Whoops!!!

May. 23rd, 2013 09:04 am
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I accidentally have two rooms at WisCon! Aaaaack!

It is a governor's club room with king size bed, shower, access to the 12th floor lounge with free drinks and food.

email me if you want it! if no one emails in the next couple of hours I will cancel the extra reservation. lizhenry@gmail.com.

Completely forgot that I booked this room *at last year's wiscon* and then i took over tempest's extra room. AHahahahahah.... fail.
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halloa! i will be flying out to WisCon tomorrow, with Moomin! So excited.

our 3rd roommate will not be getting in till friday morning, so if you need a space to crash on Wed. or Thurs night, or need a spot to rest up during the day, just ask!

Yay yay yay I am very excited. But I have to keep thinking about work for another couple hours here. I worked late last night figuring that today my head would be full of packing and plans and it is VERY DISTRACTING. :)
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I made a up nice recipe! It is green apple rhubarb crumble and is gluten free.

- crumble stuff is brown sugar, butter, oats, tapioca flour, coconut flour
- 4 green apples, maybe 8 stalks rhubarb, brown sugar, tapioca flour, cinnamon, ginger, honey

I sauteed the rhubarb for a few minutes to see if it was very juicy, but it wasn't. Threw a spoonful of honey in there and about as much ginger as my thumb. Then mixed it with the apples and sprinkled some sugar, cinnamon, and tapioca flour on it all figuring that would thicken the juicy inside.

Mash the brown sugar into the butter, then mix in the oats and various kinds of flour.

I cooked it maybe 40 minutes at 375. It is perfect! The ginger really makes it. If I could have found the cardamom I would have put a pinch into the apple/rhubarb filling. This much stuff filled a 9 inch square glass pan.

Gluten free stuff is for Zond7 who is trying this out and seems to be doing better on it. Hard to stick to. Next I will try making gf cornbread again and then gf mac and cheese with brown rice pasta.

Day of domesticity and naps - I put up a lot of hooks and brackets and did a lot of laundry. A. continues excitedly doing things to create a Paradise for Birds. At 7am she was up asking me for "chores -- chores that might be like watering the garden or filling the bird feeders." OK! Chores! 7am! hop to it, kid! Over the course of the day she helped me drill holes, screw screws, and oil the patio benches with teak oil.

She duct taped a yogurt container up on top of the highest fence for crows. Her rambly singing has switched between lullabies and fake crow calls all day. Moomin did some homework (but has WAY MORE) everyone but me played a board game called zooloretto and A.'s friend from school came over.

Zond7 slept off his jet lag. I also did some worky things over the day when I was resting my ankles and not asleep. We're hoping to see the star trek movie tomorrow!

So lovely to have more energy, be able to walk around today, etc. and use my hands so much for things like drilling, screwdrivers, laundry, and carrying things. It may not feel very good tomorrow. And yet Enbrel <3 <3 <3 <3
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Just realized this evening my sinuses really are going haywire. This maybe explains why I feel so generally rotten, and my head hurts, and I spent a day dizzy and sick. Maybe it's just that I actually am sick. Well, whatever.

Not a bad day. Though very long and I cried on the way home from the pain clinic. Before my appointment I went to the fabulous House of Paincakes (not really called that) and had a totally delicious hummus/falafel/tabouleh/dolmas plate with toasted pita bread. it is all very fresh and homemade and was 8 bucks for the lot. Yeah! Worked from the cafe, then oozed over to the Pain Rooms.

The waiting room smelled unbelievable like someone had just crop-dusted with farts, or a disco fog machine but with old armpits, farts, yawns, and gym sock mold. Really, what was wrong with that place! Along with the other people trapped there I delighted in a 2 year old who was being entertained by a nice lady with an iphone. Fish! Dora! Bubbles! Etc. Then they looked at a highlights magazine together while the father beamed proud & nervous that maybe the kid was going to start annoying the nice strange lady. Then a new lady came in and went "Huh! This place smells like MUSKY BALLS!" (2 year old: "Ball? Ball? Catch? Bounce? Ball? Bounce? Dora?) I could not believe I had just heard this out loud. Whose balls has this woman been smelling, anyway? Gross! Did she really say it? Was there something else she could have said that I mistook for "musky balls?" Should I ask her? Was I smirking? Hahahah! Holy wow!

