eror2...

monday was a sick day and yesterday was my first day back. i had a bad weekend and it was capped by my bad tummy probs on monday. no food was eaten until 7pm. better now.

so yesterday i show up to work and i see this cute chick in the office that looked vaguely familiar. so i said "i know you from somewhere" and asked her her name. she told me and i then i remembered we rode the MS 150 a few years ago. we hired her company to do some accounting so that's why she was there. i mention her for 2 reasons. one she's in great TRI shape still. and 2 it reminds me of when i WAS.

MAN i need to get back into the sport. you're right G-man. my scale tops out at 352 lbs and beyond that it just says "Eror2" as in "error...2 damned fat" so that's my weight right now "Eror2" on the plus side my knee is getting better. not good enough to hit spin class yet but VERY close. in fact i'm ordering some fat mans cycling shorts today!!! ARGH!!! F-in EROR2!!! stupid knee, but it IS more solid than ever and i WAS warned this would take longer to heal but 10 weeks and i'm still having problems up and down stairs? it's not the PT's fault they are doing a GREAT job but when your knee swells there's little defense for that other than ice.

-EROR2 dominator

all swole...

well basically my knee is frustrating me. but i think it's a good thing. why? some days i wake up and it feels perfect. other days i wake up and it's all swole. no rhyme or reason for it. i mean if it had something to do with me working out or rehab then that would make sense. as a programmer and engineer i am a disciplined pattern watcher. and there is no discernible pattern here.

on the poz. that means my knee is doing better cuz a few weeks ago i didn't feel good at all. i will keep doing my bed hangs, which i slipped on the last few days. my next docs visit is next month and that's the one where he'll let me know if i can ride outside. the good thing is that's labor day weekend. if he says yes then i'm all good. in the meantime i've strayed from doing any swimming or spin class cuz i don't wont to aggravate my knee. anyone who knows me knows i have a HARD time setting limits. i have no doubt i would push it too hard if started.

one more thing. the MS 150 is in 2 weeks and right now MS is an incurable disease. i stopped participating due to injury but probably won't do anymore "raise money for X" events because i really don't care to raise money. kinda funny i started a website dedicated to that :^D but i don't like asking people for money. the point is if you know someone who IS riding and they ask you you should give cuz it's a good cause.

-knee all swole' dominator

shocking developments...

well 3 days ago i get home and... well let me back up. 2 fridays ago i get home and i hear a faint buzzing noise. then i get to the oven and the alarm, i never use, is going off. so after 3 days of on and off alarming it turns into a full time alarm. Griffen is scared to go to the litter box so when i get home he has peed in the sink. i went off. busted the glass face of the alarm (still going). i opened the back of the oven, still plugged in, and touched the pliers to red wire going into the timer. then KAPOW!!!

it melted the pliers where it made contact. yes melted. and the breaker didn't even flip. i was shaken to say the least but learned my lesson. top that off with an embarrassing story of me making a move on a married women (of course i didn't know) and i had a hell of a week. BTW my favorite day of the year almost was my last and the cool thing was because i blogged about people would have known.

the knee is better and i keep doing bed hangs. one of 3 times i go down the stairs is a good one and half the trips up are good. i can't wait to start riding again. me buying up a bunch of food at the donut store was NO BUENO yet MUY BUENO :^D

-electrified dominator

taxes SUCK...

that is all :^D

-dominator

4/14 my favorite day of the year...

for some unknown mysterious reason. 4/14 has always been my favorite day of the year. i think it has a lot to do with the weather in texas on that day. it's usually mild, sunny, the grass is green and the wildflowers are in full bloom. i try to always go for a mountain bike ride this day of the year. for obvious reasons that won't be happening this year. but i'm already looking forward to next year. i'm thinking next year will be the year for Ironman Coeur d'Alene.

big plans for someone who can barely walk right now. but hey that's how this whole "dominator" thing started. i was high on pain meds after my last knee surgery in 2005 when i saw THIS gatorade commercial. i thought "you know? i can do an ironman." from that day forward i started training, bought me a road bike and convinced stacy to teach me to swim. it has been a long journey and it's nowhere close to over but on my favorite day of the year i can't help but think about getting back out there and killin' it.

8 weeks today post-op and knee is still swollen and in pain. but the limping is getting better.

-sir limps a lot dominator

3 new mtn dew flavors...

OK, i love mountain dew. i admit it.

mountain dew has 3 new voting flavors:

white out

typhoon

distortion

now that is outta the way. the knee is doing better. what is different? i started doing over-the-bed hangs. the pain is almost unbearable but i almost forgot how important it was to do them. if i had more time off i would have been taking more vicodin and doing more of them. that was the only way could do them for hours i'm finding out now. tramadol is a good all day pain killer but no match for the bed hangs and the intense pain of stretching scar tissue laden ligaments and breaking of scar tissue that's under your patella.

in short it HURTS LIKE A MUTHA!!! but the next day you walk ALOT better.

so. that's what i decided to do. i can't tell you how much i'm looking forward to getting back on the bike. in fact i'm going to attempt setting up the trainer tomorrow. we'll see.

-mtn dew-minator

mentally tough...

ok, it has officially been 7 weeks since surgery and my brain is having a hard time coping with limping almost this entire year so far. yes i am progressing but it is so draining waking up with your knee fever and having to get ready for another day of hobbling ALL DAY. the rehab chick says i should do more exercises at home but she doesn't understand that the more i do the more it swells. swelling = pain = limping. so i told her tough chance. anyways, i'm hanging in there but it's slow moving.

-brain drained dominator

crazy day...

so crazy moves are being made at work. too much drama. i slipped and almost fell on the kitchen floor this morning cuz i need to mop up some bug spray i've been too lazy to clean. Rangers won, McNabb traded, Tiger talked and Duke playing for championship against cinderella Butler? crazy sports day as well. i just want to go home ice the knee and veg out. which is exactly what i will do. well hopefully. that and mop the floor.

that slip gave me a scare of a lifetime so i have got to fix that hazard.

-slip n slide dominator