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My parents have started their drive east. They've had some fun ups and downs with connection, but are all right and (if dad's latest journal entries and emails are any indication) having a very good time. Hopefully they will go on doing so. So far, it's making me want to do such a drive, but not nearly enough to actually put together the logistics part. ;)
I'm still reading the ILL book, but I'd better read faster. It has to be returned on Saturday, latest. It's got some useful stuff in it, but after this, I can't recommend it to the company to buy for the general library. I muddled through several of these articles and had to outright skip others; none are applicable as is and much of what I did understand, while useful, could throw a real wrench into the works if introduced all at once and willy-nilly.
Besides, I think anti-insomnia treatments have to be prescribed by a doctor in order to be covered under our health plan. Not just picked up via mail order.
I'm glad I got it, wisecracks aside. I learned some stuff that I can apply, and I also learned that the model I was thinking might work if we could implement it, but was not sure of the latter - is beyond us. At this point, and probably forever, because it's not well-meshed to what we do or why we're doing it. I will have to go back to the Rapid Development book (which I own) and have a look at some other books on this topic, with other focuses, to see if I can find more useful tools.
I think, mostly, I have a nail. I knew this wasn't a hammer, but I was trying to find out if it was a good solid rock. It turned out to be a screwdriver, on close examination. Very handy, but likelier to bruise me than drive the nail in, if I tried to use it in this circumstance.
Fascinating concepts. Tiresome presentation in most cases, but fascinating concepts. And at least, if I must say what technical books I've been reading, it's not all "oh, this language that language" buzzword stuff. ;)
Then there's the tetanus shot. Yep, the one I got yesterday morning. It is not as bad as my memory of my last one - yet. They warned me it could take a couple days to really ramp up and hit me, so it may get there. I'm hoping, though; the lady who did this one was not clumsy and I do recall that the last one was - somewhat less than graceful. This hurt less going in than I recalled, too (as in, not at all after the first prick), so....
But it's not all sweetness and light. It's definitely tender where it went in, just not extending to the whole upper arm yet. I could not sleep on my left side last night, and if I started to roll on to it it hurt like hell and drove me back. (On the plus side, my hair was much less tangled this morning than normal, as I couldn't flop about restlessly as I am accustomed to. However, this is not a method of tangle control that I would recommend....)
I have a tendency to walk near walls, and sometimes to run into them. (My peripheral vision isn't that great, and I have some distance judgement problems - I used to have a lot more - but my main problem is really that I don't pay attention. It's just carelessness, because bumping into a wall doesn't hurt that much. Of course, I could say it's self-defense, because at my office people tend to be in the middle of the hallway and moving fast - you could get nailed on some of those corners - but this has been the case since long before I worked here. I think in part it's just wanting to be somewhere faster - I don't cling to the wall gratuitously, but I tend to be near the wall going around corners and the door frame coming out of rooms, in the direction I'll be going.)
At any rate, as I'm sure you realized I was leading up to, I bumped into a wall on a corner today. On my left shoulder. Right where the shot went in or at least close enough that there was no forgiveness for any small distance off the actual site. It hurt like mad.
That wouldn't bug me so much. I mean, it doesn't normally hurt that much to walk into walls, but that's okay. I was careless, it hurts, no real damage was done that I could tell (except to my pride and, briefly, to my pain levels). But what really got me was not the pain, or even the extent of it, but the other side effect.
See, not only did my upper arm where I hit it (and where the tetanus shot was) hurt. Not only did the pain travel down my arm slightly past the elbow. But what really got to me is that from where the pain faded off all the way down into my palm (but not the whole hand, and not the fingers) felt like your elbow does after you smack your funny bone.
The only part that hit the wall was my upper shoulder. That was cruel and unnecessary. And it took a while to fade completely, too, both the pain and the other. They lingered in little ghosty versions, no longer strong enough to be bad, but not quite gone either. And then they went away, and I paid attention to where the walls were for the rest of the day. I think I'll be keeping careful about that for a while.
Of course, I did this while on my way to join my boss and another coworker for a conference call, so I was sitting there trying not to be too distracted by the arm. The call went fairly well, though, and actually involved useful information (as opposed to the calls you're on because someone thinks you should be, but afterwards no one - usually including the person who thought you should be - can quite figure out why, as it never touches on anything you have to do). This was about beta sites, so the useful information factor was sort of expected, and in fact I was also able to answer a number of questions and provide information. I do like the fact that most of the conference calls and meetings I get involved in are worthwhile to me and my job, or, failing that, to someone else's job because I was involved. But I still prefer the ones where I learn stuff and am useful to others as well.
I definitely need to sleep on my right side tonight, however. The area hurts when I move my arm wrong (and almost any lift or curve is wrong). The doctor told me to make sure I moved it as normally as I could, to minimize the stiffness impact, and to take tylenol if I needed it. I've been doing both, and it probably is helping, but I still definitely feel pain when I move it sometimes. Not the sort of pulling or tearing pain that's a warning, but the stabby ache that just basically means I need to keep on keeping on, given what was done to it yesterday.
Yes, I'm whiny about pain. Some pain. I really don't understand why one pain is worthy of whining and another isn't, sometimes. This is really bugging me, and yet I've done myself injuries that hurt worse and never thought about saying anything. Though usually they don't hurt as long - that may be part of the whine factor. Well, that, and I don't feel stupid whining about a tetanus shot. After I've just dropped my luggage hard on my toe, even if I whine about it, I feel a bit silly admitting to it.
