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Not much news from my visit to the fracture clinic today. My left collar bone is healing in miss-union, which is no surprise give then X-Ray from a month ago. This will mean that I’ll have a lumpy-left-shoulder for the rest of my life, but worse things could happen.

I suppose the news is that I can start loosing the sling and can “let my pain be my guide” on that one. I aim to avoid it as much as possible, but just in the last hour without it my muscles have started to remind me that they haven’t seen much action lately.

No X-Rays to share this time because they did everything within the hospitals system, but if you can imagine a one inner-half onto of the out-half situation you’ll get the picture.

It appears Bush forgot to turn a light off in the Oval Office.

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I was prompted to update Firefox the other day and did the restart today — a dozen crashes later my advice is to not update to Firefox 2.0.0.13. It’s worse then Safari when working on a site with a lot of Java Applets. If you already have downloaded Firefox 2.0.0.13 my advice is to jump to Firefox 3 or switch to Firefox Campus Edition.

I’ve been using Firefox 3 beta 4 (and three) on my laptop for a while with great success: www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

I’m impressed!

We’ve got our photos back from the photographer. You can browse some of them on my Flickr account. You’re welcome to download any images you’d like and even get them printed, you can even order prints directly from Flickr.

Amy images you’d like removed or added please just let us know.

For the culturally unaware, it’s an adapted Gandhi quote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi.

Tonight at the fracture clinic the doctor told me I have two options:

• PLAN A: We allow the break to heal on its own as it is and fuse into something like a hockey puck sized lump (if it does).
• PLAN B: We opt for an operation involving a general anaesthetic, bolts, and risks of what will get cut on the way in, plus all possible the surgery complications.

We kinda’ invented plan C, for now.

I said that I’m open to surgery, but given that it’s not without it’s own risks I don’t want to rush into it so long as we still have options. We’ve ratcheted-up my clavicle splint considerably from what St. Catharines General’s emergency room physician had it at in the hopes that it will help pull those two majour parts (below) closer together. The best case is my collar bone fuses into a golf-ball sized lump and a don’t need surgery, or less invasive surgery.

We’ll know in a month. ‘Till then I stay splinted up tighter than before.

My clavicle looks pretty bad. I have an appointment at the fracture clinic in Burlington tonight, I have a feeling their advice won’t be “walk it off”.

The PCs announced this eco-friendly rebate program two years ago but failed to do their homework and included the Toyota Yaris and not the segment rival the Honda Fit.

For want of a tenth of a liter they cut out the Honda Fit, a very eco-friendly car. Apparently they’ve given-up and instead pledged research money ( www.autoblog.com ) I like to encourage eco-friendly cars, but as I pointed out in my blog posting when it came out (Conservative auto rebate plan affront to nature and market), I don’t think the PC’s want to be known for distorting the make.

Here’s hopping the re-purposed $250 million pledged to the auto industry for the development and research of environmentally-friendly technologies will be more effective.