Wanderlost: Still Recuperating

Drawn in 100% Sharpie!

I’ve been doing exercises, as sent to me by the kindly and thoughtful

arcana_j

, but I overdid it the other day, incurring the throbbing soreness up my whole arm. So more rest.

Also, like

quirkybird

, I succumbed to inexplicable fatigue this weekend. I was okay on Saturday – entertaining Owen with dinosaurs, pancakes and ice cream – but Sunday I just wanted to stay in bed all day. I got the evening after Jenn came home from work. I would have let her rest after her crazy long week of moving to a new oncology facility, yet she insisted I do it based on her quick read of my visible symptoms: “You look like shit, go to bed.”

I feel better now. The wrist and thumb have these pin-prickly sensations. I’m resting the hand as much as possible. I have to masturbate with my feet.

Visual!

In Contempt: And Still Resting

A new cartoon will appear next week Tuesday. Honest. The hand and arm no longer tingle, feel numb nor sore. Monday’s Wanderlost (aka Sheldon) will likely appear in B&W.

And now: McCain. I don’t feel the salient issue of the NY Times piece is his alleged affair with telecomm lobbyist Vicki Iseman. For one thing, I don’t think it coheres with McCain’s persona – i.e., it doesn’t “sound” or “feel” right. For another, it seems pretty sexist to assume that an attractive young blond woman has only ONE purpose for meeting with the Senator behind closed doors. After all, isn’t bribery sufficient enough to lock the door?

No, I’d say the problem is the less sensationalist, yet more important appearance of a conflict of interest. The Washington Post summarizes the problem nicely:

In the years that McCain chaired the commerce committee, Iseman lobbied for Lowell W. “Bud” Paxson, the head of what used to be Paxson Communications, now Ion Media Networks, and was involved in a successful lobbying campaign to persuade McCain and other members of Congress to send letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Paxson.In late 1999, McCain wrote two letters to the FCC urging a vote on the sale to Paxson of a Pittsburgh television station. The sale had been highly contentious in Pittsburgh and involved a multipronged lobbying effort among the parties to the deal.

At the time he sent the first letter, McCain had flown on Paxson’s corporate jet four times to appear at campaign events and had received $20,000 in campaign donations from Paxson and its law firm. The second letter came on Dec. 10, a day after the company’s jet ferried him to a Florida fundraiser that was held aboard a yacht in West Palm Beach.

In Contempt: Still Resting

Thanks to Lisa R. Jonte for sending me the CTS exercises. They have already begun to help. I am giving my hand another day’s rest, so no toon today. But I plan to have a cartoon on Thursday.

Meanwhile, what is not to like about this headline from Science Daily?
Giant Frog Jumps Continents, May Have Eaten Baby Dinosaurs

Or this illustration of “Beelzebufo or ‘the frog from Hell’”:

Wanderlost: No Piggy Today

Don’t worry, this took two minutes with a Sharpie. Otherwise I am typing left-handed, scanning, all the rest of it. The right hand is laying back on a beach in the Mediterranean, sipping a tall, cool drink and thinking about snorkling topless. (That’s right, my hand has boobs.)

Repetitive Stress Injury

Damn, damn, damn this getting old bullshit.

My right arm and hand are numb. I can still use them, but I need to rest them. Jenn recommends 24 hour rest and regular use of ibuprofen to reduce swelling. If things don’t improve by Monday, I’ll go see the doc. Groan.

At my work computer I am typing and mousing with my left hand. This significantly slows me down.

So once again, no little piggy on Monday. I may do a quick sketch of Sheldon with a throbbing right arm, just to have something there.