From the archive 20130516

This photo was taken by me 6 years ago and automatically saved in the cloud-based google photos. Today it was resurrected in a mobile phone notification. If you use social media for a while, it will occasionally throw up a picture from your past as a marketing tactic. I suppose they're thinking that most of the time people take photos of happy things and like to be reminded of them. However, even though I take a lot of photos, I'm sure I'm not alone finding these reminders can have varied impacts. Pads is on the way to a hot-tub rubbing his neck, the all too familiar pain site. He was pretty wrecked by this time and the palliative pain meds, while massive, were not quite as effective as we had hoped.