Thoughts on Baking and Music

I think I started cooking simply because I wanted to eat better when I lived along in the Bay area. It became a surrogate for music, which I stopped playing when severe hand pain made it impossible. Baking became an extension to that, and bread making became the pinnacle of it. The problem with bread making is that it takes a very long time; especially for the nice preferment I like to use.

But I really want to play music. Sometimes when I listen to Radiohead or David Gilmore my heart feels like it's trying to stop. Like a junky who needs a fix, I know that I need to go back. I need music. I pick up my guitar and feel the notes flow through me. A little faded now, but still there.

The cure is an arthrodesis (spelling?). They fuse the first two carpals together. Is the wire they use ferric? If they use ferric wire then can I have an MRI? What sort of functionality do I need to get used to? - this last one is not too difficult since I have my right index and middle finger taped together.

But I think it's a done deal. I'm planning on getting it fixed within the next year.