Physically the toughest day so far, I’d never have thought that spending a couple of hours on the sofa watching the Sounders give Red Bull a good thrashing would take it out of me like this, but it did. I awoke with a murderous headache, two vicodin and a couple of glasses of water took the edge off and I went back to sleep this…
Sounders 4 – Red Bull 2
I never had enough energy to head into Seattle for one of the Sounders games I had circled when the schedule came out. New York (even with out Henry) was one of the big ones and ESPN2 missed the first 10 minutes when the Cal-Virginia baseball game went over. The apology tweet from Alexi Lalas was nice, but come one, Cal were 8-1 down with…
In the last 12 months…
In the last 12 months… 9 countries 28 cities I’ve overnighted in 3 people I played tennis with 0 people I’ve beaten playing tennis 43 flights 9 different airlines 12 upgrades on Delta 2 Upgrades on BA 17 nights in Guildford 2 Grand Prix 23 different airports 1 RCMP that I had dinner with 1 Adult actress I had dinner with 21 Sounders games 26…
Yesterday…
Its done, surgery went on for just about nine and a half hours and thankfully the last thing I remember before the recovery room is being told to take a couple of deep breaths and count backwards from 10, last number I recall getting out was 8. I was told in recovery (and some of this comes from Min, who had her shit together better…
A weekend of distractions
I could not sleep last night, not really surprising considering, so if this does not make much sense then that’s what I’ll blame it on rather than the usual narcissism and lack of talent. I was sitting in my office at home and pulled out some slides (as in photo slides) of a trip I took in ’92 to South East Asia. I’ve talked about…
A man walks into a doctor’s office…
A man walks into a doctor’s office. He has a cucumber up his nose, a carrot in his left ear and a banana in his right ear. “What’s the matter with me?” he asks the doctor. The doctor replies, “You’re not eating properly.” What a day, a lot to think about and not much to say right now. The problems with the tumour are more…
More personal thoughts…
I exchanged some interesting email over what I wrote about the whole “think positive and you’ll be just fine” thing I posted a last week. Most agreeing, but two were rather upset with me about it. I stand by what I said (as I do everything published here), I do think it’s an issue and I get the supporters have different coping mechanisms and that…
More Airplanes…
A great weekend and the decision to make my travel days a little more relaxed was awesome. No red eye flight after the race, just time for a relaxed drive to Burlington and a lunchtime flight home. All very relaxed and civilized. I got back to the hotel about 6 last night, dried off and grabbed something light to eat. No post-race party, it was…
Montreal GP – Race Day
So we made it through to race day and the weather was per forecast – wet. Personally, I like watching wet races, it adds a lot of unknowns to the equation. One of the big unknowns was how the cars will work on the Pirelli wets and intermediate tires as the teams have done little or no testing on them. And today delivered, I’ve no…
Some personal thoughts…
This is a very real thing, it’s presence if far more tangible as I feel its pressure 24 hours a day on my ear. There is no escaping what is going on and this is making it much harder in some respects. It’s more than being unable hear out my right ear, I feel it every moment of the day, and it’s tough to be…