Starry Wisdom

I am lame and haven’t had a chance to post as I’ve been traveling every weekend in July. I’ll post a recap after I get back from this weekend, and also hopefully some other ‘interesting tidbits’. But let’s be honest, most people who come to this blog are reading the pine mouth post!

Ok, I realize it’s been more than a month since my last post. Maybe I should look into doing another month of postings – otherwise, I never do anything.

I have been a bit busy and have a couple of post ideas banked up, including a trip write up from my recent trip to Chicago for a wedding.

Internet pals tell me that today is Casimir Pulaski day!

I took a few minutes during lunch to install the Disqus commenting system, on a whim. Let’s see how it goes…

Au Revoir Simone is a band named after a throw-away line in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. They make catchy, poppy music. Knight of Wands is my cell phone’s default ringtone, and they made a fun coloring book video for it:

Ok, I’ve been pretty lax at posting lately – one post or so a month? So I’ve decided to pick it up in February! In the spirit of Thing-a-day, I am going to try to do a post-a-day in February. Now, I am certain that some, or most of them, will be as lame as this post, but still, I will write something every day (or at least back date posts for each day :p).

Right now, all I have to say is that I woke up at 4:45 AM to fly down to Burbank for the day. I got to leave early at least.

Topics to discuss this month may include:

1) Cooking
2) Coffee (in particular Chemex)
3) Windows (not Microsoft Windows)
4) TBD – what else should I talk about here?

I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but alas, I didn’t, so here goes.

What’s wrong with little kids that they don’t like showers but like baths? Baths are a terrible way to get clean . Oh wait, maybe that’s it, little kids don’t particularly like being clean. Unlike adults.

I mention this because for the about a month after my ankle surgery, they only way I could get clean was to take a bath with a leg hanging out of the tub. This was very suboptimal for a lot of reasons. There’s a reason that in ‘bathing cultures’, they get clean first, then get in the bath. Otherwise, you are just sitting in filth.

Well, now I can take showers, but sub-optimally, in that I can’t stand on both feet, and I have to change my bandage after, so it takes a long time. In short, I need to shower at night. I like to shower in the morning. I can’t wait until I do that again!

It turns out that I really like to put pants on ‘right leg first’. This poses a problem right now because to get pants over my crazy exoskeleton boot

I have to do left leg first.

I CAN take the boot off and do things the other way around, but it’s a pain to unstrap it and get back in, so I tend not to.

Next dr’s appointment is on the 20th, and as I am starting to be able to put weight on it now, I expect to not need the boot all of the time then. Maybe I can go back to my old ASO brace, which is far less obtrusive.

I recently went to Oahu with Mackenzie. This was my first time on that particular island, save for some layovers at HNL while spending time on Maui and Kauai in the past. We were there for six nights.

This is just some highlights of the trip – I genuinely intend to post one or more detailed entries with pictures, but for right now, here are brief high points:

• KCC Farmers Market – Saturday morning 7:30-11AM (yes it’s early, but it’s HOT later in the day…) Lots of fresh fruits and veggies, and also a LOT of prepared food (and coffee) for breakfast.
• The Bus – From the NW side of waikiki (near Hilton Hawaiian Village) it’s a 25 minute ride to KCC, and about 45 minutes to Hanauma Bay. Having a car for part of your trip is a good idea, but you really don’t need it the whole time, and not driving to these places is a *good* idea!.
• Kailua – 12 miles away from popping Waikiki is sleepy Kailua, home of a wonderful sandy beach, and some good, cheap food. Highly recommend a visit.
• Pearl Harbor Historic Sites – Fantastic.
• Sunset Drinks at Sarento’s Top the I – awesome view of the sunset from the edge of Waikiki. Note that in the summer, the sun sets after happy hour, but it’s worth it for the view.
• Alan Wong’s Restaurant – situated on the third floor of an office building, with a view of a street, this was nonetheless the best dinner we had in Hawaii. It was surprisingly NOT the most expensive dinner (that honor went to the sunset cruise we took the first night), but it WAS the dinner with the most celebrity sitings we had (Masi Oka)

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so first the good news – which is the update on my previous post. Yeah, it was the wireless router, and the new one works perfectly. Yay!

Bad news – I’m falling apart. My ankle had been bothering me since mid December, and I finally managed to get in to see the specialist this Thursday. He said it’s tendinopathy, probably aggravated by some extra bone – remnants of me breaking my ankle nearly twenty years ago. I’m on Aleve for 10 days and I have a pretty fancy ankle brace that I’m to wear for 6 weeks. Hopefully I’ll be better by the time of the followup.

Of course, it doesn’t end there. Yesterday morning, as I got up from lacing and buckling up the brace my back decided to spasm. So I’ve been laid up, unable to stand straight and barely able to walk since then. My weekend plans are pretty much ruined. I tried to go to the urgent care place near my apartment today (to maybe get muscle relaxer or the such), but alas, they are closed on weekends.

Oh well, at least my ankle is feeling pretty well.