Rsser's accident.

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Originally Posted by NeilS

Too much heavy lifting during tool shopping I can understand, but supermarket shopping.... reckon you are going to have to get a grip on yourself with that one, Ern...:U

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Lend him the LOYL's spinning wheel Neil its a little light turning :U

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Fraid I do most of my tool shopping at the 'puter these days. A few clicks, a sucking sound from the bank account and a week or two later the Auspost courier arrives. We're on first name terms now :D

I'll get down to the open days of Woodworksupplies and Machinery Warehouse this week so I promise to earn a hernia picking up some specials. Will also be demo'ing some Easy Wood tools for Grahame of Woodworksupplies. Should be a good selling point: see what the lame and infirm can do with these tools :wink:

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Originally Posted by rsser

Ah, the days of running multiple stats procedures on big data sets, just to see what might pop up, and to hell with the $$. But you paid for it with strict adherence to command formats and no help when you got it wrong ... which was often!

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So you're the bloke who clogged up the printers with SPSS output!:D

LOL.

Guilty m'lud!

It was called data dredging and frowned upon. Occasionally something of interest popped up but without a research rationale it was a bit hard to insert it into the project.

These days, I have SPSS on the PC, along with command debugging, file import and export and all the rest. Today's young whipper snappers don't know how lucky they are ;-} I started with Fortran and it made me the man I am :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by wheelinround

Lend him the LOYL's spinning wheel Neil its a little light turning :U

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Think it would need a second wheel and handle bar to raise any interest....:U

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Oooh no, those spinning machines can bite back too.

In the days when tie-dye and cheesecloth reigned, I assembled one from a kit for a girlfriend.

Gave it a casual spin when all together, forgetting where the other hand was resting.

Yoww! One crushed fingernail.

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Originally Posted by NeilS

Think it would need a second wheel and handle bar to raise any interest....:U

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I've got an electric one. At least it has a motor.:rolleyes::D

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Originally Posted by rsser

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I'll get down to the open days of Woodworksupplies and Machinery Warehouse this week so I promise to earn a hernia picking up some specials. Will also be demo'ing some Easy Wood tools for Grahame of Woodworksupplies. Should be a good selling point: see what the lame and infirm can do with these tools :wink:

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:oo::C why has no one told me. Not they a REALLY need anything.:doh::rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by tea lady

I've got an electric one. At least it has a motor.:rolleyes::D

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Add a solar panel to it and you will be super green..:rolleyes:

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Update: the 2x weekly massage and manipulation have helped increase joint flexibility nicely. Can now bend the hand forward 45* to the forearm which is defined as the functional minimum, and can squeeze to 38kg. More improvement should follow.

Apparently a big thing separating us from the apes is that our hands can also move side to side in relation to the forearm and theirs can't.

You heard it here first folks ;-}

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Originally Posted by rsser

Update: the 2x weekly massage and manipulation have helped increase joint flexibility nicely. Can now bend the hand forward 45* to the forearm which is defined as the functional minimum, and can squeeze to 38kg. More improvement should follow.

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Good to hear! Any improvement is good improvement:2tsup:

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Originally Posted by rsser

Apparently a big thing separating us from the apes is that our hands can also move side to side in relation to the forearm and theirs can't.

You heard it here first folks ;-}

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So have your arms evolved to human again, or still stuck in 'ape mode'? :D:D:D

Cheers,
Dave

Oh, forgot to mention. I took the kids to the Royal Easter Show in Syd on Monday, and had a pretty good time. The precision driving team seemed a bit more tame that previous (not sure if my memory is skewing that one), but the real highlight was the MotoX riders. My girls loved them too (:no:). We were sitting front row really close to the landing ramp and it was just amazing.

As a rider was doing a graceful backwards somersault (actually, all three - one after the other), I was sitting there thinking "I wonder which bones would break if you get this even slightly wrong???" :o

Then they had an interview of a rider just coming back from injury. In his words 'I kinda got it all wrong'. He broke a leg in 7 places:o

I tell ya, these motor bike riders are insane!!! Looks fun though :D

Cheers,
Dave

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So have your arms evolved to human again, or still stuck in 'ape mode'?

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Nah, knuckles still dragging on the ground but the therapist says to speak to Mum about that ;-}

Oh those guys make me feel sick. Even MotoGP riders are full of metal plates and pins. They're back riding before properly recovered since a series win comes from points from each race.

