Well, I gave it a chance. After my first appointment with the chiropractor, my back didn't hurt. After the second (first follow up) appointment, my back didn't hurt. For all of two days. That was five days ago, and now it's been hurting quite badly, worse than it has in quite some time. I think I'll cancel the final appointment for the end of January. No point in wasting any more money on this failed experiment. Time to get me to a real doctor.

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So who wants to get me a 23" Cinema Display?

A thousand paper cranes, that's the killer app.

As many of you know, the upper right region of my back has been hurting me for some time. The earliest I can remember it hurting was junior year of college, making it at least two years. Recently I was convinced to see a chiropractor about it, despite my being convinced that chiropractors aren't real doctors or even remotely useful, so I made an appointment for today. Things started off well, when I was 20 minutes late due to unexpected Christmas traffic. When I finally arrived, I went through an exam reminiscent of scoliosis checks in elementary school. My back was declared to have a very slight curvature, probably caused by the (second) time a Civic thought it would nice to rear end me. A few minutes later he performed an adjustment, which was an incredibly weird sensation. Theoretically, my back should stop hurting, or at least not hurt as much. As of now, it has barely bothered me at all tonight. I have a follow up appointment for this Tuesday, so we'll see what happens between now and then.

For the past week or so, the faucet in Matt's bathroom leaked unless you really pushed on the hot water knob. Earlier this evening, I attempted to turn off the water. I kept pushing on the hot knob, and eventually both the hot and cold knobs, trying to get the water to stop flowing. Then the cold water knob gave up all resistance and went past the stopping point, allowing it to rotate about 220 degrees, instead of 95. Normally that's not so bad, excect now water flows fairly heavily at the former off point. And for some bizarre reason, it's hot water. If you turn the cold knob on and leave the hot knob off, you still get comfortably warm water. Over three hours later, it is still leaking at a fairly high rate and both knobs are almost too hot to touch. Perhaps someone will answer the maintenance line tomorrow morning. Hopefully.