Mizblog

Last night I took my brother to his bachelor party. I can’t really say what went on there, other than Rob seemed to have a really good time. All his best friends were there. It was great.

Glad you enjoyed it, bro. :)

Yesterday I noticed a loud rattling coming from the front left side of my car. Worried, I took it to the service station for a quick once over to see if it was dangerous. It turned out to be a loose shock tower bolt. The guys at the station tightened it up for free (thanks guys!) and now I’m back in business.

It’s over.

I lasted a whole hour in jury selection. My history of mistreatment at the hands of LAPD has left me scarred and unsuitable to criminal trial juries.

*sigh*

Still, I got paid $15 for that one hour, and then I came back and got a good day of work in without even having to work.

My rash seems to have faded to imperceptibility. Yay! ^_^

My work is very challenging. You see, I don’t know how to do it. Not exactly, anyway. I find this very intimidating, and when I try to focus on it, my mind rebels and I find myself playing solitaire. It’s ridiculous. I’ve got to figure out how to do it and then just do it.

I ran on the beach this morning. 2.5 miles! Sangeeta ran with me, which for her was like a walk in the park. Still, she was very proud of me, and I like that. My ankles were again very sore afterward, so I slept for a while so that they could have time to heal. It seems to have worked somewhat, because they’re okay now.

Anyway, time to get on with my work…

I had to go in for jury duty today. Gotta go back next week to see if I’m selected for a case. It always happens to me this way! I’ll be kicked off after lunch the first day we go back and I’ll have wasted two days. Blah.

I can’t tell if it’s still spreading or if it’s getting better. It might be doing both. Damned rash. I’m also not sure if it was from sunscreen or something else. I’d hate for it to turn out to be something gross like scabies. Unfortunately, my primary care physician is out of town all week so I can’t ask her.

On top of all that, work is kicking my brain into a wobbly jellified state. I’m about to just give in and code something stupid, just to code something!

I think my rash came from the sunscreen I used on my trip back from the SF bay area. At least it’s not itchy!

I ran 2 miles on the beach this morning. It went smooth once I started going, but that first couple hundred yards was very painful. My ankles just didn’t like the bouncing. After I got used to their complaints it got better. I probably could have run farther than 2 miles but Sangeeta promised she was going to do a short run and I didn’t fancy having her return to the car before I did so I turned around at the pier. But wouldn’t you know, she did a normal run, so I ended up waiting 20 minutes for her to get back.

I never thought I’d see the day, but I developed a rash on the backs of my hands and on my wrists. I wonder what I got into…

It happened yesterday, when I went to pick my car up from the shop. I expected I’d pay with my debit card (as I usually do) and didn’t expect any problems.

My card was declined.

Maybe treat it as a visa card?

Declined.

I called the bank. It turns out that, due to a merchant’s compromised credit card database, my card had been marked for termination and replacement. My bank scheduled a replacement to be sent to me and, seven days later, for my old card to be cancelled. Unfortunately, there was a delay in the sending out of the replacements, so the first I heard about it was several miles from home with no car and no phone and no money.

Very inconvenient.

Luckily I’m on good terms with the folks at the shop, so it turned out to not be a problem. I’m still upset about the surprise though.

I went running again today. I’m well into my 3rd week of morning runs on the beach, and probably the best thing I can say about it so far is that I’m not dead. On Saturday I ran two miles, but today I ran/walked almost three miles.

It was hard to get up, hard to get started, and hard to keep running.

Anyway, at least I’m still doing it.