Monday: Late start, or rather, a late finish. Couldn’t stay asleep, so I got up around 3am, did some exercise, etc. Hannah had her alarm set for 7, so I waited up for her to go for the commute down to Brisbane. Went to bed after that, and slept till around 2. Spent the day working on EPUB stuff, as well as trying to figure out what was happening with FastSpring and all these fake purchases happening on my store. Hurt the middle finger on my right hand, in a fashion similar to my left hand, late at night. Published the new second edition version of Derby Daze: Volume 1 which is a thing I’ve been working towards for more than a year. Fucking my hand up wasn’t exactly the way I wanted to celebrate that.
Tuesday: Made a doctor’s appointment for Wednesday to get a referral for my finger, to have it ultrasounded. Found a bunch of large paddlepop sticks from mixing casting resin, so used one to splint my finger.
Wednesday: Doctor’s appointment to get a referral for an ultrasound on my finger, then immediately afterwards up to the radiologists to have my finger scanned. Their diagnosis is it’s probably a sprain, so we’ll keep it in a splint and hopefully the doctor will get the results tomorrow and we’ll know what to do with it. If necessary I’ll go get an MRI, even if its out of my own pocket, but hopefully it’ll just be a short splinting. My biggest worry right now is that I clip the finger on something, given it’s stuck out straight.
I finished the HTML / CSS for the Day and Night book
Thursday: Finger seems to be on a slow mend, I had a quiet day, woke up with a headache in the afternoon to a voicemail from the doctor I’d seen saying my finger was probably a sprain, and should be ok in a few days. if not, make an appointment with my regular doctor, and consult the hand therapist.
Friday: Did two cycle sessions, made a half length splint for my finger, and kept it in that, as I practice a bit of extra flexibility. Mum made a couple of Shepherds pies, and dropped them off for me.
Saturday: Chopped up a bunch of biltong, did a couple of cycling sessions. Packaged all the shepherds pie portions into big plastic containers, and put those in the chest freezer.
Sunday: A quiet day. Bike sessions, and house tidying in preparation for Hannah coming to stay for a few days.