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I set this up for daily life bullshit that I don't want to be clogging up my actual blog.

So a week or two ago I walked 3.5 miles across the city in the snow uphill both ways to CAINE house just so I could participate in Tales of Fridays.  I was fine with the entire hike, but apparently my feet were moving around inside my boots because I ended up with a huge blister on my right foot and a smaller one on my left foot.  These both went away in a couple of days but hurt tremendously.

While I was there the trees we have between our house and our neighbor's house decided that this most recent snowstorm was just too much for them and a few of them fell over.  Three of them were leaning on the house, one fell on the driveway.  One of the ones leaning on the house was right outside my bedroom window.  So I got to sleep underneath a tree for a while until my parents brought in the tree guys to cut them down.  Now it's just excruciatingly bright in my room.  I need some black curtains that will completely cover the windows or something.

The trees didn't have far to fall, so our house isn't really damaged.  They were Leyland Cypress trees, which the tree guy said succumb to snow fairly quickly.  Well, it took about four feet of snow over the period of a month and a half but they did.

My tendonitis has been flaring up like crazy the last few days.  I have it in my right wrist due to not using a mouse properly.  It's not the tendon in the carpal tunnel, so I can't really say "lol carpal tunnel syndrome" but it doesn't change how much it hurts.  I have a wrist brace that I've been wearing, but I don't think it's possible to make a wrist brace that's comfortable and that breathes, so I keep having to take it off.  This tendonitis is the original reason I use a trackball instead of a mouse.  Now I'm hesitant to switch back because I love my trackball.  I've even adapted to playing games with it.  Even first person shooters.  I was horrible at first but once I figured out how I could use it to my advantage everything's been fine.  Now I actually laugh at the mouse users for having to pick up their mouse, move it, and put it back down again to get more space to move it.

The thing that sucks about my trackball is that it's a Kensington, which by itself is awesome, but they've stated that they have no intent whatsoever of updating MouseWorks to work with Windows 7.  Which means when the time comes for me to migrate to Windows 7, I get to find a new trackball.  They claim that Windows 7 allows you to configure it to an extent that they feel comfortable not releasing their software, but I call bullshit.  As far as I know, Windows (regardless of version) won't let you remap the buttons or configure them at all.

I'm aware that Logitech makes trackballs, and they make awesome products, but I don't like any of their trackball layouts.  Either the ball is in a weird position or there's no scroll wheel, or there aren't enough buttons.  I have four, being left, middle, right, and double click.  I want to keep this setup.  FML.