*vibrates insanely*

I may have had an iced coffee this morning.

I may also have had a frappuccino this afternoon because we happened to be passing a Starbucks at 3:15 and they're doing half-price-frappuccino happy hour from 3-5. (Mocha coconut = awesome)

I may be a wee bit caffeinated.

"a wee bit" may be understating things.

You know. Just possibly.

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I have a (relatively new) bump on my wrist at the base of my thumb. It hurts, and more so if I do anything involving said thumb -- which includes typing (that hand uses a stick because it can't reach the keyboard, but stick manipulation involves fingers and thumb) and mouse use.

Grr.

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I also need to find a new sort of mouse, because my current one (an evoluent vertical mouse) is getting wonky, by which I mean "not always wanting to function as a mouse". (Which is making the thumb problem worse because, much like the tendency to push remote buttons harder when the battery is dying, I tend to grip tighter to try to convince the cursor that it wants to move.)

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm looking for something that doesn't take up a lot of real estate and that also doesn't require a lot of movement (one of the nice things about the evoluent is that when it's behaving, I can get from one side of the monitor to the other with just about an inch or slightly less of movement). Don't care whether it's wireless or wired. Does need to be right-handed, or at least not-left-handed.

My brain goes some odd places ...

So I was at a (very awesome) symphony concert tonight, and my mind wandered, as it often does, and i found myself noticing that the timpani guy looked vaguely like Michael Fassbender--

(and by vaguely I mean very vaguely, since my seat was at the back of the orchestra and timpani are at the back of the stage, and between the distance and my tendency towards nearsightedness, faces are kind of vague flesh-colored blobs, like a LJ icon made from a very large image source using a bad compression algorithm.)

--and I started daydreaming a XMFC AU with Erik as a percussionist, with a preference for metal (eg drums and cymbals) because he can feel the resonance, and manipulate it. I toyed with Charles as the conductor even though there was no visual similarity, because he'd have a good energy and good charisma; and I toyed with a serial-numbers-filed-off origfic version; but over and over I kept coming back to Erik and the drums.