I just got a second missed call phone scam attempt on my mobile number. First attempt was a few months ago.

If you haven’t heard about this before, you can go to this website to read more about it (quick explanation of what happens).

For anyone who cares, I’ve just added an RSS feed for new comments to this blog in addition to the existing feed for new posts. It just occurred to me earlier today how useful that would be…

For those who don’t know what an RSS feed is, go and read this summary. In a nutshell, it lets your computer automatically check for updates on a website and inform you when there is an update. You will need a RSS feed reader on your computer. Opera has an RSS reader built-in and you can get plug-ins for Firefox and Internet Explorer.

No photos just yet.

Just waiting around the hospital for an operation on a guy who rode his motorbike into a truck.

Worse looking leg I’ve EVER seen.

He has an open dislocation of his knee: meaning his femur and tibia have come apart from each other (dislocated) and the femur was poking out looking at me through a 20cm wound over his knee. This has huge implications, especially with blood supply to the rest of his lower leg.

He also had a very mangled looking foot and ankle which also had bones sticking out. My end up with an amputation…

So imagine Norm’s finger dislocation compared to this knee dislocation.

Alan, I’ll need a lot of ‘power’ from you to put the knee back into place…

I passed on a fishing trip to the Tambo River with Abbott and Costello (and others) last weekend because I had some stuff that I had to do. They ended up catching some huuuge bream from the river which are worth posting here, even though they were caught on bait *spit*.

I finally got back on the bike last night, nine days after my crash. In the back of my mind there was still this slight nervousness about getting on the bike. I had missed the Sunday morning ride because I hadn’t slept well – woke up middle of the night because of some lunatic doing a burnout on the street at 4am then couldn’t get back to sleep until 7-something. Then when I finally did get up at 10:30am, it was drizzling so I said to myself I would ride in the afternoon. It was still wet later in the day so I put it off yet another day.

I decided that I would ride Monday night because the weather was good and my joints were feeling OK. A new episode of Mythbusters was on, so I decided to get changed while watching that. Eventually, I got out into the coooold night (Thank goodness for the windproof jersey, although I am quite upset that as a result of the crash I tore a hole in my Assos…jersey). It was dark and the nervousness about bike handling was still there so I rolled down the hill quite slowly and turned into the side streets for the little hill circuit. Got a feel for the bike again, found the right gear and started pumping the legs. I decided that I wouldn’t bother with setting up the backlight on the computer/HRM and just rely on how my body felt to see how hard I could push myself. It felt like I was flying up the hill on the first lap but when I passed under a streetlight, I saw I was only going around 20 km/h. Hmmm…a bit of work to do to get the fitness back.

Anyway, I rode for about 30-40 minutes. Not much of a ride, but it’s a start. Just glad to be back on the bike.