10/5/2011

I got nothin’. Well, I suppose I could tell y'all about the follow up trip to the doctor on Monday. I cut out of work about 1445 h thinking my appointment was at 1530 h, right? Well, I didn’t get there as quickly as I'd hoped but I was still there before what I thought was the appointed time. I arrived at 1527 h. Yeah, the appointment was at 1525 h after all. Now, I'm not sure if they decided to “punish” me for being “late” but I did sit in the waiting room for about half an hour. When they did call me back to an exam room, I sat there for, and this is no exaggeration, a solid hour waiting for the doctor. When he came in he looked at the chart, he looked at my foot, and asked me if it felt better. When it all appeared to be going well he said, “I guess it was just Achilles tendonitis.” All that time just for, “I guess it was just Achilles tendonitis.” He recommended that I take three more of the prednisone, then start taking half pills for a couple more days, and hold back a few pills for future flare ups. Tomorrow I start cutting the pills in half. Oh, mom also bought a pair of those Dr. Sholl’s “Custom Fit” orthotics for me. I've been wearing them for the last two days. I think they are working. My feet don’t hurt nearly as bad by the end of the day as they usually do. So, I guess I've got that going on. There’s still no word on the “Hot Rod A-14 + John's B-210 for the 510 Wagon and RX-4” deal. I'm not getting my hopes up John, stop worrying. I'm just reporting. Having said that, if I do get the RX-4 (henceforth to be called Rex because it is easier to type) I plan to keep the “Magic Spinning Triangles” engine in there. I have always wanted a rotary powered… something, so Rex makes sense. Sort of. Shut up. John, is Rex a Manuel or automatic? I can't remember. Suffices to say, if I own it, it will have a Manuel. By the way, I have decided that my writing style otter be called “Faux Auto-Correct.” There are many times when I use the wrong word because a) it is similar to the correct Juan, and 2) because it amuses me. What it looks like, however, is Auto-Correct has changed a word to what it thought I meant. Of course I do have to work hard when sending texts to make sure the A-C doesn’t fix one of them. Sure, I know that SOUNDS like I'm making excuses, but I really do mean to use “Juan” instead of “one,” “otter” instead of “ought to,” “Manuel” instead of “manual” and other stuff like that. What is a true typo in one of my rants would be a “then/than” mistake or a “your/you’re” error. Ooh, “then/than” pisses me right the hell off! I stopped reading, and cancelled my subscription to, a magazine because one of the idiot writers constantly misused “then/than.” John, what was the name of that VW Jetta sycophant who wrote for SCC I was always complaining about? Was that last sentence even remotely grammatically correct? Like I care! I just realized, if John (aka Spiderman) does answer those two questions posed above when he posts this rant, it won't show up in my archived version on the laptop. Hmm, again… don’t care. Ooh, Lordy Lou! I've got to pee! Be right back. And I'm back. So, speaking of archived things on my laptop, I was beginning to get pissed because I couldn’t convert my Open Office spreadsheets to Excel. My “Firepower Inventory” was the one I was going to be the most annoyed at loosing. Finally I realized I could convert them on the old laptop and save them as a file Tiny and Flaccid could understand. I took the old Linux laptop, the one without a monitor, hooked it up to an external monitor, went in, and saved the pertinent files as Tiny and Flaccid versions. Once those were moved to the new laptop, I had to go in and reformat a few things, but now all is well. Ok, so what else? Oh, I decided I needed some Billy Joel music last night. I went in to i-Tunes and sought out what I thought I remembered to be a really solid album: “Glass Houses.” As it turns out, the actual album I was thinking of was “The Stranger.” Now, “GH” isn’t a bad album, but it is no “Stranger” either. Having said that, I bought both of those, as well as “52^nd Street.” Here’s my thinking: I took a look at Mr. Joel’s library of work and gave a listen to the songs I did not recognize by title. His debut album, “Piano Man” I gave a passing “meh” review. Sure, there are good songs on there but, “meh.” His sophomore album is the aforementioned “The Stranger.” Awesome! (By the way, that was supposed to be read in the “Barney Stinson” falsetto.) The follow up, “52^nd Street” is also pretty awesome. “Glass Houses” is the last huzzah of the old (and some, me for example, might say “good”) Billy Joel. It is beginning to show some of the schlock of the later albums but I still feel it is, overall, a stronger album than “Piano Man.” After that we get into his ‘80s crap. Oh sure, there might have been a song or two in the ‘80s which were passible, but for the most part… well, “meh” isn’t strong enough. Perhaps “bleh” is a better way to sum up my feelings towards ‘80s and later Joel. And there you have it. Well, I think I'm just about talked out for today. So… yeah. Smell ya later.