[Sca-cooks] What has happened to Adamanteus?

[Sue Clemenger]

Made out of marzipan?
--maire...uh....jadwiga (yeah, that's right, I'm Jadwiga <g>)
p.s. Glad to hear you're still with us, Master A!

Olwen the Odd wrote:
> 
> .......sounds like he needs a wee violin..............
> 
> Ol....um..'Lainie
> 
> >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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