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I went to the doctor today, just got back home.



After 5 x-rays and an expenditure of about 2 hours of my life, nothing was accomplished.



My ankle is sprained. The doctor did nothing for me that I wasn't already doing for myself. The brace he gave me is hardly better than the one I was already using.



This is why I don't go to doctors. The only reason I went this time is because I was catching a lot of flack from people. Since Saturday I've been battling with my cousin about going to the emergency room. People go to doctors far too often, never mind the emergency room.



The only reason I would go to a doctor on my own accord was if something was cut off, or if an organ was failing. Just about everything else (including broken bones, I treated my own broken arm once) I can treat myself.



I took off work until Thursday.

It snowed close to 1 foot overnight. My grandmother's Chihuahua stands about 8 inches tall... So the dog run area needed to be shoveled.



I don't like being a burden or asking others for help.



I'm lucky I didn't break my neck.. I put on one boot and hopped out the back porch... Using a shovel as a crutch and snow removal device, I sloppily shoveled a small area... In about 20 minutes.



Hopping on ice was interesting.



Carrying firewood down into the basement is out of the question.

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alixaryon
11:47 Feb 12 2008

Funny.

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My ankle is worse. It looks like I will be going to the doctor in the morning. I'll have to miss some work, which I never do.

I went skiboarding today. I got bored. When I get bored, I get into trouble.



The morning started out with the regular runs... Boring.



So I started hitting all the black and double black diamond runs... Boring.



So after lunch I started hitting any jump I could find... Boring.



So then I stepped it up a notch, and decided to work on trick jumps. Nothing too major.. Mostly ski crossing while airborne. Everything was going great until about 4pm. I hit a jump full speed, went at least 10 feet in the air, and kicked my ski tips outward (crossing the tails of my boards).



It was pretty.



Until I landed.



I didn't get my left foot back into position in time and when I hit the ground, my right foot was going straight and my left was heading off to the left at about a 45 degree angle.



I tumbled.



Hard.



I felt my left ankle pop, and then my knee. I let out a roar and every bit of wildlife in the area fled for cover.



My cousins were trying to assist me. I don't like assistance when I'm hurt. They wanted to go get the ski patrol to help me down the rest of the slope. In over 11 years of skiing/skiboarding I have never been drug off the mountain by a snowmobile.



It wasn't going to happen today either.



I got myself up, and skied the rest of the way down on one leg.



In the chalet I popped 800mg of Ibuprofin and waited 20 minutes for it to kick in. Once it did, I hobbled down to the car and drove home.



Now, almost 2 hours later, it still hurts like a bitch. The knee has gotten better (I don't think there's any serious damage done to it) but the ankle is in bad shape.



It is suppose to be impossible to break an ankle while skiing. The ski boot is designed to protect the ankle. The leg should break first, just above the boot. I must of had my boots on too loose.



I haven't decided yet if I will go to the doctor. I will make that decision in the morning, depending upon how it feels. I'm not a fan of doctors, I prefer to treat my own injuries.

Today it took every bit of strength I had not to walk off the job. I'm not the walk-off type, but I've got a foreman that I really want to push off a cliff. This is the same guy that kept showing me his penis and who I was certain wanted to sleep with me. After I made it clear I didn't swing that way, the full extent of his asshole-dom came to the surface.



I don't even need this job. I don't know why I am still working there.



The full moon is always difficult for me.

I was working on the site, and I lost about 60 account records.



The loss only affected users level 4 and lower, and was alphabetical. When I saw what was happening, I pulled the plug on the site right away. I'm pretty sure it was only usernames starting with A. Of this group, the only person I knew to be affected was an old friend anais, so I restored her account from last night's DB backup.



I'm very mad about this. I need to start making more backup's before major site revisions. With as quickly as the site is changing, nightly backups are not enough.

My grandmother has just left for a month. I welcome the break. It's nice to have the house to myself...



I am now, however, responsible for her animals. Which kind of sucks.



An old friend looked me up today... Which is always nice.

I had wanted to make another trip to Houghton today, to see a movie, but a couple of things got in my way...

I really enjoyed Constantine.



It's somewhat of an ordeal when I go to the movies. The nearest theater is 50 miles away. In the summer it takes about 45 minutes to get there. In the winter it's a crap shoot.



Tonight I got there in a little over an hour. The roads weren't too bad. But after two hours in the theater, it had snowed over 4 more inches, and it was still coming down hard. It took me just shy of two hours to get home.



On the positive side, I'm skiing tomorrow... So I'll have some use for the extra snow..

I'm off to go see Constantine...

Another family member of mine has died. This time, my great uncle. This is the third in the preceding 12 months.



My uncle was a special man. He was only 78.



I will be getting the house to myself for the next month. On monday, my grandmother leaves for Sacramento to attend funeral services and visit with family. The circumstances are unfortunate, but I welcome the time to myself.