The rest of the people left over the next few minutes for their appointments or as their partners came out of the PAIN ROOMS inside the super secure drugs-inside-here door. It was just me and Ms. Muskballer. She mentioned the weather. I agreed that it had been foggy and cold, but was getting nicer outside. We agreed the sun is awesome. She told me how she loves to go in her back yard and sunbathe. Me too!

"And I sprawl out. I don't care, maybe someone way up there (gestures towards imaginary 3rd floor window) can see me but I just don't care, I'm all in my altogether out there in the sunny morning now that I'm in Union City instead of Alameda where the fog would just get at me." "Oh, me too, morning fog, goes right into my bones." "So I sprawl out like THIS" (demonstration of Sun Worshiping Wide Open Beaver yoga pose, arms up)

Hahahha! No one can see me in the yard either except maybe from way up! So I just, you know, get a little sun in there too! (We both crack up as I mime coyly lifting up my shirt).

"Well I just love the sun. I go down to the Caribbean 3 times a year just to get my sun but now I get it in my own back yard. You know, it's close in here. "

"Yeah it's not very..."

"It smells like MUSKY BALLS in here. It's not right." This time I know I heard it! GLORY TO THE BALLS LADY. It is the best time I have ever had in a waiting room especially one that stinky. I went over to the door and wedged a trash can in it to get more air in. We then discussed how much sun was optimal on the skin and whether we used sun screen (only sometimes). Then the doctor came out.

The new resident or guy on rotation was very nice, though, he did the horrible rotating-outwards thign that hurts like fury to test me, and my blood pressure was unusually high. (still high normal) Maybe I will stop eating butter and go back to olive oil and vinegar for my toast. Rotation guy suggested I try the old compound ketamine cream on my ankles. Dr. Major General was awesome as always but impressed me extra with a special, gentle, two handed flat palmed handshake that had NO SQUEEZING. Genius of the pain clinic! My next injection is at the end of June.

Bus ride hard and crowded and jolty. I was a bit teary-eyed. Finally home. yarnivore was here with A. who came home early (there was a plan , with a friend, but it fell through) Baby birds discovered in the birdhouse in the backyard! A. declared she would make the yard a paradise for birds! We could hear them peeping in there and see nest material but the birds seemed to be huddled up against the front just out of site. Birdseed scattered! expedition to the park to get sticks and dead leaves so that bugs would live there and the birds could eat them! Beans and flowers planted! (this all happened while i laid on the couch.) Yarnivore and i laid about talking about arthritis. We ate bean soup. Hours later A. broke the news there are no birds. The peeping noise was the wood of the birdhouse rubbing against the fence! Chagrin.... "But we will make it an awesome bird paradise anyway because the birds put nesting stuff in there so they will come back!"

Video chatted with Zond7 in Norway. He is stuck there an extra day but on his way home now! Hurrah!!!!!

Going tomorrow to see A. play the flute for the school concert.

OK, taking some more sinus meds and then to sleep.

Oh wait. Stranger in Olondria was very good! I loved it! I knew I would from the excerpt booklet from last year's WisCon. Dreamy and lovely....and all the quotations and literary allusions from the narrator! I didn't want it to end. I'll read anything Sofia Samatar writes!
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Feeling dizzy and nauseated. Maybe I am getting sick and it isn't all about swimming the other day? Or, it could be related to having taken NSAIDS. Loss of appetite also. I am eating anyway but minimally. At least I managed to work today.
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Swam today. Fucked up my ankles. Fingers crossed I don't go back into the space boots.

