Full speed sideways

[mdlbear]

As chaoswolf has already mentioned, flower_cat will be going in for surgery sometime in the next couple of weeks to get her hernia fixed. Hopefully they'll also check and see whether anything else is wrong. Everyone, especially Colleen and super_star_girl, is rather anxious.

Meanwhile we're going to have a yard-cleanup day this Saturday (edit) Sunday, hopefully getting rid of some of the junk in the back yard as well as getting the weeds out of the front. There will be beer, soft drinks (I almost typed "software"), and pizza. I expect to have a really sore back before the day is over. By coincidence, our trash-hauling company is putting out dumpsters in the neighborhood for "spring cleaning" Saturday morning, and we expect to make good use of them. (edit) Even though the yard party is Sunday, anyone wanting to work on Saturday will be greeted with thanks and appreciation.

And next Thursday our group is presenting at our annual research review. That's where the head of corporate research and a couple of high-level planners come over from Japan to find out what we've been doing with their money for the last year. The really interesting and useful part of the process for us, though, is the dry runs, which are open to everyone in the lab. It's a great way to find out what's going on in the other groups. When I joined the lab in '92, I started on a Friday; our group's review was on the following Tuesday. Needless to say I didn't have anything to present, but I sure learned a lot!

Comments

medical reason

[chaoswolf]

Shouldn't you not be lifting anything heavier than a pair of cutters? You pulled a muscle the day after you married flower_cat and that injury hasn't gone away yet.

Re: medical reason

[mdlbear]

Two days after. What remains at this point is a predisposition to spasms in a particular lower-back muscle; I can lift quite a lot as long as I don't bend or twist my lower back. That means lifting with my knees, with my back vertical and the load as close as possible to my body.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I wish my neighborhood was so enlightened as to put out dumpsters (or even let us put stuff out to be hauled away, without paying extra). This weekend is my "find the cannon/trailer somewhere in my garage under the stuff" task. Because it needs to go to an event the weekend after.