ouch.....hope you feel better.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Home alone, trying to TOPE
> I thought my ankle was sprained, but something's broken instead
> Now I've got a shiny new stainless steel screw holding some bone,
> the name of which I can't remember right now, together. I would
> have preferred epoxy, but they didn't offer it as an option.
> During the '70s and '80s I spent a lot of time crashing dirt bikes
> on weekends, so I'm no stranger to sprains of various body parts,
> and I became suspicious about this one when I realized it hurt too
> much when I tried to walk on it, but not enough when I didn't. A
> Saturday x-ray confirmed my suspicious, and some yesterday surgery
> supposedly fixed the problem.
>
> If there's a bright spot, this injury has excused me from driving
> to Texas for the annual Thanksgiving week marathon in-law
> visitation, which this year also includes my wife's high school
> class reunion, the prospects of which had me totally underwhelmed,
> since I am becoming less congenial and gregarious as I get deeper
> into my curmudgeonhood.
>
> It's 870 miles from here to there, and her folks are scattered
> from Austin to Galveston, with concentrations in Brookshire and
> Santa Fe, and the trip was just too much for someone in my
> (possibly exaggerated) painful condition. So, she flew out this
> morning, having left me with the proper amount of sympathy and
> fully supplied with beer, steaks and everything that goes with
> them, including, at my request, a whole chicken I'll put on the
> grill with a half can of beer up it's butt for Thanksgiving, and a
> more than sufficient supply of snack goodies to get me through.
>
> Since I have procrastinated, it looks like my TOPE 16 is going to
> be something I shoot, as the old CCR song says, looking out my
> back door. Like Hank Hill, I've got propane and propane
> accessories, and the grill is right outside on the deck. The
> weather is nice, so maybe I'll set up a tripod with an OM, drag a
> cooler of brew outside and see if I can get a shot of something in
> motion while I'm contemplating and/or charring and/or consuming
> some delicious cow flesh this afternoon.
>
> Walt
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> "If I owned both hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in
> hell." -- Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
>
> (Which is exactly where I figure he probably is.)
>
>
>
>
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