August 30, 2005

• workin’ my butt off
  er, knees down
  umm, fingers to the bone
  UPDATED,
  and update updated
  
  Actually, it is the butt and the knees, more than anything else, that
  are feeling the pain from these last few days of work, but I’m not
  noticing any physical changes at all, anywhere.  The butt is still
  there, all of it.  The knees aren’t visibly bruised, although they
  feel as if they are.  Even the fingers, which have been doing all
  the work, don’t look any different.

  I have been spending about fourteen hours a day at the comp for a
  while, don’t remember whether it’s three days, four days,
  five….  Days run together when I get focused on something this
  way.  But it hasn’t been a single focus… well, except for having
  my eyes focused on the monitor all those hours.  I’m very pleased
  with our new LCD monitor.  My eyes don’t hurt as much as they used
  to with the CRT.

  Mostly I’ve been working.  Finally, we got some requests for readings after opening KaiOaty up for business again.  I did one last night, answered questions for newsgirlbahrain,
  and today posted the past life reading Greyfox had done for her. 
  He has another past life reading assignment (I love getting to tell him
  what to do.) and then if I’m lucky I will
  get more work to do, too.  I’ve missed the work so much that I was
  tempted a few days ago to break my own rules and do a reading for
  someone who hadn’t read or didn’t take seriously the FAQs, disclaimers
  and instructions on the site.  Greyfox advised against it and so
  did my spirit guides, so I waited and next day there was a real
  client.  Yaay!

  That’s not the only work I’ve been doing for these however-many days.  Of course
  that isn’t all I’ve done.  I’m not as speedy doing readings in
  this venue as I am face to face as at a festival or something, what
  with taking a picture of the card spread, typing it out, proofreading,
  notifying the client that the thing was posted, and all.  But it
  doesn’t take me half a week to do a reading, either.  Most of this
  time I have been studying online tutorials and working on the pages for
  our Addicts Unlimited website.

  The work has gone from being an agonizing challenge to learn how to do
  the work, to being simply work.  I had a breakthrough of sorts
  midafternoon yesterday.  A whole series of “Aha!” moments when
  suddenly what had been a foreign language started making sense. 
  Up to that point, there had been lots of times that I’d just stared at
  the screen thinking, “WTF?”  I’d lower my head into my hands, take
  a deep breath, then switch to solitaire until I could face the foreign
  gibberish again.

  I’m attributing much of my progress to the easing of that latest M.E.
  flareup.  I’m still having more than the usual number of
  large-muscle mishaps: the sensorimotor stumbles and fumbles, but my
  eyes are focusing better now and my mind is out of the fog.  I
  love when this happens.  I’ll flow with it, but I’m not apt to
  mistake it for a remission, not with these knees and the butt. 
  Those are the body parts that are in contact with this ergonomic office
  chair, and they feel as if someone has been beating on them.  Each
  of these last few days, I’ve been so anxious to get the web work done,
  and so pleased with my progress, that I’ve kept at it until the
  discomfort and fatigue drive me off to my bed.

  Today, I woke early and did some housework before sitting down
  here.  I’ve worked through with only a few breaks for food and my
  body’s other needs, and some distractions when the dog or the cats
  demanded my attention.  I still don’t have a finished web page,
  but in the absence of such tangible evidence I can gauge today’s
  success by the absence of solitaire breaks.  I’m getting
  somewhere.  Since my shoulders and neck have now joined my knees
  and butt with the fiery beaten-up feeling, the place I’m getting off to
  next is my bed.  Back to my book….

  Update:

  The above was originally posted at 4:20 PM.  I didn’t toddle off to bed after all.  I made dinner for Doug and
  me, then I sat back down here to see if I’d had any comments. 
  From there, I don’t know how it happened, but I ended up doing some
  Xanga surfing.  I visited a few of my old friends and some of the
  comments there led me to some new people, more subs for that list
  that’s long been so long I’m ashamed to display it.  All in all, I
  think the time was better spent than it would have been if I’d been
  reading trashy fiction in bed.  Not that Lee Child writes trash –
  he’s one of the best writers I’ve encountered in years — but the
  thriller genre in general is not exactly uplifting or
  enlightening.  It’s simply entertaining.

  I found this entertaining, too:

  
  I did one for The Kid, too:
  
  I’ve generated names for Greyfox and KaiOaty, too.  Once I start these silly things, it’s hard to stop.
  
  Morpheus

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  updating again:
  
  Darn, here’s yet another update.  I can’t seem
  to get it all said in one go.  
  I want to express my appreciation to the Xanga gods for increasing our
  image storage space.  I had hit my limit a year or more ago, went
  through and deleted a lot of things (and left some holes in some of my
  best old photo blogs), and then when the deleting thing was just too
  harrowing, I emailed Xanga and asked how I could buy, rent, borrow or
  steal more space.  They then told me they weren’t enforcing the
  limit, so just go ahead and exceed it.  I thought they might have
  told me that sooner, but NOOOO.  Anyhow, now I’ve gone from being
  over my limit by a lot, to using only 3% of my allotted space, presto
  just like magic.

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