Several hours ago, I finally managed to catch Perrine while a) she was asleep, b) she was in easy reach and reasonable light, and c) I was awake -- I finally managed to trim her claws, a task a few weeks verdue.
Just now, I spent three hours when I'd expected to be sleeping, fumbling with tiny -- and slippery -- bits of plastic from the Mac's keyboard, because the left command/Apple key had become unreliable and felt really strange to boot. I wound up having to pry off two more keycaps to check how the parts all lined up (my first attempt to compare was alas a key with a slightly differently-shaped hinge) because the otherwise rather helpful PDF I found about Powerbook keyboards had only so-so photos of the bit I was struggling with.
Under the hinge, I found ... a tiny fragment of one of Perrine's claws.
In other keratin-related news, I managed to whack my right pinky end-on into something this afternoon, and crack the nail right across the nail bed, from one edge five sixths of the way to the other, three or four millimeters from the end of the pink. That was gonna hurt unless I did something about it. So now I've got an ugly, thick blob of cyanoacrylate[1] and paper[2] covering that nail in an attempt to stabilize the broken part until it can grow out past the end of my finger and no longer be a threat of bleeding and pain.
I figured that as long as I was making a composite nail, I might as well see whether I could stabilize it so thoroughly that I could get away with putting a little length back on it and using it to play guitar. (I had trimmed the nail short as my first response to seeing the damage, to reduce the lever arm trying to rip the cracked part off my tender flesh the next time that hand brushed against anything.) I'll find out at HCB rehearsal whether I can use that nail, or have to be very careful of hand position when strumming and do my rasgueados three-fingered for a couple of weeks. Argh.
Other than those bits, it wasn't a very exciting day: laid out with headache and backache for most of it; did manage to deal with trash and litterbox anyhow; finally saw the painfully slow 'ports' installation of ImageMagick finish loading onto the Mac and re-learned how to use the 'gravity' operator ... Did not bang on the dreaded fender that rubs when I steer to the left yet (I'm an anti-NASCAR driver: I can only turn right[3]), so I'll try to bend something usefully when I get up again, unless my back still hurts as much. Could've had a more interesting, more productive day with decent pain meds, but oh well. Use what I've got, eh?
Now to try to get to sleep like I'd planned to do a few hours ago, before I discovered I couldn't easily get the keycap back on.
[1] Krazy Glue
[2] I wanted fibers perpendicular to the crack, not just the CA glue, and paper was handy but I don't know where my silk nail-repair patches are.
[3] I exaggerate for comic effect, though the noise when I turn left is kinda scary. The car seems to do better on the Interstates than on surface streets, because potholes are plentiful here, and they bounce the wheel up to where it rubs even when I'm going straight ahead. It's rubbing against plastic, not metal, and doesn't appear to have damaged the tire yet, but I do want to try to make it rub much less, if that's within my skills.
"Nobody gets upset about the topless women you see every day
on newsstands, even though those images are degrading. But when
it's real women, it's a problem, and the police are called in."
-- Natacha, member of Les Tumultueuses, quoted in
a BBC news
article about changing French attitudes toward toplessness,
2009-08-01 (thanks to
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firinel
for pointing
it out)
Ugh. Better than yesterday, but word phrase of the day is still "ouch, dammit". Gonna see whether I can time a short nap and a dose of meds such that I can get to rehearsal anyhow.
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