Category Archives: Administrative

Administrative, Space

Off To Phoenix

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We’re hitting the road in a few minutes. I may check in with my phone, but we should be arriving at the conference (Space Access) mid afternoon. I would note that today is the fifty-first anniversary of the first man in orbit (which will be celebrated at parties tonight, including one at the conference) and the thirty-first of the first Shuttle flight.

Administrative, General

A Pro Tip

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Don’t gash your knee horizontally right on the patella. I did it early Tuesday morning when I bumped into a glass framed picture in the dark. It also made a bloody mess on the bedroom carpet. Alcohol was not involved. Much.

I got staples in it today and it hurts like hell to bend it, and probably will for the next week or two until they’re removed. There’s just a lot of tension there when you stretch the skin, and the staples pull on it. I’ll be hobbling around for a while, especially up and down stairs. It will also be an ongoing joy to work a clutch. Fortunately, it doesn’t affect typing, except I have to work a little further back from the screen/keyboard because of my outstretched leg.

This may or may not be TMI.

[Thursday-morning update]

Thanks for all the well wishes in comments. It’s actually feeling better today. It will probably be stiff until I get the staples removed and relieve the tension on the skin, but I’m walking almost normally, albeit gingerly.