Radio silence
Probably quiet today because I hurt my right arm and can’t type. Multitudes rejoice.
LATER: Cancel the flowers. Thanks for the nice words but this is no big deal. I’m just a klutz and a wuss.
Somehow, I got a rotator cuff problem. That’s pretty funny (well, for you but not for me until the drugs kick in) because that is an injury for jocks and real men. The most strenuous thing I do is blog about Dell. So now I’ll take steroids — there goes that Tour de France entry — and walk around with a sling. I think I’ll make up a reason. “Well, at least it was a birdie.” Or: “One homerun too many, I suppose.” Or: “I really should take a break from the hockey in the summer, don’t you think?”
What’s even wussier is that I got all clammy mangling my posture for the x-rays. I’ve never passed out but I was looking fairly ghostly, apparently, for the doctor ordered me to lie down and he held my feet up in the air to get blood flowing back to my oxygen-starved, chickenshit brain as he explained rotator cuffs. He decided I wasn’t manly enough to take the shot to the shoulder. So I got pills.
He asked what I did for a living. I said I’m to be a journalism professor. He said he thought I was an academic. Read: bookworm wuss.
Don’t worry, you won’t get a blow-by-blow of this the way you have with my heart follies. But just because it hurts to type….
July 26th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Like Having a Secretary in Your PC:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/technology/20pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
July 26th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Golf injury? Or fall off your skateboard?
July 26th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Get well, Jeff.
July 26th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Heal up quick, Jeff. When your arm gets better be sure to tell us what happened! For now I have the image of Jeff Jarvis on a skateboard in my head…
July 26th, 2006 at 10:56 am
I hope you feel better soon.
If you want to keep up your high recent frequency of posts in an easy way while your arm heals, this might be worth trying: http://audioblogger.com/
July 26th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Speedy recovery, Jeff!
July 26th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Jeff,
This is to wish you a speedy recovery. I hope we won’t have too many days without musings from you. And like Amanda, I want to know what happened.
July 26th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Sorry to hear that and wishing you a speedy recovery Jeff. Your posts will be dearly missed. You’ll have to post and tell everyone what happened when your arm is healed.
July 26th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Dude, you are like SO fair and balanced. You can be pretty cutting about, say, Dell, and then when you’re down, you turn the tide on yourself. None of this “Can dish it out but can’t take it” kinda stuff from you, no way! I admire that.
If self-deprecation is a treatment protocol for injury, you’ll be feeling better in no time!
July 26th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Ok, I cancelled the flowers but I will give you my heartfelt sympathies. I too have a rotator cuff problem. Every time I shift gears my shoulder goes pop and I go “OUCH”.
It’s an age thing. There, do you feel better now? Heal quickly Jeff. It ain’t the same without you.
July 26th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Jeff:
How many times have I’ve seen you whizzing around Manhattan at high speed? Slow down, heal yourself, write your book, catch up on your Tivo stash….
The person who recommended the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 speech recognition software is giving you a good lead. I’m waiting to get my copy.
I’m researching what laptop would work well with this software (maybe even a Dell now that you’ve given them holy hell) on my blog: http://billkosloskymd.typepad.com/wirelessdoc/2006/07/dragon_naturall.html
Why not do some podcasts? Get together with Amanda and do a BuzzBoom vblog?
July 27th, 2006 at 2:02 am
Jeff,
Please remember that you are tapping keys on a keyboard, not pounding keys on a piano. Windmilling your arm like Pete Townsend isn’t a good idea either.
Your arm will thank you, and you’ll save money on new keyboards.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:59 am
I promise the pain will go away. I had the same problem and even had therapy, but I was told it probably would have gone away on its own. Don’t feel so wussy; when you hurt, you hurt. If you get too bored, grab a good book and hold it with the other arm.