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Originally Posted by rsser

.Ah, the days of running multiple stats procedures on big data sets, just to see what might pop up, and to hell with the $$. But you paid for it with strict adherence to command formats and no help when you got it wrong ... which was often!

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Do I know that problem, SWMBO is in the hopefully last few months of her PhD. She "wasted" a month recently using a stats package noone at Uni Tas could help her with, normal rescue line had gone of to Antarctica rsearching. She spent weeks performing repetitive tasks coverting data from one format to another only to eventually find out it wasn't needed. Let's just say she got "a bit tense", I wasn't too happy as I was on childcare for the whole summer holiday (not that I objected but you'd think with 8 weeks off I could have got some real shed time in.
She was reading someone elses thesis from the 70's or 80's and she was so happy that she is doing hers nowadays, there is normally help out there somewhere.

Sorry to hear about your accident, as a former cycle tourist I know what near misses are like. Fingers crossed never been taken out at speed, so far.
Hope a speedy recovery is on the way.

Chris

Thanks; getting there.

Yes, 'puter programs can be a trial, esp. the powerful ones.

When I was finished qualitative data gathering for my Doc there were 750,000 words of interview transcripts. A bit more than butcher's paper could handle so I wrote a free text indexing and retrieval program to run on the PC. That was part diversion behaviour and mostly useful aid. This was in the 80s when the only equivalent ran on mainframes and I wanted something to work with word processing files on my own machine.

There was some interest from folk in buying it so I beefed it up with error routines - that took about 3 times as long as the basic coding - and sold a few copies. Big market now; if only I'd been entrepreneurial ....

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Originally Posted by rsser

I started with Fortran and it made me the man I am :rolleyes:

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Fortran & edlin; who could ask for anything more.:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by AlexS

Fortran & edlin; who could ask for anything more.:rolleyes:

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When I were a lad...... :D

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

When I were a lad...... :D

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...it was clay tablets and cuniform and the abacus was still a twinkle is someones eye:D

cheers
Michael

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Originally Posted by mic-d

...it was clay tablets and cuniform and the abacus was still a twinkle is someones eye:D

cheers
Michael

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:rotfl:

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

When I were a lad...... :D

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..... we weren't allowed to have anything as fancy as SSPS, EDLIN or FORTRAN, well not until we had completed our string handling chores in machine code....:D

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Paper tape..... :cool:

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Paper tape..... :cool:

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Nah, magnetic drum, Circa 1967.

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Punch cards! The data was loaded onto the Cyber's hard drive but was wiped at the end of each year unless you got authorisation to keep it. Otherwise it was back to the bleeding cards and redo the data cleanup.

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Well I did 3 demos with the Easy Rougher, Finisher and Detailer and thoroughly enjoyed it along with the chats with the other turner (Maurrie from Peninsula Turners), Grahame and Michael of PWS, Carl of WW Machinery Warehouse, Stu and others. Sturdee was there, and Dynoforce and Soren.

I levered a Silky Oak bowl out of the chuck with the Rougher - luckily not many were watching at the time :-

Shaping the outside of a lump of Cypress for a bowl with the Rougher was fairly hard work and the paw's been griping but sod it.

Picked up a couple of Rock Maple bowl blanks and a metre of 100x100 Swietenia Mahogany. I feel a classic form candlestick coming on.

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The hand therapists are impressed with my progress; std rehab times for this condition range from 6 to 12 months. It's been 4 months and I can pull 40kg and most of the rotations are close to normal. A fill-in physio-trained therapist gave me one exercise which really helps to free up the wrist when it's stiff and painful.

Now the pain is mostly at the time it's caused and where, and that's a helluva lot easier to manage.

It's still a day-by-day thing. Wake up in the morning with an unknown amount of hand usage in the bank, but don't know what kind or for how long til I try. Sometimes the credit runs out fast; sometimes it doesn't at all.

Thanks for all your sympathetic listening and advice. They've meant more to me than I can say.

Good to hear you're doing well, though the news that some days are better than others doesn't surprise that much.

Having exercises to relieve pain are very useful - I wrecked my back doing stupid things a few years back and had a set of exercises. If I did them, no pain. If I didn't, then I'd wake up in the morning in pretty bad shape... Managing a condition like that is pretty ok, especially if it trends towards getting better over time.

