Coffee is out

Tuesday night I was up late. Wednesday morning I paid for it, and I was pretty tired driving to work. I had a coffee right away - and promptly paid for that. I was shaking a lot, and it was difficult to type. I was getting a lot of double hits on I and O.

Thursday, I had outplacement training. Just standing talking with people, if my right hand was free it would be shaking. I'd have to rest my hand on a chair or put my hand in my pocket to get it to be still.

The Next Phase of my Career

I received notice today. I am fortunate to have the boss I do; he fought for me to get 3 months notice and he gave me the freedom to search for a job opportunity outside and inside my current employer.

The automotive industry has been unstable for the last few years, and I've managed to dodge this bullet for a long time. Now with the whole economy transitioning, more bullets are flying and it became difficult to justify maintaining resources that don't have a clear impact on improving the bottom line.

I'm going to use this forum to collect everything I've been reading for the past few months on job seeking, personal branding, social networking, etc.

(found this post in my drafts - finally publishing)

Saving Passwords

I've always been against saving passwords, even using my own computer.

Tonight, I changed my mind. Typing passwords has become too much of a bother, as I'm making lots of typos.

Judi and I tried to get some video of my hand shaking while I'm eating, but the shutter speed on the digital camera seems to be too slow to capture it properly. We'll have to try again with better lighting.

Typing

Typing can be a bother, depending on how high I'm lifting my hands. I never can tell how much my hand is going to shake.

Yesterday I started typing and my hand shook very noticeably and I had to pull my arm away from the keyboard. There was no warning, and I pulled my hand back to my lap to get it to settle down.

Right now, it's hardly shaking at all. It's unpredictable.

I'm finding at work that it helps me to put a squeeze ball in my hand if I'm just clicking and not typing.

Shivering

This morning at work I was standing talking with someone and my arm started shaking so much it was like I was shivering in the cold. It's the first time that happened without any assignable cause.

I'm finding that if I'm cold, my right arm will shiver much more and much sooner than my left arm. If I'm exerting myself, it's the same sort of thing, but today was the first time my arm shook like that with no apparent cause.

New sensation

Had a "new sensation" last night.

Anyway, the sensation was actually a feeling of my arm being "normal". I could actually feel something like the waking up after your arm has been asleep (without the pins and needles feeling). Still today, my arm has that warm kind of feeling - even though the shaking is not gone.

Waking Up

I just recently noticed that I'm shaking (arm and leg) some mornings even right away when I get up.