Chasing deadline
The latest version of our software ships next week and we discovered a last-minute bug. And the feature has to be shipped with this latest version. So I had to work on the weekend. I don’t remember the last time I had to do this. It was nice to be the only one in the office - I get to be productive and get to play music without a headset. My office is in the same building as a tourist attraction shopping center, so it was easy to get lunch and dinner, even though I had to pay for it now.
I did fix the bug though, so hopefully that will be it.
- N
Squeak squeak
In a poor piece of planning, I got tickets to a New York Pops concert on Friday. It was a nice time - they were playing movie music from the past 100 years, but Pops concerts are usually busy and the audience generally less well-behaved. Not that it mattered a lot - it feels much more forgivable for Psyho’s Murder scene music being interrupted background noises than, say, Tristan. By the way, I’ve heard it with a live ensemble twice, and people laugh at it both times.
The fact that I live close to a train station made it easier for me to go in and out of the city at odd hours because I don’t rely on public transportation for the last mile now. It’s been more than half a year now, and I don’t take advantage of it enough.
- S
Sleep Injury
I woke up last Sunday with a pain in my shoulder and found my range of movement limited: basically I can’t transmit force between my head and my shoulder. I must have sprained some tendon or muscle while sleeping. It wasn’t the first time it happened; usually it goes away after a few days. But it’s been a week now and the pain is still there (it improved a lot on Thursday but I tripped on the rabbit’s water bowl and jolted my shoulder, and the pain came back). So I’m taking NSAID continuously now. Hopefully that will help the recovery.
My shoulder has been giving me problems since I was in college. Though the reason is becoming increasingly banal. 20 years ago it was playing tennis, 10 years ago it was a rope-climbing obstacle course, and now, it was just sleeping.
- D
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