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Upgraded to Ubuntu 20; people at work upgraded months ago, so it seemed safe. (I thought of it because I created an Ubuntu image on a USB drive so that I could wipe my work computer before mailing it back.) So far, it seems the same, which is mostly what I want, but everything is higher contrast, which is really nice.

Workout is 12 pull-ups because, I dunno, holiday or something. I think the pull-ups may be an all-fingers-no-wrist-no-abductor-digiti-minimi kind of motion, luckily.

Tried to record a rhythm guitar part, got to, like, the tenth take, and blaow! Wrist pain.

I stopped and immediately soaked my hands in cold water. Though I have to admit, I don’t know how reducing inflammation helps in this situation.

I know athletes ice bath their entire bodies after hard workouts, but that’s a practice that’s now in question for more than one reason. One of them is that, as I wondered, it’s not certain that reducing inflammation is always helpful. The other is that cold might not actually reduce inflammation anyway.

Soaking my hands in cold water is a suggestion I got from an orthopedist a few years ago. (He was mostly interested in whether there was a need for surgery, then kind of shrugged when he determined there wasn’t.) But I can’t say I’m certain he wasn’t just cargo culting, too.

I was talking to Dave this weekend, and he mentioned that he’d like to comment on this weblog. I usually say something like, hey, you can just email me! At this point, however, I have to accept that people hate emailing. There’s some convenience threshold created by having to open another app and the expectations of the email format that’s just too high for a short comment.

So, I added comments. I used
Isso, which is rather elegant. Like everything open source, though, getting it running is a hassle. Even though I decided to pay the resource cost and run the Docker image, it took a day and a half to make all the changes to get it working. (And emailing notifications still doesn’t work, but people hate email anyway.)

So, comment away, if it behooves you!

Test 9

Crouching Stanley, Hidden Gangsta

I remember reading some really grouchy jazz criticism by him in high school and remember him that way. Apparently, he used to physically attack a lot of people, including Harry Allen, Public Enemy’s media assassin!

I think my wrists are OK. I used them to work on a code change for three hours this afternoon. That, after they were done and tested were in the wrong place in static-web-archive and won’t affect anything.

I semi-skipped my workout for that! (I just did a set of burpees and a set of pull-ups.)

The funny thing is that I was super militant about getting up from the computer every fifteen minutes, and during that time, I think I made good decisions about the thing I was working on. Hot take: Being in the zone is actually bad.

Test 2

Test

Huh, did more design work than I did in months this morning. (Which means I basically have done none lately.) Staying off the keyboard has some benefits.

This Daily episode about Delilah is another reminder that ideas that now seem obvious were once something that had to be fought for. She’s a popular radio DJ that lets people talk about relationship problems and empathizes with them. It seems like there’s always been stuff like that and that it’s an incredibly safe idea. But in the ‘70s, she had to push for it for years.

Weird workout today. I started to do the normal six sets of pull-ups and burpees, but after the first set of pull-ups, I got concerned that they’d affect my hand recovery, even though they felt fine.

So, switched to push ups, but after two sets of that, the back of my left hand felt weird, so I went down to run on the treadmill for twenty minutes.

The cost of that shoveling incident is staggering.