Down for the Count

Staying home from work has it's advantages. Sure, you can sleep late and not worry about being late for work, battling traffic jams or getting there before your gas light comes on.
So when it became apparent that I had to have arthroscopic knee surgery I contented myself with the thought of staying home for a week. No big deal, it would be like a vacation at home. I'd sleep as late as I wanted. I'd sit in my favorite recliner and read a good book. Work wouldn't miss me too much, after all... it's only a week.
Well, that week has turned into 6! Yeah, you heard me. Six weeks! Thank God my job has a great short term disability benefit package.
Of course, I should have known that MY surgery wouldn't be the simple, run of the mill, procedure that my doctor laid out for me. Nooooooo, not me! What he thought was a simple snipping of my plica tendon, and a shaving of a meniscus tear, turned out to be major cartilage damage from an apparent injury I can not, for the life of me, remember doing to myself.

This is a picture of the knee cartilage that looks like it's supposed to. Can you see how the top and bottom are nice and smooth.


This is more how my cartilage looks... yucky:

These are not my pictures, just some that I found online. But mine are even worse that the one above. I have a huge crater in my cartilage that has exposed the bone. Doc poked at the bone to make it bleed and create a blood clot that will cusion my bones... ya know, since I don't have any. ugh, you'd think my body was 80 years old!
The funny thing... and I mean funny... is that this condition primarily effects athletes! Now, I can tell you, I have nothing in common with any athlete whatsoever! lol I'm a couch potato.

So after just 2 1/2 weeks in my recliner, I've read about 4 books, one of them was Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. "So what" you say? Well, it's 754 pages long, that's what! I read it in two days. Yeah, it was that good.

Anyway, so I'm down for the count, like my title says. Growing more bored by the day. I have 6 books on hold at the library, which Mountain Man will have to pick up for me as soon as they come in. I'm counting the days for that, let me tell ya. Oh yeah, and crutches really suck! My shoulder and hip are killing me on the opposite side as the bad knee. Ugh!

Until next time... protect your knees!

The Curse is OVER!!!!

OH MY GOD! The Phillies have won the World Series!!!
The City of Philadelphia and all the fans in the tri-state area have waited for this day for 25 years! That's how long it's been since any major Philadelphia sports team has brought home a championship! Woooo Hoooo! I can hardly believe it!

Call me superstitious but I can't help think that a lot of the credit has to go to this little guy...



William Penn was once the measuring stick for all the buildings in the City. None were supposed to be built higher than Billy Penn's hat. But that all changed when Liberty One was built and towered many stories over Mr. Penn. Philadelphia couldn't buy a championship since then.

But the curse is broken in 2008 with the Comcast Center building being built. It is the tallest, greenest building in the City and maybe even on the east coast (I'm not sure about this). My office building is right across the street from the new Comcast Center. One thing I recently found out about was that someone in the local union building that building had the forsight to place a miniature statue of William Penn on the last beam placed on the top of the building. AND IT WORKED!

THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES HAVE JUST WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!

Congratulations guys, you deserve it, you played a heck of a season and a hell of a world series! You guys Rock!!

True Blood preview

Take a look at my new favorite Vampire series airing on Sunday Nights at 9:00 p.m. on HBO

There's a new Vampire in town...

Remember how obsessed I was with my vampire crime show "Moonlight"? Well CBS decided to cancel it because it didn't have enough viewers. My new vampire show doesn't have that problem.... and guess what?

IT'S NOT ON NETWORK TV.... IT'S ON CABLE!!

This is Bill Compton, or Vampire Bill as he is known to the citizens of Bon Temp, Louisianna in the HBO Series "True Blood".




This is a show based on The Southern Vampire Series of novels by Charlaine Harris. True Blood has everything that Moonlight had and more.... much, much more!

If you like murder mysteries, sex, violence, romance, sex, scandal, gossipy small town neighbors, sex and more sex than this is the show for you!



The woman being woooed by Vampire Bill in the photo above is Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress with the ability to read minds. Vampires have come out of the coffin and are recognized as a legitimate section of society but not everyone accepts them, much the same way not everyone accepts homosexuals or minorities living among them. Living in a small town has it's disadvantages on it's own, but can you imagine being different while trying to be normal in a small town? Not an easy task but Sookie does her best. Needless to say she's not very popular when she befriends, and then begins to date, Vampire Bill.

True Blood is filled with great characters, some you'll connect with and maybe some that will remind you of people you know. Others are more mysterious and you just have to stay tuned to find out what's going on with them. The romance between Bill and Sookie is sweet and old-fashioned and might be more than a little dangerous.

Oh, and HBO has decided, after the second episode aired, to renew True Blood for a second season! See people, this is why I only watch Cable TV now. It may be expensive but it's so much more worth it when you find a show to invest in.

Twilight - The Movie Trailer

Ok, so now I'm really excited about the Twilight movie coming out on November 21, 2008. I just saw this teaser and it looks really good and very, very close to the book. Regardless of the fact that I didn't picture any of the characters in the book like the actors they chose to play them, it is still number one on my list of movies to see this fall.

I can't wait!
Enjoy

Twilight