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So the new 12-inch PowerBooks finally came in last Wednesday. And although I set up my wife and son’s Mac that night, I didn’t have a chance to do my own until Friday night. Of course, it was going to take some time because I work at the Fruit Company and require large and painful amounts of software installed on my machine. And taking the time for all that was my first mistake.

Falling asleep on the couch is not the best thing you can do for yourself, particularly your spine. And when you slump over asleep wrapped around a PowerBook, bad things can happen to your neck. Which explains the crick in that vital connection when I woke up on Saturday.

But what really did me in was just horsing around with my son outside later that day. Just one of those stupid things that shouldn’t even hurt. We were standing on a curb, trying to push each other off. My son actually got me off balance and I fell, plunging a whole four inches to the ground. It must have been just enough to snap something in my already crooked neck.

Ouch. Big ouch. And that’s why I haven’t posted to my blog in so long.