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Several hours ago, I finally managed to catch Perrine while a) she
was asleep, b) she was in easy reach and reasonable light, and c) I
was awake -- I finally managed to trim her claws, a task a few weeks
verdue.
Just now, I spent three hours when I'd expected to be
sleeping, fumbling with tiny -- and slippery -- bits of
plastic from the Mac's keyboard, because the left command/Apple key
had become unreliable and felt really strange to boot. I wound up
having to pry off two more keycaps to check how the parts all lined
up (my first attempt to compare was alas a key with a slightly
differently-shaped hinge) because the otherwise rather helpful PDF
I found about Powerbook keyboards had only so-so photos of the
bit I was struggling with.
Under the hinge, I found ... a tiny fragment of one of Perrine's
claws.
In other keratin-related news, I managed to whack my right
pinky end-on into something this afternoon, and crack the nail
right across the nail bed, from one edge five sixths of the way to
the other, three or four millimeters from the end of the pink.
That was gonna hurt unless I did something about it.
So now I've got an ugly, thick blob of cyanoacrylate[1] and
paper[2] covering that nail in an attempt to stabilize the
broken part until it can grow out past the end of my finger and
no longer be a threat of bleeding and pain.
I figured that as long as I was making a composite nail,
I might as well see whether I could stabilize it so thoroughly
that I could get away with putting a little length back on it
and using it to play guitar. (I had trimmed the nail short
as my first response to seeing the damage, to reduce the lever
arm trying to rip the cracked part off my tender flesh the
next time that hand brushed against anything.) I'll find out
at HCB rehearsal whether I can use that nail, or have to be
very careful of hand position when strumming and do my
rasgueados three-fingered for a couple of weeks. Argh.
Other than those bits, it wasn't a very exciting day:
laid out with headache and backache for most of it; did
manage to deal with trash and litterbox anyhow; finally
saw the painfully slow 'ports' installation of ImageMagick
finish loading onto the Mac and re-learned how to use the
'gravity' operator ... Did not bang on the dreaded fender
that rubs when I steer to the left yet (I'm an anti-NASCAR
driver: I can only turn right[3]), so I'll try to
bend something usefully when I get up again, unless my back
still hurts as much. Could've had a more interesting, more
productive day with decent pain meds, but oh well. Use what
I've got, eh?
Now to try to get to sleep like I'd planned to do a few
hours ago, before I discovered I couldn't easily get the
keycap back on.
[1] Krazy Glue
[2] I wanted fibers perpendicular to the crack,
not just the CA glue, and paper was handy but I don't know
where my silk nail-repair patches are.
[3] I exaggerate for comic effect, though the
noise when I turn left is kinda scary. The car seems to
do better on the Interstates than on surface streets, because
potholes are plentiful here, and they bounce the wheel up
to where it rubs even when I'm going straight ahead. It's
rubbing against plastic, not metal, and doesn't appear to
have damaged the tire yet, but I do want to try to make it
rub much less, if that's within my skills.
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