Bits and Pieces

The inconvenience of my recovery is coming into sharper focus now, and it’s more annoying than I’d thought. I won’t say losing 99% of the service of your off-arm is the worst thing, but consider the following challenges:

• Can’t put on socks easily
• Can’t tie shoes easily, if at all
• I need help putting on shirts
• Can’t type, really. This means little, if any, coding and blogging takes several times longer than normal
• Can’t really wield a knife while eating; can’t support a plate with off arm
• Not supposed to drive

Basically, everything is harder. And not just a little. Again, I’m not saying “worst circumstances ever”, but I definitely underestimated the situation.

It snowed Thursday night. It’s supposed to snow about 6 inches plus tonight. Welcome to Winter! Fall, we hardly knew thee! So we’ll likely go from setting record highs earlier in the month, to record monthly snowfall. And we’re supposed to trust expert judgment about the climate 100 years from now. Whatever.

Trick-or-treating was fun for the kids last night. Cold as well. The boy went as a vampire and the lass as a black cat. They scored plenty of loot. They’ve been offering me their Rieses Peanut Butter Cups. The lass also offered me one of her Kit Kats, another good one. They’ve still got Monday as well. It’s supposed to be cold again, but not like the last couple of days.

That’s all for now. Perhaps I’ll try again later today.