Josh Saddler

It's been quite the commit-fest for me this past week -- in part because I've been housebound. See, a week or so ago I noticed that I was limping slightly at work, I had some painful twinges in my right knee and hip/lower back. I shrugged it off; I didn't remember doing anything to myself, so why worry? But a couple days later I couldn't even move. Felt like a hundred electrified icepicks were stabbing their way out from the inside; my whole leg and back were in terrible pain. Couldn't walk, couldn't move, just breathing hurt. Just being vertical is a b*tch; gravity pulls on the leg something fierce.

So I made use of my new county-provided medical insurance and went in for an examination: turns out I have sciatic nerve damage. How on earth does an otherwise normal person in his mid-twenties get that, I wonder? I work at a library; it's not like there's anything really strenuous to do. Anyway, the doc said it'd take probably six weeks to heal. In the mean time, I have some strong painkillers/anti-inflammatory drugs, along with a bedtime muscle relaxant (Flexeril), which I've taken before -- and yes, it still makes me floaty and spacey every time I take it, even just as a half-dose.

I feel really terrible about missing work, especially since I've only been there since July. Even with the doctor's note and the county medical leave-yadda-yadda, I'm still the newest guy there, and I don't want to lose my job!

At least today is the last day of the enforced leave, so I'll see what it's like walking around constantly in a day or so. The painkillers help, though they're bad for my stomach -- they're partially what landed me in the ER a year ago.

All this to say that I've been doing a whole lotta editing on the docs. Got a lot more conditionals into the handbooks, so now you won't see as many instructions for arches that aren't your own. Also removed all XMMS references from the docs per Flameeyes's request. No, no flaming, we can't have XMMS in our docs if it's not in our tree. I'm a big XMMS fan, and I wanted it to stay too, but I understand why it left. Farewell!

(Side rant: the only issue I have with Audacious is that its file picker is absolute piss; you can't even select multiple files to add at the same time; you have to do it one by one.)

So while I'm not quite to tsunam's level of commits, I'm pleased with the complicated commits I've been making so far. I have dreams of reaching the 1000 mark, but it's tricky with documentation, since you can spend a week writing or rewriting a complete doc, putting in a phenominal amount of changes, word count, guideXML, and so on, but it only shows up as 1 or 2 commits. Oh well. Quality over quantity, right? That's where my focus should be.

So despite the chance to take the weight off my injury(ies) and do some work for Gentoo, I'm itching to get back to my job. There's only so much break I can take.