(I am still growing out the area of toenail that was affected. I'm amazed they didn't both drop off - and I grow nails really slowly; that was last year. It's almost gone, though, just a patch at the edge now that's detached from the bruising at the time.)
I'm still reading the ILL book, but I'd better read faster. It has to be returned on Saturday, latest. It's got some useful stuff in it, but after this, I can't recommend it to the company to buy for the general library. I muddled through several of these articles and had to outright skip others; none are applicable as is and much of what I did understand, while useful, could throw a real wrench into the works if introduced all at once and willy-nilly.
Besides, I think anti-insomnia treatments have to be prescribed by a doctor in order to be covered under our health plan. Not just picked up via mail order.
I'm glad I got it, wisecracks aside. I learned some stuff that I can apply, and I also learned that the model I was thinking might work if we could implement it, but was not sure of the latter - is beyond us. At this point, and probably forever, because it's not well-meshed to what we do or why we're doing it. I will have to go back to the Rapid Development book (which I own) and have a look at some other books on this topic, with other focuses, to see if I can find more useful tools.
I think, mostly, I have a nail. I knew this wasn't a hammer, but I was trying to find out if it was a good solid rock. It turned out to be a screwdriver, on close examination. Very handy, but likelier to bruise me than drive the nail in, if I tried to use it in this circumstance.
Fascinating concepts. Tiresome presentation in most cases, but fascinating concepts. And at least, if I must say what technical books I've been reading, it's not all "oh, this language that language" buzzword stuff. ;)
Then there's the tetanus shot. Yep, the one I got yesterday morning. It is not as bad as my memory of my last one - yet. They warned me it could take a couple days to really ramp up and hit me, so it may get there. I'm hoping, though; the lady who did this one was not clumsy and I do recall that the last one was - somewhat less than graceful. This hurt less going in than I recalled, too (as in, not at all after the first prick), so....
But it's not all sweetness and light. It's definitely tender where it went in, just not extending to the whole upper arm yet. I could not sleep on my left side last night, and if I started to roll on to it it hurt like hell and drove me back. (On the plus side, my hair was much less tangled this morning than normal, as I couldn't flop about restlessly as I am accustomed to. However, this is not a method of tangle control that I would recommend....)
I have a tendency to walk near walls, and sometimes to run into them. (My peripheral vision isn't that great, and I have some distance judgement problems - I used to have a lot more - but my main problem is really that I don't pay attention. It's just carelessness, because bumping into a wall doesn't hurt that much. Of course, I could say it's self-defense, because at my office people tend to be in the middle of the hallway and moving fast - you could get nailed on some of those corners - but this has been the case since long before I worked here. I think in part it's just wanting to be somewhere faster - I don't cling to the wall gratuitously, but I tend to be near the wall going around corners and the door frame coming out of rooms, in the direction I'll be going.)
At any rate, as I'm sure you realized I was leading up to, I bumped into a wall on a corner today. On my left shoulder. Right where the shot went in or at least close enough that there was no forgiveness for any small distance off the actual site. It hurt like mad.
That wouldn't bug me so much. I mean, it doesn't normally hurt that much to walk into walls, but that's okay. I was careless, it hurts, no real damage was done that I could tell (except to my pride and, briefly, to my pain levels). But what really got me was not the pain, or even the extent of it, but the other side effect.
See, not only did my upper arm where I hit it (and where the tetanus shot was) hurt. Not only did the pain travel down my arm slightly past the elbow. But what really got to me is that from where the pain faded off all the way down into my palm (but not the whole hand, and not the fingers) felt like your elbow does after you smack your funny bone.
The only part that hit the wall was my upper shoulder. That was cruel and unnecessary. And it took a while to fade completely, too, both the pain and the other. They lingered in little ghosty versions, no longer strong enough to be bad, but not quite gone either. And then they went away, and I paid attention to where the walls were for the rest of the day. I think I'll be keeping careful about that for a while.
Of course, I did this while on my way to join my boss and another coworker for a conference call, so I was sitting there trying not to be too distracted by the arm. The call went fairly well, though, and actually involved useful information (as opposed to the calls you're on because someone thinks you should be, but afterwards no one - usually including the person who thought you should be - can quite figure out why, as it never touches on anything you have to do). This was about beta sites, so the useful information factor was sort of expected, and in fact I was also able to answer a number of questions and provide information. I do like the fact that most of the conference calls and meetings I get involved in are worthwhile to me and my job, or, failing that, to someone else's job because I was involved. But I still prefer the ones where I learn stuff and am useful to others as well.
I definitely need to sleep on my right side tonight, however. The area hurts when I move my arm wrong (and almost any lift or curve is wrong). The doctor told me to make sure I moved it as normally as I could, to minimize the stiffness impact, and to take tylenol if I needed it. I've been doing both, and it probably is helping, but I still definitely feel pain when I move it sometimes. Not the sort of pulling or tearing pain that's a warning, but the stabby ache that just basically means I need to keep on keeping on, given what was done to it yesterday.
Yes, I'm whiny about pain. Some pain. I really don't understand why one pain is worthy of whining and another isn't, sometimes. This is really bugging me, and yet I've done myself injuries that hurt worse and never thought about saying anything. Though usually they don't hurt as long - that may be part of the whine factor. Well, that, and I don't feel stupid whining about a tetanus shot. After I've just dropped my luggage hard on my toe, even if I whine about it, I feel a bit silly admitting to it.
(I am still growing out the area of toenail that was affected. I'm amazed they didn't both drop off - and I grow nails really slowly; that was last year. It's almost gone, though, just a patch at the edge now that's detached from the bruising at the time.)