As far as I know, you’re not supposed to have holes in your bones.
Click to enlarge.

eh..

Yeah.

This is not tan. This is dirt. That is all.

Well, there ya go.

The (not shown) lack of articular cartilage is actually what’s preventing me from riding. The articular cartilage around the medial condyle” (the outside part of my femur) looks like this:

It’s thought that the hole in the cartilage is catching and rubbing and snagging on the meniscus and causing tears.
The body, it’s a complex machine.

Yeah, so not riding for two weeks is pissing me off and generally making me unpleasant to be around, hence my lack of posts here and to twitter.

That is all.

So you know those days when you wake up later than you had intended and have a meeting that you need to attend and you’re stumbling around your house trying to eat breakfast and realize you don’t have anything to eat so you eat half a cup of rice with mustard in it and then let the dog outside without feeding him and put wood into the woodstove and get into the shower and as soon as you get fully wet the dog starts freaking out and barking like a nutball which he never really does so you get out of the shower butt nekkid and go let him inside and flash the neighbor woman while you’re letting him inside and then go back to the shower without thinking about the gallon of water you’ve just dripped all over the hardwood floors and then drive like a maniac to work and play it cool like you intended to roll into work exactly 32 seconds before the meeting starts and then you spend the day dealing with paperwork which you’re evidently the only person in your entire office that has access to and you learn that your receptionist really is completely unaware that you can attach a document to an email and when you show her how to do it she kind of freaks out and you think she’s going to have some sort of coronary attack and you really can’t bring yourself to care because you’re pretty much at the end of your workday after being there for all of 4 hours and so you bail out early and while you’re driving home you’re thinking about the hour that you’re supposed to spend on the trainer because you can’t ride outside due to the roads being covered and snow and ice, but you still feel the need to train because you’re slow and want to ride because you enjoy it more than anything else on the planet, and you’ve got friends coming to stay with you and you have to clean you house because one of those people is a chick and you feel the need to clean so this chick doesn’t think you’re a total slob even though she probably knows you’re just a stereotypical single guy and not really a slob and she and her husband are pretty much your best friends so you come home and slap the road bike on the trainer and bust out an hour but then realize it’s getting late and you still haven’t done about the cleaning debacle so you run around like a chicken with no head and do a whirlwind cleaning job and then realize that you don’t have anything for your friends to eat and they’re likely going to be hungry in the morning so you jump in the truck and toss two bags of trash in the back and go to the store to get oatmeal and coffee and eggs and toaster pastries for them and when you get back out to the truck in the parking lot you realize that you forgot to take the trash to the trash transfer station, so you swing by there on the way home and when you’re pulling into the transfer station you realize you’ve been behind the same car since you left the grocery store and you hope that the person in front of you doesn’t think you’re following them and when you pull up next to the dumpster you notice the chick that you were “following” is acting like you’re a freak and is noticeably scared when you say “hi there!” to her while you’re tossing bags into the dumpster, and then you realize you’ve probably really terrorized the little co-ed so you shut up and get back into your truck and drive home aaaaaaaaaaaaand then you sit down on the couch at 11:45 at night and write a blog post about it?

Really, you know those days?!

Yeah, me too. I just had one.

(with a nod to Ted King)

Two things:

First, this post is amazing. “Hello Hypocrites. What say ye now?” Sent from a friend and fellow geek at at work. Well done.

Second, is the fucking freakazoids that claim that with the passage of health care reform that the constitution has been “dissolved.”
From the comment section of the above post, comes this buried gem that directly addresses that topic.

Let’s take a look and, just for grins, start from the bottom up.
Congressional pay still regulated? Check.
Voting age still 18? Check.
Presidential succession plan still in place? Check.
Poll tax still prohibited? Check.
DC still part of the electoral college? Check.
Presidents still limited to two terms? Check.
Still able to sell, by, have and consume booze? Check.
Women still able to vote? Check.
Each state still electing two senators? Check.
Congress still able to have an income tax? Check.
Still unable to deny rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Check.
States still prevented from infringing on constitutional rights? Check.
Definition of citizenship still the same? Check.
States still prohibited from interfering with privileges and immunities? Check.
Due process and equal protection still required? Check.
States still subject to punishment for denying voting rights? Check.
Confederate officials still barred from holding seats in Congress? Check.
Slavery still illegal? Check.
Process for electing president still in place? Check.
States still have immunity from being sued in federal court by someone of another state or country? Check.
States still have powers not prohibited by the Constitution and not assigned to the fed? Check.
Are our rights that are spelled out in the Constitution still not the limit of our rights? Check. (No matter what Rep. Paul Ryan says.)
Are excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment still prohibited? Check.
Do you still have the right to speedy, public trial by jury? Check.
Still get to have a lawyer and confront your accuser? Check.
Still get to represent yourself in court? Check.
Still able to refuse to testify against yourself? Check.
Still protected from being tried more than once for the same offense? Check.
Still have a right to due process in civil and criminal cases? Check.
Grand jury still required in capital cases? Check.
Still protected from unreasonable searches? Check.
Feds still prohibited from housing soldiers in your home during peacetime? Check.
Still have the right to own and use guns? Check.
Still able to attend the church of your choice and believe as your heart directs you? Check.
Still able to speak your mind? Check. (As we’re doing here.)
The press still able to print or say just about anything it wants to? Check.
Still free to get together with other people? Check.
Still able to try to change a law or rule? Check.

Nope. There all still there.

Yes. Indeed. For as much as I really, really dislike stupidity, I really hate the tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists even more.
I’m sorry that some of us have to pay 3.8% to fund health care for everybody in the country.
Oh.
No.
Wait, NO I’M NOT SORRY AT ALL.