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This Can’t Be Good

Oct

9

2007

Ah, fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. As the potential armageddon draws closer and on a day when I’m not as tired, I’ll go into more detail about exactly what a strike would mean, both to the industry in general and to me in particular. Suffice to say for now, I’m becoming very, very glad that ...

Exercise The Demons

Aug

20

2007

Part of why things have trailed off a touch on this blog is because of the absolutely absurd amount of gym time I’ve been putting in lately. 5 days a week, killing myself at the gym, waiting for the tiny little reward on Sundays when I see that, if I’m lucky and have been trying ...

Dear Asshat Neighbor

Jul

17

2007

You are not the same neighbor over-alarming his 1989 Nissan. You live in the building across the alley from mine, and you park in a spot under your building that’s not walled in, directly across the alley from my window. You have a new car, but you have purchased a very similar but infinitely louder ...

Damn You, Apple

Jun

5

2007

You are sorely testing me, you evil fruit. First, you push back Leopard until October, then you go and release these shiny new LED backlit laptops that I would have bought sometime in the next month with a copy of Leopard had it come out on time. Instead, my aging, creaking, full, angry PowerBook will ...

You Knew This Was Coming 1

May

30

2007

It’s official: I need surgery. Sometime next week, not sure when yet. Whee! It’s pretty insane how much my left leg atrophied over three weeks. It really looks like it’s from a different person, particularly when compared to my right leg which has been carting my fat ass around all this time. I’d post pictures ...

Foot Follies: The Castening 3

May

10

2007

It is done. And the pegleg has arrived: Yeah, I know it looks goofy as hell, but it works, and that’s all I give a shit about. More pictures at my flickr page, which will be getting updated quite a bit since I now have a whooooooooooole lot of time on my hands and pretty ...

Foot Fiasco Followup 3

Apr

29

2007

I was a bit busy to post about this in the last week or so, partly because I went to various doctors about five times on top of everything else that’s been going on. So now, I’ve finally come to a decision: They’re sticking me in a cast and on crutches for three weeks to ...

Thanks, Technology! 3

Apr

22

2007

I love it when my computer chooses one of the busiest weekends of the year to crash rather spectacularly, necessitating at the least a trip to the “Genius” Bar at the Apple store, and given what it’s doing and what it hasn’t responded to, rather likely a wipe and restore of the hard drive. God ...

D’oh

Mar

29

2007

My physical therapist threw in the towel today. I’m not making any progress with anything other than the exercises I’m doing at home, so he doesn’t see much point in me continuing to come in. I can sort of understand, since I can do quite a bit of stuff on my own, and I suppose ...

The Revenge of Mr. Cranky Ankle

Mar

22

2007

I had a longstanding follow-up appointment with my orthopedist today. I walked back and he was talking to my physical therapist (whose office is across the hall). After I finished giving the PT a light berating for Tuesday’s fiasco, the orthopedist came in, and started investigating why my foot’s not getting better. His conclusion: Two ...