Kid Rock

I have a pretty large number of songs on my iPhone. At the gym yesterday, with the music set to "Shuffle," a rap song named Cowboy came up. I almost rejected it after 10 seconds -- I'm not big on rap. But as it played on, I got hooked on the lyrics, and then I told my iPhone to repeat the song. It repeated maybe 20 times. I really like the song.

Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow had a hit sort-of-country duet named "Picture" a few years ago, and I really like that one.

I might be the oldest fan Kid Rock has.

Well, Crap!

Doctor dude looked at my left knee MRI and told me I have a torn meniscus. He said it will never heal on its own and could get worse. Surgery is the only way my knee will ever be pain-free. Well, crap!

I found this image on medicine net.com site. It's not my knee, but it does show a torn medial meniscus, and the tear is somewhat near where mine is.

Pain sucks. Surgery sucks. Pain after surgery sucks. Last year it was my shoulder, this year my knee. Oh, well -- things could be a lot worse. The guy says I'll be able to resume all activities within a month. I don't believe him, but I do believe I'll be able to run at some point.

Inspiration

Every day, her goal is to walk 20 laps without stopping. When I talked to her, she was on lap #12 and breathing a bit hard, but she was determined to press on. She's 89.

I don't know what keeps her going, but people like her keep me going.

The Circle of Life

True story:
I was shopping at Sam's about 13 years ago, soon after a divorce that stripped me of most of my personal possessions -- including my tools. Sam's had a Dewalt portable power tool set for what seemed like a really good price, and I needed the drill, reciprocating saw, etc. I put the set in the cart.

Some guy came by as I was loading it up, and I remarked to him that this set seemed to good to pass up. He scoffed at it and said "I don't buy anything that isn't 18 volts." The set I was buying was 14.4V.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. Guy across the street asked me if my drill was less than 3.5" wide. I measured it at 3.25" and told him. He wanted to borrow mine because it would fit between drywall sheets in a wall (the 2-by-4s are 3.5" wide). He borrowed my drill and got his job done. He told me his drill is 18V and wouldn't fit.

Wouldn't it be just a perfect story if the guy in Sam's, whose face I can't remember, just happened to be my present-day neighbor?

This Could Be The Start of Something Small

I started a blog several years ago using a free Apple site. A couple of years ago, Apple stopped hosting the site, so I switched to a different (paid subscription) site. The guy at the Apple Store told me everything would transfer, but he was wrong -- the comments, which were important to me, did not.

For that and other reasons, I pretty much stopped blogging. On my To Do list, though, I had this entry: "Find a new Blog site that allows comments."

This is it.

I'm abandoning the old site, but my dues are paid up for the next 2 years. So all my old Musings are there for the viewing. Go there if you wish. The address is http://iHydexxx.com/Medium_Guy/Musings/Musings.html

Medium Guy