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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Woe Is Me

Posted by Melanie at 17:37 1 comments

My right arm hurts or more specifically my shoulder and part of my neck. Lifting my arm above my head is painful. Everyone’s been telling me the pain is from scrolling and clicking on the trackpad of my Macbook.

I’ve tried limiting the amount of scrolling and clicking I do but even with keyboard shortcuts there are still things one needs a mouse for. Someone suggested I get a special mouse, sort of like a joystick, made especially for people with problems like mine.

I‘ve decided to train myself to use my left hand for all mousing activities, and after reading this article, make an appointment with a physiotherapist.

Last week was not a good week for running. I’ve discovered running 13 k through 2 inches of snow is like running through sand and makes me feel extremely tired. Downhill skiing the next day, hard and fast, makes me feel even more tired. Despite having a great run, after a couple of days rest, I found running today was making me feel tired again. I’m really hoping next week will be better.

A few days ago I found out Blogger will no longer be supporting FTP blogging. that's how I publish this blog. It seems I can either move all my files back over to their servers, still keeping my domain, or find some other blogging software to manage my blog. I have no idea what I’m going to do. I’m scared my limited HTML knowledge is not up to figuring out how to meld my blog with new software.

Update: I've found these stretching exercises to help with my RSI pain.

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Not to sound self righteous or anything

Posted by Melanie at 07:24 0 comments

yesterday I parked beside an SUV. It was very noisy and I noticed a child sitting in the front seat. As I walked towards Anchors seafood shop to buy prawns for dinner I realized the noise was the engine of the SUV still running. The reason it was running was so the air-conditioned could keep the child, sitting in the front seat, cool. Humph. The only other customer in the shop was obviously the SUV driver. I almost opened my big mouth to ask her loudly what she meant by wasting resources keeping her engine running for an air conditioner for Christ sake, and all so her kid doesn’t feel the heat. I wonder if she has seen the price of gas lately, especially since the carbon tax came into effect. Maybe she’s out of touch or maybe she just doesn’t freaking care.

In retrospect it is laughable. This is Northern BC . It is unbearably hot for maybe a week out of the whole long year. I guess if we humans have invented air-conditioning we better use it because there is nothing cooler, in both senses, than driving an air-conditioned SUV even if you only have one kid and live in a city.

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