D.O.P.-T. (day before yesterday)

Two days of one ear ringing so loudly I couldn't really hear what anyone said unless they faced me and projected. A weird experience. Under certain acoustic conditions, such as the bus, it was like being in a plane - distant voices that were probably right behind me, and relatively loud, fragmented music some of which was probably not really there but manufactured from the engine echoing in my ear. Then at home there was this appalling thrum that turned out to be a flatbed wrecker idling in front of the rental establishment next door. I was too miserable even to look to see whether it was a break-down or a repossession, and in either case whether the vehicle was really that large. Oh and when I got up I found the house internet no longer accommodating my computer so I couldn't play something familiar on YouTube to recalibrate my ear-holes.

D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

The tinnitus had subsided to the usual level when I got up last night. (Touch wood.) Went outside with Bear while preparing my lunch/dinner to take to work - he's too short-legged to trigger the motion-sensor light and has become reluctant to go out there at night alone. The light flicked on - revealing a large rabbit on the lawn 3 feet away from Bear. A grand chase and search took place, and I finally had to put a hand on his collar to get him to come inside so I could finish getting ready for work. But that's the real solution to the mystery of the circular depressions in the long grass, I think.