What should I read before WisCon? I need some escapism, quick.

rainbow!

May. 10th, 2013 08:45 pm
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yarnivore drove us to rainbow grocery, where we had an epic, dawdling, overwhelmed shop. I have a spaghetti jar and 3 kinds of bulk bath salts, bulk brown rice, a flat of coconut water, a new bamboo cutting board, a peeler, AND SUNDRY.

I could not see up to the signs that tell you where things are. Need new glasses for sure.
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So many people dropping by these last few weeks! I am really enjoying it. It is lovely to make tea for everyone and sit around gossiping and working on stuff. I also like feeding people. Got a bonus check and celebrated with mildly luxurious groceries like honey "hand harvested in small batches in the Mission". Bwahahahaha!

I have a plot to make decadent mac and cheese in the slow cooker very soon!

I am physically at my limits and also sort of emotionally, pushing to the edge of what I can handle. Pulling back in a just a tiny bit as I can't afford to mess up my physical ability right at the moment , but I still intend to drive out today for an errand if I possibly can. Though there is no rush. Might be tomorrow. I'd like to see if I can drive to either REI (to return the snow boots which turned out to be unnecessary) or Rainbow (to get bath things and brown rice in bulk) I can handle REI in my manual chair. At Rainbow I could borrow their store scooter. It is not very far to drive if I do it when traffic is low in the middle of the day.

Enjoying domesticity. I have a new system for the countertop, with 2 tins for the coffee which I got and used and now am refilling with much nicer quality coffee.

Other small goals are to get some pictures framed and to obtain more large flowerpots.

Going to type to dictation for my friend Zach on some ideas he has and I need to write up some Hive things.

I am so happy that I'm sstill capable of gardening but as I found this morning it is unwise to try doing things like repotting even a small plant it in the cold or fog. My fingers hurt.

My neck is getting better but still iffy. Asking the massage person to shove in deeper rather than just go gently was a big mistake (i say even 2 weeks later) and then trying to "stretch" it rather than just letting it be another mistake. Ice and staying still were good. The pain and the twitch are still there, but much calmer. It gets worse if I nod a lot while listening or turn my head to the left or lie on my left side.
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Same dealie as last week! Come on over any time, 11am-ish onwards, and I will be loafing, puttering, pastry-eating, gossiping, coffee-drinking. Perhaps some toenail-painting, knitting, bestickering, world domination plans, and light gardening. Bring food if you like - it is quite popular.

D. will be at the hackathon at Noisebridge so if you want to HACK AND REMIX, go to the against-the-Transpacific Partnership hackathon, which has the BEST LOGO, and DO THINGS. They will be doing things in cahoots with several other hackspaces, including ones in Peru and Mexico!

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Come over!

Apr. 26th, 2013 12:32 pm
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The last few weekends it's been super nice out and we all end up hanging out on the back patio of our little shack. Very relaxing! And it is nice to have visitors. This is in keeping with my Secret Master Plan of being more social without burning out or exhausting myself. Also, I love to play host though am a bit half-assed about it.

So come over, there will be a bunch of people dropping by this weekend, and i might make this a regular thing. There will be nice coffee, tea, abundant pastries from the guatemalan bakery, and hanging out with computers and books and crafty things, in the half sunny half shady back yard. WHICH HAS TWO AWESOME NEW BENCHES. Obviously (??) bring you r laptop. There may be a little book swapping action as well if you have anything to bring. I certainly have books to give away... Also there are nasturtium seedlings and probably succulent cuttings if you want some. There will almost certainly be children playing Minecraft.

rsvp! 11am onwards.
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Much better today! Woke up at 6:30, took a half a tramadol, and continue to nibble on halves. Much much better this way. It is not perfect and I don't want to walk around, but it is not like I want to curl up unmoving and be unconscious, either. And the scrip refills today too.

