[Sca-cooks] What has happened to Adamanteus?

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

Glad to know you're alive and, if not well, at least healing, Master A.

Regards,
Brekke
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius 
  To: Cooks within the SCA 
  Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 5:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] What has happened to Adamanteus?


  Also sprach Huette von Ahrens:
  >I have been noticing that Master Adamanteus has
  >been absent from a lot of discussions lately.
  >Has something happened to him or his computer?
  >Does anyone know?

  Hello, I'm alive. Sort of...

  Could we have a little tear-jerking music here, Professor? The tale I 
  am about to tell is not pretty... The not-so-short and not-so-sweet 
  version is that over the summer I became aware (yeah, this sounds 
  really dumb) of some problems with my legs -- basically tendinitis in 
  both Achilles tendons. I attempted to correct this, or at least keep 
  it from getting worse, by vigorously exercising, hiking locally, and 
  such.

  Eventually, when this did not improve, my doctor sent me to a 
  physical therapist, who determined that there was some pretty 
  serious, broad-spectrum joint damage to ankles, knees, and hips. 
  Nothing irreversible, but requiring a lot of work to more or less 
  redesign my entire stride. I have about six exercises to do in 
  between the three or four sessions of PT per week. Not only does this 
  take up a lot of time, but it is also very tiring.

  A couple of weeks ago, I also came down with some kind of flu-like 
  symptoms, your basic 48-hour bug, with heavy concentration on chills, 
  fever, and, of course, aches and pains in the joints. (This is 
  something I have experienced so infrequently in my life that I 
  honestly didn't recognize the symptoms for what they were.) While in 
  the middle of all this, I managed to throw my back out pretty 
  spectacularly (still not sure how this occurred, but I was probably 
  low-level delirious at the time, so whatever it was I did must have 
  seemed like a terrific idea at the time). Naturally, being me, I 
  attributed the pain of this injury to the flu, and ignored it, apart 
  from the occasional ibuprofen (acetaminophen being The Devil's 
  Placebo Analgesic).

  It also turns out that I am no longer able to injure my back, see my 
  chiropractor once, and be 100% healed the next day, which was, once 
  upon a time, my standard experience. I must be old or something ;-). 
  I'd better learn how to do that before it kills me.

  Anyway, I have a messed-up back, am dealing with the chiropractor 
  three times a week instead of the physical therapy (temporarily 
  suspended), am looking forward to the comparative luxury of painful 
  PT four times a week, and am not able to sit at the computer for very 
  long stretches.

  Add to this the fact that my lady wife has volunteered for a job in 
  the PTA of my son's school, and it turns out this involves a lot of 
  computer time. Naturally, this machine is the only one of three 
  available computers we have that'll do the job, at the moment. So 
  some of the time I could actually be at this machine, being a good 
  and more active list-member, I actually can't get at this machine, it 
  being occupied with all sorts of Book Fairs, Bake Sales,  auctions, 
  etc. At least she no longer complains about my changing the OS about 
  every six months... Oh, and I forgot to mention I have also been 
  transcoding a lot of video footage, which can be very 
  processor-intensive, sometimes occupying nearly every bit of power 
  this machine possesses, for anywhere from 20 minutes to two days at a 
  time, depending on exactly what I'm doing, and how.

  I feel like a cross between some kind of Warner Brothers cartoon 
  villain, caught out in a rain of anvils and old-fashioned 
  cannonball-shaped bombs, and Kenny from "South Park".

  I owe profound apologies to several people on this list for being 
  incommunicado for so long, but the past couple of months have been 
  difficult. I've been trying to at least read most of the posts from 
  this list, if not respond to them. I also expect things to improve, 
  gradually. I stress the word "gradually", because if all this becomes 
  a major topic of conversation, I probably won't be able to take part 
  in it, not for a while.

  Ah, well, back to Bernard Cornwell... many thanks for thinking of me...

    Kenn... I mean, Adamantius
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