Sunblock, heat, knees, Blackheart Fleet
Jun. 15th, 2005 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdblIf they made SPF 5 Billion, I would buy it. And let me offer a pre-emptive shut the fuck up to the smartass in the back there who's saying, "They do, it's called shade. Or clothing." Seriously, if I could fix it so my skin would never absorb another UV ray, I would. Vitamin D, blah, blah, blah, whatever. I'm all about the skin protection, baby, but it's been too hot for long sleeves lately, so I've been using sunscreen on my arms and neck. (I always wear sunscreen on my face, via my moisturizer.) Then my previously acceptable sunscreen suddenly made me break out into a rash, so I've switched to a different one, which happily has a higher SPF of 50, but is still far short of the SPF 5 Billion that I crave. No rash so far, though, which is of the good. And it has almost no scent at all, which I like. I hope I get to keep it.
Yes, my mutant power is evidently to break into a rash randomly at only the slightest provocation.
It's finally cooled off some and is pleasant in the house without the fans - just in time for me to have to clean the house in preparation for Jeff's return and my friend Rachel's visit this weekend. Which is good because I was dreading trying to clean in the heat. It's going to warm up again on Saturday, but everything should be clean by then, and I'm hoping it won't be quite as hot. Bring cool clothes just in case, Rachel.
If you're not watching the New Dr. Who series, you lose at geekdom. I LOVE me some Daleks, ya'll. And this series. Produced and partially written by Russell T. Davies (the man behind the UK Queer as Folk - which I also love), it's everything true and good. I've not been this excited over something for a long time, since season 5 Buffy, at least. I'm not sure when it's going to air in the US, but it's available in the usual illegal places. Email me if you're in the States and want pointers.
In the wake of renewed and increased knee ickiness, I dug around on the internet and found this brace which purports to address my patella tracking issues. Since the taping helped a lot but had to be discontinued due to skin irritation (stupid skin!), it would be really cool if this brace actually did the trick. Sandy The Physiotherapist (who needs a cute nickname like Xena has but nothing's occured to me) says that the increased knee ickiness is clearly due to the stairs at work, and that I'm just not ready to tackle stairs at this point. It's not going to do any permanent damage, but it's going to slow my recovery significantly. I talked to my manager at work about trying to reduce the number of times I go up and down stairs, but there are two steps between my work station and the rest of the office which are really unavoidable and it's not possible to work somewhere else. However, she was very cooperative and helpful, and volunteered to do trash-collecting duty on the other two floors to spare me going up and down the stairs with heavy sacks of trash. Sandy thinks that the J-braces might actually work, but there's no way to know for sure until I try them. So I went to the GP today to get a prescription for the stupid things, and have an appointment with a prosthetics-fitting place on Saturday morning to see what they can do about hooking me up. My insurance does cover the whole cost, so that's good (especially since they run about $120 each if you don't buy them on the internet) and if it works, it should decrease the stair problems at work. It's so funny because I was running up and down the stairs at my mom's house in February with no problems, and now I can hardly imagine what it would be like to climb stairs at a pace faster than a ninety-year-old's. It's weird how fast you get used to things and it seems like that's how things have always been. Anyway, that's the latest. Sandy's doing accupuncture, which is helping quite a bit, and then I go to work the next day and undo it all. I'm icing several times a night and trying to be dilligent about doing my exercises. I've been more successful at that this week than I was last week, so go me! More updates as events progress.
I was thinking about Blackheart Fleet some today while sticking labels on files. I was wondering about languages, how some languages (like German) are very precise and therefore good for things like engineering but not as good for poetry (Rilke notwithstanding), and some languages (like French) are the opposite, and some languages (like English) are somewhere in between. I think Okari is more like French, with lots of double-meanings and ambiguities, and Standard is like more precise, like German. Which only works partially because Ari was founded by wealthy Pacific Rim folks, a great number of whom were engineers and scientists, but maybe since it's an invented language they were too busy to invent a lot of words and so had to make do with a more limited vocabulary. Or something. And I should really be talking about this under the Blackheart Fleet filter, so as not to bore the non-filter people, but I'm too lazy to make a separate entry.
