Category: my knee h8s me

• Walking review: Burke Museum

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  Since the knee has been bothering me lately, I’ve been making more of an effort to go for walks.  The University of Washington’s Burke Museum, which focuses on natural history and culture, has a special exhibit on … Coffee.  In Seattle.  Of course.   Cynicism aside, it was an interesting overview of the history of […]

• Thankful Thursday

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  [A little exercise in gratitude and appreciating my body.] Knee is getting better (I was walking without pain for most of  Wednesday!  I took no ibuprofen today!) in part due to … Walking, leg lifts, “chair squats”, and other exercises from physical therapy, and … Stretching, and …  Having a job and life where I […]

• Walking review: Pike Place Market

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  Since the knee has been bothering me lately, I’ve been making more of an effort to go for walks. The physical therapist I worked with during my prior knee episode recommended that I walk on a treadmill* at least part of the time because the uniform speed and surface let me walk at a very […]

• Ash Wednesday

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  Today always reminds me of the friend who gave up Catholicism for Lent one year.  :)  I grew up born-again, in a church that was a megachurch before megachurches were cool, in a small, fairly fundie denomination.  I was so “low church” I didn’t know what “low church” was.  I was baptized Episcopalian at St […]

• Long time no post

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  Work was insane for a couple of weeks.   The anniversary / Valentine’s / President’s Day weekend that we’d planned to spend out of town?  Turned into “Friday the 13th at a local hotel,  then rush home Saturday morning to work.”  The rest of the weekend was spent tied to the computer.   Things did […]

• Day in the Life: Sitting at my desk

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  I wasn’t even sure I’d write a Day in the Life post about work. What would I write? “I sit at my desk. I type, I mouse. Occasionally I go to a meeting.” (Of course there’s more to my work than typing and mousing.  But if you were interested in the process of software development […]

• …and the other reason why I exercise

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  It’s called, “Use it or lose it.” Last fall* I pulled a muscle in my right leg.  Kept up my daily walks, pulled it again – or maybe pulled another muscle.  This aggravated the occasional pain I would have in my right knee, and added some hip and thigh pain too. By November I was […]