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untonugganJust a general FYI that my compy time is currently limited due to:
1) nerve pain goes AHAHAHAHAHA NOPE to too much hand use, and it's sliiiightly more forgiving if I use an actual keyboard/monitor than a laptop or tablet (where my neck is bent and hands more squished).
2) the primary monitor on our tower computer has not been turning on, and I have not had spoons to troubleshoot and partner has been working lots of hours now there is gardening. Yay for now it is working! but since it's been fixed and then nope'd several times the past couple weeks, I am withholding judgement. (Apparently we may need a new video card with more HDMI ports, different cables, and/or a different monitor to solve permanently which takes time which she is short of.)
3) I could use my mom's computer, except my dad is working out of that office so NOPE (because when he's not working, generally she needs that computer).
I am also somewhat bored out of my mind because having your hands out of commission is for me one of the most annoying body parts to be on strike. Also feet. Which for me are borderline on strike. (Like, I can go on short walks and am supposed to but only after I stretch them out a bunch and roll a tennis ball under them which super hurts and thus I'm like, "I know this will ultimately feel better but uuuugh I hate you plantar fasciitis." Also why getting out of bed is kind of a dare for myself like, "OK yes you can deal with the first few steps srsly." Though, uh, having hungry cats demanding food does reduce the procrastination.)
ANYWAY request goes thusly: activities one can do that require limited hands and/or transportation to places to do them (i.e. pool is a nope sorry; please do not discuss pools with me it's just a Thing due to asshole doctors). Like *I want to be knitting* for copes with all the stress, but until the nerve flare thing goes down that is ultimately a bad idea.
Current activities include:
1) nerve pain goes AHAHAHAHAHA NOPE to too much hand use, and it's sliiiightly more forgiving if I use an actual keyboard/monitor than a laptop or tablet (where my neck is bent and hands more squished).
2) the primary monitor on our tower computer has not been turning on, and I have not had spoons to troubleshoot and partner has been working lots of hours now there is gardening. Yay for now it is working! but since it's been fixed and then nope'd several times the past couple weeks, I am withholding judgement. (Apparently we may need a new video card with more HDMI ports, different cables, and/or a different monitor to solve permanently which takes time which she is short of.)
3) I could use my mom's computer, except my dad is working out of that office so NOPE (because when he's not working, generally she needs that computer).
I am also somewhat bored out of my mind because having your hands out of commission is for me one of the most annoying body parts to be on strike. Also feet. Which for me are borderline on strike. (Like, I can go on short walks and am supposed to but only after I stretch them out a bunch and roll a tennis ball under them which super hurts and thus I'm like, "I know this will ultimately feel better but uuuugh I hate you plantar fasciitis." Also why getting out of bed is kind of a dare for myself like, "OK yes you can deal with the first few steps srsly." Though, uh, having hungry cats demanding food does reduce the procrastination.)
ANYWAY request goes thusly: activities one can do that require limited hands and/or transportation to places to do them (i.e. pool is a nope sorry; please do not discuss pools with me it's just a Thing due to asshole doctors). Like *I want to be knitting* for copes with all the stress, but until the nerve flare thing goes down that is ultimately a bad idea.
Current activities include:
- binge watching Netflix (currently so bored of this option)
- mental exercises such as "spot the historical inaccuracies in this piece of historical fiction" ("Could one grow a second crop of cabbages if you planted them on Guy Fawkes night in New England? Like, could you even harvest them before winter?" "Wait what kind of is that dress made of? OK, yes, she would totally have worn that then as a Loyalist. OK, well played costumers." etc.)
- random stretching (procrastinating on this one because of initial pain deterrent even though I know later it will usually feel better)
- some walking (it's more interesting if I *go* somewhere, but driving is also not great atm)
- playing with cats (with time limits)
- snuggling cats
- reading (while I can hold reading materials)
- endlessly refreshing email and/or websites I read regularly
- thinking about a potential writing project and debating whether I have the hands to type it and how much I hate Dragon Naturally Speaking, its cost, how I have hated it in the past, and how none of my machines will run it, etc.
- attempting to keep up with mandatory housework (litterboxes, laundry, toilet bowl)
- running errands with my partner when she is not working (srsly she has had like no time off since gardening season started, which is entirely her own doing not that I blame her)
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Date: 2015-04-19 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-20 04:19 pm (UTC)