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Sunday 15 September 2002 Sunday - a lazy day. The 49er's were playing, so I spent some time watching them. They lost, unfortunately.

Monday 16 September 2002

Monday - a busy day at work. Once again mostly eaten up by meetings of one sort or another, and phone calls. Oddly, when I finally was home in the evening the phone just rang off the hook. Tomorrow is my hand surgery, and I was trying to get a few things done, but oh well....

A friend kindly loaned me a dog house for the dog. It was cool and windy last night and I was concerned. I sort of used the bread crumb trail method to get it used to going into the little crate, but it's a very timid dog, and not too excited about the idea. We'll see if a cool and blustery night does the trick.

Tuesday 17 September 2002

Tuesday - yup. The dog was curled up inside the crate when I peeked out this morning. Sadly the Petsmart dog rescue people won't have much to to with her - the liability issues on American Staffordshire Terriers' are too great. I did get a couple of other dog rescue phone numbers though, and I'll try those.

Wednesday 18 September 2002

Wednesday - well, surgery is done, maybe. I was efficiently chauffeured to and from the hospital by K, many thanks. There are various pins and buttons sticking out of the mass of dressings. It doesn't hurt a lot, so that's good. There isn't a lot to say - I hope it all works is all.

And I would like to say thanks to all the people that have kindly so checked in on me - it's very heart warming!

Maybe I'll post a grisly picture later...

Thursday 19 September 2002

Thursday - I took the day off, but at a good friends' urging I had previously stocked up on foodstuffs, so I am not going to go hungry. The hand is only moderately painful - work tomorrow I think.

A friend has graciously loaned me a Mercedes! Holy cow! It's a 1982 300-SD, a turbo diesel. After driving the Probe GT for so many years it feels like driving a really cool bus!

Friday 20 September 2002

Friday - work. I went in early because the company has finally noticed all the short days I've been taking, since june. They are pretty good about it, but there's no sense in my being abusive. This way I may actually get some work done before the days distractions! See a few more sunrises.

I did assemble and load the OS - Win2k - on our new 2.8Ghz PC. With some help. I think my cubicle neighbor was somewhat alarmed by the amount of cursing it takes to do it right! We really need the extra speed - the runtime, already taking weeks, apparently needs even more time! The parallel cluster has only had about ten or fifteen hours of attention paid to it in the last two weeks. Sigh. That's nowhere near enough profanity to successfully start a system that complicated.

When I went to the hand therapy place after work I discovered that I wasn't expected. Because of the things the surgeon had done the therapist wanted to contact him before starting, and couldn't. They'd left a message for me at home, thinking I'd take the day off. No way, things to do, people to see! I'm getting concerned about adhesions and such if I don't get this therapy started soon.

Saturday 21 September 2002

Saturday - rathr busy. Changed the oil in the Mercedes ( 8 quarts! ), did a little new car shopping. Cleaned up the house a bit as well - slow work with just one hand. It is the autumnal equinox and I had planned an early rising to photograph the sunrise, but slept in. Oh well.

Picture of the Week

Photo Notes: I went down to the marina in Richmond to check on our boat. It was fine. Walking along the dock I saw this boat nearby. The mast is busted in half, but all the pieces are there, as is the boom, so it probably wasn't compressive buckling, but rather a failure in bending. The only other damage I could see is a bent stanchion on the starboard side. The pieces are nicely bedded down on life jackets and cushions, and held with various lines and sheets. A good job of recovery.

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