Category: Miscellaneous

I’m back at the office today, despite the fact that the knee isn’t getting much better, but the doctor didn’t want me to take more than a week of rest. Something about how “movement is life.”

The rain can stop anytime now. As I predicted, my windows started leaking again as soon as it started raining again. Patching up the holes doesn’t change the fact that the water is getting into the walls, so of course the water is once again punching through the plaster and paint. Woo! Fun times in Los Angeles, yessiree.

I’ve got nothing else, I’m afraid. Spending week after week on the couch trying to coax an injury to heal already, goddammit! doesn’t give me much to share with others, unless you want to hear about the two and a half books I finished, the completed poncho or half-completed scarf, or the season of Angel I zipped through. Yeah, I didn’t think so.

So I went and popped the fibula head again, when I stepped off the shuttle bus at work last week. I’m back on the cane, back to working at home for another week, *plus* the PT insists I have to swear off krav and kickboxing for at least a month, even if it seems to heal faster than that. Actually I think he wants me to abstain longer than that, but I’m holding firm at a month unless time (and pain) convinces me otherwise. He thinks I should try yoga in the meantime, but both the krav center and the dojo only offer it once a week, and at inconvenient times. I might have a yoga tape in the closet somewhere, though, so maybe I can at least give it a try.

In other news….Well, there is no other news. This stupid injury is taking over my life. How boring.

So it turned out to not be the meniscus, but instead a dislocated fibulla? tibia? I dunno, some bone. I hobbled around on a cane for a week and a half before the physical therapist properly diagnosed it and presumably fixed it. I say presumably because while yes, the pressure in my knee is now gone, the pain is taking longer to go away, due to all the irritation and swelling in all the parts around the dislocated area. Fortunately my bosses rock and the let me work from home this week on a company-loaned laptop, which I’m typing on this very moment while sitting on my couch and watching Buffy dvds. I sooooo need a laptop of my own! Also fortunately, I’d ordered DSL right before the injury, which helps with the whole working from home thing. Woo DSL!

Anyway, I’m up right now at 4:30 in the morning because somehow, even though I’ve seen hardly anyone all week, I managed to catch a pain in the ass of a cold, which is making me cranky as well as keeping me from sleeping. Question is, do I continue to sit here watching Buffy, or do I get in my car at 4:35 in the morning in search of Benadryl, NyQuil, or maybe a rubber mallet to whack myself over the head? Right now, the couch is winning.

Oh, yes, and go check out my latest project that went live yesterday, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile. (All coding done by yours truly.) And show me you love me by leaving a comment on the site’s reaction page. 🙂

So since my last entry, I’ve managed to injure myself a bit more than usual, so much so that I actually *gasp* went to the doctor! He said I tore the meniscus (something in my knee). I have been limping, resting, and popping pills all week. Then today my physical therapist, hereafter known as “The Torturer”, thinks my doctor’s on crack and that I just pulled a muscle. Personally, don’t care what it is as long as they can fix me, and preferably without surgery. So that’s been my week.

But it did allow me a lot of time to sit on my butt over the weekend, so I spent that time processing images. I haven’t yet got them all online, but here are some of the Christmas pictures (mostly just up to Christmas Eve). Also, the cutest picture ever of Jack, and someone’s Christmas nightmare^{TM Todd}, if that someone wasn’t 10 years old (fortunately the person it was made for was 10 years old).

That’s the it for now. 🙂