@matigo Massage in the correct area is usually effective as the pain felt is reflected pain. There's a spot at the front of the shoulder midway inline from the collarbone to the armpit where there's a cluster of tendons just below the skin. My shower-head has a massage setting, I've just used that to massage the tendon area, seems to have helped a bit.
I'm about to tackle that massage job, using some diclofenac NSAID gel.
Well, this is right inconvenient. In 1989 and later in similar circumstances in 1996, I injured then re-injured my left shoulder in a couple of vehicle rollovers. Every so often it comes back to haunt me, as it has for the last few days. There’s a pinched nerve involved & it’s limiting strength & movement of the joint.
Faced with what I considered to be an excessively high cost for comprehensive car insurance this year (around $110 more than for the previous year without any more claims to justify the extra cost) I hunted for cheaper options. I went back to the one associated with the Automobile Club which I've been a member of since 1997. That length of membership qualified me for a discount of $57 & because I also have had home contents insurance with them since 1999, I also get another discount of $64 off the car insurance quote. It's due to take effect today (it's 20 minutes into the day right now) and they've allowed 21 days to pay. I paid yesterday in any case. So this year my car insurance is $10 more than for the previous year.
Which reminds me of the title of one of the old classic BBC radio programs of the 1950s & 60s, The Goon Show. One particular episode was "Insurance: The White Man's Burden."
I've just been comparing the iPad Air 3 with the iPad Mini 5th gen (1st & 2nd prizes in the just run AUSOM annual raffle) and the differences are minimal, restricted to physical size & the Air having a Smart connector for attaching a keyboard.
As for screen resolution, the Mini's effective resolution (due to a smaller screen) is 326 ppi vs the Air at 264 ppi. Internally, other than a larger battery (both offer the same battery life in theory) they are identical in specification.
Both are available in 64 GB & 256 GB configurations. Both have the A12 Bionic processor and M12 co-processor with 3 GB of RAM & 6-core processors.
So thie iPad Mini I won a few days ago in a raffle is a shrunken version of the iPad Air 3.
@streakmachine It is, rather. A bonus is an office/technology supply store had a suitable case/cover for only $10. Add that to the $20 cost of the tickets, it’s a small investment.
Each year I sell around 50 tickets of an allocation of 100, this year because of illness/limited opportunity I decided to buy four myself to even up the numbers.
I won 2nd prize in the Apple User Group’s annual fundraiser raffle. It’s a 64 GB WiFi-only iPad Mini, gold in colour.
@variablepulserate I find the tea in most McDonalds stores to be acceptable, provided you can fine one where the servers don't put the milk in while the teabag is still steeping. They use a very popular brand of Sri Lankan-sourced tea which I often buy myself. Unfortunately it's a lot easier to find places that fuck up a cup of tea than to find ones that make a good 'un.
// @jws
@variablepulserate No, I just don't have the energy at present, since my last bout of hospitalisation I've been finding it hard to sleep.
// @matigo @jws
The Men's Shed . group had its Xmas party yesterday, we rent premises at a retirement village, so we booked a section of the dining lounge for the show. We approached the villages kitchen staff to cater for the event & accepted their quite cheap offer.
The head chef, Cassie, is an amazing person, used to be a nurse but decided on a career change and applied for the vacant position after the previous chef retired. Cassie will be 23 in a few months, she's very talented in that kitchen. We had hot chicken pieces with chips (aka fries) & gravy plus three great salads (I kept going back for more of the potato &n egg one).
In addition there was the most spectacular fruit salad I've ever seen, and it was made without pineapple, which pleased me no end. This is because my tongue gets ulcers instantly upon exposure to that fruit.
She also supplied four cherry cheesecakes which the group of 34 folk quickly demolished. Cherries are in season at present & these were sweet & juicy, most impressive. We had a great time, although the Secretary & his wife were called away earlier to attend to their son who'd been seriously injured in a traffic accident earlier in the day.
@variablepulserate Mattresses on the floor are completely useless for people like me who have mobility issues: once down it's extremely difficult to get up to a decent working height. I have extreme osteoarthritis in one knee and a degenerative lower back condition. I'm never totally without lower back pain.
// @matigo @jws