Giza aka Douglas Muth's LiveJournal

I did pretty well this past weekend. I was able to walk around town and do some errands on Saturday, then take care of a couple of OpenID deployments.

On Sunday, orionvw, delphanaeous, and desteredra stopped by. There was food, a food coma, and a couple of movies. One of the movies was Over The Hedge, which I had not seen before.

My feet felt pretty awesome over the weekend, then started to hurt again today. That's really strange, and I don't understand it. I didn't walk much more over the weekend than I would have walked during a normal workday. 3 days until I see the pawdiatrist.

Naturally, the knees are feeling just fine.

A short while ago I got to write some code for the RPX module to deal with Googlebot not paying attention to 403 errors. That was fun. Here's the code: http://drupal.org/node/789704#comment-3223344. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with how the RPX module is working out on the sites I've deployed it on.

When I got off the train this evening, there was a big thunderstorm coming down. Kinda like... last Monday. The resemblance was creepy. So I hung out the shelter and took some pictures again.

The storm receding into the distance:



The only shot of the sun that didn't turn out bland due to my UV filter:



Depending on how I'm feeling in a couple of days, I'm thinking of maybe training down to visit davinwarter this weekend. He needs someone to buy him beer for his birthday. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.

I had an appointment with Dr. K this morning about my knees. Since they flared up last Wednesday, they've returned close to normal, or so I thought. Upon examining them, he pointed out that there was a section of my right knee that was still swollen. He also mentioned that there are "grooves" in the bone under the kneecap, and that some people have deep grooves while some people have shallow grooves. My grooves are shallow, so this puts me more at risk for things like chondromalacia.

We discussed treatment of the condition and he said that the Aleve I was taking was a good start, but that a certain medication called "Piroxicam" works better on large joints. So I walked out with a prescription for that. Unfortunately, it's not to be mixed with alcohol, so that pretty much kills my drinking habit for the next month. It was also pointed out to me that strengthening the quadraceps will provide support to the kneecaps to keep this issue from returning.

Never one to pass up the opportunity to make a joke, when I asked about long term complications of this condition, Dr. K's answer was: "Death and decay. The same as every other medical condition." Never a dull moment with him.

Paying my bill was interesting -- when I went to pay the co-pay, I was told that my account had a $40 credit and I didn't owe anything. Hey, who am I to argue with that? When I got my prescription filled later, it was pretty much the same thing. The total due was $0.00. That's a first for me too.

Of course, the appointment this morning was made all the more interesting by the noreaster that we had going through the state. The roads were very slushy and traffic was pretty bad. What normally should have been about 20-25 minutes each way took closer to 45 minutes each way. And when I got back home, the R5 Regional Rail line was down due to electrical problems. That meant standing outside for about 15 minutes, taking a bus to the 69th Street terminal, and taking the subway into work from there. I made it into the office around... Noon or so.

Given all that went on in the morning, I was pretty tired just when I got into work. This left me being not as productive as I wanted to be. Let's hope I can do a little better tomorrow. :-P