We watched the season premiere of Corner Gas last night - it was decent, but not nearly so focused on gas prices as the radio promos made it sound like. Not that I care too much. The new TV season is starting up, and MythTV will get it’s first real workout for me. It’s been performing great over the Spring/Summer, but now we get to see how well it will do with a full slate of shows to record. I think I’ve only set it up to record one show that we haven’t watched before (My Name is Earl) with a bunch of shows that we used to watch being done already. The nicest thing about Myth is that I don’t have to manually schedule stuff around football games anymore - I can just let Myth do the best it can.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Is this cartoon going on the air live?” - Homer

I had a doctor’s appointment this morning, and got referred to a sports medicine place, because my doctor couldn’t figure out what the heck is wrong. The knee is still improving, but I still need the crutches, and likely will for a long while. It’s extra hard on Erin, since she’s also been picking me up from work every day, which throws the whole day off-kilter for her. We’re going to see if we can’t get something figured out so that she doesn’t have to keep doing that.

Erin’s grandparent’s were in town again last night, and headed out this morning. It was good to see them, and I think they enjoy getting to spend time with the kids (us too, I suppose ;)) My brother and sister-in-law are in town this week, so we’ll see where that goes.

We went to my parents’ place Saturday night, and 2K6 was played a little (until William decided it was time to go, and shut off the machine) and some football was watched.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Marge, with todays gasoline prices, how can you afford not to buy a pony?!” - Homer

Well, the knee is better, but progress seems to have slowed somewhat. It really sucks walking on crutches. I’m still getting around fairly well, but I decided that I will only make one trip up/down the stairs per day after I attempted a two trip day on Wednesday. I go in to see the doctor Monday morning, so hopefully there will be more news on that front then.

Erin’s grandparents are stopping in town tonight, on their way to a wedding( ? ) so we’ll get a brief visit with them - they’re leaving tomorrow morning, and back again Sunday night on their way back home. Meanwhile, David and Katriona are also in town for the upcoming week - Dave’s got some sort of supervisor training next week. I guess that means that I have to take 2K6 over there tomorrow.

Really not much else going on. I’ll likely spend most of the weekend with my leg up in the air, holding one or more sleeping child (wishful thinking…)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid centre.” - Homer

The knee is progressing well - I could probably almost walk with a limp, but I’m sticking with the crutches for a while.

Yesterday, I came across a type of logic puzzle that I was unfamiliar with - Sudoku. They’re kind of fun to do - I think I like them more than the typical logic/deduction puzzle.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “There’s nothing wrong with crabgrass, it just has a bad name, that’s all. Everyone would love it if it had a cute name, like…elfgrass.” - Homer

We picked up NHL 2K6 and a wireless controller last night, so when Erin took William upstairs to bed, I played some hockey. Overall it’s a pretty good game, though it’s lacking some polish in spots. I didn’t have room on my memory card to save my game, so I didn’t spend any time with franchise mode or starting up big tournaments or anything. I played three or four games, to get a feel for it, and I can say that I like it. There is an awful lot of game there for $30.

The unfortunate thing is that William didn’t go to sleep until very late, so I’m running on less than 5 hours of sleep — not a good thing. Fortunately my knee is improving by leaps and bounds. Well, maybe not leaps and bounds, because that sounds like it would hurt. Let’s just say that I can see me throwing away my crutches like some shill at a faith healing convention within a week (very conservative estimate based on past improvement.)

One neat thing was that the wireless PS2 controller interacted with the XBox wireless receiver - we’ll see how far the controllers are substitutable tonight maybe - I like the XBox controller more than the PS2 one.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Homer, nothing’s more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I’m sending you to a vet.” - freak show manager

The ball tournament wasn’t cancelled until after our first game of the day (which was quite a game - we won 28-27 in extra innings) which was more than enough time for me to tear up my knee. I hit the ball hard at the third baseman(? might have been the shortstop) and ran as fast as I’m able, knowing he’d have troubles fielding it. As I was running toward first, the first baseman lunged toward me, indicating that the ball was wild, and it didn’t look like he was going to catch it. In a brief instant, I decided to attempt to avoid the fielder, and duck out of the way of a potentially braining ball, and my left knee buckled. Sideways. I heard a loud pop. It wasn’t a good scene.

So, I went to the mediclinic, and got x-rayed and all that good stuff. The doctor there said he couldn’t really tell much, because of all the swelling and general pain. He thinks it’s a cartilage problem, and I’m hoping he’s right.

So anyway, I’m on crutches, and Erin now has three babies to look after (though at least two of us aren’t mobile, and are unlikely to attempt making scrambled eggs on the kitchen floor.) It’s actually feeling a little better today than it was yesterday - hopefully it continues to improve. I’m on crutches, and don’t move around much at all.

The ball windup was Saturday night, as well as the Rider game, so we went to Jason and Amy’s for that. It was good times all around. I wound up winning the poker tournament (embarrassingly, because I managed to bleed off most of my chips before tripling up, doubling up and nearly doubling up again in the span of four hands) I went all-in for 360 with 9-6 suited when I was the big blind, and got two callers. The flop came Q-9-4 or something, and the other two players bet it big, resulting in the next smallest stack being all-in. I figured I was done, but they both flipped up King high, and my nines held up. Next hand I pushed all-in and got called - I had the best hand (AJ vs Q9 iirc), but had to draw out on the river to beat his pair of 9’s. That eliminated the previous big stack, who’d just lost something like half the chips at the table. Next hand of note, I raised to 1200 with A5♠ and the second biggest stack moved all-in with K6♠. I called, thinking he was trying a steal, and my hand held up again. Next thing you know, I’ve got most of the chips, and I’m heads up. I limped with 67o, and when a 9 and 5 hit the flop, stuck around for a very small bet to see if I could spike the gutshot. Sure enough, an 8 came on the turn, and we finished the game right there. (The other guy had J6o as it turned out.) I was really just playing fast and loose because my ride was leaving, and I didn’t think I had much of a shot, then I kept getting chips ;)

Yesterday was fairly quiet - since I couldn’t really get out of my chair very often. I feel pretty bad at all the extra work I’ve dumped on Erin, with not being able to chase William or calm Julia by walking her around.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Excellent all the pieces of my plan are falling into place.” - Mr. Burns

I’ve been looking forward to picking up NHL 2K6 for a while now, and it should have been available by now. Some sort of shipping strike somewhere has delayed the delivery of the PS2 version of it, and it won’t be available until after the weekend at the earliest. Apparently the Xbox version is available right now, but since I don’t want to subscribe to XBox Live, I will wait for the PS2 version.

Erin is bringing Julia in to the office today for a meet’n'greet. The plan is to drop William off at my parents’ place and just bring Julia, which should make for a slightly calmer time.

This weekend is the season ending ball tournament and windup. Hopefully the weather co-operates with us, and we can get out there for one last kick at the cat.

Simpsons’ quote of the day: “You go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch ‘em in the face, and for what? So some pimply little puke can treat you like dirt because you’re not on the team. Well, I’m better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt. I mean not that fancy store bought dirt. That stuffs loaded with nutrients. I… I can’t compete with that stuff.” - Moe