I’ve had a painful left shoulder for a few months now. Mainly painful during certain movements. Possibly a basketball injury or a gym injury.

Had a chat to one of my bosses about it and we thought that I should have an MRI scan of the shoulder.

I was hoping that it wouldn’t be a tear in one of the ‘rotator cuff’ tendons; if it was, then surgery may be required.

Had the MRI on Monday – didn’t realize that it took half an hour! Lay in a narrow tunnel which became very loud – sounded like machine guns! I thought I was back in ‘Nam! Had headphones on playing soft music – couldn’t hear it. In the end I closed my eyes and fell asleep!

Got the result today which shows tendonitis (inflammation of the tendon) which is treated just with some rest and possibly an injection. I won’t need an operation, thank goodness!

Anh is EVERYWHERE!

Also, a menu item which will leave you satisfied in more ways than one:

For lack of anything else to post about, I’ve stolen some of Zara’s photos from one of her recent jobs which she co-directed.

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Boys and girls,

I’m back this Saturday afternoon as it’s a long weekend here in Adelaide (Labour Day!).

Show of hands – who’s up for dinner Saturday night?

We’ve adopted a casual Friday policy at work in line with the Borg’s policies, but it’s not even proper casual – it’s business casual, no jeans. What the heck is “business” casual anyway? You’re still doing business, but you can be slightly relaaaxed?

Anyway, I came in “proper casual” because I’m helping to do some moving of a whole stack of older computers and archive files today so I took it as a chance to ride my new bike to work. Yay for the wind! The BOM reports a northerly sort of wind this morning but I swear when I got out onto Johnston Street it was blowing straight back at me. So much for riding at a “tootling” pace so that I wouldn’t break a sweat. Once I got to the top of Swanston Street outside Melbourne Uni, it was downhill the rest of the way. According to bikely.com, it’s nearly spot on 8km including 30m of climbing up Johnston Street. Door to door it took nearly 30 minutes.

Brilliant way to wake up, riding the pushie into a headwind.

Speaking of cycling, I have to go collect my PPATBIADGSFTSF rider kit.