Waterworld

I just watched "Waterworld" the motion picture.  I have been wanting to see it ever since we saw the Waterworld stunt show at Universal Studios.  It wasn't great.  There were some parts I enjoyed though.  The villain was pretty good and memorable, and I enjoyed all the mid 90's references (intentional and unintentional).  For example, the villain keeps praising St. Joe, a reference to Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood who was the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker (had to look that one up).  Other 90's era stuff I saw were those short baseball caps, almost like a biker's hat.  There was also this bungee jump thing where the main hero jumps off of a hot air balloon with a rope around his ankle.  Very 90's.  That and the fact the movie stars Kevin Costner.

The only thing that really bugged me about the movie was it seemed like the music was blatant... you know the type.  It gets all triumphant when the hero is winning the fight with trumpets and stuff, and then the villain gets the upper hand and the tubas come in, then the love interest comes up and the string instruments start, and then they make the great escape and it gets all full orchestra with the choir going "oOOH ahhh oohh ahh" to make it more dramatic.  It just seemed really obvious.

I don't know how they spent so much money making this movie.  I guess they built all the sets on the ocean and shot everything from boats and helicopters, which I could see adding up.

Probably wasn't worth it in the end, given the final product.

For anyone keeping track...

today was indeed a better day than yesterday.  I might venture to say it was downright above average.

Worst... Day... Ever...

I'm pretty sure I just got home from the worst day of my professional life. I won't go into specifics here of course I'm no blog noob and know that's a mistake, but suffice it to say, tomorrow must be a better day. Only one way to go from the bottom right?

Nostalgia 'aint what it used to be

Price of a Nintendo Wii classic controller $20.00 on Amazon.com

Price of "Super Mario World" for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as emulated on the Wii Virtual Counsel $8.00

Finding out the games you so fondly remember weren't really all that amazing... priceless

Yes Man

So I get home from my jog today and turn on the tele while I stretch and what is on but the Republican National Convention. Now generally I identify as a Dem but I believe in being an informed voter so I have no problem watching the RNC.

Here's the funny part - if you watched, maybe you noticed too. There was apparently one VERY enthusiastic man standing near the microphone with a sort of Ray Romano like nasally voice who every time the crowd cheered could be heard saying "Yes! Yeah! Yes! Yes!".

What a great yes man. I wonder if he was paid.

Tripps!

Take a look at your national weather map. See that red spot in the middle of California? Yeah that's us.

Triple digits baby.

There might be some truth to that whole 'dry heat' thing after all.

I was driving with Lauren and said man, it is hot today.

She was like no doubt.

I was like first triple digit day of the year.

She was like WHAT?!?

I was like sure thing babe, it is 100 degrees right now.

and she didn't believe me.

Dry heat is good heat.

The doctor was in...

and I've got Achilles Tendon Enthesopathy. Sounds worse than it probably is - he says it is totally reversible. As I said before, my number one fear is that this was a career ending injury. This is not a career ending injury. Here is what he has prescribed:

4 weeks no impact - elliptical running, biking, weight lifting and swimming are all fine
2-3 sessions physical therapy
"Aggressive" stretching -they will show me how in the PT
Daily Advil
revisit in 6 weeks (start running in 4 so we can talk about how it is going when I see him again)

Not too bad. Apparently what is happening is that my Hamstring and Calf muscles are tight. This, along with the running tugs and tears at the point where my Achilles Tendon attaches to my heal. These tears bleed a little, and when bone bleeds, it makes new bone. This leads to growth of little bone spurs, the hardening of the tendon, swelling, and can sometimes aggravate the nerve in there.

Anyway, if you want to learn more, see the link below. My favorite part? This is a condition that affects athletes and lazy fat people - not people who generally share health woes.

"Contracted or shortened calf muscles resulting from a sedentary lifestyle and obesity or athletic overuse are factors."

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec04/ch043/ch043g.html