Senior Olympian Sprinter

A NFL football game ended in a tie yesterday and A LOT of people are mad that they ended in a tie.  Too bad,  I love a tie!!   You have good and bad ties.  A good tie is when one of the teams is happy.... they escaped with a tie--they were expecting to get beat.  On the other hand, you get bad ties when both teams  think they should have won the game and ended up tied.   Those are my favorites!!  Everyone is pissed.   So if everyone goes home mad, it is a good thing in my opinion.    And if they play again in the same season, it makes for some pay backs--better hitting, short tempers,  a lot of bad feelings all around... I love it.   The new rules on football allow for overtime in high school, college and pros, but I still like the traditional terms of "played to stalemate, kissed your sister, did not settle anything".......let them tie. For the playoffs, keep playing, somebody needs to survive and...

Today is my birthday, I am now 57 years old.   I appears that I will spend most of the day indoors, it is raining quite hard and windy as well.   So for starters  today we are watching yesterday's USA women's curling Olympic qualifier on DVR.    Linda and I both enjoy the matches.  There is a lot of shot making and strategy the whole way through.   And this winter we will get to see the Sochi Olympics curling this winter. There will be a lot of people yelling "hard" in various languages. Hopefully we send a team that can medal. Linda is recovering at a rapid pace from knee replacement.  She is fixing breakfast today and is also baking a cake!!! Yum.  She is making a German chocolate this year.  Yesterday we went to a wedding and she was able to make it about 2 hours before the pain from the knee and aggravation from the wedding party was enough.  She is gaining every day in strength and stamina....

I have been the caretaker for Linda for the last 7 days as she has been recuperating from the left knee replacement.   As you can see, she is getting around well, but she is still using the walker to support the knee joint.  We have been going to therapy daily at the local hospital and it is quite painful and exhausting, but it is critical to get the rehab completed.   After the daily sessions, it is usually ice, a pain pill, lunch and a little nap or rest.  Yesterday we actually tried to capture the  recovery "Progress" over time by recording the daily events that are improvement from the previous day as the healing progresses.  It is amazing the speed of recovery when you start at Day 1 when you are bed ridden to Day 2 walking on the steps at the hospital!!   Go home Day 3 and get out of bed by yourself on Day 10.  It is a very interesting list of daily accomplishments.  She has made fantasti...