Entries from February 2009

February 23, 2009

What a jerk

Sunday night, day two after surgery and I am laying on my new bed – my couch.  It has moments when it is the most comfortable piece of furniture ever and then there are times when it might as well be the Rack, you know,  that medieval torture device featured by the Christians.  I do believe [...]

February 22, 2009

a quickie update

My leg feels like some half-assed high school shop teacher used it to demonstrate how to fix a broken chair leg.  What’s worse half-ass or whole-ass.  I think if you do something whole ass you really screwed it up.
The final tabulation is in and it goes as follows:  1 plate, 5 pins and 2 screws.  The [...]

February 19, 2009

Ouchie

And now for something completely different

That my friends is the xray of my left fibula, yes the broken one.  That has put me on the shelf for a few days and after surgery tomorrow (Friday morning) will put me  on the disabled list for the better part of 3 months.  The recipe for disaster was [...]

February 7, 2009

Saturday at 11

Have you seen any of these man vs. wild or survivor man shows yet.  The basic premise is they drop some dude in the middle of no where and he then has to get somewhere.
In the course of the journey – which typically is restricted to a week – they climb shit, swim shit, eat [...]

February 2, 2009

Unabashed Plugging

I’ve been meaning to post a post about some music I’ve experienced recently.  Some really excellent music.  No make that some really fucking excellent music.
You know, the kind of music that has the ability to turn that frown upside down.  The kind of music that recharges your battery to new high levels.  The kind of music that [...]