Tuesday, 2/8

Oh, look—I've injured myself again.

Don't worry; it's nothing serious. But you know how, during winter, your skin can get really, really dry, sometimes to the point of cracking open? Yeah, that's how I injured myself. Lucky me.

8-)

Last night I cracked open the tip of my right index finger while trying to open a can of beans...proving, apparently, that fiber isn't quite as good for you as they say. And that you probably shouldn't use a dull, manual can opener when opening the beans. It's a small crack on a very dry finger, so it doesn't seem to hurt at all. But because of where it's placed—right on the tip of the finger—it has, ever since, been a pain in my...finger.

For instance, I'm trying to type this using my patented four-finger typing method. Unfortunately, my patented four-finger typing method counts the index finger on my right hand as one of the four fingers, perhaps the most important, in fact, which means that every time I try to use said finger I have to use the side of the finger, lest I further damage said crack. That means I've been hitting a WHOLE lots of computer keys I don't intend to hit.

So if you happen to see words like “stup[of” and “finget” in this blog, just know that it's because I'm only at 75% capability as far as typing goes. Yay!

The other problem I'm having is because I'm weird. Like you, I use a lot of touchscreens, especially at work, and so I'm now having to trigger the touchscreen with my right middle finger instead of my right index finger. Now, while your middle finger DOES have its uses (he says snarkily) I can't quite get into the groove of using it to trigger the next song or the next commercial. It just doesn't seem natural (at least to me) and every so often I find myself hitting something I don't mean to.

Sigh.

I've been putting lotion on the tip of my finger in hopes that the skin softens up and heals. That SHOULD work, unless, of course, I try to open another can of beans with a dull manual can opener. Then all bets are off. But what help more than anything would be for winter to leave soon so we don't have to worry about our skin drying out and cracking our fingers to begin with.

So if I could get any help in that regard, I'd appreciate it.

(jim@wmqt.com)