back.

Was on vacation last week in San Francisco, which was pretty awesome. A really fun city with a lot to see and do. Good to catch up with a few people, and also good to play tourist and go do touristy things (like visiting Alcatraz). Highlight of the trip by far though, was seeing Nine Inch Nails live at Oakland colliseum.

The low point of it all, was I seemed to somehow do myself an injury. When I arrived, I was aching a lot, but I put it down to just the usual cramped airplane flight, and then walked around SF, a lot. Including (not one my brighter moments) up some pretty harsh hills.
By the time Saturday came around, I couldn't stand up for too long without back/leg ache. Then I flew home yesterday in complete agony. The over the counter painkillers I got did pretty much nothing. By the time I got back to Boston, I was hobbling along with all my luggage at some ridiculously slow pace.

I hardly slept last night due to the discomfort. First thing this morning, I went to the ER to get checked out. Got poked and prodded a lot, and the best they could come up with was "probably a trapped sciatic nerve". So they loaded me up with percocet,valium and ibuprofen and sent me home. I took some, and headed back on the T. About halfway into my journey, I think they kicked in, because I spaced out, and completely missed my stop. They make me feel kind of drunk.
Got off, and had some lunch, and resumed my trip home.

So, great start to my first day back at work. I'm ridiculously backlogged from email right now, so will spend most of this week catching up, and taking it easy in the hope that I'm over this injury before the weekend when I'm due to fly to Portland,OR for kernel summit/plumbers.

[apologies if any of the above sounds somewhat more incoherent than usual, seriously, these drugs are making my brain do funny things]

Syndicated 2008-09-08 18:20:12 from Dave Jones recollection of stuff that happened.