I tried switching to a different lo-cal morning news show yesterday. It just didn’t work out. They’re rather serious and professional (at least by local morning news standards), whereas the channel I’d been watching before has a collection of male and female equivalents of Les Nessman. So I switched back today, and good thing I did, or I’d have missed out hearing about the “relentlessly unrelentless” rain in California. Gosh, I missed these guys.

I somehow managed to hurt a whole bunch of my parts without really noticing. About the only thing I did was slip on the ice at the park the other day, landing squarely on my back. It didn’t really hurt at the time (except my pride, since people were looking; the good news is that I had just finished tying off a poop bag. Had I slipped a moment earlier, it could have been pretty messy), so I don’t know if it’s related, but yesterday was a day filled with pain (and today isn’t starting out much better).

First off, I’m hobbling around because it feel like somebody decided to remove about an inch of my left Achilles tendon. Makes it hurt like hell to extend my foot forward (or to lift it up, for that matter). Also, my thumb hurts. Fortunately, I don’t use it all that much. Of course, my knees and back hurt, but that’s a given. The really odd one is my neck. Or should I say throat? The muscles on both sides hurt when I turn my head, and are also very sore to touch. I don’t know if I strained my neck somehow, or maybe this is some sort of cancer of the jugular lymph nodes or something. Oh well. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was getting old or something.

Now, I know some people are kind of appalled by sports talk, but I just have to mention the phenomenon that is the UCONN womens basketball team (and I really don’t like UCONN). If you don’t know, they’re in the midst of a 57-game winning streak (having gone undefeated and winning a national championship last year). This is the second longest winning streak in womens NCAA basketball history. The longest? UCONN from 2001-03, when they won 70 games in a row. This past week alone, UCONN beat #3 Notre Dame by 24 points, and #7 Duke by over 30. In the 2000’s so far, UCONN won national championships in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009.

Even if you hate sports, you have to be pretty impressed with that.

Oh well, I guess I better get going. Takes me a while to hobble up the stairs these days.