At my physical therapy session this afternoon, the therapist hooked the electrical stimulation machine (or maybe it’s that he hooked up two machines) up to both my shoulder and my wrist. I could feel the series of small shocks to the shoulder. I couldn’t feel any shocks to my wrist, but my pointer finger started …
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Thanks, Tracy
I stopped at CVS on my way to work (for some fluoride tooth rinse that my dental hygienist had recommended) and heard a song that once had a real impact on me, _Fast Car_ by Tracy Chapman. Twenty years ago, in the fall of 1988 to be exact, I was thinking that it was really …
Hand report
I may not have posted about it, but for about a month I’ve been going around with a brace on my left wrist. When I went for my annual physical I described a problem with lack of sensation in my left thumb, pointer, middle finger, and half of ring finger, and tingling in my arm. …
Posted from my iPhone
Hey ho, although it makes little sense to write on an iPhone screen when there’s a computer with a real keyboard handy, it seemed worth trying!
Quick weekend recap
Working backwards, well, today was a strange day. We woke up at 6 AM in Sparta, New Jersey, at Millie and Joel’s house, had coffee and orange juice, and were on the road at 7:02. We took the back road north from Sparta up to I-84 over the NY line, partly because we like that …
Memoriam
We had two deaths in the extended family in the last couple of weeks. First was my mother’s cousin Irving Wolfe, on Jan 31. I have a lot about his 90th birthday party, almost six years ago, on this site somewhere, before it was a blog. Arlene and I visited Irv and Evelyn once after …
Quick notes
The Bohemian waxwings were back briefly this weekend. We saw a small flock, maybe ten or a dozen of them, in the crabapple late Sunday afternoon. Arlene thought she saw one redpoll, but I didn’t get to see it. The trip to the lumber yard last Saturday was to get wood to build a stand …
Coraline knitting link
Arlene and I went out to see the new film _Coraline_ last night, at the Oxford Hills cinema. We were the only people in the auditorium for the 9:05 show. The movie is excellent, probably not for kids (except maybe older kids, with plenty of parental guidance) but disturbling. But what I wanted to say …
BOWA
When we got home from the lumber yard last Saturday, Arlene got out of the car at the end of the driveway to check the mailbox, and I drove up to the garage. Before I got out, I saw several birds flying from the right of the driveway up to a tree beyond the house. …
Online Magazine Links
When I first heard the term “weblog”, long since shortened to “blog”, I thought the idea was to keep a log of what websites you had been looking at. I still think that’s a reasonable thing to put on your blog. Here’s one: Maine Fish and Wildlife magazine, published by the Maine department of inland …