Yes, I have been ignoring the blogosphere the last few days. If you somehow haven't heard, the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl Sunday night. Since then, most of my computer time has been for soaking up anything and everything Packers with a little trying to keep up with my podcasts. Anyway, I'm back...
And the Green Bay Packers are Super Bowl Champions! Woohoo!!
I have noticed these past few days how I've been too busy. Too much of my time is taken up reading the paper and scouring the web. Enough so that I'm actually considering discontinuing the daily paper and just getting the Sunday edition (or I think they make you get Sunday and Wednesday minimum - because of the ads, of course). I have read the daily newspaper since I was a kid almost continuously so that would be a much bigger change in my lifestyle than it sounds.
I need to scale back on my computer time as well. I don't follow nearly as many blogs as I used to, but some of the inane timewaster sites can go. Yet I browse those while listening to podcasts. Hmmm, I'm going to have to give up something I enjoy, most likely. I have an addictive personality with big OCD tendencies, which is probably how I got into all these things. Giving something up shouldn't be too hard for me once I put my mind to it. But deciding what goes is gonna be a killer.
Meanwhile, on the physical therapy front, I managed to reach 110 degrees tonight, barely. It took a lot of warming up and stretching to get the last few degrees. Progress is slow these days, just a few degrees a week, despite my hard work. During the day I do knee bends at my desk and I try to tuck my leg under my chair when I'm sitting to push on it some more. When I get home I do another exercise with a big rubber band around a pole and the back of my knee as resistance to help strengthen it, then I get on the bike and go a mile and a half or 2 miles with very little resistance while slowly moving the seat up closer to bend my knee more and more. All this for a few degrees a week, but any progress is good progress at this point. I may not get the range of motion back that I had before but I sure as hell don't want that to be for a lack of trying.
