redbird | Gall bladder recovery: continuing to improve (Reply)

I basically worked a full day today (left maybe 20 minutes early, but took only half an hour of lunch break), much of it creating an answer key for a sixth grade math book. This mostly meant spending the day solving the problems in said book; I was able to use a calculator on some, but some had to be done as fractions rather than decimals and thus worked by hand. Many, of course, were simple enough, at least for someone with a head full of memorized relationships, not to need a calculator. And some weren't numerical, but things like naming triangles. In the course of this, I found and marked some errors in the copy (they may already have been caught, since I'm working from a photocopy of the page proofs and corrections may have been made on a different copy). Along with the usual trivia of one-sentence paragraphs without periods (annoying if noticed, but not getting in the way of understanding), I caught a misuse of the distributive property (trying to make it a + (b x c) = (a + b) x (a + c)) and a metric to customary equivalence table that got some things backwards. This is, of course, why we proofread.

The pain has diminished, though I didn't have another suitable dress, and the waistband of my pants did press on the still-healing areas. Fortunately, I have the percocet; also fortunately, percocet and ibuprofen are not cross-tolerant, so I was using both. [Ibuprofen may not be as good for post-surgical pain, but it's much better for menstrual cramps.] I expected to be wanting extra caffeine to make up for the percocet, but in the end managed on only the usual four cups of black tea. I have green Darjeeling next to me as I type, which is partly for alertness and partly because it's damp and chilly outside.