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Re: [OM] Home alone, trying to TOPE

Subject: Re: [OM] Home alone, trying to TOPE
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:07:48 -0500
ouch.....hope you feel better.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Home alone, trying to TOPE 


> I thought my ankle was sprained, but something's broken instead  
> Now I've got a shiny new stainless steel screw holding some bone, 
> the name of which I can't remember right now, together.  I would 
> have preferred epoxy, but they didn't offer it as an option.  
> During the '70s and '80s I spent a lot of time crashing dirt bikes 
> on weekends, so I'm no stranger to sprains of various body parts, 
> and I became suspicious about this one when I realized it hurt too 
> much when I tried to walk on it, but not enough when I didn't.  A 
> Saturday x-ray confirmed my suspicious, and some yesterday surgery 
> supposedly fixed the problem.
> 
> If there's a bright spot, this injury has excused me from driving 
> to Texas for the annual Thanksgiving week marathon in-law 
> visitation, which this year also includes my wife's high school 
> class reunion, the prospects of which had me totally underwhelmed, 
> since I am becoming less congenial and gregarious as I get deeper 
> into my curmudgeonhood.
> 
> It's 870 miles from here to there, and her folks are scattered 
> from Austin to Galveston, with concentrations in Brookshire and 
> Santa Fe, and the trip was just too much for someone in my 
> (possibly exaggerated) painful condition.  So, she flew out this 
> morning, having left me with the proper amount of sympathy and 
> fully supplied with beer, steaks and everything that goes with 
> them, including, at my request, a whole chicken I'll put on the 
> grill with a half can of beer up it's butt for Thanksgiving, and a 
> more than sufficient supply of snack goodies to get me through.
> 
> Since I have procrastinated, it looks like my TOPE 16 is going to 
> be something I shoot, as the old CCR song says, looking out my 
> back door.  Like Hank Hill, I've got propane and propane 
> accessories, and the grill is right outside on the deck.  The 
> weather is nice, so maybe I'll set up a tripod with an OM, drag a 
> cooler of brew outside and see if I can get a shot of something in 
> motion while I'm contemplating and/or charring and/or consuming 
> some delicious cow flesh this afternoon.
> 
> Walt
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> "If I owned both hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in 
> hell."  -- Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
> 
> (Which is exactly where I figure he probably is.)
> 
> 
>  
> 



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