I slept fairly well last night but woke up tired and didn't go out for a walk.
I went to my 9:50 appointment for ultrasound on my shoulder, and the technician told me that a muscle was torn (in Hebrew, which I understood!). In the evening, I went to an appointment that I had scheduled with our family doctor to get more information. He showed me the report, which indicated that the tear is 15 mm (a little over half an inch). He also told me that it was lateral (across the muscle), which is more serious than longitudinal, and that it would probably require surgery to repair it. He also said that there's a lot of pain after such surgeries. Oy vey! Of course, he referred me to the orthopedist, with whom I have scheduled an appointment on the 30th. So, we'll see what's next, but not very quickly.
After the ultrasound I did the weekly grocery shopping.
We ate lunch at Rachel, each having our favorites there.
In the early afternoon, I went to the pharmacy to get our monthly prescriptions filled.
I spent most of the rest of the day working on my application for module 4 of Algorithmic Thinking, and I've finally gotten it all done. The application actually focused on TWO applications of the pattern matching software we wrote for this unit. The first was to analyze a peculiar gene that is found in slightly different forms in both fruit flies AND humans. We showed VERY conclusively that this could NOT be a result of chance. The second application involved finding suggestions for misspelled words. For this purpose, the programs work but are rather slow. The bonus question was about designing a quicker algorithm for this purpose (which is actually pretty easy).
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