Doing Pokémon Go, I tripped, fell, and hurt my right ankle within 15 minutes of walking through the park. Also further cracked my phone screen in the fall ( Read more... )

Since my left ankle I injured Wednesday got worse, Friday morning I went to the podiatrist, and she wants me to wear a podiatric boot for 4 weeks and is worried about soft tissue damage, like tendon tearing, so I have an MRI appointment for February 6 ( Read more... )

So I've had to put off visiting my friend a bit due to a few things: injuring my right ankle (again) Monday night, major cold snap, flooding in New Jersey, coming snowstorm, Amtrak canceling some of its schedule. I've had worse ankle injuries but babying it the first few days is important and getting myself to a train or bus station would require ( Read more... )

I broke down and bought myself much needed new shoes, which were of course much more expensive now than they were two years ago when I bought the last pair. But the new shoes are so much better for my ankles and stability now that I'm no longer having to fight myself from rocking backward and tilting to match the massively worn-out parts of the ( Read more... )

Long time readers know I've rolled both ankles multiple times, with damage ranging from "inconvenient" to "I am fucked," but not for a long time. My right ankle betrayed me hard today, first by borking, then by sending me to my butt in what seemed like slow motion to the ground, the last of which always seems like an additional insult to injury. ( ( Read more... )

Having been annoyed by how badly Thor: Love and Thunder combined music with images and action, I watched a fan-made video (of MCU content) for free on YouTube that showed god-tier editing. The beats! The movement!

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Madxthing makes a lot of really good fan videos in general, worth checking out ( Read more... )

Posted to DW Saturday 2/26/22 ( Read more... )

I fell today--nine months since the last time I fell like this--and torqued my left ankle. A tiny bit of bruising and a bit of swelling but it hurts. Plus, I hit that one spot on my right knee that always hits the concrete every time this happens. (98% of the time when I fall, it's onto concrete, whyyyyyyyy.) The fall hurt badly enough that I had ( Read more... )

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A novella featuring a day in which nothing goes well and everything is wrong, perfectly capping off two bad weeks.

( All of this might as well happen )