Rocky Mountain News: Local – Your money at work: the new “Healthy Forests” bill will take $760 million of taxpayer money and give it to logging companies. Doesn’t it seem absurd that the government should take one person’s money, use it to pay another person to cut down trees that belong to all of us,… Continue reading Untitled

I think I overdid it on the movies yesterday. In one day, I watched Terminator 3, The Tuxedo, Solaris, and Coyote Waits, plus some other shows on TiVo. Today marked the 72 hour mark of my recovery, which meant I was able to take off my wound dressings and bandages and finally shower. It was… Continue reading Untitled

Yesterday was a pretty good day for recovering. I didn’t need any pain medicine, and spend something like 7.5 hours on the knee machine. I’ve been watching lots of movies and some TV and catching up on web surfing and a little reading. We watched the 2nd half of the Two Towers last night, and… Continue reading Untitled

Yahoo! News – Turkey & Gravy Soda on the Table for Thanksgiving – Sign me up. Not!

My Knee Photos – In case you care, here are the photos of the inside of my knee before, during, and after surgery.

Investor Relations Polycom Worldwide – Looks like my employer is being sold! There had been rumors of this floating around the office for a week, but it just got officially announced today. I doubt it’ll affect me too much, except that I’ll be a smaller fish in a bigger pond.

Last night, Beth and I watched the first half of the new extended DVD of “Two Towers”. I just couldn’t sit through the full 4 hour movie and she didn’t think she could either. So we agreed to just enjoy the first DVD. We’ll watch the second one last night. So far, as with the… Continue reading Untitled

I’m back already. The surgery went just fine, apparently. We got home around noon. My pain medicine makes me very sleepy, but after taking an hour nap I’ve been able to (slowly) catch up on my email, thanks to my laptop and the wireless network. Right now I’m on our guest bed, with my leg… Continue reading Untitled

Today’s the big day. I’m going to get my knee “scoped”. That’s short for “outpatient arthroscopic surgery”. I’ll be on narcotics the next few days, so who knows if I’ll have the wits to write in my blog. But I’m going to try to record a solo album while I’m convalescing. Stay tuned. Speaking of… Continue reading Untitled

I highly recommend that you make a point to go see Melanie Hersch, or at the very least go buy her CD. Here’s the whole story: Beth and I checked out Acoustic Brunch at the Cannon Mine coffee shop in Lafayette today. I’d heard about it for a while, but never went. The Cannon Mine,… Continue reading Untitled