Category: life
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one year of arm stuff – part 2 – for those who want to know how i got here
back in 2016/2017 I noticed some weakness in my right index finger – it wouldn’t extend (straighten) as far as my other fingers. At the time I was about eight years recovered from some serious RSI in both wrists that had affected my range of motion, and I assumed this was the same or similar…
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one year of arm stuff – part 1 – a quick summary for those who aren’t in the know, if you’re interested:
They found an almond-sized growth on my radial nerve above my elbow in my right (dominant) arm, and in october 2023 they removed it and grafted in a sensory nerve they took from my right calf. I have been slowly regrowing my radial nerve since then. The growth has turned out to be a benign…
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one year of arm stuff – table of contents
It’s been a year now since my nerve graft, and I thought I would like to write up some thoughts on recovery so far, but as soon as I started, I pumped out 5000 words, and I realized this would not be a single post by any means. SO I’m writing them as a series,…
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arm updates and a couple paintings
(crossposted from my tumblr) some left-handed gouache studies from the past week, after taking a couple months off thanks to the arm surgery and a deep fear that being bad at it would take all the fun out of it for me. painted on 12×16 paper, so I can get less mad about my wobbly…
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Dragon Naturally Speaking
So I caved and bought Dragon naturally speaking professional 16. It’s the most supported and most recommended dictation software; and it’s been around for decades. So, I naïvely thought that it would be a straightforward and professional experience purchasing installing and setting up the software but no, absolutely not, it’s incredibly infuriating to deal with…
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practicing writing and drawing with my awful terrible no good left hand moodboard
i’m gonna relearn how to enjoy this if it kills me.
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help
Hey cohost I could use some help or some referrals to people who might actually be able to help or even like a really helpful YouTube video So I’m down to one hand for typing and mousing and everything which as you might expect is making me twitchy with frustration, just constant ongoing frustration I’ve…
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some arm news
So, some news: tomorrow I’m having surgery on my right arm – my dominant arm – my drawing arm, my writing arm, my brushing-my-teeth and typing-in-chat and unlocking-my-door arm – and will lose most use of it for years, and an unknown (but hopefully less dire) amount of use of it forever. As you might…
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urban ecosystem metaphors
Recently having read that The Death of the Artist book, wherein a subchapter detailed at length not just the brutal gentrification process that artist presence in a neighbourhood is part of/causes/is a result of, but lays out how, in intentional urban neighbourhood design, the visible presence of artists is considered an amenity for middle class…