jbailey | Update; Video; Chain Letter; Hacking

Hey'all! Another update of the moment:

Physio is going amazingly well. I feel like my neck / shoulder mobility is close to what it was pre-surgery. My strength is still lagging behind, and I'm doing hefty 3 pound bicep curls! Woohoo! Not so much for my arms, but for my back, which still has to support my arms doing this. I'm also doing 45 pound dips, and some exercises with a yellow theraband. Walking is really tiring me out at all anymore, no matter what distance I walk. As I'm reducing my pain meds, I am starting to get sore, though. Hopefully in the next week that will stabilise. Next Monday I get an ultrasound of some internal organs (I can't remember which, sorry) that will see if I have a non-drug related cause for the ongoing nausea. But so far a pill every day or two seems to be keeping it at bay.

I've posted two more videos of Leif up on YouTube. I have a bunch to sift through, but hopefully there's at least one more good one in the set. I haven't uploaded the pictures yet because I hate f-spot so much. (Ask my sometime why I think it was called f-spot)

I got a fun chain letter from someone asking everyone to boycott Esso and Shell for the rest of the year to force gas prices to come back down the sub dollar-per-litre. This was my reply:

I like high gas prices, though. I want the prices to go much higher.

Every time the prices go up, there are more cyclists on the road, and
the air gets a bit clearer.

If it were $10/litre, then almost noone would drive. We'd all be on
bicycles. Then it we be so much safer to be on a bike.

I can't wait for the day.

What do y'all think?

And on the hacking front, I actually dusted off CVS and fixed some autotools bits in GNU Sysutils so that David could fix a compile bug. I don't know if this round of activity will spur us into doing more. But it's possible. So maybe in another.. Oh, I dunno. decade or so we'll have a full GNU replacement for util-linux that's portable and everything. =)

I might get off my ass and hack on my reimplementation of Galactic Bloodshed through the month of May. I miss that game in a strange pathetic way.

Heading into my last month of off-work recovery time, I'm surprised at how good I feel. I haven't replied to alot of emails I've gotten from folks, even from before the surgery. I'm starting to make headway on the emails, though. Thanks for your patience!

Hugs all!