Peaboy

The Mural Amphitheater used to be one of my favorite places back in the Pain in the Grass days. Now they have weekend movies which I didn't know about till just now and its the last weekend. The Seattle center emails were going in my junk mail, doh!

The line up this weekend is as follows:

Friday - 8 August

• Dusk - The Goonies
  Yes back when Cyndi Lauper and Cpt. Lou Albano were buddies she was in a movie that I don't even think I liked as a kid although I did like Cyndi Lauper's music. Hey, Girls just wanna have fun is a classic and now I know you will have that song stuck in your head all weekend! She doesn't really have anything to do with the film, but for me they both mark the same moment in time.

Saturday  - 9 August

• Dusk - Batman Begins
  The year is 2005, and everyone has realized how stupid it was that Michael Keaton played Batman so they decided to remake the series but now they are gory and the heroines are hotter. I must say, big improvement. Oh yeah the 1989 Batman movie also wasn't making money so they needed to rip off today's HS and College kids who could have just rented the original.
• 11:59 - Rocky Horror Picture Show
  All you need to know about this is Meatloaf rocks and Susan Sarandon is very hot in a sort of innocent girl goes wild kind of way. Oh yeah you also need to bring about 150 different props, dress as your favorite character, memorize the lyrics, the dance, and the lines and the crowd refrains to the lines and then while the movie is on you need to sing and speak over the top of the movie and if you're good act out the whole thing on stage in front of the movie and basically not watch the movie at all. That's the sign of a good movie, when no one watches it for 33 years and yet its still being played every Saturday night at Midnight.

I might have to stop in to check out the crowd for RHPS. I had my high school moments of attending that every weekend back at Shawnee HS in Medford Lakes, NJ... ah the memories... RockyCon2008 is in Atlantic City, NJ, of course!

BTW, whatever DID happen to Saturday night?

When your knee hurts and you are having a hard time getting around you feel like you took a knee to groin because you realize maybe you're not 20 anymore. You'd think being closer to 40 than 20 I would have figured this out already, but Peas have anti-aging properties that make that impossible. Most notably we have no concept of time or time order so I can remember something from when I was 10 like they just happened and frequently I can't remember just happened. :-)

So back to the knee.... This passed week my knee has been bad enough that I worked from home one day and moved up my doctor's appointment 6 days to get it looked at. I prefer a Naturopathic Doctor but I hadn't had a permanent doctor since I changed jobs so I went to the Bastyr clinic and hooked up with an ND there. He looked over me knee and said what everyone (yes you too Dawn) has told me that I have some tendinitis, maybe a strain around the point at which my IT Band attaches to my knee (see pic at left from AAFP site). That's good news because it means its nothing major and I don't need surgery or anything drastic. We're basically going to be doing a heat\ice regimen and I have a follow-up with a more specialized ND to look at what physical therapy I should be doing. I also went to an acupuncturist yesterday as well for the knee, that was a great experience.

While the ND was a graduated board certified doctor, I went to the teaching clinic for my acupuncture because I wanted to get in that day. Once they did the routine new patient stuff I put on a gown and laid down on a table. They elected to do needles and cupping. The cupping was to help loosen my IT Band and I think to increase flow into the area. To be honest I don't quite understand it. I've heard of it and I'm pretty open to trying things so why not. The pic on the left is of the bruises after the cupping procedure. They don't hurt or anything they're like hickeys more than bruises. (more on cupping)

I also had acupuncture done at the same time I think I had about 15 to 20 needles in me. That was very cool. I have piercings and I've done temporary piercings so needles don't bother me at all (Gary just feinted). These needles are VERY small and I barely felt them go in at all. They then rotate them a bit and adjust the depth to hit the right spot. I'm being purposefully vague because I don't have the right lingo. I need to read up on this. I can tell you they place some around my knee, one both my feet, in the webbing between my thumb and forefinger on my left had and then around my right arm in various (6-10) places. The theory as they explained it to me is that the right arm and elbow are connected to the left leg and knee. I'm not sure about all this, but I can tell you that they were palpating (touching) my right arm and they found places that hurt almost exactly in the same kind of places as my knee. They only told me about the connection afterwards. I don't have any pics of this I'll ask them to take some next time.

Today I certainly don't feel healed but the intensity of the pain is decreased quite a bit. I am still favoring my good leg, but I'm not getting the shooting pains anymore. I call that success!

I'll let you know more about the knee after next weeks ND\PT and Acupuncture appointments.

Dawn and are back from Critical Massive. I've been a long time burner (9 times) but this was my first time attending the regional burn and I thought it was great. My only small critique is that its trying a little too hard to be burning man itself and the NW has so much more to offer and it could have been a little more personalized to be more NW oriented, water, wood, snow, etc.. 

Anyway, I don't want to dwell on that because that was completely minor. The event location was great. The people were great. I even met some new folks (hello new folks!) and danced my ass off on Friday night. Thank you Blues Dome !

Going into it I was a little reluctant thinking Dawn and I should be up at the boat doing work, but it was a good time, it re-charged some of creative energy and even reminded us how nice it is to unplug and especially to get away from the TV. We're listening to old time radio tonight instead; When Radio Was on KIXI. I started listening to old time radio shows back in college. Its great to enjoy "the theater of the mind" as they say and the old commercials are great too.

I'll have pics up later in the week once I learn how to to do bulk conversions from NIKON's raw format in Adobe PhotoShop CS3. Post help if you know!!

That's nice Matty, I think you're pretty damn spiffy too!!

Its so nice out today (57F at the dinghy) that I took the scooter blanket off when I went out for lunch... I love my scoot. I forgot to bring my MP3 player though so I could crank some tunes!

I gave Obama a Benjamin last night... McCain and the Republicans have a ton of money, so I'm concerned they can outspend him. I can't wait them to run negative ads and Obama to give him a hug in return. ;-)

After being sick and not feeling well for a few weeks, I got a lot done the past two days:

• Changed the oil in my scooter
• Went to Lynnwood Harley to get a new battery for the Harley, installed that took it for a ride. I'm going to be selling the Harley soon.
• Put all the tailgate crap under Matty's, took the space case off the Subaru, washed and vacuumed it as well
• Put a new shelf in one of the cabinets which required a trip to Stoneway hardware to get some of those shelf pin thingies because when we had out last break in they took my case full of spare parts, didn't know that till Thu night. Luckily Stoneway

All of that and I went out for the first time in about a month Friday night. Definitely was feeling that on Saturday, but it was nice to go out and enjoy some drinks. Played  a lot of Rock Band at Gary's that night too. That game could become very addicting...

All that's left to do is get ready for my hockey gam at 6 and then its Monday... I really need to figure out a way to never have a Monday.