Was it lifting the wooden sleepers which were a bit too heavy to
handle alone? Was it bending over an engine bay while removing some
old fuel injector hoses supposed to be replaced last weekend? Was
it bending over a laptop I had out to duplicate my backups when I
was too lazy to grab the stand to bring the screen up to a
comfortable height? Or was it pushing through the initial
discomfort while doing my pre-bed push-ups the night before it got
really bad? Or countless other possibilities? While waiting for my
neck to heal these thoughts to the origins of its agony have been
circling around in my head constantly for the last four days while
I moan around hopelessly, alternating from silence in bed, to the
still-tiring noise of entertainment on TV, to the shrieks of pain
as I thrash around trying to use the kitchen. Just a sore neck,
nothing new, but an extended case, and now the old dilemma of when
to go back to trying to do things.
I've kept up sending out orders, but I was supposed to return to a
project I put on hold to deal with my tax return and applying the
tariff charges to orders from the USA (which has turned out to be
proper pain in the neck all of itself). After this weekend I really
hoped to be back in action, and indeed it seemed the constant pain
was reduced this morning to just constant discomfort. But here in
fact is the test, typing this on my laptop, one-handed with the
other supporting my head, and again the pain is creeping up along
with my 9AM start-work time. Am I being undiciplined? I'm a bit out
of passion for this project - in seeking to make something other
people want to buy these days it's all about working on the
firmware code rather than real electronics designed on paper and
with logic tied together by solder alone. Is it an excuse? No, I
can't stand much more of typing this whinge, so thinking properly
about code would be way out. Away with the laptop for another day,
or at least until I'm due to prepare those orders and shriek my way
into the car to drop them at the post office.
