Last day of "sick" leave.

I'm using my last day of PTO to do clean-uppy things like run MacJanitor on my laptop. It's an iBook G4, and while it's a hardy little soldier, lately it's been having to think awfully hard before executing simple commands. So, I took myself on a wander through Apple's support site and boned up on how to optimize RAM and maintain OS X. Ooooooh, scintillating. Now I understand that my computer hasn't been able to run maintenance scripts (daily, weekly, or monthly) the entire time I've had it, since the scripts are written to run between 3 and 5 a.m. -- if the computer is on and not asleep. My computer has never been on and not asleep at 3 a.m.. MacJanitor allows me to click a button and run those scripts whenever I feel like it. There are daily, weekly, and monthly functions. I clicked the "Perform All Functions" button and then hobbled to the kitchen to clean up dishes. It took several minutes to run all the scripts. Now I'm hoping this little soldier will march a lot faster. We shall see.

Tomorrow I step into my new role, supervising four people whose job title I used to share, and two project managers. It's going to be a tough first week. Speaking of first weeks, I'm mighty pleased with our new president's first-week activities. He's had an easier time of it on foreign policy changes, but what I'm really looking forward to is seeing how his big stimulus bill makes it through Congress. My friends say they're worried. I'm not. I figure our leader is shrewd enough to have realized well ahead of time that his plan wouldn't make it through the gantlet unscathed. He's playing chess with Congress and it's the strategy as well as the outcome that I am keen to see.

On the surgery-recovery front: I found this morning that I am able to put a tad more weight on my right foot. We'll see how this works out later on the pain front. I have several exercise sessions to run through before this day is done. I'm hoping that as days pass I'll need less pain medication because it's kind of a hassle to get a refill on this stuff. Not only that, but I don't want to develop a dependency on it in order to sleep. I just got my insomnia issue under control a few before the surgery. But as of last night, the foot was waking me up with shooting, stabbing pains up the leg every 4.5 hours. Only thing to do is keep moving forward and see how things go.