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Take Two (And call in the morning)

Went in for first followup today; got a new cast (by the way, they put me in a cast last week and I couldn’t use the fingers on that hand as a result of it being super long). They now are encouraging me to use the fingers as much as is comfortable, which right now isn’t much but will get better. This of course is/will be a blessing for work since I don’t have to try to code with one hand when it no longer hurts to use the other; it is however extremely awkward because the cast is formed to not let my wrist move or twist, and I have to cock my whole arm at a weird angle to get a comfortable typing position. It looks like I’m trying to take flight. I need to find a different keyboard, something with more of a split form than what I’ve got now. A couple people at work have a logitech Wave and I might give that a try. In any case, five more weeks of cast.

The Long Road

Two and a half years. Wow. I never intended to let things sit for so long, but the time really got away from me. I’ve also tried to put this together not less than three times, and then realized that if I wanted it to not get eaten by wordpress while writing it, to not write the draft in wordpress. :)

After vanishing off the face of the earth following my prior posting, where I shared the success of graduating mid-class-year with my associates degrees, I continued on to a 4-year campus. A newly signed collaborative agreement between the new college and the old meant I could spend the last part of the school year at the 2-year school, which would polish off the requirements for my ‘junior’ year; I only needed to be on the new campus for my senior year. I saved some funding doing this, which is good since my primary income at the time was part-time seasonal work. I continued working at the local ski park as a trail groomer for that winter, and then when classes released in May I bounced out to work what I suspected might be a third and final season at a Boy Scouts of America camp in north-central Minnesota. As per the norm, the season out there was hectic but enjoyable, but left little time to sit down and do much else.

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