Logan Buesching

A few months ago during a charity dodgeball event I ended up tearing my meniscus.  At the time, I didn’t know what happened – I went to the ER and the ER doc gave me some crutches and let me go on my merry way.  Fast forward a couple of months later and the knee still hurt, so I went and saw Dr. Cannon, an orthopedic in the Seattle area.

Dr. Cannon and I decided to get an MRI, and after looking at the MRI, he had determined that I tore my meniscus, and I needed surgery.

Surgery

I had the surgery done at the PolyClinic, and it was very straightforward.  Everyone there was extremely pleasant and great to work with.  Every employee there was helpful.  When I awoke, I was informed that they were not able to repair the meniscus, and they had to take out quite a large chunk (2/3rd’s).  After the surgery, I was pretty able to walk around that same day, although I did use a crutch to help keep weight off of it.  Even today, two days after the surgery, the knee is a little stiff, but overall it doesn’t hurt to walk around on it.  I’m supposed to keep bandages on the leg until tomorrow, maybe I’ll have some good pictures of it then.

Follow Up

I have a follow up appointment on Wednesday, so we’ll see what the Doc has to say.  Hopefully it will all be good news, and I can do snowboarding this year!

Quite a bit has changed in the 10 months since I’ve updated my blog.  I thought I’d update it with the latest and greatest happenings.

Windows Live Wave 4

Windows Live Wave 4 has been a major release with a lot of effort put in from a lot of teams.  My main feature has been working on the “Startup Experience” (SE).  The SE onboards new and existing users to some of the new features of Wave 4.  Two of the main scenarios are the ability to take a photo, and add a service.

Take a photo

You can take a photo and update your profile.

Add a service

Add MySpace to your profile.

Promotion

During this review period, I was also given a promotion, and a new title – “Software Development Engineer II”.  All of the hard work and dedication over the past year has paid off.  Along with the promotion, it means that bigger and better opportunities are available.  I’m excited for many of the ideas for Wave 5 and look forward to what comes next!

Moving

Recently I moved out of Belltown to Wallingford.  The old apartment was a 2BR, 1BA while the new apartment is 4BR, 3BA (moved in with two others).  So far the new house is very spacious, clean, and our neighbors are fantastic!

Knee Injury

I injured my knee playing dodgeball around May, and just recently found out that I tore my meniscus.  Because of this tear, my doctor recommended I get surgery, which is scheduled for 9/7/10.  I’ll keep the blog updated in how that goes.

I would enjoy writing a long article about how polishing applications is probably what makes the difference between a decent application and a great application, but I just really wanted to blog about this one feature on Google Reader.

Whenever I read XKCD, there is this nasty bug in firefox which cuts off the title. If you read it in Google Reader though, it appears that google reader shows the full title. I’m pretty sure that Google has made a custom title box for this purpose (maybe it’s not a firefox-exclusive bug). Polish like this is something that you normally don’t see in applications, but which just give a much better experience.

Google Reader:

Main Site: