Gym notes

Still being a bit careful with the left wrist; thus, a good workout, though not quite as much as I'd have otherwise done. There was one machine I was going to skip to avoid schlepping weight plates around, but when I got into the weight room I found that the previous user had left 70 pounds on it, and adding one ten-pound plate could be done using only my right hand.

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Gym notes

Still being a bit careful with the left wrist; thus, a good workout, though not quite as much as I'd have otherwise done. There was one machine I was going to skip to avoid schlepping weight plates around, but when I got into the weight room I found that the previous user had left 70 pounds on it, and adding one ten-pound plate could be done using only my right hand.

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Maybe it is a yogurt allergy

Last night, we had Indian food delivered: lamb rogan josh, aloo paratha (potato-stuffed bread), and papadum (lentil wafers). There's a moderate amount of butter in the first two, so I took a lactaid tablet before dinner, and I was fine.

This afternoon I tried the next experiment: a moderate-sized serving of ginger ice cream, no lactaid. And no symptoms whatsoever.

I think I'm going to proceed with caution for a bit longer (notably in terms of keeping track of things), and will have to be careful of ingredients, especially with Indian food, but if it's a sensitivity to something in yogurt rather than to either lactose or milk proteins, it won't be hard to handle.

(I am currently well-supplied with cold cuts for breakfast.)

Maybe it is a yogurt allergy

Last night, we had Indian food delivered: lamb rogan josh, aloo paratha (potato-stuffed bread), and papadum (lentil wafers). There's a moderate amount of butter in the first two, so I took a lactaid tablet before dinner, and I was fine.

This afternoon I tried the next experiment: a moderate-sized serving of ginger ice cream, no lactaid. And no symptoms whatsoever.

I think I'm going to proceed with caution for a bit longer (notably in terms of keeping track of things), and will have to be careful of ingredients, especially with Indian food, but if it's a sensitivity to something in yogurt rather than to either lactose or milk proteins, it won't be hard to handle.

(I am currently well-supplied with cold cuts for breakfast.)

laptop

I'm currently using the laptop cattitude bought recently (for himself to use when traveling/commuting, mostly). In its favor: it has GAIM already installed. Against: the system has the habit of following links I haven't actually clicked, or going back when I don't ask it to. Also, the keyboard is larger than I find comfortable, which I didn't expect on a laptop but makes some sense given that it was purchased by someone with much larger hands. I think I'm going to take him up on the offer of connecting my desktop keyboard (and maybe monitor) to it.

ETA: It seems to be configured to treat taking your hand off the trackpad and then putting it back down as a mouse click. So we've plugged in a spare trackball, unfortunately very heavy, and I'm getting by on a combination of that, the trackpad, and using the arrow keys to move around.

None of this delights my shoulder; I think this nice box gets to be shut down and plugged back into the charger soon. I may not be on GAIM for a bit, therefore. (It looks as though the new box won't be shipped until Wednesday, which means I probably won't have use of it until I'm back from my next visit to Adrian.)

laptop

I'm currently using the laptop cattitude bought recently (for himself to use when traveling/commuting, mostly). In its favor: it has GAIM already installed. Against: the system has the habit of following links I haven't actually clicked, or going back when I don't ask it to. Also, the keyboard is larger than I find comfortable, which I didn't expect on a laptop but makes some sense given that it was purchased by someone with much larger hands. I think I'm going to take him up on the offer of connecting my desktop keyboard (and maybe monitor) to it.

ETA: It seems to be configured to treat taking your hand off the trackpad and then putting it back down as a mouse click. So we've plugged in a spare trackball, unfortunately very heavy, and I'm getting by on a combination of that, the trackpad, and using the arrow keys to move around.

None of this delights my shoulder; I think this nice box gets to be shut down and plugged back into the charger soon. I may not be on GAIM for a bit, therefore. (It looks as though the new box won't be shipped until Wednesday, which means I probably won't have use of it until I'm back from my next visit to Adrian.)