Jan. 1, 2000: Computers everywhere continued working mostly as expected, so no need to go in on the weekend. Our British corporate masters (who had bought us a year or two earlier) were still trying to figure out what to make of our Pittsburgh office, which was mostly doing DoD/DARPA work and therefore had to have an arms-distance relationship ( Read more... )

1. Less than a week until Sundance tells me when my ticket ordering window is (they're randomly assigning purchase windows to people who pre-registered so that it's not just a first-come-first-serve crush on the website)
2. My left hand is feeling much better. The pinky tingles a little bit yet, but it seems to be gradually coming back to normal.
3. The ( Read more... )

I was chatting with several friends last Saturday when a phrase similar to "yeah, work's been busy; I keep waiting for things to quiet down to do but I think I just need to accept that's not going to happen" repeatedly came up. LJ is like that - I keep thinking I should write more, but there always seems to be something else to do instead. ( Read more... )

I actually got home from the surgery about 5:30 or so last night, but was still feeling numbed and groggy enough that bed felt like the best approach. I think my elbow heartily concurs; it was absolutely fine when I first got up, but is doing that vaguely aching like I overexcercised it yesterday thing now that I've been up and around a bit ( Read more... )

This morning was my physiatrist appointment for my left hand. He started with the now-familiar array of prodding, confirming that, yes, it looks like my ulnar nerve is somehow messed up. Next up, as expected, was dead frog walking, which unfortunately didn't indicate anything wrong in my arm, suggesting that it's not just a simple entrapment of ( Read more... )

For several days now, my left-hand pinky (and the left side of the neighboring finger, to a lesser extent) keeps falling asleep. It's the sort of thing that gets better or worse based on arm or wrist position, and yes, it does have RSI written all over it - it fits all the descriptions of carpal tunnel, except that the latter involves the bundle ( Read more... )