So its one week after my surgery now. I just got back from my follow-up with the surgeon and he took of the bandages and the brace. I can stop using crutches as I feel comfortable and can eventually stop using the brace too. I added these nice photos to show you how my knee has swollen up :) Although it isn't really all that bad.





I walked a few blocks today with a single crutch to get more used to walking. Anyway it feels pretty good now and I will start physical therapy soon. Fun stuff. One bad part is that I have to stop and talk to everyone about it and how I am doing etc :)

Halloween was fun I went to a small party that my neighbors threw and now I am headed back to work :( I guess you can only be sick for so long.

Checkout this picture of my new ACL, the silver rope like thing is some poor dead guy's ACL sitting where mine used to be :)

I had to be at the Surgery Center at 11:30 for a 1:30 surgery time. Mom drove my stickshift car which was a little bit exciting. I was fairly nervous for some reason, I wasn't nervous about my other surgeries.

We saw about 8 doctors or soon to be doctors including nurses, anesthesiologists, surgeons, orthopedic specialists, etc. I felt kind of bad since my surgery was somewhat elective and it looked like there were people there who had critical life threatening conditions.

Anyway it is over now and my knee is swollen with bandages and a brace around it. I am supposed to excersize it while lying down and keeping my foot on the floor 4 times a day. But I have some vicodin to help, which I haven't really needed yet.

ACLSurgery

ACLSolutions- Overview of ACL reconstruction surgery.

My Date is next wednesday and I am using a cadaver graft. I am not sure if they are using metal screws or not. Here is a good animation of ACL surgery.

I also found this story from a 30 year old. It does not make me very eager to have the surgery.

31 Year old Skier has ACL Surgery

Fotogenik

Checkout Kurt's fotografy site Fotogenik.  Here is a rather good one of a Chicago sunset.

fotography :: Chicago Sunrise

woke up thirsty

I got my webpage up and running again, so I figured I would post some more messages here for ya. Checkout my cousin's new music review blog.

woke up thirsty

More Coming...

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos

Germany v Argentina tomorrow!

US Out

Ghana end American dream

ESPNsoccernet - World Cup Index

A frustrating match. Ghana's two goals were a 1 on 1 with our keeper because of a defensive mistake/injury and a questionable foul resulting in a PK. The US seemed to have control for most of the match and Dempsey scored off of a beautiful cross from Beasley.

Ghana will face Brazil in the next match, so maybe that can be our revenge.

technorati tags:World, Cup, USA, Ghana

Lazy Ramadi

If you have seen the SNL Lazy Sunday, then you should checkout Lazy Ramadi

technorati tags:Lazy, Sunday, Ramadi, Video, Iraq

USA Ties Italy

Nine-man USA thwart Italy

ESPNsoccernet - World Cup Index   

USA got two questionable red cards and then a goal taken back when a player who didn't touch the ball was offsides.  End result was a 1-1 tie.  I think USA outplayed Italy until the last 10 minutes where we just tried to hold on to our tie.  For us to move on now we need to beat Ghana and Italy needs to beat the Czech Republic.  Cross your fingers.

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US Has a Chance!

Czech Republic 0 - 2 Ghana

ESPNsoccernet - World Cup - Czech Republic v Ghana

Ghana beat the Czech Republic!  If US Can tie or  beat Italy then we have a solid chance of moving on!

I am tempted to offer a reward for the first person to actually leave a comment on my blog. SOMEONE POST SOMETHING :)

technorati tags:Soccer, WorldCup, Ghana, CzechRepublic

Sudoku Improved

I added some stuff to the Sudoku Solver. There is now a step option that will show you the next spot that the solver would have guessed, in case you get stuck.










I also made it so that the solver shouldn't have to guess as often. It can now figure out these situations

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World Cup

Sad Times for USA World Cup.

United States 0-3 Czech Republic

ESPNsoccernet - World Cup - United States v Czech Republic Report

The favorite, Brazil, is looking strong though.

Brazil 1-0 Croatia: Kaka cracker

ESPNsoccernet - World Cup - Brazil v Croatia Report

I am trying out the new auto-blogging feature of the browser Flock

   

technorati tags:WorldCup, Soccer, Flock

Linkage

Here are some interesting links.


Mike pointed out the Music Genome Project to me.


I also wanted to try out this free app QLiner Hotkeys.


If anyone didn't hear, I hurt my right knee now. It is still somewhat swollen up but I can get around fine. I think I am going to eventually get surgery on both and stop playing soccer for a long while :|

monitorZ

My new 24" monitor came. The pictures don't do it justice. It is quite huge :) I know who needs that much monitor space? I DO!

Old Skool and New Skool

For those of you not from the midwest we are all shotgunning beers at the Indy 500 last weekend.

And here is an old school photo of Kris, Robbie, Romo and me at Squaw Valley. I think this photo was taken in 2001 or 2002.

Dell 24" Widescreen

Oops. Nic seems to be having a bad influence on me. This should look nice next to my 20" regular aspect monitor. Dual Display FTW!

Indy 500

So here is where I was this weekend. Good times. Instead of getting grand-stand seats we just sat on the grass mound between turns 3 and 4 and watched the game from there. The infield tickets are only $20. I had heard that the Indy 500 was the #1 event in the US for budweiser sales and it seemed like that was true :).

Do I Need ACL Surgery?

Do I Need ACL Surgery?


For now, the answer is No.

Threadless Summer Sale

Threadless is having its $10 summer sale :)

We are so outta here

We are so outta here - Mike and Star's Europe trip. I am so jealous I can taste it. I have to convince my parents to do a europe trip.