A VERY LONG WEEK

Again, my apologies to my two and a half faithful readers for not posting in so long. I can't exactly use my usual excuse of beeing too busy, because I really haven't been in the usual sense of doing tons of stuff outside. I have been somewhat naughty and played Wow for way too long and let just about everything else wait. There's also the fact that the pain is back with a vengeance, and I'm trying to figure out what to do about it. I will have to go see my sawbones next week sometime and see what he thinks about it. The last shot worked for a little more than a month which tells me that there is some serious damage there. Not that I didn't already know that. I do have bone grinding on bone, after all. I am fighting as hard as I can to not increase the dose of the oxy to 20mg which is still a very low dose. It does do it's job well enough to let me get out of bed in the morning without screaming, and waking up all the sleeping babies in the country. The pain also builds up while I'm sitting here at the computer, and the cripple ballet exercises just make it worse. I do those against DVTs, and those exercises plus the pressure stocking are doing their jobs so far. I am always moving my right leg around and making that foot go up and down almost constantly. I think that maybe, just maybe that miserable rotten pain is affecting me when I am at WoW. It's just there in the back ground, but I'm sure it has a part in my lousy playing these days. And I was doing so well just a week ago. The friend who sent me the game has been so great about helping me with it, but a natural teacher he is not. Then, one day he got it and managed to make me learn how to use one of my character's abilities in a way even I could understand. That was a first. I usually had to ask one of the gals how to do things because they knew to tell me to right/left click this, then do this, this, then that. Us females are just naturally better teachers than guys, which just might explain why there are more females teachers in the elementary schools than men. Of course there are some absolutely horrible female teachers, the good ones out number he bad ones, men too. I'm just pleased as can be that he got that through my thick head. He also taught me another very important trick that I often to forget to use because I tend to panic in certain situations. I'll have to work on that, as well as many other things.
Yesterday I needed a refill on my oxy, and the new doc gave it to me, instead of making me wait for my regular doc to be there the next day. I went down to the pharmacy, the pharmacist got the pills, and neither of my credit cards would accept a 13 shekel charge. Go figure. He let me take them, and I promised to bring the money today. He won't be there until tomorrow. Golan, very kindly agreed to loan me the 13 shehels, so I don't have to ask Savta for them. I have no doubt that he would have gon right in and paid within 5 minutes of being asked, even if he had to rob a bank to get it. It's easier for me to owe Golan as he is in and out of here all the time, and he knows I'll pay him back one way or another. I never get bothered by wandering around cashless. I got used to that back in Brunswick. There was pretty much nothing I couldn't charge there, and it's still mostly like that these days. In fact, that's how I got my very first computer! Nothing down and four or five monthly payments on 'pay day' like clock work. I never missed or was even 5 minutes late with those payments.
I saw Savta on Friday and mentioned that I was going to my butcher to get some chicken, and he asked how much it costs there. I told him that it doesn't matter as I get all my meat there because they have always been so good to me over late bills. I firmly believe in customer loyalty especially towards local businesses. Even more so to those that have been good to me. It absolutely drives me wild when folks go out of town for any kind of shopping. Keep it local, support your neighbors and town is my battle cry. Going out of town is like giving local merchants a slap in the face, and in most cases things cost pretty much the same here as they do outside and then, add in the fuel needed to get out of town.
The Olympics pretty much sucked for me this year. I set the DVR to record all the skating events and it screwed up just about all of them. I missed the starts of all the dance events and some of the men's. I took a lot of time last last night to sort out the Women's competitions and hope it gets it right this time. From what I did see of the dance, the results were spot on. The Canadian couple was the best, with the American #1s coming in right behind them. Our couple was great, and came in at 10th place, which is quite good. I felt bad for the French #1s who are just about my favorite ice dancers today. She had a baby only 4 months ago and you'd never suspect. He was skating with a monster brace on his knee. In spite of all that, they did a great job. I could watch them dance on ice all night.
As to the men, I adore Yvgeny Plushenko, but I also quite like Even Kysachek who beat out Plushenko for the gold. There are reports of Plushenko acting like an over grown jealous baby over the results, but Lysachek did skate marginally better than he did. Whinging and carrying on is not doing Plushenko one little bit of good. He was beaten fair and square. His skating is still a joy to watch. I don't know much about the North American women and am looking forward to seeing them. In spite of al the DVR glitches, I am also glad that we get skating on Eurosport and not an American channel. The American commentators were great skaters in their day and are knowlegable, but the Brit commentators are so much better, and a pure joy to listen to. I wish they'd send Dick Buttons and the other American commentators to leaarn how to do it from the Brits. The difference is glaring to anyone who has had the priviledge to hear the Brits after suffering through the Yanks. It's a night and day difference. Thankfully the Yank commentators don't have any affect on their skaters. They are GOOD. I think the most enjoyable thing for me is seeing the new up and coming skaters and watching some of the less newcomers rise in the rankings. It's also interesting to watch them peak, and start moving down in the rankings. The Brits and Israelis in Ice dance are still moving up, if a bit more slowly than I'd like. Some of my favorite men are on their way down. France's Brian Joubet totally blew it, which is fine with me. I just don't much like him, despite what the Brit commentators say about him. And I can't quite put my finger on why I don't like him. I do know that it's not because he is French because I adore the #1 one French dance team. So,it's not a French thing.
For the ladies, I hope the Georgian moves up. Her, I like a lot, as well as Sarah Meyer(sp?) the Swiss gal. She can spin like no one else, but that's no surprise. No one can spin like the Swiss and most skaters end up there sooner or later to learn to spin better. Stephan Lambiel's spins are out of this world too.
I so wish that there skating competitions broadcast all year long instead of just during major competitions. I can't see that happening any time soon. But I CAN wish.
Dance has changed so much that it's hard sometimes to see the difference between that and Pairs. I can't say I'm in favor of those changes. I also miss school figures. So, I'm a traditionalist who hates to see things like that change. I do like the 'newish' scoring system, even though there were a few times when it was obvious that the judges have learned to fiddle the system already. Granted not as blatently as under the old system, but, I guess no system is ever really fiddle proof.