I FINALLY got around to doing something about my bad left knee—only a year and 8 months after my fateful Ventura-Ojai bike ride. The good news: I can get it fixed. The bad news: all the time I wasted and unnecessary pain I experienced.

So last week I finally went in for an MRI on my knee. This was a result of my getting fed up with the nagging pain in my left knee, the loss of mobility and the fear that I wouldn’t be able to sit in seiza position when I go to Japan. After several referrals, HMO scheduling games and a brief detour to a Rheumatologist (no sign of RA, BTW) there I was under the large, thumping monstrosity.

My greatest fear—more than finding a problem—was that they wouldn’t find anything wrong. I got the results this past Tuesday and sure enough I have a diagonally torn meniscus. GEEZ! I shoulda dealt with this ages ago (my original injury and x-rays were in May 2004 for cryin’ out loud…)

Anyway, I’m back in the HMO paperwork mill to schedule arthroscopic surgery to get it fixed. I’m given to understand that it’s a relatively straightforward, 45-minute outpatient procedure. I’m hoping to get it done sometime in the next 2-3 weeks to make sure I have adequate rehab time before Japan in mid-June. The doctor says I’ll be out of pocket for a couple days, then hobble around on crutches (which arrived on my doorstep yesterday) for about a week.

This is certainly good news, and I hope it truly does get me back to normal. I need to get back in the gym and hopefully back into either triathlon again or into a martial art.

Five years was apparently long enough…

Broke up. Couldn’t take being ignored any longer or only getting it once in the last six months. Eusebio moved out over Labor Day weekend.

Time to start over—again…

Anyone who knows me realizes I’m pretty much a gadget freak (which is really weird sometimes, since in other areas I’m definitely a luddite…). And what is the latest gadget on the market? The Sony PSP, of course. And—of course—I just had to buy one!

That in itself is also rather strange. I mean, I’ve never been particularly hooked on computer games. In fact, I think I’ve got a grand total of five games on my Mac—I just never had time, patience or interest.

But the PSP is AWESOME! The games are so much fun, the technology is first-rate and there’s a lot of potential for the platform. You can even watch regular, full-length movies on it—which will be much easier to deal with on the plane than pulling out my PowerBook (small as it is). I’ll be sure to try it out on my next business trip and post a report.

So far, I’ve got five games already and just had a blast tonight playing a round of golf with the Tiger Woods game. Lumines is also a lot of fun and very addictive—kinda like a super-Tetris. I’ve also got Wipeout Pure, a kind of sci-fi twist on the conventional car race game with flying spacecraft. More to come…

The other thing I’m anxious to try out is the realtime multi-player gaming via the built-in 802.11b wireless. That should prove interesting.

Check out the Sony site for all the particulars…

Hi and welcome to 2005. A New Year’s resolution I’ve made is to update my website and provide Blog entries more regularly. Wish me luck!

I’ve already begun the redesign process for my regular pages, and one of the things I want to leverage is the use of iBlog. I can communicate more effectively and quickly on timely topics plus keep people up-to-date on my comings and goings by being more diligent here. Look forward to new categories and material too.