Day 5, no vicodin

When I woke up this morning and wiggled my foot, it didn't hurt, so I decided I didn't need any vicodin. Indeed, I didn't feel the need for any all day. But curiously, I feel like I did less today than previous days.

I watched the 'making of' feature on Technicolor Dreamcoat and now understand better why it's such a school musical phenomenon -- it was written specifically for that. Well, in the U.K. anyhow. Way back when Andrew Lloyd Weber was just a promising young composer, a school chum calls him up and says how about writing a ittle something for my schoolkids to put on? And it grew from there.

I read The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman, which was fun as long as I didn't think about it too much. Haldeman always has bits that throw me out of the story, then I have to struggle back in again. But still, fun enough, more so for anyone familiar with MIT and Boston, I'm sure.

I finally went exploring Second Life a bit and set up a character. But it's incredibly tedious at this point. Maybe it'll work better on my desktop than this laptop. The tutorial process involved jpeg images of text that would appears and take forever to resolve into barely readable text. Anyhow, I realize I'm not the main audience for this at all, since I'm not into gaming, roleplaying, etc. But I'll explore a bit more. Any recommendations?

And in a return to normalcy, I participated somewhat in the making of dinner. Alas, I fear my days of being waited on hand and foot are at an end.