Minor observation

It always surprises me how noticable it is when pain goes away, even if you haven't been completely aware of it before taking the painkillers. There's an odd feeling of relief as that dull ache goes away that suddenly makes you aware that part of your attention was on the pain for several hours.

I'm having an achey day today. My hip is hurting, but then so are both knees and the other hip as well as my back and legs. For some unknown reason I didn't sleep well last night and I think that's why I'm feeling a little crappy today. Sitting through some terminally dull meetings this morning probably hasn't helped :-)

( Boring hip-related news )

That sickly, stomach dropping feeling...

It tends to happen when you realise that you've booked time off for a convention that you're really looking forward to and then realise that you forgot to put a training course in your work diary. OK, so I booked the convention tickets before the training session appeared, but I only booked the time off work last week and I failed to notice that my course(6th February) coincides with the day after the con (running 3rd to 5th February). I always book the day after a con off so that I don't have to make the trip home on the Sunday night after a weekend with very little sleep and then get up early on the Monday morning for work.

And this training centre is the 44 miles in either direction from home training centre. I can either leave the con early on the Sunday to stand some hope of getting to the course on the Monday or I can get up stupidly early on the Monday, check out at around 7am (or possibly before - it's actually further for me to drive from the con than it would be from home) and attempt to get to the training session on time.

Dilemmas.

Or I can talk to my manager to find out whether it's too late to postpone the course until the next time they run it. Not sure that the manager will go for that one. Particularly as it's my own damn fault for not putting the two events together in my head.