It's been an entirely too interesting week. Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

Last week I developed an overuse injury in my right hand. Yanno, my dominant right hand I use for almost everything. It started as a pain in my shoulder that kept me awake at night, but then turned into a fairly nasty hand pain. Fox let me use one of his carpal tunnel braces, but Saturday we went out and found me a hand brace that specifically immobilizes the thumb, and that helped a lot. As of today it's a lot better but I'm still wearing the brace at night to keep me from contorting my hand and wrist in my sleep.

Saturday night the air conditioning went out. We called it in, and got on the list for a visit the next day, and the guy finally got to us at around two pm, but it was also one of the hottest days we've had this summer and by the time he arrived, it was 90 inside the house. We had box fans and stuff running but it was not a great day and neither of us got much done. Nothing happened on Sunday.

Monday the internet went out. This was an AT&T outage, and from what we found out through FastNet, their business services techs were saying someone cut the fiber lines - probably a construction crew. It took about 24 hours for that to get fixed, and in the meantime we didn't even have cell service. I'd occasionally get a "blip" of service and see a few notifications come in, but I couldn't get emails or texts out.

So far nothing else has happened. Fingers crossed.

I have fallen behind on my ham radio study, but I am starting to review previous lessons and bring myself back up to speed on that. Fox got his "official" pilot's license in the mail last week. It's a plastic card from the FAA that specifies unmanned craft, but it's still a pilot's license and he's justly proud of it. I also received my renewed passport, which may not mean diddly-squat but makes me feel mildly better about things. I also learned that as of right now, unless something changes *cough cough* American citizens who travel overseas can't be detained and denied re-entry into the US. I think that unless you're under some sort of warrant or whatever it's different, but they can't just not let you back in.

My birthday is coming up soon and I'm thinking of asking for snorkeling gear. I'd like to learn both snorkeling and kayaking, neither of which seems to have a huge learning curve, but they look like loads of fun. Scuba doesn't interest me because it seems like it's just an expensive and fiddly way to kill yourself.

Anyway I haven't done much art or any gaming with this hand/thumb thing. And I'm trying to be good about it so that it heals and I don't just prolong this. I kind of wish I could pinpoint what I did that aggravated it so much.