9 May 2016

Hopefully you survived another Mother's Day.  I called my mom and mother-in-law, but didn't really get them anything.  My wife got sleep-in time, Indian food for lunch and she did not have to do any laundry yesterday.  There is a massage appointment in her future, since the therapist hates late people and left once she was 9 minutes late.  Pleh.

Somebody gave me pink eye, so I'm waiting to see the optometrist.  I think this means I'll be off work for a while wearing mittens so I don't scratch myself, drinking chicken soup and standing on one leg.  So this means I am rehabbing my right leg muscles, left forearm muscles, sinus/cold whatever and now my eye.  Someone wise told me it sucks getting old, but it beats the alternative.

Our library yesterday had a few piles of free comics, of which I took one Civil War and one Captain America and my son found a Pokemon and Pink Panther.  Thank you whoever created this phenomenon.

Watched GoT 6.02 yesterday and was surprised to see Rickon and his wilding captor.  Obviously wanted to see more of the Tower of Joy scene, but at least we saw Howland Reed in action.  I'll contemplate this more as my left eye crusts over itself.

1 May 2016

Happy May Day!  I was taught this means dancing around a phallus, but maybe it means dancing around the tree of the world, vis-a-vis Yggdrasil.

Odin sacrificed himself upon Yggdrasil and was reborn.  Segue to Jon Snow's apparent rebirth tonight.  If we can find Howland Reed, maybe we can find the truth of what happened at the tower of joy.

24 April 2016

This week I finished my physical therapy for my golfer's elbow aka epicondylitis aka manual coffee grinder-itis.  I injured myself either from: too many pushes, using a handheld manual coffee grinder since November with a weakened grip (no deadlift due to broken knee) or a new shoulder press form from Mark Rippetoe.  Hopefully I'm not too broken now and can continue to strengthen all the little connecting muscles in my forearms.

Last week also entailed a short course on continuous process improvement (CPI) aka Lean aka AFSO21 aka Total Quality Management (TQM) aka Edward Deming and Juran are alive and well.  Had the pleasure of visiting a local Trane factory and see how their CPI focused first on their associates and the ergonomics of how they worked.  Most of their employees were against improvement and assumed that it meant layoffs.  They actually hoped to hire more people and have a small team that hacks together new equipment from their scrap heap.

Now, time for GoT.  Hopefully, R+L=J.