What are you up to this morning? I'm procrastinating doing any real work before I go to the doctor for the bizarre hand/wrist/whole arm injury that has been bugging me. What is it? Carpal tunnel? Tendinitis? Chronopathiated bifarct? My hope is that it will be something with an antiquated name like lumbago or bursitis, but ten bux says this general practitioner will have no idea what the deal is and will just send me on to a specialist anyway.

In other news, for the first time in years, I set some resolutions for 2010. Only I'm preferring not to think of them as Resolutions but as goals, because as anybody could tell you I have very little resolve. Among the goals is a formal observation of Dry January, which Stan and I are in together and is surprisingly not as hard as it sounds, though the way we eat has changed some without our usual wine accompaniment. Another is to schedule all my annual exams and set appointments to deal with any outstanding health issues (contradiction in terms alert!). So speaking of which- off I go...