like it.

I ended up taking the rest of the day off because I was obviously too agitated to trade, and honestly, it wasn't going as well as it was on Thursday. The good news is that I think the market may be very close to tipping its hand, so I was using a very small option position to test it. If it doesn't go my way, I'll have lost a small amount of money but I will likely gain a much larger sense of conviction. And that's part of the game that must be played from time to time.

I'm walking a fine line between detoxing just enough of the mercury that's been kicked up in my bloodstream without pulling any more of it out of my tissues than I really want. I'm also eating heavier food and will not be doing any more gall bladder work until all the fillings are replaced. Friday and Saturday I was having some mild heart palpitations again, so that's a sign that my blood still has some mercury circulating in it. Today I did some more apple juice and ortho phosphoric acid, but ended up feeling extremely fatigued, so I think I'll lay off that stuff until I can focus on it without rocking the boat too much.

Heading off now to see Atlas Shrugged, Part 1. I've never been able to cope with Ayn Rand's writing style -- I think she writes something like an intellectual bureaucrat -- but I've always wanted to experience this story, and hear this is a great adaptation of it.

UPDATE: Lesson learned . . . if you dislike a writer's style, don't think a film adaptation is going to make it any better. Rand's message is a great one, but just as her delivery is stilted and heavy handed, so too is the film. Sadly, though, the theme was eerily prescient way back in 1957 and is even more apropos now.