Despite the unintentionally early start, today’s turned out to be a pretty good day. The usual good things (knitting, geeking, some time with G, some time with the keetons), plus the added bonus of getting to spend the day with Jenn (and later, Jim).
But on the super special bonus front: the pain in my left knee is significantly improved. I can actually walk reasonably well, and even manage stairs. Standing up still sucks, but it’s all so much better than it was two days ago!
However, this plan requires that I have a design epiphany for a project I’m working sometime in the next couple of days. If anyone has a mojo in that area, please tell the Muses to drop me a visit, k?
Thanks!
In case you haven’t run across this on your own yet.
You can identify VIP contacts in iOS 6. If you do so, when you receive mail from someone on the VIP contacts list, a notification will pop up and be added to your Notification Screen. (Assuming you have mail notifications turn on, of course.) Unfortunately, it does not look like they have yet split out the concept of VIP mail notifications vs standard mail notifications when it comes to things like audible / vibrate alerts. Baby steps.
Kind of neat, kind of handy.
Wanting to close a spare browser window I have kicking around, so have some tabs that I’ve kept open for a while. (more…)
YAMA at 8 this morning. Today’s visit was to try to figure out why the hell my knees have decided that they are my enemy, and must do everything in their power to cause me pain.
Turns out, I had fluid built up in my left knee (and possibly my right, though the focus today was on my left knee)(hence the ‘Operation!’ reference in the subject). This was determined by a bunch of manual prodding, followed by a ultrasound, followed by a bunch (ok, 4) needles poking around in my knee. (The first needle was a *caine to numb the area, the second needle was to try to get the fluid, the third needle was brought in when the second needle was too short to reach the fluid (oh, that was mighty pleasant, lemme tell ya), and the fourth needle was a shot of cortisone.) The doctor managed to pull about 5ccs of fluid out of my knee to send off to be analyzed. And just in case I thought I was done on the needle front for today, I also got to get a blood draw.
So yeah, lots of needles. On the plus side, the pain in my left knee has already significantly decreased, though using it in any sort of leverage operation (stairs, standing up from a sitting position, etc.) still pretty much sucks.
Also, this may help both in figuring out what the hell is going on (for the short term), and also maybe shed some light on the long-term general brokenness of the meri, which would certainly be a good thing.
I’m not quite sure how it happened. Sure, I usually have a couple of projects going at any given time, but right now, I’m completely awash in projects. They range in intricacy from “completely mind-numbingly boring” to “gods help the person who talks to me while I’m working on this.” It’s kind of nice to have a variety of things to work on, but a couple are on deadline, so there’s that added looming sensation.
What I’m working on:
These are just the active projects. I have another dozen or so sitting in hibernation. And we’re not going to talk about the blocking (much of which also has deadlines). Oy.
Yesterday included:
A pretty good day, really.
I have decided that I really hate making lace-weight i-Cord.
It’s a shame that this project I really really want to work on requires about 96″ inches of it, total.
If you can have the following conversation with your SO, you just might be a meri:
[meri] I’m going downstairs to wind yarn.
[G] Ok! Have fun. Don’t hurt yourself.
[meri] … (Thinking this is in reference to the painful knees.) It’s mostly a sitting operation.
[G] Don’t hurt yourself.
Hrmph.
While it may not sound like a big deal to clean out one’s car, this was a special case.
Back when I parted ways with Noblis (in February, mind you), my poor officemate Brian was stuck with the job of packing up my side of the office. I finally went and picked up all the boxes and other stuff he’d packed only when he was about to get another officemate. I’ve been driving around with this stuff in my car ever since. So, yeah, for like 7 months or so.
With much help from G, the boxes and other stuff has been sorted into keep / toss, the toss dealt with accordingly, and the keep brought inside. There’s a little bit of cleanup left to do in the car, but it’s minor compared to having the entire back of a RAV-4 filled with stuff.
Also, now that that’s taken care of, I can take advantage of the super-duper interior detailing GroupOn that I picked up a couple of weeks ago. This will be fabulous, as my car hasn’t had a good cleaning in a couple of years, and there’s a lot of dust and former-smoker-grime in the vehicle that I would like to have go away. And this way, my car will be all spiffy and clean before Liv, Carel, Ivo, Tara, and half the world show up for MAAWG next month.
Many many thanks to G, without whom this would have been impossible.