Always happy to listen for several reasons. We're all nice people here, we all care, and we're usually reading this on work time :D:D:D

Cheers,
Dave

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Originally Posted by rsser

It's still a day-by-day thing. Wake up in the morning with an unknown amount of hand usage in the bank, but don't know what kind or for how long til I try. Sometimes the credit runs out fast; sometimes it doesn't at all.

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Ern, you are an encouragement to us all. As the median age of this forum grows, more and more of us are confronted with our mortal shortcomings, and it is a salutary lesson to us all who grumble at the indignities of age to see you deal with this sort of injury.

It may never be perfect again, but it wasn't going to stay that way anyway, and making the most of what you have is far better than letting it rust because you wept for lost function.

Well done on your progress.

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Originally Posted by rsser

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Sounds like a good name for a piece of music. :think:

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Originally Posted by rsser

.....I can pull 40kg and most of the rotations are close to normal.

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Sounds like a good name for a piece of music.

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..maybe use a trumpet or a bugle, nah! it'll never catch on :C


Good work with the hands Ern:2tsup:

Thanks guys and gal :)

Acc to the literature, rehab takes btwn 6 and 12 months with what I copped. So it's just been 4 months and while there's a way to go I'm ahead of the norm so far.

I'm still looking forward to enough rotation to move from, ahem, Muslim style in the loo to Christian, and the hand therapist is threatening to make me wear the ortho stap overnight. Only way that can work might have me waking in the morning thinking shoot!, haven't had that since a teenager :D

Well, I now have a new hand therapist, physio trained, and the exercises are working a treat, god bless her.

Just in the last week the wrist has been itching to move and it feels like it belongs to me again.

I'm rewarding myself with a 5 day guided glacier ski tour in NZ in August, which is also a wrist strength target. For me, and the poor physio! She looked a bit gobsmacked when I told her.

Good one, Ern. Sounds like you are keen to get out there on the edge again.

I guess being on the edge of the odd crevasse or two will do it for you.....:U

Which glacier?

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Prob the Tasman Neil and those intersecting. Or possibly Franz & Fox Josef depending on weather and snow conditions. The guide makes the decision the day before we fly in.

PS, the crevasses you see can give an adrenaline hit; the ones you don't see, a king-hit :oo:

Mallory dropped into one during his 2nd expedition to Everest I think it was. Luckily his ice axe was underneath him and wedged itself between the walls, holding him. He managed to scrape a ramp and crawl out.

When they knew dangers were there they'd rope up, but even the heavy hemp rope at the time would fail with a body weight drop of 7 or 8 metres.

Much later Meissner, the first climber to ascend Everest without oxygen, also dropped into a crevasse and managed to haul himself out.

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Originally Posted by rsser

Prob the Tasman Neil and those intersecting. Or possibly Franz & Fox Josef depending on weather and snow conditions. The guide makes the decision the day before we fly in.

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That makes sense. From my little experience of walking (tramping) in SW NZ, the weather can be fickle in that area and I imagine a whiteout on a glacier wouldn't be the best of fun.

And, as one very experienced NZ tramper said (met in a remote hut 5 days out), doesn't really matter which tramp you take the scenery is all magnificent in that SW area.

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Originally Posted by rsser

I'm still looking forward to enough rotation to move from, ahem, Muslim style in the loo to Christian

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Whaa? I only just managed to get from Christian style to Muslim, now the trend is the other way?:wink:
Do be careful handling the crevasse Ern.:D:D
Cheers
Michael

We'll have a guide who will specialise in heartburn from watching out for alpine touring newbies. We'll wear transceivers in case of avalanche burial. My skis have release bindings so they should come off in an avy. I expect we'll get a lesson in prussiking up a rope to get out of a crevasse.

They've had one guide and one client die in avalanches on the Tasman in the last two years so caution will be the name of the game.

If we come in from the West, on a clear day the beaches will be visible from the tops of the glaciers; if from Mt Cook village to the Tasman, a bit of touring will take us to a saddle in the Southern R with a similar view.

Here's a pic of our most likely destination. Kelman Hut, 2500m. Ski plane to the neve nearby.

Yummy... been in a few NZ huts with specy views, but that one takes the cake. I could spend a few in that. Just don't miss your step on the way down to that dunny.....:o