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  me, my arm, my availability ... Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2016-01-13 21:47 +0100
    Re: me, my arm, my availability ... "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~NoSpam~@Verizon.Net> - 2016-01-13 16:41 -0500
      Re: me, my arm, my availability ... Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2016-01-13 23:26 +0100
      Re: me, my arm, my availability ... Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-14 11:30 +1100
        Re: me, my arm, my availability ... Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 21:21 -0500
    Re: me, my arm, my availability ... Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-14 11:27 +1100
    Re: me, my arm, my availability ... "Mario R. Osorio" <nimbiotics@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 14:05 -0800

#101635 — me, my arm, my availability ...

I fell recently.  Ought to be nothing, but a small chip of bone, either an
existing one or one I just made is nicely wedged in the joint taking away
a whole lot of the ability of my arm to rotate in the elbow joint.  Or
hold my arm in a position that is usual for typing.  Plus,  now that the
sprain/swelling is more or less over, the pain, unfortunately is not.

The real downside is that my typing speed is down from 135-140 wpm
to 5-10 wmp.  At this rate, just getting my usual work done takes
overtime.

Seems like surgery is needed to fix this. 

So I wanted you all to know, no, I haven't forgotten you and no haven't
stopped caring.  I have just stopped being as __capable__ if you know
what I mean.

Please take care of yourselves and each other.  I will often be reading
even if typing is more than I can do right now.

Laura

ps -- (recent tutor discussion) I am with Alan and not with Mark.  I
am happy as anything when people post their not-quite-working code for
homework assignments here to tutor.  They aren't lazy bastards wanting
somebody to do their assignments for them, they want to learn why what
they are trying to do isn't working.  Sounds perfect for tutor to me.

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#101637

From: "Laura Creighton" <lac@openend.se>

>
> I fell recently.  Ought to be nothing, but a small chip of bone, either an

Due to the side-effects of the prescription drugs you were given, I suggest 
you not use a computer until you are no longer taking them.  ;-)


-- 
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp 

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#101639

In a message of Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:41:57 -0500, "David H. Lipman" writes:
>From: "Laura Creighton" <lac@openend.se>
>
>>
>> I fell recently.  Ought to be nothing, but a small chip of bone, either an
>
>Due to the side-effects of the prescription drugs you were given, I suggest 
>you not use a computer until you are no longer taking them.  ;-)

God, this is going to make playing games on my android tablet a problem.
And there _was_ a time when under drugs, killing monsters was about all
I was good for ...

Thank you for cheering me up, some.

Nice community this. :)

Laura

>Dave
>Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
>http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp 

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#101645

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 08:41 am, David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "Laura Creighton" <lac@openend.se>
> 
>>
>> I fell recently.  Ought to be nothing, but a small chip of bone, either
>> an
> 
> Due to the side-effects of the prescription drugs you were given, I
> suggest
> you not use a computer until you are no longer taking them.  ;-)


I don't get it. Are you implying that Laura's comments were drug-addled
nonsense? They make perfect sense to me, and seem to be grammatically
correct for informal English (apart from a missing comma), and quite
idiomatic too. And I'm not taking any drugs.

I know that there's a trope of affectionately mocking people on strong
pain-killers ("I want some of the drugs she's having!"), but it's normal to
wait until *after* they've actually demonstrated impairment. Otherwise you
risk having the response which I'm having right now:

    "I don't think it's Laura who is high on drugs, prescription 
     or otherwise, but you!"

:-)


Seriously, sorry for being That Guy who asks you to analyse what I expect is
meant as a joke, but I have no idea where the humour is.


-- 
Steven

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#101660

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 08:41 am, David H. Lipman wrote:
>
> > From: "Laura Creighton" <lac@openend.se>
> >
> >>
> >> I fell recently.  Ought to be nothing, but a small chip of bone, either
> >> an
> >
> > Due to the side-effects of the prescription drugs you were given, I
> > suggest
> > you not use a computer until you are no longer taking them.  ;-)
>
>
> I don't get it. Are you implying that Laura's comments were drug-addled
> nonsense? They make perfect sense to me, and seem to be grammatically
> correct for informal English (apart from a missing comma), and quite
> idiomatic too. And I'm not taking any drugs.
>
> I know that there's a trope of affectionately mocking people on strong
> pain-killers ("I want some of the drugs she's having!"), but it's normal to
> wait until *after* they've actually demonstrated impairment. Otherwise you
> risk having the response which I'm having right now:
>
>     "I don't think it's Laura who is high on drugs, prescription
>      or otherwise, but you!"
>
> :-)
>
>
> Seriously, sorry for being That Guy who asks you to analyse what I expect
> is
> meant as a joke, but I have no idea where the humour is.
>
>
> --
> Steven
>
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

I enjoy Laura.  Excellent advice, informed.. wishing her injury heels soon.
  A great asset to the python interested community

-- 
Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com/stats/birthdays

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#101644

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:47 am, Laura Creighton wrote:

> 
> I fell recently.  Ought to be nothing, [...]

Ouch! Much ouch!

Hope you get well soon Laura! My best wishes and sympathies to you!



-- 
Steven

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#101721

Just get better Laura...

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