Speaking of Blackheart Fleet and the filter, I've pretty much decided to follow the same procedure for SuMoWriMo (the two-month summer version of NaNoWriMo that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hhw and I are going to do in July and August) that I did for NaNoWriMo, which is to post each day's work as I go under filter lock and then take it all down when I'm done. If you want in the Blackheart Fleet filter and you're not in already, drop me a comment.
Yes, my mutant power is evidently to break into a rash randomly at only the slightest provocation.
It's finally cooled off some and is pleasant in the house without the fans - just in time for me to have to clean the house in preparation for Jeff's return and my friend Rachel's visit this weekend. Which is good because I was dreading trying to clean in the heat. It's going to warm up again on Saturday, but everything should be clean by then, and I'm hoping it won't be quite as hot. Bring cool clothes just in case, Rachel.
If you're not watching the New Dr. Who series, you lose at geekdom. I LOVE me some Daleks, ya'll. And this series. Produced and partially written by Russell T. Davies (the man behind the UK Queer as Folk - which I also love), it's everything true and good. I've not been this excited over something for a long time, since season 5 Buffy, at least. I'm not sure when it's going to air in the US, but it's available in the usual illegal places. Email me if you're in the States and want pointers.
In the wake of renewed and increased knee ickiness, I dug around on the internet and found this brace which purports to address my patella tracking issues. Since the taping helped a lot but had to be discontinued due to skin irritation (stupid skin!), it would be really cool if this brace actually did the trick. Sandy The Physiotherapist (who needs a cute nickname like Xena has but nothing's occured to me) says that the increased knee ickiness is clearly due to the stairs at work, and that I'm just not ready to tackle stairs at this point. It's not going to do any permanent damage, but it's going to slow my recovery significantly. I talked to my manager at work about trying to reduce the number of times I go up and down stairs, but there are two steps between my work station and the rest of the office which are really unavoidable and it's not possible to work somewhere else. However, she was very cooperative and helpful, and volunteered to do trash-collecting duty on the other two floors to spare me going up and down the stairs with heavy sacks of trash. Sandy thinks that the J-braces might actually work, but there's no way to know for sure until I try them. So I went to the GP today to get a prescription for the stupid things, and have an appointment with a prosthetics-fitting place on Saturday morning to see what they can do about hooking me up. My insurance does cover the whole cost, so that's good (especially since they run about $120 each if you don't buy them on the internet) and if it works, it should decrease the stair problems at work. It's so funny because I was running up and down the stairs at my mom's house in February with no problems, and now I can hardly imagine what it would be like to climb stairs at a pace faster than a ninety-year-old's. It's weird how fast you get used to things and it seems like that's how things have always been. Anyway, that's the latest. Sandy's doing accupuncture, which is helping quite a bit, and then I go to work the next day and undo it all. I'm icing several times a night and trying to be dilligent about doing my exercises. I've been more successful at that this week than I was last week, so go me! More updates as events progress.
I was thinking about Blackheart Fleet some today while sticking labels on files. I was wondering about languages, how some languages (like German) are very precise and therefore good for things like engineering but not as good for poetry (Rilke notwithstanding), and some languages (like French) are the opposite, and some languages (like English) are somewhere in between. I think Okari is more like French, with lots of double-meanings and ambiguities, and Standard is like more precise, like German. Which only works partially because Ari was founded by wealthy Pacific Rim folks, a great number of whom were engineers and scientists, but maybe since it's an invented language they were too busy to invent a lot of words and so had to make do with a more limited vocabulary. Or something. And I should really be talking about this under the Blackheart Fleet filter, so as not to bore the non-filter people, but I'm too lazy to make a separate entry.
Speaking of Blackheart Fleet and the filter, I've pretty much decided to follow the same procedure for SuMoWriMo (the two-month summer version of NaNoWriMo that
hhw and I are going to do in July and August) that I did for NaNoWriMo, which is to post each day's work as I go under filter lock and then take it all down when I'm done. If you want in the Blackheart Fleet filter and you're not in already, drop me a comment.
