Tuesday was quietly productive
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kareinaKeldor put the compressor cable retractor thing back on the garage wall--the screws used the first time had heads that were small enough that they worked their way out through the holes on the mounting plate. This time it has washers to keep it in place. The plan is to put a hole in the wall to run the second compressor air cable into the workshop, so that one can use it in there, but he doesn't have any long concrete drill bits at home just now, so will have to borrow one from work (which we assume is what happened last time he put holes through one of the basement walls--certainly that would explain not finding such bits here).
When he went to the physical therapist he found out that his ankle is missing a bit of facia, specifically the inferior extensor retinaculum, which I had never heard of. The therapist assumes that it broke free at one end during an injury long ago, and he's just learned to live without it, but it may be a factor in how long it is taking to recover from the problems triggered by twisting his ankle this summer. Hopefully, the exercises he has been given strengthens the ankle up and he quits having problems with it.
I managed to finish up getting the Scrivener copy of my thesis in line with the submitted version, so I can start on the revisions. I just need to get the list of revisions from the examiners. I have also started an outline for a paper on the Swedish steatite artefacts, and will meet with my thesis supervisor during my lunch on Friday next week to discuss it.
Yesterday morning we saw an ad for an interesting archaeology talk at the museum in Skellefteå, on the earliest humans in Västerbotten and Norrbotten (so the northern third of Sweden). We were both certain when we saw it that the lecture was later that same day, so I copied the event info into the calendar to remind us to go later. After he got home from his appointment we made some food, and when I went to write down what I was about to eat in my food log I saw that the reminder for the event, and we realised that if we ate and left promptly we'd arrive in good time. As we started driving I searched for the lecture FB event, and linked to it, saying we were on the way in. One of our friends replied instantly asking if there is another today, as that one is 15 October. Oops. Looked more closely at the event, yup, 15 October, so we turned around and went home, stopping at the store to buy more cat treats and some stuff for me to make a new batch of smoothies. While there we impulse bought a skein of very orange 100% wool yarn to make him some fingerless gloves.
So he went to the basement to work on a new knife handle, and I sat down at the table and started carving on the spoon I started on the weekend. Even though I was wearing thick leather gloves, I still managed to somehow twist the curved spoon carving knife into my own left thumb. The blade is sharp enough that it didn't really hurt, but it was bleeding, so I went to the bathroom to wash it and find a bandage. Keldor happened to come upstairs just then and asked "Hur går det?", and when I replied that I was done carving for today he immediately wanted to know if I had cut myself. So I uncovered it (I had been holding a bit of toilet paper against it while looking for an appropriate size/shape bandaid or something) and showed him. Just a thin, shallow cut, which we washed again, poured some chlorhexidine over it, and then covered it with a small bandage.
He had reached a breaking point with his project, so we put on a movie (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which he had never seen, and I hadn't seen since it was in the theaters, in 1988) and I started nålbinding his fingerless gloves. It is good that I learned Finnish Stitch from a left-handed Finn, as I didn't really want to try looping the yarn on my bandaged thumb--much better to work on my right thumb. It does mean that I can't do my normal thing of working one glove right handed and the other left handed and switch back and forth between them every time I need to adjust the tread on the needle, so they are always about the same amount done--Instead I will keep working on this glove till my left thumb doesn't need the bandage anymore, and then start the second. (I like to work them on opposite hands so that they spiral opposite directions. Yes, Finnish Stitch is reversible, so I could just turn one of them inside out, but this is more fun.)
There have been lots of really good northern lights recently, as the sun as been especially active, but we've had clouds on the days that friends everywhere else have been sharing their photos. Therefore, when there were no clouds out last night, we went out for a walk to the local bird watching platform, to see if there were any lights. Of course, with the very full moon the sky was a little bright for good viewing of northern lights, and even the stars were mostly invisible, with only the brightest ones showing. Nonetheless, the lights did come out while we were out, and danced a bit, which was nice. I tried taking a photo, but the sky was too bright for them to really show, even using the nighttime setting on my phone. But it did mean that we went to bed a little later than we should have.
This morning I got a reply from the university about where I should park when I arrive to start work on Monday. Apparently, unlike the university in Luleå when I was there, one needs to pay to park on campus year round, not just in the winter when the car needs to be plugged in. In Umeå there is an app to pay for parking, and if you want to park on campus you need to first log in to your university account and click the "ok to tell the parking app that I work here" button, and then you can use the app to pay. This means that I can't do this already today, since I don't yet have my university log in details. So I replied to my contact in HR asking for the info, and wondering if there is another option to pay for that first day's parking, since I assume I can't do the log in thing till the job actually starts. I prefer to wait and start bussing after I have already been there once, and after I bring in glass jars of food to keep in the office for quick lunches on days I didn't bring enough leftovers with me.
