Friday, March 17 2006, 1:55 AM

I believe this is what the Germans refer to as "das ankle kaputten":

However, this does nothing to prove Phil's belief that the Germans still love David Hasselhoff.

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Monday, March 13 2006, 11:49 PM

My advice for today is this: Watch where you step. I was walking between buildings today at work, and didn't happen to notice the moderate sized rock laying on the pavement. I stepped on it, and rolled my ankle but good. At this point, my ankle feels like it's been given the hard goodbye. Hopefully I can walk tomorrow...

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Monday, July 11 2005, 12:04 AM

My luck proves once again that even the best laid plans can be foiled by something quite simple and unexpected. Megan asked me the other day if wanted to try rock climbing this weekend, and I rather excited for the chance. I knew that I would at least injure myself mildly during the climbing, perhaps a pulled muscle or a heart attack... who knows. But, as a twist of Kate, er, fate would have it, I was taken out of commission before I even had the opportunity.

I went out with Kate and one of her co-workers on friday night to a Lugnuts game. It was a pretty good game, but Kate made us leave in the 9th inning a of 4-4 tie. We were rather annoyed. We then had the privilege of standing in line at Rick's for around an hour before we were lucky enough to get in. I have to say it... I f'ing hate Ricks. It's a meathouse, no two ways about it. The only reason people go there is to find someone to take home that night. And it's smelly, and dark, and strikingly similar to a herd of cattle, both in density and intelligence, during peak times. We hung out there for a while, then I got bored and decided to head back to my car so I could head home. My car was parked at Kate's, which is a good 2 miles from Ricks, so I settled in for the long walk. Well, about three hundred yards from Ricks I found a bad piece of sidewalk and rolled my ankle. It wasn't bad enough to keep me from walking, and the alcohol helped dull the pain, but when I woke up the next morning I realized there was no way I was going to be scaling any vertical escarpments, artificial or otherwise. Megan was understanding and gave me a raincheck. I'm still looking forward to it, but it'll probably have to wait since I'll be busy with moving and vacations over the next few weekends. I suppose a midweek jaunt isn't out of the question, but my ankle will have to mend itself before that happens. [Edit: I'm not pissed at Kate... just annoyed with the situation. I seemed a tad harsh in the post, heh...]

Speaking of moving... I'll be moving in with Megan sometime within the next few weeks, most likely next weekend. I'm actually quite excited about it. We have a lot of common interests, but enough different ones so that I'll be exposed to some new things that I wouldn't normally have tried... like rock climbing! Plus she'll be the first non-work person I've lived with since I've moved up to Lansing, so I'll finally have a decent chance to meet some new people. I'm excited!

I started cleaning and packing this weekend so I could move more effectively. I tend to be a pack rat, so there's a lot of stuff that's accumulated in my room over the past year or so. I spent the better part of today throwing stuff out. I threw out about two garbage bags worth of stuff and about 80 pounds worth of old magazines that I've been carting around for no good reason. I'm shooting for a quick, light move this time. Quick and light is relative, but I'm still shooting for it.

Last, but not least, I've got another couple of guitar clips that I've recorded during the past week. The first was recorded on Greg's new acoustic-electric, even though you can't really tell. It might be the pickup or the way I had the equalizer settings tuned, but it didn't sound too acoustic to me... hehe. The second was recorded on the Bolt, complete with brand new strings, so it sounded really good. I don't know if my playing was as good, but you be the judge...

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Friday, August 01 2003, 10:43 AM

It's been a few days since I updated this, and it's a slow morning at work, so what the hell. Well, like the title says, it's been a slow week. My parents have been up north for a while, and my sister is up camping with a friend until tomorrow, so it's just me and the cat at home. Makes it easy to be loud and play the guitar without pissing anybody off, so that's cool. Work has been pretty slow as well (knock on wood), which is good. It'll probably be a calm before the storm... we're scheduled to start moving servers from their current location in pennsylvania to our datacenter once our OC3 lights up. I'm sure there will be some problems, even though we're going to be meticulous as possible. We're all excited about the opportunity though. Everything will be in our house, no more depending on someone else to do stuff that we could do better ourselves. We're pumped.

Last night was kinda jank for a couple reasons. First, I rolled my ankle while shooting some hoops last night, which sucks. I wasn't even on the court though... I was in the grass next to the court picking up the ball and I stepped on an uneven area, and boom, maximum ankle rollage. suck. Then later on, after I went to bed and was pretty much sound asleep, the UPS that protects my File and Web servers started beeping like mad, signifying a power outage. I got out of bed and thought it strange that my alarm clock was still on, and then I saw that everything else in my room was on as well. I don't know why, but the UPS was convinced that there was something wrong with the power, so I had to power it down and plug in everything straight into the wall. Hopefully it isn't something messed up in the UPS - that thing cost me like $100. I'd be pissed.

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