Squanto
I've been having a great time watching the Riches on FX. I can't say enough to completely do it justice... but I can say this. Eddie Izzard on crystal meth. Yeah. Pilgrims were involved.
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I've been having a great time watching the Riches on FX. I can't say enough to completely do it justice... but I can say this. Eddie Izzard on crystal meth. Yeah. Pilgrims were involved.
So since 2003 or 2004, my career has been on a slowly sliding downward slope. My last years at the White House were pitiful. The days that I mentally showed up for work I would just get kicked around by assorted ass hats. Most of the time, I'd just show up and collect a heavy paycheck.
As regulars know, eventually I just got fed up and quit. I did contract proposal work for a couple months but that was even more moronic.
Then my health went to crap.
At the moment I'm just idling in my current spot trying to figure out what to do. The money where I am isn't sufficient to keep me happy in the long term and there's no real growth potential at all. In the meantime, though, it's not mentally demanding so aside from occassional boredom, it's not terrible.
I should really figure out what I want to do in life and do it. I'd hate to think that I peaked professionally in 2001. Bleh.
Kerie, on the other hand, is steadily moving up. She just finished her first of three semesters for her CDA. She put in a lot of work and got herself a well deserved A. She's also getting a raise and a positional promotion to supervisor. On top of all of that, she's being transferred to the location 3 miles from the house. You can't beat a five minute commute.
So she's movin' on up.
Also... the deck and fence plan was approved by the ACC/HOA today. Tomorrow I can Tony and we'll get construction scheduled.
Still looking for a party at the end of the month.
I'm not supposed to play paintball anymore. The doctor mentioned it in my "lifestyle modification" lecture earlier in the week.
I don't know whether or not I'm going to listen to him.
I've never been terribly good at much in the way of physical activity. When I was younger I was a pretty decent football player. I used to be very good at golf. But other than that... I suck.
Except in paintball. Paintball is probably the only physical activity that I seemed to excel at. I think it had less to do with physical prowess and more to do with tactical thinking, but still... I was good at it.
Now... I'm supposed give it up.
On the one hand, I might save myself additional pain and suffering by not aggitating the knee. On the other hand, the knee's going to be grouchy anyway, I may as well enjoy it.
If I play it safe, I'll be bothered by the decision to give up. If I play paintball, I'll probably reinjure the knee and have no one to blame but myself.
This has been a week of "can't win" scenarios.
Yesterday I spent 30 minutes in my orthopaedic surgeon's office listening to him use very long and complicated words to describe what was going on in my knee. He went over the MRI results and pointed to colored blobs and even used a 3D model at one point so I knew exactly what was going on. All the big words basically boiled down to one point though...
My knee is never going to get better.
The meniscus tear is healed. The bone bruise is gone. My MCL/ACLs are perfect. My quadrocep and tendon over the knee are strong and everything from the surgery has come out exactly as planned.
Except for the fact that me knee cap is eroding away.
The underside of my kneecap has been worn away of it's protective soft tissue. Some was removed in the initial injury, some during the surgery. Now... every step I take, the underside of that rough kneecap slides back and forth over the leg bones in the joint. It will continue that slow sawing motion until eventually the knee will start to break down from bone loss. Maybe in 10-15 years. Then I will have to have a full replacement.
For now... the joint is healthy and stable enough to use for most activites. It will continue to cause me pain in varying degrees forever though. I will now have to realistically research what type of damage I'm doing to my liver with all the vicodin I've taken and will be taking in the future. The opiate isn't the issue... it's the acetametaphin.
I wasn't ready to have a bad knee. That doesn't matter, because that's what I've got.
I think I should become a creative consultant on House.
I got my ER bill from my field trip there a couple of weeks ago.
Just a hair under $3,000.
My insurance paid the whole thing, no co-pay or deductible either.
Later today I get the verdict on my knee. Good stuff.