When he went to the physical therapist he found out that his ankle is missing a bit of facia, specifically the inferior extensor retinaculum, which I had never heard of. The therapist assumes that it broke free at one end during an injury long ago, and he's just learned to live without it, but it may be a factor in how long it is taking to recover from the problems triggered by twisting his ankle this summer. Hopefully, the exercises he has been given strengthens the ankle up and he quits having problems with it.
I managed to finish up getting the Scrivener copy of my thesis in line with the submitted version, so I can start on the revisions. I just need to get the list of revisions from the examiners. I have also started an outline for a paper on the Swedish steatite artefacts, and will meet with my thesis supervisor during my lunch on Friday next week to discuss it.
Yesterday morning we saw an ad for an interesting archaeology talk at the museum in Skellefteå, on the earliest humans in Västerbotten and Norrbotten (so the northern third of Sweden). We were both certain when we saw it that the lecture was later that same day, so I copied the event info into the calendar to remind us to go later. After he got home from his appointment we made some food, and when I went to write down what I was about to eat in my food log I saw that the reminder for the event, and we realised that if we ate and left promptly we'd arrive in good time. As we started driving I searched for the lecture FB event, and linked to it, saying we were on the way in. One of our friends replied instantly asking if there is another today, as that one is 15 October. Oops. Looked more closely at the event, yup, 15 October, so we turned around and went home, stopping at the store to buy more cat treats and some stuff for me to make a new batch of smoothies. While there we impulse bought a skein of very orange 100% wool yarn to make him some fingerless gloves.
So he went to the basement to work on a new knife handle, and I sat down at the table and started carving on the spoon I started on the weekend. Even though I was wearing thick leather gloves, I still managed to somehow twist the curved spoon carving knife into my own left thumb. The blade is sharp enough that it didn't really hurt, but it was bleeding, so I went to the bathroom to wash it and find a bandage. Keldor happened to come upstairs just then and asked "Hur går det?", and when I replied that I was done carving for today he immediately wanted to know if I had cut myself. So I uncovered it (I had been holding a bit of toilet paper against it while looking for an appropriate size/shape bandaid or something) and showed him. Just a thin, shallow cut, which we washed again, poured some chlorhexidine over it, and then covered it with a small bandage.
He had reached a breaking point with his project, so we put on a movie (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which he had never seen, and I hadn't seen since it was in the theaters, in 1988) and I started nålbinding his fingerless gloves. It is good that I learned Finnish Stitch from a left-handed Finn, as I didn't really want to try looping the yarn on my bandaged thumb--much better to work on my right thumb. It does mean that I can't do my normal thing of working one glove right handed and the other left handed and switch back and forth between them every time I need to adjust the tread on the needle, so they are always about the same amount done--Instead I will keep working on this glove till my left thumb doesn't need the bandage anymore, and then start the second. (I like to work them on opposite hands so that they spiral opposite directions. Yes, Finnish Stitch is reversible, so I could just turn one of them inside out, but this is more fun.)
There have been lots of really good northern lights recently, as the sun as been especially active, but we've had clouds on the days that friends everywhere else have been sharing their photos. Therefore, when there were no clouds out last night, we went out for a walk to the local bird watching platform, to see if there were any lights. Of course, with the very full moon the sky was a little bright for good viewing of northern lights, and even the stars were mostly invisible, with only the brightest ones showing. Nonetheless, the lights did come out while we were out, and danced a bit, which was nice. I tried taking a photo, but the sky was too bright for them to really show, even using the nighttime setting on my phone. But it did mean that we went to bed a little later than we should have.
This morning I got a reply from the university about where I should park when I arrive to start work on Monday. Apparently, unlike the university in Luleå when I was there, one needs to pay to park on campus year round, not just in the winter when the car needs to be plugged in. In Umeå there is an app to pay for parking, and if you want to park on campus you need to first log in to your university account and click the "ok to tell the parking app that I work here" button, and then you can use the app to pay. This means that I can't do this already today, since I don't yet have my university log in details. So I replied to my contact in HR asking for the info, and wondering if there is another option to pay for that first day's parking, since I assume I can't do the log in thing till the job actually starts. I prefer to wait and start bussing after I have already been there once, and after I bring in glass jars of food to keep in the office for quick lunches on days I didn't bring enough leftovers with me.