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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Pain.</title>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back, baby. (Though not officially.) Also: RaffleKing Jr.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think my sad, tragic tale of woe is nearly over. Recap: Last Sunday, a palm branch fell from 20 feet up (while I was trimming the tree), and impaled my left hand with three spikes. The pic below illustrates what I mean by spikes. That is not me, but those spikes are dead-ringers for the ones in my hand. I pulled out two very similar to C and a portion of one more, labeled A, right after it happened. What I didn&#8217;t know was that a piece (&#8220;B&#8221;) was still in there. Until Thursday, when the swelling went down enough to notice. Last Thursday, the Doc in the Box pulled part B out of the back of my hand. After four days. Every day since then I&#8217;ve had a hole in my hand swabbed out  (rather forcefully), and packed with gauze. I was supposed to see the hand specialist yesterday, but got bumped by somebody else&#8217;s emergency surgery.  Ditto today. And now the gauze has come out, and hole&#8217;s closed up, and it looks sorta almost normal. But I&#8217;m supposed to actually see the specialist tomorrow to make sure. But I&#8217;m feeling pretty good, and I have some new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if they&#8230;? (The Gas Effect.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hand is better. I&#8217;m not The Craw any more. (I hope the vintage Get Smart reference doesn&#8217;t date me too much.) It&#8217;s not all the way better, I still don&#8217;t have use of my most important finger for bicycling in traffic, and I still can&#8217;t actually pick up much of anything with it, but I can sort of type again. Thursday, the Doc in the Box guy pulled an inch-long palm frond spike out of the back of my hand. It went in from (my) palm side. On Sunday. Now I have to go back every day for him to root around in the hole he dug, cleaning it up. Anyway, I think I have enough feeling back that I can tell you about this one. We finished Charlotte, and we&#8217;re on to my second favorite (obviously this blog&#8217;s namesake is #1) part of the year, the Ray Bradbury section. I love blowing their minds. I always start with the classic, &#8220;A Sound of Thunder.&#8221; As I  tell the kids, this is probably the most ripped-off time travel story of all time. You know, that&#8217;s where that silly movie, The Butterfly Effect,  got its name? They made a straight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m lagging. Even though I am an old-school hunt-and-peck typist, I can get moving pretty quickly when I &#8216;m rolling along, and I usually use at least 6 or 7 fingers, if not all. However&#8230; A few days ago I was pulling down old fronds from the giant palm tree (20-30 feet high) in my back yard. It had been dumping big fronds in piles, and it almost buried my bike one day last week. So, I was getting the remnants when one big frond let loose and fell toward me from 20 feet up. I deflected it with my left hand, and it left a couple of spikes in my palm (haha &#8211; get it?) which I pulled out. (One was over an inch long!) Every time I get poked, even a little, by one of those things, there is always some annoying swelling. Well this time, the impact and the depth must have done something different. My left hand is about twice its normal size. Typing, skating (I can&#8217;t even fit the hand into my wrist guard), and worst of all, drumming and guitar playing, are all pretty much out for a few days. I&#8217;m typing [...]]]></description>
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