Have Your Pill Today?

injury :-( but enjoy a little Food And Wine

Saturday - I awoke to immobility.  I don't know how or why this happened, the last thing I truly remember from Friday evening was enjoying a great dinner with Susan at South Hills Market and Cafe, then going out and drinking at BW3 with friends. 

Susan drove home, as I don't really remember that trip.

Maybe this is where my ill-fated injury happened.  Who knows.. but I woke and couldn't bend my right knee, I could barely hobble down stairs, get in and out of a vehicle or bend down to pick something up without contorting myself in such a manner that made me look more so ridiculous than normally.

Saturday was the day the new oven came also.

To make a long story short, the oven is in, and my knee is still sore.  Well today the swelling is mostly down, and it hasn't hurt to jog down stairs.  There's still a little pressure it seems but overall that soreness is fleeting and I think I will try to ride on the trainer some this evening since abandoning all hope of riding for the past several days.

What gives?  Well being the MD that I am (MD = Mountain Doctor) I have a loose knee.  You see I had this knee problem once before.  Similiar situation, just woke up and I'm crippled.  Anyhow..the specialist told me my knee cap is looser than normal.  It rubs around and aggravates and get's inflamed.  At the time he viewed my MRI, said there was no permanent damage prescribed a drug and told me to do a few exercises to tighten things up.  He also threw the caveat in that I may have this problem in the future.  I'm diagnosing myself and saying my future is now.

The pain has not been as severe this time as it was then, and I see no point in getting an MRI, or paying more for prescriptions when I can just double my intake of Ibuprofen to meet the prescription strength.   It's great being an MD.  But I am doing my part to cut down on the rising tide of medical costs.

So not riding what have I been doing? 

Drew Hastings

Well last night - went and saw Drew Hastings  (that's him there to the left) at the Funny Bone, in Huntington.  Ate a burger at Max & Ermas..  Yummmy

Drew's pretty funny and is often on the Bob & Tom show here on FM 105.  His routine centers around being a city guy and buying a farm... (kind of feels like me sometime - just replace "city guy" with "lazy idiot" )

However this burger and entertainment as fine as it was was not really on my training plan.  (can you really say I have a training plan?).   

WELL YES YOU CAN !!!  You have to have goals.. and tentatively I think I have a goal.  24 Hours of Canaan - if I have a team.  I think I committed to being Capitan?  Anyhow if I did and if indeed there is a team.  I'll be doing it.

For the month of January, I started out at 248lbs,  I'm now hovering around 233lbs.  Pretty good if I do say so yourself.  Mostly cutting out massive amounts of junk food during the day, and cutting back on the Wheat & Barley.  (well Susan probably thinks I use that phrase very liberally).

I've ridden a paltry 360 miles - most of which was on a trainer and only about 20 miles off road.

What does February have in Store?  How the hell should I know?

I plan to start posting more photos over to this site from flickr ( I would post the link but it's blocked here from work ).  Probably more of the what I call "Artsy" ones. If you don't like them well to heck with you.

Valentines Day is coming up - buy your better-halves something nice.

Well my 10AM break that I took at 10:30 is about up... so adios for today...

UNO's PIZZA Tonight????