After the elliptical I head to an "upper body rotary exerciser" (basically a stationary bicycle for your arms), and then do some stretches, lift weights, and sashay among various Cybex machines. Before heading back to the locker room, I chat briefly with Rick Hearin, Director of the University's Counseling Center to see if he'd like to give a talk at a Gym Fellows luncheon later this month. He agrees so I consult with Lily and we come up with a potential date sometime the last week of January. He'll get back to us.
Back at the office. It's been a busy weekend. Zephyr (an instant messaging service) has been misbehaving; so have the software license servers; and gluesrv3 (one of our main network fileservers) is reporting disk errors. Also, over the weekend, the University transitioned from Oracle Calendar to Exchange, and there is much gnashing of teeth. Fortunately, I am preoccupied, as are Eric and Fran by work on a presentation on special identity management that we are to give at the Mid-Atlantic Regional EDUCAUSE conference in Baltimore on Wednesday. I suggested an outline out of which Eric worked up a skeleton for a PowerPoint presentation which we'll be finessing and otherwise fleshing out over the course of the next two days. Hopefully, there will be no major distractions between now and Wednesday. Of course, bi-annual system patches are also scheduled to be deployed this week, and Solaris 10 systems require more careful coordination of release and reboot than usual.
12:15 - Eric and I have been working on the presentation. I downloaded a PowerPoint template from the EDUCAUSE site which Eric applied to the original OpenOffice-formatted file. I'm adding supplementary material now.
4:30 - I'm at home. I left work early to go back to Associates in Cardiology where I had a stress test conducted last Thursday morning. I noticed a slight discoloration over the weekend at the spot where I was injected with radioactive dye and it has gotten progressively larger and darker since then (see image below). So I made yet another appointment and headed back to the Physician's building adjacent to Holy Cross Hospital where a nurse diagnosed the discoloration as phlebitis. The moment I got home, I started searching the Internet for further information, which led to collapsed veins and blood clots and other even worse-case scenarios. I'm typing this with one hand. The other is wrapped in a moist heating pad, which I bought more than twenty years ago to help alleviate neck pain resulting from a motorcycle accident. Per some of the stuff I've read, I think I'll also take a Motrin and walk around the block.
9:00 - The walk didn't help. Neither did the moist heat or the Motrin. The inflammation remains. I ate a light dinner (leftover Panang chicken and a slice of naan) and headed upstairs to the bedroom where Evelyn and I watched the 1932 film, "White Zombie," a low budget and extremely poorly acted thriller starring Bela Lugosi (his first of that ilk?). At 65 minutes, it felt very (very) long, but as I think it is the very first zombie movie ever made (not counting "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"), I felt obligated to watch it.
POSTSCRIPT - I had trouble falling and staying asleep due to worrying/fuming over the residual annoyances and discomfort associated with my stay at the hospital.
Monday, January 10, 2011
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