Town hall, still stiff

by Duf Anything and Everything

They had a Town Hall meeting for people living in our area last night.  It was a meeting where they update people about all the things going on in our vicinity.  The meeting started at 7.  Ali ran after work and with traffic we didn’t get home until a few minutes before 7.  So we quickly changed, threw some food down our throats and left.  The place was packed, standing room only.  A lot of the speakers were long winded and boring but we found out some good info.  The best of which was they are building a new county park within a stone’s throw of our place.  We got updates on all of the road projects.  The good news is there is lots of widening planned, the bad news is it is going to take a long time to get done.  The county staff explained that road contractors just will not bid a job on a short timeline, they can’t get the staff to do it. 

After the meeting we talked to our neighbor who works for the county transportation department.  He gave us more info on why the projects are such a mess.  There is an asphalt shortage.  I never considered that oil is a component of asphalt.  Oil shortage = asphalt shortage.  They actually chop up and reuse the old asphalt they pull up from existing roads because of the shortage.  He also said how there is a shortage of the fill needed to create roadbeds.  The only fill they can get out of the local pit is “rough fill” that has to be feed through a strainer in order to be used.  It just sounds like it is all a huge pain in the ass. We didn’t get home until after 9.  We had to compress our normal nighttime routine into 20 minutes and then get ready for bed.

I’m now 5 days out from the volleyball tournament and my knees still feel stiff.  My good knee (left) one is stiffer than the right one at this point.  It has me a bit concerned, my left knee has never had residual problems after using it athletically in the past other than a day or two of soreness.  After standing at the town hall meeting for an extended period of time it almost felt immobile.  I’ve been off creatine for close to a month yet I am still having issues.  It’s frustrating.