Disabled

For my efforts in attempting physical activity over the weekend, I have been rewarded with two fractured bones in my right foot. So I'm limping, bed-ridden and struggling to make the early-morning, or middle-of-the-night, toilet dash.

It's not a pretty sight, so no pictures will accompany this update.

On the bright side, I have an excuse to purchase my very first cane!

Update

Well, it's been confirmed - it's actually not fractured bones, but Gout.

Yep, a form of arthritis, generally found amongst men in their forties with elevated levels of uric acid.

I've been told to watch my diet, especially my intake of meat, and to stay away from alcohol, nuts and certain seafoods.

Worst.

Possible outcome.

Ever.

What's Doing

Every morning I'm finding more and more hair on my pillow, and I'm starting to get very scared of the inevitable - I'm going bald. A few weeks ago I thought I had hope, after finding a strand of pure white hair, but I've been told since that it's no guarantee - that you can go bald and have white hair. I've hit jackpot, the best of both worlds, so it seems.

So before I let it go completely I am making a serious attempt to grow it. I want to savour the duty of having to shampoo and condition, to brush it aside when I'm engrossed in a novel, to run my fingers through it when it touches my eyes, to have the summer breeze pass through it when I'm waiting for a bus.

Right now it's looking like a badly cut mop, with an excessively long rat's tail - in other words, not pretty. But fuck it, it's there. And I'm happy to hear people tell me I need a haircut, and actually mean it.

In other news I have discovered the joy of listening to ambient albums. Prior to Brian Eno's - Music For Airports, I had always thought of ambient music as songs that didn't have words - and then I realised that that's actually classified as instrumental.

I wrote a love/goodbye/thank you letter to Blizzard a fortnight ago regarding WoW. I was going to post it here, but posting such a letter about a video-game, on a blog, would be just too much geek-loving from me, so I've decided against it. I will however leave a screenshot of me, my Felsteed and my Imp riding out to a Durotar sunset in memory of my WoW days.

For the Horde!