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No blogs in a long time and I am sorry but this working from home is taking up a good amount of time.  Oh and the taking of a 750 Vicodin for my sore knee also makes me a little lethargic.

I was watching “Gangs of New York” the other day and I have to say that I am pretty pissed that Mr. Scorcesse didn’t win best director for that film.  I thought it had way more depth, personality, character and feeling than his others.  Don’t get me wrong, I love most of his other films and they are stunning works of cinema but I have never watched a film where you are suppose to hate the bad guy (Bill “The Butcher”) and by the end of the film you wanna pull just for him a bit.  I mean I did, his pride in America he has and how much he wants the land that he lives in to be protected from the invading immigrants.  That is where I was torn.  Immigration is okay.  But I say do it right and some of the people in the film didn’t.  They just come in and take over and that’s that.  I guess I would have been one of the people fighting on Bill’s side.  Mostly cause I am not from Ireland, Scotland or any other immigrating country.  Or at least not that I know of.

I would have most definitely would have fought with a big stick with a giant knot of tree at the end and had a notch for everyone that I took down.

I rented Grosse Point Blank and forgot how good that movie was.  Nothing like some good dark humor to help ya drift off into a nice nap.

Barb came over and we watched Batman Returns it was one of those movies that you are afraid to watch again cause when you were a kid it was mind-blowing and you are scared that it’s just going to completely suck balls now. That was not the case. It was still as good as we both remembered it. Thank God.

All the boys went out for the night and Barb took off thus leaving me to chill with Jake and my movie collection that I am about halfway through watching. I hope to God that I don’t get sick of them all. I would hate to have to rent a lot of movies from Blockbuster and burn them to make my collection better.

I tried to watch a bit of The Animatrix but the pills that I took were kicking in and I was off to trippy land. The weird thing is that I was having some weird dreams. They are not crazy like those dreams we all have. They were odd cause they were real dreams. What I mean by “real” is that they seemed to be about specific things going on. One that keeps happening is that I am walking to a movie or something with my friends and I have my huge brace on and then can’t keep up. I take the brace off and there is a HUGE hole from where they took my hamstring tendon to use as my new ACL. The funny thing is I am smugglin’ like candy or something there and they get mad at me cause we are going to get caught for sneaking stuff in.

Oh and you may be wondering why i am up at 3:21 in the morning. Let’s just say that my leg likes to THROB at wonderful times and say “HEY, I HURT! Change the water in your bladder thing so it’s cold and I feel better!” It seems to have taken on a life of it’s own. Everyone worries about guys always thinking with their dick’s. Guess what, my knee has taken on that role.

I think I am just going to watch episodes of FOX 26 at 10 with Audrey Kuchen to help me fall asleep. I have a feeling they may do the job.

DAY 2

The surgery went fine. I have to say that I was worried for a lot of reasons and then when I got there everything I was worried about was okay. I felt fine. My doctors were great. I do have to say that the best part about it is the anesthia. I think I spelled it wrong but it’s close enough. I will equate it to this: Have you ever seen the first Matrix movie? Remember when NEO touches the mirror and it slides up his arm and he is complaining about it being cold and all that jazz? Well, that’s what it felt like. I could feel the coldness sliding up my arm and then it wrapped around the back of my head and then all of a sudden I was OUT COLD! It was that quick.

I woke up then with the surgery done and I was loopy and my left leg was in a robotic looking cast that resembled ROBOCOP if he was black. It’s cool.

Now I am just sitting at home in my new room downstairs next to the kitchen and watching episodes of The Office. I am usually one who is okay with pain and good at recovering. Well I have to admit that this time it’s pretty painful. Most of the pain is in the area where they cut my hamstring tendon as the graft for my new ACL. Yeah, that’s graphic but it’s true. But I do have to say that I am glad that I have the meds that I have. They are helping a lot. My friends have been good too. They are more than welcome to get me anything and that’s awesome.

Mom is coming over to the house to bring by some groceries and then make me Mac and Cheese. Yes, they are spirals. Yes, my mom rocks.

Barb is coming over tonight and we are going to watch Batman Returns. I can’t wait. We are gonna have so much fun.