I have worked like a fiend on worky things and feel all on top of everything. Am almost caught up on my Postponed Tasks. Went over my Q2 april goals and I am actually fine for those too. I have never had such clearly outlined goals or Things to Do or such a good organization for to-do lists before in my life. (well, a bit for my thesis, that's when i really kicked into gear.) It is certainly helpful.

Grocery shopped. Got myself flowers (cornflowers, purple iris, and yellow daisies).

Along the way to the store, going up Cortland to the top of the hill, all the little yards with plants are in full spring mode now, with the flowers blooming and incredibly variety. forsythias, little purple lantanas, salvia, still some oxalis and wild garlic, things that look like tiny sage-colored fuzzy leaved morning glories with light purple flowers, irises, really good bright deep red things that look like mini-iris that I couldn't identify...

I have a few more hours of good work left in me, am going to go till 3pm and then stop early, and get my prescriptions.

Hurty

Apr. 25th, 2013 04:22 pm
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Cannot manage to do anything. Right around noon I lost it and started taking painkillers and now I have taken 2. Pecking at work things. So exhausted and impatient and melancholy. I hate having to basically just write off a day. Also, I was so happy to use my hands for things like scissors and chopping food and doing bits of gardening (as well as, say, shaking hands with people) Now they are horrible again. Maybe from swimming on Tuesday and holding onto the kickboard (instead of arm floaties) that is my theory. Whatever it was, it fucking hurts.

Knees too. I also blame the colder weather today.

Must try to be extra kick ass tomorrow, or on weekend.

my task list (RTM) is really good, and i mostly keep up with it, and today is just the 2nd "postpone" day where not all the things get done.

Listless. Feel like refusing all projects. Grrrr.
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Woke up to a call from my old bank's visa card billing. I thought the amount due was the total on the card and had thought of it as a leftover card I barely use anymore. Hahahahah. No. I panicked a bit. Turns out it has some travel stuff on it, and some horrible MRI medical bills, and the $2000 scooter I bought last fall and immediately returned, which they never credited me for.

Spent the day figuring out and turning in all my work travel and conference registration paperwork so I can get reiumbursed. Left a message for the scooter people. They better refund my money omg. I will also get a fairly minor tax refund. That all adds up to about 4K. So actually I am in okay shape. Though I also still sort of owe zond7 2 months rent from last fall. I would like to be saving money again by September at the latest, this year.

I also thought a bunch about everything from the last year.

I went through a catastrophic change in physical ability and spent a year on leave. That was painful and terrifying. I am still slowly coming out of that. But I adapted fast, and I coped okay.

Zond7 and I moved in together, which is awesome in every way.

And we both have new jobs that are super intense, that we like.

That is a lot of stuff!!!

That's all! Maybe I can only see it clearly now that things are calming down a bit. Feels like I'm reeling from all of it.

We did the other half of the stuff to stay in the garage. It is all out of cardboard boxes (moldy, boooooo) and into plastic bins. There is a huge pile of stuff for donation and trash hauling. Yesterday I put together a 2nd park bench for our little yard... it's really nice out there now. Such a relief to have more energy, to be able to do way more stuff, walk around.... I over did it this weekend but my body will be okay.

The kids have been playing minecraft on Moomin's server that I got him for his birthday. his friends skype him and his cousins also get on. It is awesome. Last night it was at least 2 of his cousins, A. and her friend yatima's older daughter, and a couple of moomin's friends, all on skype building a statue and temple to Herobrine, who is a sort of Minecraft folk legend. Anyway, it is lovely to hear (and watch) them all talking together at once, coordinating what they're doing, learning to structure their projects, persuading each other to work on the same thing and how to do it, and then taking breaks to run around in various arenas shooting at stuff or each other with particular rules. It's just great! I try to make them get out of their pajamas and go out side a little bit, but really don't mind if they are online all day doing this. They are making cool stuff and learning a lot! (A bit of daylight and some chores... and remember to eat... that is all I ask.)

