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| THE PROMPT: "It's Weeble Wobble Wednesday!!! Think back, waaayyyy back, to when you were a kid. What was your favorite or most unusual toy? Tell us about it!!" What's up y'all? Just stopping in to kill a couple minutes, that's it. I've decided to make use of some municipal wi-fi, since my Blackberry can find signals at home yet refuses to connect to any open ones. So, we're talking about kids' toys today? Specifically, the ones from our youth. Gotchya. Ok, simply put, I was a Lego child. Or, umm, I played with Legos...I wasn't a child made out of Legos. Although that would be pretty cool. It would redefine the term "baby-making", for sure. Actually, I came across an article recently, I want to say in Time magazine, about a new generation of Lego kits that will be available...they're like customizable with iPad apps and stuff, so you're basically building your own robot. How friggin' sweet would that be? Gimme a minute to see if I can find that article on a real computer... Well, here's some of the damn article. Guess you have to subscribe to something with money that you can read for free in a doctor's office. Stupid internet. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2133320,00.html Anyway, that's so much more than what I could do as a kid, and I had a lot of Legos. I had one of them fancy sets too; although back in the '80's that fancy set just included some rubber bands and a pulley-type contraption that my pre-teen mind could never figure out how to work anyway. Hell, even if I had that same kit today I doubt I'd be able to get it working like it's supposed to. It always seemed like the big fancy kits always had one crazy step that would get ya hung up on. Then you start looking ahead at other steps and digging through all your other Legos, trying to devise a plan as to how you're going to modify your way around one step, which goes from three to eight steps, and turns your "Space Shuttle Launcher" into another parking garage for your stupid Hot Wheels cars. No, I'm not bitter about my childhood engineering skills!! Why do you ask? No, while others were building dream houses and tricked-out cars, I once built an arena that had a Lego-people version of REO Speedwagon. It was neither functional nor very detailed, and the closest it came to having any digital relevance was when an REO Speedwagon song played on the radio, and I could drag my radio over to my fake arena and pretend that the fake band of Lego men were singing to me in my own little Lego concert. I was probably a charming little kid to be around.  MUSICAL BREAK!! Man, they've really improved what you can do with Legos today! VITAL STATS:  Part of a sorta humorous actual conversation today, not brought to you by On-Star:Friend: "I'm gonna get going. It's windy out there. Windy enough that the snow blows off of cars when they pass by." Me: "It's just physics." (Right...like I know anything about physics.  )Friend: "But the wind and the snow, and it goes all over...(Insert undefinable hand gesture here.)" Me: "Yeah, good luck with that." Friend: (Makes un-emoticonable face and exhales) "I don't like you anymore." Me: "Yeah, good luck with that too." I'm probably one of the few who find that exchange funny (and no disrespect is meant to either of the occupants of this excerpted conversation).  Ok, so another ankle update. Ya ready? Last week I got my boot but was told to stay off it anyway. The boot is bigger than the cast I had. It contains a bladder with a push-button pump that I have to inflate. At least I can take it off when I go to sleep. They also gave me a script for antibiotics...one of my incisions was looking a little pink and slightly infected. So they bandaged it up nice, a few more trips back and forth to the office later, the thing is clearing up, and I'm pretty sure next week we'll at least start talking about the surgery to get the screws outta there. The only other good news from today is that I can now shower freely, which is to say I don't have to try and keep my damn leg wrapped and not get it wet, which hadn't been going well. Ah me, one less thing to worry about, I suppose.And that's what I'll leave you with for today. Who knows when I'll have this chance again? Stay warm, peace, and GOODNIGHT NOW!! |
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