The one armed bandit

So,
Turns out my right shoulder needs to be returned for a refund. It decided on Thursday evening, that being good and staying where it should be was over rated, and decided to dislocate itself. Now I could say it was like a scene out of the Lethal Weapon series, but that would be a lie...

So that's exactly what happened... OK, ok.. it wasn't.. It was more along the lines of.. I jumped, and when I landed I had a dislocated shoulder. No dramatic impacts, flying through the air due to an explosion, or fighting with a relentless bad guy. I was stretching my legs and did a big jump, straight up, and when I landed, my shoulder hurt like someone had rammed a red hot poker into it. It really was a very burning type of pain. After walking around for a couple of minutes whilst trying to hold back a torrent of expletives my shoulder decided to play ball again and pop back into place. So a long story short, my arm is in a sling, immobilised as much as possible while it heals. Now being left handed, I can still write quite happily, but there are several other things that I just cant do, or are harder to do.
* Despite being left handed, I normally use my right hand for the mouse, so I have the awkwardness of using the mouse with my left hand, it just doesn't feel right to me.
* Try holding one hand behind you back and typing out a paragraph or two.. Very annoying isn't it?!
* Now, while still holding your hand behind your back, go to the kitchen and make yourself a sandwich.. Not so easy is it?
* There are many other tasks which become a lot harder with just one hand, but the one thing that has been the MOST painful (not physically painful, but mentally) has been not being able to pick up, or hold my 5 1/2 month old son. This is a two-fold pain. First of, I miss the time with my son. Yes I can still hang out with him, and play games and such when he is lying on the floor, or in his bumbo, or bouncer, or jumper. But it's just not the same as holding him. The other part of it is the feeling useless.. I can't do anywhere near as much to help out my wife.And that sucks because it puts so much more stress on her. Luckily we have pretty awesome family and friends who are helping out where they can.
Being like this however, with one arm in a sling, it does make you realise what it is like for people who have to live like this (or similar) permanently. We always take for granted our full able-bodiedness, and never stop to think what it would be like if we lost the use of a limb, or something. Now in no way am I saying we should take pity on people who have, as they are no less of a person than anyone else. More we should appreciate their ability as we would anyone else. They live with what society sees as a dis-ability, but I think in a way they are more able than "fully able-bodied" people because they do tasks that we do, despite any dis-advantages. So I say kudos to those people.
So I go back to see the Doc on Wednesday, and I'm hoping he'll say I can ditch the sling so I can hold my son again and help my wife out!

On a separate note, I am looking at doing a review of RAGE soon, after a few more hours of play, perhaps a post on some techie or game news, so stay tuned people!!

Hey, look, a post!

Soooo... Haven't done much on this at all for a while. But decided I'd redo the layout.. Again..
So now I have a new layout, which is nice and minimal, found the old one just a little bit too dark. So decided I would base the new layout on a linux console. Redid the title banner as well to go with the new layout, again nice and minimilist. I'm hoping I will be able to be a little more active on here, post some more reviews, maybe broaden things a little and post some tech news, or something. I will figure something out, something to fill out the blog a little better, something to give me more reason to blog :D
So this short little post will hopefully be the first of many more to come, and a lot more frequently too lol.

Tasty treats...

Found these lollies in my local supermarket, thought they were pretty cool so had to buy some! Just couldn't resist my inner nerd!!!

 

 

Dead in the water...

Right, so my blog is pretty much dead in the water right now.. Not due to having nothing to blog about, but rather that it's just not very high on my priority list right now. It's hard to find the time to sit down and post something on my blog when I have a very cute baby who has missed his daddy while he's been at work giving me some very cheerful smiles. It's not hard to see that I'd choose spending time hanging with my wee man over posting something up on here. So the blog is pretty boring right now, and will probably stay that way for a while yet as I figure out how to get my time management sorted out a little better. That and getting a little more motivation to do something rather than just vege out once the little guy is in his bassinet asleep at night. And its about more than just finding time to write posts on my blog, its also about reducing the size of the spare tyre that is slowly growing bigger around my gut. I'm not really the type to be worrying about what my gut looks like all that much, but I am the type who knows that it is there because I sit on my butt all day long and don't get any exercise. Which causes another problem, total lack of fitness! It's definitely not a good thing when after climbing only 1 flight of stairs you are already puffing. Especially considering I used to ride the bike legs of triathlons and multisport events (around 80km distance). To go from that to puffing after a flight of stairs is very depressing. I don't want to be one of those dads that when my kid is running about and having loads of fun I'm sitting there puffing after chasing him for only 10 metres! The other major side effect from this is the health problems that come from lack of fitness. They may not have manifested themselves in me yet, other than the getting puffed thing, but I know that if I don't do something about it soon, it probably wont be too long before they do. So yeah, going to have to force myself to get off my ever expanding butt and get some exercise type stuff done.. If anyone out there that actually reads my blog has an ideas please let me know!

So yeah, once I manage to sort myself out, I will get some more reviews up on here, some more posts, and of course some exercise in! So stay tuned, I promise things will get better and that there will be some more interesting posts up on here sometime in the near future!! :D

Simons Cat "Fly Guy" - So very true!