In the evenings we have been reading Rumo by Walter Moers which I predicted would be the book of the series that would specially appeal to Ada because the Wolpertings are so fierce and cool. (While Moomin's particular one is obviously City of Dreaming Books.) Zond7 reads so beautifully. His Smyke voice amazes me, it is so perfect for the character. And his comedic and dramatic timing is great too. Just that he's doing it on the fly... how can anyone!! I can't wait till Rumo gets to the Wolperting city. A. will freak out with happiness!

She did go out today to run up to the slides on the hill with her friend from down the street. Moomin stayed here, did his homework, and made all the dragons out of the klutz paper flying dragon book.

I am DJ-ing from spotify, using airfoil and my airport express to stream it wirelessly to the speakers in the living room.

We are cooking beef stew in the crockpot. it took 5 minutes for us to make & it smells amazing.

Soon.... doctor who. life is good!
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That was exciting. Last fall I couldn't do it, ankles just would not have been strong enough. I drove 1 mile up the hill and to do a very boring but satisfying errand. I could not brake with my right foot but my left foot did ok and felt stronger. But, by the time I got there my legs were all noodly feeling.

I had never been in the Lowe's before. I had the manual chair in the car but the store had electric scooters (slow and horrible and beepy, but I appreciated it...) Got 10 giant plastic bins for the stuff in the garage. The cashier brought all the bins and 2 big bags of potting soil out for me & loaded them in the car.

Home & felt even more noodley and shaky. So, I see which muscles need help in my legs, but am not sure what to do for the ankles and knees other than just try more water exercise and hope they strengthen up.

The other day I thought about trying to walk to the corner, but I chickened out. I think I can do it but worry it will screw up my knees if I try it too soon.

It felt strange to be going so fast (20 mph hahahh) and not to be in the open air like on the scooter.

I'm not quite ready to be driving yet but it was nice to try.

Thanks to my friend Z.'s efforts the car is back in commission and I am sharing it with him and yarnivore also kind of wishing I had made some effort to fix it and let people use it before now. Seems like such a waste of a resource that it sat in the garage for a whole year.

had another decent work day, though after the car trip did not get a ton of things done. nearly my whole list for the day.

I then got caught up looking at the anon opjustice4rehtaeh and then read the fb profiles of every kid who has a public FB page and goes to that high school. There were only a couple of hundred. Found one of the kids who is likely one of the rapists. He must be the dumbest one, to post on his fb about how he made a mistake and hopes to be a better person now. I screen capped all of it. two of the kids out of a couple of hundred with FB pages .... only 2.... posted on rehtaeh's mom's post (from the humane society) to say anything to commemorate her life and death or offer condolences. I'm sure many of them are privately, but it was a bit sad. Anyway, I had this just sick fascination staring at the photos of this guy who says he made a mistake. I had a moment wondering if I would put out a link to his profile but then no. He is going down, and it will all come out over the next couple of days, obviously. I felt solemn and grim staring at his page.
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Worked a little bit on Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Wikipedia article, which was just pathetic. At least it existed. If anyone has more stamina than I do.... it could use some fixing up and rewriting for style and coherency. As well as more good citations!

It would also be lovely to look around for more public domain photos of her to put onto wikimedia commons!

Of course it was infuriating to find her biography dominated by story and photo of her son. While not a single "relationship with other writer" was ever mentioned!!!!!

And then around various other bios to have her writing described in ways like this.. "during the 1920s and ’30s produced a string of marriage-and-family stories and novels" O rly? I can't even be arsed to go re-open all the tabs but there were so many ways to dismiss and trivialize her writing and entire life. How very annoying. I had moments of fury and despair and double-bind churning around in me this morning too as I read through some NB mailing list threads where someone linked to a fairly decent article on how sometimes people act surprised that women do (whatever sciencey thing) and she commented how she sometimes feels this. What happened next? guess! 10 decent but clueless dudes and one ev-psych douchebag explain how there isn't any sexism really or if there is, it isn't them, while 3 or 4 women on the list flip the ever loving fuck out. While I am happy not to be alone in my flipping i just had to shake my head as I thought of how absolutely they don't know how very many women around our lives don't talk to them or engage much in the community because of how annoying it all is. They have no idea!!!!!

