Just a short post today. I’ve been having problems with the tendonitis in my wrist of late. It was getting better and then I slept on my hand over the weekend and now–ow! Back to sleeping with a brace on my wrist. Sigh.
Anyway, compliments of my sister, scholars think they have figured out when The Odyssey took place. Apparently April 16, 1178 BC was the date Odysseus killed all the mooching suitors. The date was determined from references Homer makes in the poem about star positions and an eclipse (I don’t remember an eclipse).
An interesting factoid, but I am not sure that it makes a difference to our reading of Homer.
And now, a fun little video link for those of you who have ever owned a cat
Stefanie:
That video link is just the thing!
Verisimilitude!
Jack wakes me up EVERY morning with INCESSANT meowing, and be damned if I do not FEEL as though I have just been walloped over the head with a baseball bat!
Seriously…. he meows meows meows…. and I wake up and say, “WHAT? What could POSSIBLY be wrong with your life right now?”
That cat video is hysterical!
Ouch! I’ve done something similar to my wrist. I don’t have tendonitis but my wrists cannot withstand a lot of weight being put on them - something that I have to watch when I actually do yoga (lots of downward dog = ouch in a whole new way…). When I was on vacation this past winter I went to bed fine and woke up with serious wrist pain. So not what one wants when one is in Rome. I have no idea what I did to my wrist in my sleep that night but I hope I never do it again!
Oh my goodness, I love that video. My huge fluffy cat Cleo has this routine where she literally climbs the walls outside the bedroom, yowling horribly, then gallumping through the house yowling like she’s dying, then comes gallumping back to the door where she falls down and claws the underside of the door. It’s restful.
That video was funny — I’ve never owned a cat and now I know what I’d be in for if I did! I hope your wrist feels better very soon!
This video is a classic. There is another one which deals with the in or out problem around doors. Fritz and Fred would occasionally awaken me with loud noises around 4 or 5am. At first I would launch them off the comforter until I learned the early morning wake up calls were feedings. They would bring me live birds or other critters, so they could teach me to kill my food. When I ignored them, the bird would awaken, forcing the boys to scatter feathers about my room as they finished the job. After that I would pop out of bed when I was batted at to see if someone needed rescuing.
Sorry about your wrist… maybe you can write blog posts which only require your good hand. Granted it will take some creativity.
I’ve learned my lesson the hard way–don’t feed a cat first thing in the morning. They expect breakfast at 6:00 (or earlier) even on weekends when you want to sleep in!! One of my cats is terrible–if I had a baseball bat handy she probably would smack me with it. Instead she walks over me and around my pillow until I get up. The video was too funny!
This is why I put the cat outside when I go to bed!
I’m sorry to hear about your wrist. Have you ever had your workstation set up by an ergonomist? My employer hired one to give a workshop to our whole group and we all got all sorts of gizmos and furniture to keep us aligned properly. I think that saved my wrists because I am very prone to tendinitis but have never gotten it in my wrists (touch wood) despite hours on the computer every day.
That video is hilarious - just so like our cat, who walks all over me most mornings and miaows in my face. But it’s better than being woken up whilst she chases a mouse round the bedroom - which she sometimes does as well. It’s no good trying to keep her out of the bedroom as she just scratches at the door.
I have horrible tendonitis, and I have to sleep with those splint things, too! I have it in both wrists, so it looks pretty funny. Woe to all of us for having to type all the time. I think we should just quit work and read all day. That way we could blog without pain and do what we want!
MY kitties don’t act that way. They congregate top of the stairs after I’m up, though, where they can keep an eye on me in the study and sometimes Claudius walks in front of the computer monitor (I go online before I go downstairs) until I relent and go down to feed them all. They operate under the assumption that Larry, who goes downstairs first, doesn’t know how to open cans.
Hope your wrist gets better.
Thanks for the good wrist wishes everyone!
Cip, Jack seems the kind of cat who would have a baseball bat hiding somewhere
Cam, the video is funny but when my cat wakes me up at 5 am, it ceases to be funny
Sassymonkey, be careful and take good care of your wrists! You don’t want to develop issues especially when traveling places like Rome!
Daphne, LOL, sounds like a very restful routine
Dorothy, yes, it is always good to know what you are getting yourself into if you ever decide to have a cat. I’ll bet thought that Muttboy has some entertaining I want attention routines.
Bikkuri, what a disappointment you must have been to your cats. We’ll never teach this guy to hunt properly! But they kept trying anyway. They didn’t want you to starve
Danielle, you are far smarter than I. All my pets expect to get fed first thing in the morning, even on weekends. Good thing cats don’t have thumbs or the might figure out a way to hold your stitching needles to give you a little poke since they dn’t have a bat.
Sylvia, I did have an ergonomist come by my workstation at a former job. I paid attention and my current desk is set up properly. But since my job consists mainly of IT I am on my computer almost all day and the human body is not meant for it. I have also found my tendonitis is aggravated by stress and work has been stressful of late. I hope you manage to avoid getting it in your wrists.
BooksPlease, I’d much rather be woken up my meowing than my cats chasing a mouse round the bedroom too!
Sarah, I would love to sit and read all day. Very low stress on the wrists! it must stink to have tendonitis in both wrists. Take care of yourself!
Susan, you are a lucky woman. How do you keep your cats from waking you up? That’s funny that they think Larry can’t open cans.