Like my new shoe?? Walking — or, I should say hobbling — across Boston Common from the underground parking garage to the Orpheum Theatre to see Brian Wilson (see previous post) wasn’t easy. Six weeks I have to wear this thing, every waking hour.
The previous doctor had it wrong. All wrong. No Boston Marathon for me, this year, but I’ve been promised that I will run again, without having surgery. I’ll explain it all later. Have to ice my ankle before going to bed.
Just got back from seeing Brian Wilson live at the Orpheum in Boston. It was an excellent concert! I was surprised and pleased to see Al Jardine on stage. Maybe I can get my buddy Dennis to write a review of the show.
Bloggin’ news editor Mike Dobbs is starting a weekly post of scans from his collection of movie stills. He’s off to an impressive start with a photo of Groucho Marx. Click here.
Until now, comments have been wide open, with no restrictions. You don’t have to register with the blog or enter an e-mail address, and comments appear instantly. But, alas, after two months online, the spammers have found us.
For the past week I’ve been fighting spam entries in the comments. I have an exclusion list of suspicious words, but it isn’t enough of a deterrent. Every day I delete twice as many as the previous day, and the trend is on an upwards curve.
So from now on, every comment will be held until I approve it. Sorry! You don’t have to do anything more than wait for your comment to appear, but it won’t show up automatically. If you don’t like that approach, I’ll offer another alternative, such as site registration.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
Strip it down to its essential text — and I mean text literally — and the first Star Wars movie is still a lot of fun.
Click here, and please be assured that if a security warning appears, this is perfectly safe to launch! It presents no risk whatsoever! I’m just trying to save you the trouble starting a remote terminal session manually. But if you’d rather do that, follow these steps in Windows:
Start → Run… → Open: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl → OK
Be patient while the widescreen “video” prepares to roll, and enjoy Star Wars Episode IV as it was never meant to be seen! Be amazed by the stunning textual graphics that will transport you to another time and place, long ago and far away … !
This didn’t scan well, but it’s one of many MRI views I have of my right ankle. I have a running injury, my first in 33 years of pounding the pavement. Frankly, I started blogging because I couldn’t go running every evening, as was my habit for many years.
Initially I was told it was tendonitis, and I went through six weeks of physical therapy. It still hurt, so a second doctor ordered the MRI. He said it looked fine. But the truth is, it isn’t fine, it still hurts, I can’t run on it, and it isn’t getting better.
Friday afternoon I’m taking the MRI films to a podiatrist surgeon who comes highly recommended. If I’m going to run the Boston Marathon, the week between Christmas and New Year’s I must start 16 weeks of hard training. I need to know if I can do it. Indeed, I need to know if I’ll ever run again.