For the most part, I love Sunday's. All my favorite TV shows are on. It's rare that I set aside time to watch TV, but on Sunday's I do.



8pm - Charmed (WB)

9pm - Carnivale (HBO)

10pm - Boston Legal (ABC)



Tape:

10pm - Nip/Tuck (FX)

11pm - Nip/Tuck (FX)

12am - The Shield (FX)

Upon further research, I have discovered the original author of the previous quote. Here it is in its entirety:



I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.



Henry David Thoreau

A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change.



A woman marries a man hoping he will change.

Here's a clip I found from back when I was running Vampire Radio. I gathered sound clips from a celebrity (in this case Tony Soprano), then wired my laptop into my cell phone. Doing this allowed me to play sounds to who I called, and I could also record the conversation.



I never released any of these prank calls. They were scheduled for a show that never aired.



Adam and Tony Soprano

It's really frustrating having the site constantly criticized. I get several emails and messages a day that go something like:



I really love what you've done with the site, but it would be even better if you ...fill in the blank...



Often times the messages are not so polite.



I think that after 8 months of development and administration I have proven that I have a certain vision when it comes to the future of Vampire Rave. I am not opposed to suggestions. I have implemented several suggestions of the membership. But to certain members asserting that they know the best future path of Vampire Rave, I say,



Where were you prior to Vampire Rave's inception?



I'm not trying to break my arm by patting myself on the back. For me, Vampire Rave hasn't even reached its half-way completion point. I just despise unadulterated arrogance.

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Lovise
01:37 Feb 06 2010

From my eyes, I believe vr is always changing, and you're doing good. -smiles- It may be criticized, though, the vision is going to be further into the future of vr. The provement on vr, Cancer, you do it well, and I think people should not say, like what you had quoted. ''it would be even better if you ...fill in the blank...'' I think people should take to the knowledge that you are actually proven that you have a vision to the future of vr. It saids right into your entry, and they may not take the time to see what you mean.



I do not want to give suggestions of what could be of improvement on vr, because I'm happy with vr improvements expending more to your vision in the future one day. I hope the completion point, whenever it shall, or perhaps many years to come, I give you cheers of a cup tea of congrats.

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Someone sent this to me a while ago. I forgot I had it.

Southpark Cancer

I am considering purchasing a server and either bringing more high-speed lines into the house, or setting it up in a secure data center somewhere.



The VR server needs upgrading. The entire process will most likely span 4-8 weeks, so I need to get moving on it. In the long run, I think it's best that I buy a server versus lease one.

In the 14 months since I have returned to this town, I have not met one woman who I would consider worthy of dating. I'm not trying to sound hoity-toity, but everyone I meet is either an alcoholic bar hag, or divorced and on welfare with 18 kids.



The only dates I have had (during my romantic exile), have been with old girlfriends in which we traveled to on another.



I have met a few women in Houghton I like, but Houghton is 50 miles away.. I don't like dating women who are 5 miles away.



I took many things for granted when I lived in Phoenix. One of them, was my constant supply of female companionship.

I am very pleased with the negative responses/reactions concerning Stalking.



I knew it would not wholeheartedly be embraced, and that was only a further reason to institute it. There are people on this site who do not belong here. Although this will not push the majority of this group away, if a few disappear, it is all worth it.



A little less than half the information displayed is information that was already publicly available. Login info was always available to Administrators. Of the remainder, there is nothing that compromises anonymity. We're talking about how many friends you have in your friends list for god sake.



On a tangent, it never ceases to amaze me how words become stigmatized. There is nothing wrong with the word stalk. The action itself, is acceptable... So long as certain boundaries are not crossed.



I think it is pretty common for people to be curious about what their ex's may be doing. I'm talking about a love partner curious about a former love partner. Psychotic infatuations are another matter, and in these instances, boundaries are almost always crossed.

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Lovise
01:26 Feb 06 2010

I find the stalking so funny, because ever since I was recently during Jan. given a gift of premium by a chap on vr, and he did it out of trying to woo me, and also trying to push me into meeting him, which I did not want. It's in the past now, because I took care of it, respectfully. -smiles- I am grateful the premium will be running out soon, and I never wanted it to begin with. Enough of my ramblings, I'm sorry.



Though having the premium was amusing, because I saw the vr members who stalked me, and I asked why they did stalk me, what was the reason. Updates? I don't mind the stalking, but I wonder about it. It's a bore, perhaps?

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There is absolutely nothing interesting happening in my life right now.

A new MP3 player I bought on eBAY arrived today. My old one really sucks (by today's technology standards... It only has 32 megs of memory). I decided to go with a flash player versus one with a drive...



So I spent the bucks. The biggest flash player I could find was 1 gig. It cost $145 after shipping. For that price I could have bought a 20 gig RCA player. But it would have been a lot more bulky. This one is smaller than a baby's arm.



I managed to cram about 250 songs onto it without resampling. I got this unit primarily for skiing. I'm going to wire headphones into my helmet...