Engineering Challenge
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jbaileyThe challenge:
* You're tired of eating the stuff you can reach, but you see that there's brown sugar on the bottom shelf under some things, which would make some Cheerios more edible.
You are:
* Going through steroid withdrawal
* Still somewhat stoned from the last hit of oxycodone
* Hungry
* Under movement restrictions, can't lift bend or twist in anyway. Including from the hips.
* In a rush because you poured the soymilk into the Cheerios already, thinking that there must be some sugar within reach *somewhere*
The solution:
* Knock the couscous and rice containers that are on top of the brown sugar onto the floor.
* Gently kick the laundry basket into the kitchen.
* Very carefully, holding the laundry basket in place with one leg, use the other one to soccer kick the brown sugar container into the laundry basket.
* Wedge the laundry basket against the opposite wall
* Standing in the laundry basket, gently use legs and ankles to roll the brown sugar to the highest point of the clothing.
* Walk a chair into the kitchen, sit on the chair.
* Use monkey-length arms to discover that brown sugar is now within reach. Barely. But we're not looking for sugar with honours, here. We're just looking for sugar.
All of which explains why there's containers of stuff, the laundry basket, and a chair in the middle of the kitchen floor: none of which I can return to their original locations because of the movement restrictions (can't really drag across carpet).
But the sugar never tasted sweeter. =) (It's a good thing Angie loves me...)
* You're tired of eating the stuff you can reach, but you see that there's brown sugar on the bottom shelf under some things, which would make some Cheerios more edible.
You are:
* Going through steroid withdrawal
* Still somewhat stoned from the last hit of oxycodone
* Hungry
* Under movement restrictions, can't lift bend or twist in anyway. Including from the hips.
* In a rush because you poured the soymilk into the Cheerios already, thinking that there must be some sugar within reach *somewhere*
The solution:
* Knock the couscous and rice containers that are on top of the brown sugar onto the floor.
* Gently kick the laundry basket into the kitchen.
* Very carefully, holding the laundry basket in place with one leg, use the other one to soccer kick the brown sugar container into the laundry basket.
* Wedge the laundry basket against the opposite wall
* Standing in the laundry basket, gently use legs and ankles to roll the brown sugar to the highest point of the clothing.
* Walk a chair into the kitchen, sit on the chair.
* Use monkey-length arms to discover that brown sugar is now within reach. Barely. But we're not looking for sugar with honours, here. We're just looking for sugar.
All of which explains why there's containers of stuff, the laundry basket, and a chair in the middle of the kitchen floor: none of which I can return to their original locations because of the movement restrictions (can't really drag across carpet).
But the sugar never tasted sweeter. =) (It's a good thing Angie loves me...)
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Date: 2008-03-17 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-17 06:48 pm (UTC)Norco - 10mg of hydrocodone, 325mg of Tylenol every 4 hours
backofen - 10mg every 6 hours if I have back spasms
dexamethasone - 1mg per day of this steroid, weaning off after this week
prilosec - 20mg per day to protect my stomach from the steroid
Oxycodone - 5mg every 2 hours as needed when the above just isn't working
Gotta run, more later.