Bent Twig

Apr. 6th, 2013 06:19 pm
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Came to the bit in The Bent Twig where the two sisters along with most of their schoolmates realize two of their fascinating, talented, beautiful, popular new classmates Camilla and Ceclie are mixed race. The younger protagonist Judith never liked the popular sisters but her older sister Sylvia loves them. Judith freaks out in the middle of the street and screams at the horrible racist children taunting Camilla. Sylvia has a moral crisis standing there wondering if she has the nerve to stand by her friends and go against conformity and the crowd but is shamed into it by her sister's behavior. Sylvia and Judith go home crying to tell their parents what happened. Their dad the professor tries to explain racism in the U.S. (badly). The kids leave and the parents have this conversation:

After the children had gone out, his wife, who had preserved an unbroken silence, remarked dryly, "So that's the stone we give them when they ask for bread."

Professor Marshall made no attempt to defend himself. "My dim generalities are pretty poor provender for honest children's minds, I admit," he said humbly, "but what else have we to give them that isn't directly contradicted by our lives? There's no use telling children something that they never see put into practice."

"It's not impossible, I suppose, to change our lives," suggested his wife uncompromisingly.

Professor Marshall drew a great breath of disheartenment. "As long as I can live without thinking of that element in American life--it's all right. But when anything brings it home--like this today--I feel that the mean compromise we all make must be a disintegrating moral force in the national character. I feel like gathering up all of you, and going away--away from the intolerable question--to Europe--and earning the family living by giving English lessons!"

Mrs. Marshall cried out, "It makes _me_ feel like going out right here in La Chance with a bomb in one hand and a rifle in the other!"

Must say I enjoyed that Mrs. Marshall got that line about the bomb and the rifle.
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Threw enormous amount of STUFF out of the kids' room. Moomin and I took everything out of the bookshelves in there, and then I told him to put back only the stuff he wanted to be there and make it the way he wanted it (leaving one shelf for A.) Thus all the strange children's classics I have accumulated for their sakes for many years have left the room and are replaced by:

* top shelf - big comic book compilations and role playing game books
* 2nd shelf - mythology and a few good books for A., her writing and drawing notebooks, and blank space
* 3rd shelf - short comic book compilations
* 4th shelf - novels

With the very top being giant boxed games. A. has an empty cubbyhole now, a half-empty one, and half an empty drawer. I have 3 shoeboxes of crap still to sort out that are mostly trash or playmobil set bits. Moomin removed everything from his drawer under the bed (giant star wars and atlantis lego kits), swept the drawer out (!!!!!) carefully arranging them in orderly rows with the minifigs in a tray. He likes it so much better having the books sorted and in order by subject and size. I know that he is by nature more suited to a monkish room with only a few nice things (as long as it is also lined with alphabetized books) than the clutter he lives in. We taped some things up on the walls as we came across cool musuem postcards, photos, and comic book ad cards.

I think that is what happens to my energy level when i take a whole tramadol.

Last night we arranged our Magic cards. I still gloat over mine and can't have too many... ever. Love them so much! I worked on re-assembling my bats, rats, and amputation deck (card loss damage, pestilence, rats, and vampire bats) which now has "Wild and Free" kitten card sleeves and is in a nyan cat box labeled "Death Kitten". (I also have rainbow unicorn card sleeves. Contemplating.) I can't remember what the hell was in my goblin deck to make it so quick and effective. whatever it is now SUCKS. Moomin worked on his blue/red dragon deck. His other cards are now neatly alphabetized. I'm not sure which ones are in the binder and which are in decks and which are "extra". We need DAYS more to go through our cards and the legos which are just in a big bin all together but would be pretty nice to have in separate clear bins.

