Done yesterday (20110906 Tu)

[mdlbear]

0906 Tu
  * up 6:35; W=198.2; drugs, nose, teeth, hair
  * 9am PT Christina Dept 174
    -> doing well; call if any problems develop
  * first day in Cupertino office
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  & Whole Paycheck for lunch-likes, since I'd left the chocolate and dried
    apricots at home.  Smoked salmon, trail mix bar, and an apple.
  * good first day in the new office, though it still feels very weird.
  % I seem to get some relief from talking about my problems.  Some --
    probably most -- people don't, and simply get upset when they even think
    about them.  Especially when the problems are the kinds that don't have
    solutions.
  * made quesadillas for dinner
  * load drugs
  * bed midnight; Colleen came in a little later.

An interesting first day at the new location. I came in after my physical therapy appointment to find my new office full of boxes. Almost completely full. My office affords comparatively little privacy -- the front is all glass, with a wooden sliding door. But the desk is a huge, U-shaped thing that lets me position the monitor between me and the door. First time in ages I've been able to do that.

I spent the morning unpacking, saying hello to people (and mostly not remembering their names), and looking for a usable chair. My trusty Aeron doesn't go up high enough -- it's meant for a typing return, and this desk doesn't have one. They'd just acquired some Steelcase Think chairs, which seem to work pretty well.

I went to Whole Paycheck for lunch-like stuff, since I'd cleverly left my desk munchies at home.

The afternoon was taken up by a long and fascinating but somewhat hard-to-follow meeting, mostly about a customer study of $PRODUCT and the main competition. It's going to be fun, I think. But busy. I also got my first assignment.

I have to remember that some people -- most people? -- with horrible problems that won't go away prefer not to talk about them or be reminded of them. (My own tendency is to talk about my problems, perhaps to excess.) {Perhaps? Silly bear!}

On the gripping hand, this preference is part of why the economy, the US health-care system, and the environment are in such horrible shape. And even I get burned out on those, and get tired of thinking about things I can't fix. So I don't really know what to do about all that.

Only one link; must have been a busy day.

Comments

[chaoswolf]

Physical therapy? I've been behind, could you toss me some cliff notes?

[mdlbear]

I was having a lot of pain in my upper shoulder and neck. Turned out it was a strained trapezius muscle, which in turn was due to bad posture. The PT gave me exercises to fix that.