Cold weather in house, and I switched to last year’s muffies. Been doing a water-change in the marine tank, so I’m up and down stairs—in the muffies—over about 3 days.

Began having the old pain again, finally so bad I took Advil (which I don’t like to take when I’m working)—and, in an “I could’ve had a V-8” moment—I realized ‘muffies!’.

Went and changed to the sandals, pain began to go, and it wasn’t the Advil. Went too fast.

That evening I ordered, yes, a pair of Vionic/Orthaheel muffies. Leopard print, why not?

Amazing. Hurt like hell. Then didn’t. The lower back is a piece of engineering that only just allows us to stand upright, but in very few individuals is it totally symmetrical. People are born with one leg slightly short, or grow up with a hip pitch that’s not going to be their friend when they’re older…women wearing these pigeon-toed platform heels that make most women walk bent over as if they were wearing work boots through mud…oh, that’s going to hurt, if this trend doesn’t head back to good posture and straight-forward feet before too many more years…

At any rate, I am now pain free again, but my toes are chilling, and I could wear street shoes, but I’m too lazy…it’s going to be 38 here tonight.