I managed to do something to my wrist last weekend. I don’t know what exactly but it got worse and worse all week until Thursday it was so swollen and painful I couldn’t make it to the end of the day and had to leave work early. On the bright side, I had Friday off already which turned out to be a good thing because it only got worse. In fact it hurt so much I went to the urgent care and anybody that knows me knows I never go to the doctor so that should tell you a little something about how much it hurt.
So the result of all this is that I’m wearing a splint on my right hand which makes it really difficult to type (or do much of anything actually) so I’m dictating this on my tablet. I don’t know how great a job this is going to do so let me apologize ahead of time for any typos or other mistakes this thing makes. It’ll probably be better than my typing.
Fortunately as usual I don’t have much to say anyway – there certainly isn’t enough time to list everybody we lost this year – but I did want to take the opportunity to wish everybody a Happy New Year. Considering who “real America” elected President, I don’t have high expectations for 2017 but I certainly hope it’s not as bad as it seems like it’s almost certainly going to be.
Let’s just hope we’re all still here at this time next year – we’re gonna need each other to make it all the way through to 2021.
Lordy, did you sprain the thing? when I read you went to urgent care, I spewed water all over the keyboard.
I certainly hope we can get Trump and Co. impeached before 2021.
Not sure what the deal is. Could be a gout flareup brought on by twisting hooks into a few shelves (and exacerbated by using a keyboard for a living), though the wrist is a new trick (nice to know I’m not too old for that, I guess). Plus, I don’t do any of that bad gout-type behavior. No beer (or any alcohol) in about five months (haven’t started a new year without a hangover in a while), I don’t eat any organ meat (or red meat, or much in the way of fish or meat at all), BP is good, weight down about 35 pounds, drinking coffee again (supposed to be good for gout, though when you first start drinking it again, it can get those crystals flowing and cause pain, but it’s been quite a while now)…. I’ve been a model prisoner.
So I got a 5-day dose of Prednisone which seems to be helping (either that or just keeping it immobilized with the splint plus limiting the keyboard and trackball time), and we’ll see how it goes when I get back to work tomorrow. I might have to see about going to my doc (now that I have one, I might as well put her to work, right?) for some anti-gout pills.
As for a pending impeachment, the only way I see that happening (at least in the next 2 years, though I’m not confident of a change of majority party in the House any time soon) is if they want to officially promote Pence from Shadow President to actual President (he could get like two-and-a-half terms that way, right?). There’s certainly not much chance of getting ⅔ of the Senate to convict – barring a murder televised on live teevee, and maybe not even then.
But I’m confident the trumpspawn would make a bundle on selling the tickets to the trial.
Yeah, I’d like those tickets but it looks like they’ve already lowered the bar for themselves…
With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Hobble Independent Ethics Office
WTF!? They are trending!
I hope he asks him if he remembers that show I was at in Rochester in 1980. I’m pretty sure he’d remember it.
Being at work sucks. On the bright side, I’m thinking about joining the PBA tour. Next stop is Osaka, I think.
Nice brace!
I’m gonna hide my shiv in there, for when it’s time to break out.
I thought McConnell was amazing and disgusting when he said that the American public wouldn’t stand for Dems not OKing a supreme court judge. Republicans have hubris in bigly amounts
Well, he did get his
beard,wife a nice job in New Swampville, DC.Did he? It’s rather blissful to ignore the news and remain ignorant on all this stuff. It’s the only way I get any sleep at night.
Evil is as evil does. Sad.
It looks like we got almost a foot of snow and it’s 20 degrees. Yuk! We also got “ocean effect” snow which I’ve never heard before.
Nor I. We got 3-4 inches of snow and down to -2 here. Not to worry, we’ll be back up to 70 by week’s end.
Got cold here. Not below zero, but it’s been in single digits at night, and not much more than 14 or so during the day. And lake effect set up over us early this morning and has been here all day. No idea how much we got, but I’d guess at least a foot in the driveway when I plowed this afternoon, and it’s still coming.
I must be getting old, ‘cuz this is really bothering me. Plus, I’ve been feeling really crappy all week, and haven’t left the house since I got home Thursday (except to plow).
Water and wind deluge here. Lots of flooding. Looks like we get a break today and another round tomorrow. It does mean moderate temparatures however.
Can’t believe some of the snow totals up your way. I remember something similar in the ’70’s…crazy!
This High School Teacher Urged People To Vote For Trump So Muslims Can Be “Butchered”
Yup, they know how to pick ’em out here.