Things are getting dangerous with the leg these days… Not because it is feeling bad, but because it is feeling good… It is becoming harder and harder to keep in mind that my leg is, in fact, still pretty fucked up, and not 100%. My range of motion is now within 20 degrees of my good leg (I’ve picked up about 20 degrees in the past few weeks alone), and most of the strange sensations from within my leg have gone away.. My thigh muscles are stronger now due to physical therapy, and I can wield the leg around without much trouble..

The trick is now to do everything I can to keep me from inadvertently putting weight on my leg. This is trickier than you’d expect, and I’ve had a few close calls in the past day alone. It would help if I left my brace on all the time (as it provides a pretty clear reminder that the leg is hosed), but it is so uncomfortable and unnecessary, say, when I’m sitting on the couch, that it’s just not going to happen. Another week and a half until I see the doctor next… It can’t come soon enough.

While I was in NJ last week one night I apparently took my brace off in my sleep. I woke up at like 6am with a slightly sore knee and once I became somewhat coherent I realized my brace was on the floor. This required undoing 8 velcro straps and lifting my leg to get the brace out from underneath it. The ability to perform tasks like this while asleep/groggy troubles me. When I become president, make sure to keep the button away from my bedside.

Man, I really know how to neglect my journal, eh? Well, I’m back in Boston, landed Monday evening… Mom hauled me back, and pretty much got back in the car and drove back to NJ right away.. On top of that, today she drove down to VA to visit with my kid sister, (Good luck with the interviews, Aimee!).

Holy shit I am really starting to go stir crazy.. I’ve been doing alot of reading and movie watching.. I had started working on a programming project, but got derailed and lost interest around the time I headed back to NJ. Another two weeks and I revisit the doctor, hopefully to be told that I can start putting weight on my leg again and drive (to work). Speaking of jobs, my OTHER friend Jon just informed me that he’s now gainful again, I’m so glad so many of my friends (and myself) are having good luck with employment these days…

So the new pope is infallible for 5 minutes, yet he manages to bang the microphone while crossing himself while leading his first papal prayer. This is endlessly funny to me.

With the help of my Mom, I finally scratched my White Castle itch that started when I saw Harold & Kumar way back when.. I am very, very glad they finally opened a White Castle near my house, but I wish they would do the same in Boston….

Why can’t this nation take care of itself? Why does everyone get up in arms about censorship when there are so many technologies in place already to “protect the kids”?

You must transmute to the top-grade chap for your wife !!

Isn’t that great? I find that while SpamAssassin does a bang-up job preventing 99.9% of the spam that comes my way from getting to me, the ones that do slip through are so fantastically obfuscated that I tend to be pretty amused by them… :)

Dad came up to Boston yesterday to bring me back to NJ for a week… After a little driving break for him we piled into the Sonata and made our way back to NJ, getting in about 7ish or something… I was feeling pretty lousy yesterday, but I’m doing better today… came over today bearing Pork Roll & Cheese, which is as delicious as always… I was missing my family and friends, and it’s nice to have a bit of a change of cell, er, environment..

“WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote “Nay” on this concurrent resolution are “FREAKIN’ IDIOTS!” and run the risk of having the “Worst Day of Their Lives!”

Well, my dalliance with Thunderbird lasted a total of about 36 hours… In that time it bit the dust 5-6 times… I suspect it might have something to do with the 500 folders in my “Saved” folder, but who knows… I guess I could try Apple Mail but I don’t know if I feel like bothering with it…

Scut Farkus was on the most recent episode of Lost as Marc (the best man). Franklyn Ajaye (from The Wrong Guys) has been on the last few episodes of Deadwood (the dude who was tarred).

• The new Daft Punk Video is pretty freaky.
• I can’t believe a space nut like myself never knew anything about the Negro Space Program.
• This T-shirt cracks me up.
• The Keyspan Express Remote is actually a good accessory for the Airport Express (although I’d like to figure out it’s protocol so it could control more than iTunes when connected to the Airport Express’ USB port).

So I’m slowly considering ceasing using command-line mail software in favor of a GUI mailer like Thunderbird. I have one sticking point, however. Right now, I have a huge archive of old mail… It is very well organized; I have a mail/Saved folder and inside that folder I have hundreds of mbox files which are gzipped. Mutt can deal with these gzipped folders on the fly..

Now, say I want to use Thunderbird as my mailer, and I want to advertise all of these folders through IMAP, and be able to create new folders as needed over IMAP, how do I do this.. I realize I might have to give up on the gzipped folders, which is fine by me, that’s what I pay dues for at CSH, but it seems that the only way to get folders to show up is to make sure they are listed in ~/.mailboxlist, which I am completely disinterested in maintaining. I know there has to be a “proper” way of doing this, I just don’t know what it is… Can anyone provide any insight/articles on the right way of handling all this stuff?