I tried switching to a different lo-cal morning news show yesterday. It just didn’t work out. They’re rather serious and professional (at least by local morning news standards), whereas the channel I’d been watching before has a collection of male and female equivalents of Les Nessman. So I switched back today, and good thing I did, or I’d have missed out hearing about the “relentlessly unrelentless” rain in California. Gosh, I missed these guys.
I somehow managed to hurt a whole bunch of my parts without really noticing. About the only thing I did was slip on the ice at the park the other day, landing squarely on my back. It didn’t really hurt at the time (except my pride, since people were looking; the good news is that I had just finished tying off a poop bag. Had I slipped a moment earlier, it could have been pretty messy), so I don’t know if it’s related, but yesterday was a day filled with pain (and today isn’t starting out much better).
First off, I’m hobbling around because it feel like somebody decided to remove about an inch of my left Achilles tendon. Makes it hurt like hell to extend my foot forward (or to lift it up, for that matter). Also, my thumb hurts. Fortunately, I don’t use it all that much. Of course, my knees and back hurt, but that’s a given. The really odd one is my neck. Or should I say throat? The muscles on both sides hurt when I turn my head, and are also very sore to touch. I don’t know if I strained my neck somehow, or maybe this is some sort of cancer of the jugular lymph nodes or something. Oh well. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was getting old or something.
Now, I know some people are kind of appalled by sports talk, but I just have to mention the phenomenon that is the UCONN womens basketball team (and I really don’t like UCONN). If you don’t know, they’re in the midst of a 57-game winning streak (having gone undefeated and winning a national championship last year). This is the second longest winning streak in womens NCAA basketball history. The longest? UCONN from 2001-03, when they won 70 games in a row. This past week alone, UCONN beat #3 Notre Dame by 24 points, and #7 Duke by over 30. In the 2000’s so far, UCONN won national championships in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009.
Even if you hate sports, you have to be pretty impressed with that.
Oh well, I guess I better get going. Takes me a while to hobble up the stairs these days.
Ain’t getting old grand? Feel better, PJ.
Geez, pj, you better go get looked at by a doc. Sounds like you jarred yourself awfully hard.
No doctors for me until this country provides affordable health care for everyone living here with no limits on what medical procedures are covered.
Oh, and Over the Counter medical marijuana, too.
That is probably you best prescription for now.
Looks like Maron may catch a break.
Ready for public funding yet? Maybe the corporations can put that money they so want to spend in a general pool. Maybe the corporate media that use OUR ( you know, We, The People’s) airwaves can be bothered to cough up free time for candidates.
Justices Reject Campaign Finance Limits
Pain is my middle name.
am there, am doing that. this growing old stuff is highly overrated.
time for antiimflamatories, to keep the bruises from putting pressure on the nerve endings, at night muscle relaxers, a good pain killer and a good nights sleep.
a little good bud does all of the above which is the best reason to allow it’s use.
Doctor Jim is correct but I believe I’ve told you that before and you are not so receptive to the whole prescription (muscle relaxers at night as I remember). Unfortunately although it can put you down at night, the alcohol is not to the kind of restful sleep at night that you need.
I would much rather :bong: than :40: but I’m afraid we have no medical marijuana shops here in the land that Rocky built. Tried some Canadian OTC muscle relaxers, but they require a constant maintenance dose, and I’m unwilling to shell out the bucks (would be happy to shell out the bucks for a maintenance dose of dope, though).
On the bright side, the more I feel around in my neck, the more convinced I am that I have painful, swollen jugular lymph nodes. Also both left and right supraclavicular.
I know I shouldn’t find this funny, but I can’t help it.
To be fair, it was a request.
This is rather ironic: Philandering Husband Killed by Hoe.
I guess he needed a wife like he needed a hoe in the head.
OK, so, as ridiculous as the men in black dresses look, why do the women have to wear napkins tucked into their robes? Are they having lobster for lunch or something?
Speaking of philandering, a few of us around here believed this guy, too.
