Several people, including my sister , asked for a new picture of my leg now that it’s had a few weeks to heal:

I’m almost fully convinced at this point that I could replace my entire CD collection with a few Stephen Lynch cd’s and the Team America soundtrack.

Stumbled across this cool article that provides instructions on using the RSS Import plugin for Azureus to automatically download content as it appears on Torrent Trackers. You just tell the RSS plugin what feeds to monitor, and you give it some regular expressions as rules to download the files, and it just runs as part of Azureus, downloading files as they match your RegEx. It’s pretty neat!

Not a whole hell of a lot going on these days… I’m starting to get pretty stir crazy, I’ve got to find some personal programming project to work on… Or something to keep my mind busy.. All the little surgical tape gizmos that were covering my incision (and the staple holes) came off today after my shower… There is one spot that is still a little raw so I slapped a band-aid over it.. I’ll get some pics up of the scar as soon as I charge my camera battery.

So far my medical expenses are in the neighborhood of $28,000, hopefully insurance will cover most of that, though. :) I had to fill out an “Accident Questionnaire” today stating that this wasn’t a worker’s comp. eligible accident. I have to go to Physical Therapy for the first time on Monday…. Going to probably have to take a cab there, which sucks, because it is like two blocks away but there is a giant hill between here and there, so I can’t even think about crutching my way there.

and I went out for lunch to Bugaboo Creek today.. Other than the trip to McDonalds the day of my Doctor’s appointment (in a failed attempt at scoring a Shamrock Shake), this was my first real excursion into the real world since my accident at the beginning of the month. I held up okay, although I had to shift around in my seat at the restaurant a bit as my leg got tired of certain positions. It felt great to get out of the house, though, and we picked a gorgeous day at that.

When convalescing on the couch with a broken knee, it might not be the best idea to blast Ministry, which you know gets you all whipped up…

I was looking at the bookshelf yesterday and noticed that has a book entitled “The Price of Freedom”. It seems like a long book, which is odd, because we all know that Freedom costs $1.05. What else could it talk about?

From :

1. What is your favorite movie of all time?
   My Blue Heaven
2. How often do you watch this movie?
   Several times a year
3. What’s your favorite line out of the whole movie?
   “What the frig is this?”
4. Who’s your favorite character from this movie?
   Vincent Antonelli
5. What scene do you love the most?
   In the hotel room….

So I have learned what happens when you break your leg and are out of work on disability for 2 months:

You apparently get promoted to Senior Software Engineer and get a 20% raise…

I just took my first real shower since the Friday before the accident.

Well, I met with Dr. Schena today and things look good so far… I saw the first post-op X-ray of my leg today, I have about 12 pins holding things together in addition to the big-ass metal plate… The x-rays make my leg look like a Watson & Crick model.

He said I didn’t have to use the CPM machine anymore, which is welcome news, and he also removed all the staples, which is ALSO welcome news as the area around them started to get really irritated where it rubbed against the brace. That also means that I can get the area wet again, which means I can bathe quasi-normally again (I have to sit on a little shower stool, but at least that means no more sponge baths).

So to replace the CPM machine I now will have to go to Physical Therapy twice a week and also have an exercise regiment… This is still all to work on my range of motion, I can’t put any weight on my leg more than setting my foot down on the floor… He said that it was going to be 8 weeks from the date of surgery before I could really start putting load on my leg, so I had to make my next appointment with him for 6 weeks from today. He said I can start going back to work, so I might start back next week, we’ll see how things go…