Health, life, chat, and curtains

[giza]

Things have gotten interesting with my feet. Early last week, I figured out a "trigger" that made them hurt: wearing shoes. It seemed that wearing my shoes the entire day apparently put enough pressure on my feet to make them hurt more. So the solution was to remove my shoes while I'm seated at my desk at work. That's not the preferred way to write code, but hopefully this will help my feet start the healing process so I can resume being active again.

In the later part of the week and this past weekend, I noticed that the pain in my feet changed a bit, as did the pain in my knees. This suggests that my orthotic inserts might just be doing their job. I'm 1.5 weeks into my initial 6 week run of them, so we'll see.

Late last week, alsaihn and turtyl_db swung by one evening. We hung out, chatted, and generally got caught up on things.

Somewhere in there desteredra and I got together a few times for food and general hanging out.

Some other actual work I did last week included deploying chat on the Pennsylvania Furries website. It's a web-based chat system that appears in the right sidebar for logged in users (as shown in the screenshot on the right), and seems to be pretty popular with folks on the site. I'm glad I set that up.

And finally, after living in my current apartment for 9 years, I got curtains for my place. Yes, curtains. It's too dark to get good pictures now, but I'll eventually post before/after pictures.

Comments

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Bare foot is not the preferred way to write code?
I must've skipped that chapter in the manual :P

[giza.livejournal.com]

I wear pants when I write code, too.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with shorts?

[athauglas.livejournal.com]

Could it be that your shoes keep your feet positioned in a way that is similar to the position they take when you put weight on them? Maybe their support is degraded, or the shape isn't quite right by design, or they're laced too tightly?

Then again, I've heard people claim that mankind's feet were generally healthier before shoes..

Also if the only reason you now own curtains is because they're leopard print, I'm going to smack you with a pool noodle. A really old, crusty, sun-bleached scratchy one.

[giza.livejournal.com]

I *think* what you suggest was ruled out by my pawdiatrist in the original visit. He had me stand normally, walk in place, he checked the wear on the bottom of my shoes, etc.

If you don't already, you should check out the show Dual Survival (http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/dual-survival/). One of the hosts walks around barefoot.

No leopard print curtains here. Trying to find 4 panels of the same kind of fabric was in itself a huge challenge.

[staghorne.livejournal.com]

I really hope your feet can keep on improving!

As for the curtains, isn't one of the advantages that they block a substantial portion of the light? No wonder it's difficult to get good pictures then! :P

[giza.livejournal.com]

Heh, it actually depends. There are "sheer" curtains, which are mostly see-through, and for decoration.

Then there are average curtains, which block some of the light. (I have those in my livingroom.

Then there are heavy curtains, which are specifically made to block out light and absorb noise. I have them in my bedroom. Even during the day, the room can be made pitch black and pretty much into a Man Cave. :-)

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

I have the latter in my bedroom, but I sleep until noon every day in a room with three giant windows. need 'em.