John Edwards Admits Fathered Mistress’ Child
John Edwards Now Most Unpopular Figure Anywhere, Anytime: Pollster
:omg:
Philandering Husband Killed by Hoe.
I guess that’s why they say bro’s before ho’s.
I can’t say as I ever really cared much about Edwards’ personal life. I thought he’d have made a good preznit. I’d have been surprised if he’d turned out to be a typical corporatist sellout DLC’er type. With Obama, I’m disappointed, but not surprised. He turned out about like I expected, except I don’t think he’s as smart as I thought he was.
You know, I wouldn’t care much either but he has seemed to have reached proportions of sleaziness and dishonesty here that raises significant questions of character. Also, with all of this crap going down, he would have been a ticking time bomb for the repigs to detonate at just the right time.
Oh, I’m not saying his winning would have been a good thing, politics-wise. Not in this country, where you’re forced to pretend you’re a Christian and believe in God, and that you’re pure as the driven snow, engaging only in missionary-style sex with your spouse of the opposite gender – and then only for the purpose of procreation, and not because you like it – in order to get elected to anything. It’s all lies, of course, but it’s the telling that counts, not the doing.
As for character, meh. Show me somebody who is truly of good character, and I’ll show you somebody who can’t get elected president.
However, in terms of what he’d have done as president (assuming we still played by the old JFK rules), I think he’d have done some good for “we the people.” Of course, he might also have turned out to be a miserable disappointment, too.
But, you go to hell with the President you have, not the President you might want or wish to have.
As if to mock the Democrats’ loss of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat and the subsequent and rapid unraveling of a healthcare bill that seemed determined to curb the excesses of the US health insurance industry, the largest US health insurer announced Thursday morning that its fourth quarter profits had climbed a whopping 30 percent.
UnitedHealth, the largest US health insurer by market capitalization, posted earnings of $944 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, up from $726 million in 2008.
http://rawstory.com/2010/01/largest-health-insurers-profits-rise-30-percent/
http://airamerica.com/
🙁 :gate:
You beat me to it, Vernon. Just saw it. Sad, though not surprising.
Wish there was performance video for this
All-white basketball league proposed
Throwback jerseys?
All-white basketball? Wow, that ought to be exciting to watch. Probably need to lower the rims to 8 feet, though.
\I knew the five reactionaries on the supreme court would vote to hand over our elections to big business, so this ruling is no surprise at all yet I am profoundly depressed.
Throwback jerseys?
Comment by vernon — January 21, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
Throwback robes and hoods, more like. Although I would think the robes would make dribbling difficult.
AARgh dead? the corporation dies and the spirit moves on.
well we came away with a lot of superb memories, learned a lot and got to know each other and several thousand other like minded blog souls.
we continue on as an audience community with a sense of humor and an appreciation of irony while surrounded by lies and greed on a scale never seen before on this little ball of rock.
i think that’s significant.
Comments from old friends via FB
pj- The older I get the more I look down just to see what my feet are touching. You’ve got less time and less of a chance to heal as life goes on so step gingerly buddy :nod:
Plenty of :bong: in Boulder for just the cost of an “outside-the-plan” visit with the right physician. I’ll make the appointment for you:-)
I do not understand why elected folks always take the wrong message away from any given event, especially and election.
AAR 🙁 :gate:
Pashman
:banana:
Don’t you love how the “originalists” on the Court decided the founding fathers meant “entity” when they wrote “people?” It’s plain as day, see it in there?
I don’t know why, but the news about AAR is just depressing the hell out of me. Coming on the heels of the Supreme Court summarily declaring an end to Democracy, and tonight I find myself wondering if it’s time to pack it in as a blogger and just go about living the rest of my life as best I can:
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/01/welcome-to-corporate-states-of-america.html
I find it depressing, too, Jill. In the past week watched Food Inc and McLibel – that hasn’t helped much.
I will resurrect the corporation of AAR, populate it with the old gang, and marry it, now that it ranks as a person.
What is going to happen to the Air America cruise that was scheduled?
http://www.airamericacruise.com/
I recommend that they hijack the ship, load it with food supplies, and cruise to Haiti.