In which the number of my usable digits is temporarily decreased to eight

The good news: My knee appears to have mostly healed, only getting light twinges now and then.

The bad news: I tripped on something in my home study area while trying to access a bookcase, twisting around and falling back-first into a (different) bookcase, partially tearing down a shelf. A plastic file organiser broke my fall, and my fall also broke the file organiser into some inconveniently pointy shards. I’ve earned a few long gashes in my lower back; thankfully nothing serious, although the stinging isn’t a cup of tea.

More annoyingly I seem to have injured something in my middle finger of my left hand. While it initially didn’t seem to be anything serious, after trying to fill in a form the pain confirms there’s something wrong there. I’ve put a splint on and tethered it to the fourth finger to keep it stable while it heals up.

Since I’m a lefty, this means I’m fairly limited in what I can do right now. I can still type at a moderate speed (I’m good at adapting my typing strategies to injuries), but I can’t write or draw at all. As a consequence I won’t be practicing Illustrator or the artsy side of Flash for a while; while I can still move nodes around with the mouse it isn’t really the same without being able to use the tablet. Instead I’ll look into beginner ActionScript instead.

Hopefully ActionScript project doesn’t involve quite so many capital A’s and S’s as the name suggests. Hitting shift with my right hand isn’t what I’m used to.