They also have SO many shelves of "treasures" which are you know, trinkets and shiny things and fossils and clay animals and souvenirs. These get used often in scenarios on the floor with the blocks etc.

Going to the cafe now for lunch.

We have SO many of those little 1 dollar dover art/sticker books. I thought i threw them all out years ago but they continue to accumulate. Along with many, many, many other art/craft/science/kit things that people give the kids for every holiday that they never do. This is so odd. I may keep the awesome coloring books for myself (the big ones like space exploration, snakes, etc) because I love coloring books.

Speaking of - I am going to do the hackerspace coloring book - i've decided. (Editing it, and asking for contributions from all the other hackerspaces around the world. It will be cc-by licensed .)

And will be editing the fall issue of cascadia subduction zone which will be on women and games/gaming. So I need to get those 2 editing projects together and announce them coherently.

Elfquest!

Apr. 3rd, 2013 09:14 pm
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Reading all the Elfquest issues in the house with Moomin, who is back from Korea and very jet lagged!

My back is painful but I was better enough today to really work. I re-organized my to-do list stuff into RTM where I realized I have had an account since 2005. Got some things done and thought through how I want to implement some work stuff. I grocery shopped and made some chicken and corn and potatoes and mostly washed up. So that's not bad for activity.

My friend Z. cleaned out my car and we took it out of the garage. It is parked on the street. There is street cleaning every 2 weeks. He has the other garage door opener so that he can park his scooter inside the garage and borrow the car. I was excited just to be able to drive it out of the garage and park it. If my sacroiliac stuff improves I will try a cautious jaunt to a car wash place. Not sure how I feel about the car. I abandoned the idea I would be able to drive again but maybe it's possible. I can't quite imagine it. But, I can't really use it unless I'm going somewhere extremely close to parking because my hands aren't good enough to wheel very well in the manual chair and I wouldn't be able to lift the scooter in and out of the car.

Hoping tomorrow can be a Day Without Painkillers. I would also like to go into the office for half a day (with moomin)
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Not sure why I'm so lackluster about writing and posting.

The trip to toronto went ok, the last day I was in bad pain again but dealt with it ok, bounced back, then totally overdid things on Saturday at the NB fundraiser/anniversary party. Which was awesome. it was so very very lovely!!!!!!!! I talked with hundreds of people and greeted them and told them stuff about NB. we pulled in a LOT of money.

Today I woke up with bad sacroiliac pain on the right side. It has been twinging on both sides back and forth. but today it was back in full force. I just feel pole-axed. It is hard to concentrate and do anything. I read a bunch of stuff on the internet and tried to poke at things and went to my monday morning meetings.

I actually forgot how bad the pain was. It sucks. It's so draining. I just want to cry today. It makes me kind of respect myself more. (I mean, past me from when it was like this and worse.) How did I do anything at all? And no wonder I didn't do much. Cut myself some slack!!!! Damn.

My next sacroiliac injection is next week.

Tomorrow I am gonna teach soldering to a bunch of kids kind of early in the morning. and I hope people are going to come help. and i hope it is not cold and raining. My plan is to rope in anyone who is around to make them to all the setup. But if not I will mobilize the most step-forward kids of the bunch and explain to them what to do for setup and I must not bend over things and try to walk around. Then afterwards if i feel horrible I will take the rest of the day off from work.

Side note

Mar. 23rd, 2013 05:36 pm
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Oh also I stopped taking methotrexate and in celebration of being methotrexate-free for 2 weeks, went out last night with zond7 and had a very strong fancy drink at rock bar. Something with lime and rum and maybe ginger and then half of something else with ginger and bourbon and a german kind of bitters. I was extremely tipsy on a cocktail and a half. We had lovely food from the restaurant across the way (which seems to be the thing to do in that bar.) Then wandered home and fell asleep I think by 10pm. At least I did. It was glorious.

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