Aftermath, state of the old farts

Well the physical aftermath of my volleyball experience has not been good.  Both knees are noisy and getting up from a sitting posistion results in a loud, unsettling, painful crack from my left “good” knee.  In a way I’m lucky I sucked so bad and only played 3 games else the damage would have been worse for sure.  I think when I ran my solo 2.5 mile run the week before I aggravated something in the left knee that had not healed, playing volleyball was akin to rubbin salt in the wound.  So now I am back on a holding pattern, back to not knowing if I will be able to resume what used to be normal exercise activities.  It’s frustrating.

Speaking of frustrating, I don’t know why I subject myself to watching state of the union addresses.  Those are the most annoying things to witness on tv in my opinion.  Everytime I watch one, I come away feeling worse about our government than I already do.  Seeing the congress that is 90% filled with old, white codgers that fart dust just depresses me.  How can these people be a good representation of our citizens?  They just all look corrupt and decrepid.

It was funny seeing Cheyney and Nancy Pelosi in the camera angle the entire time.  Dick basically had the same miserable, disinterested look on his face for all 45 minutes.  Nancy looked more pleasant but it was funny to see her facial expressions change when Bush said things you could tell she didn’t like.  Bush spewed his normal lines of bullshit, the same bullshit we have heard for 5 years, promising change that never comes.  I thought it was odd at the end of the speech when the state of the union turned into feel good story time with W relaying stories about a military guy, the guy that jumped in front of a train to save someone and of all people Diteke Mutumbo, the basketball player.  I just didn’t understand the point of including that in the state of the union, as it has nothing to do with it.  But after story time was done, W cleared it up by saying how these three people were good examples of what America represents and I guess, somehow he is responsible for that?  What a freak show.  The stopping for applause every 15-20 seconds is truly maddening.  Glad that’s over.  Can’t wait for W to get the hell out of Dodge so we can finally start cleaning up his mess.

The pics of the pine trees we planted and the wood stork party can be seen here.