DarqByte

My liver, my liver!

Alright, I didn’t really bust up my liver. But I just think it’s funny to cite your liver as being injured when you’ve messed something else up.

So we came in third place in flag football! It was totally awesome, I tell you what. We won our first game on Wednesday evening, 12-10. I didn’t see much time on the field due to substitution issues, but the two games I played yesterday, I was rotating on and off frequently. We won the first last night and lost the second. I was unable to make the third game, which is the one we won to take third place.

Unfortunately for me, I managed to damage my left knee in the second game last night. I was diving for someone’s flags (and unable to get them), and I landed on a small “grass hill” on my left knee. I went to stand up and my leg wouldn’t support my weight. After a couple minutes I was able to start walking again, then eventually I could jog and run around again.

When I woke up this morning, my leg was as stiff as possible. I had little to no movement in the joint and fell a couple times. As the morning progressed I got a little movement back, but couldn’t lift it up much while standing. I continued exercising it and iced it during a long developers meeting here at work, and now it feels mostly back to normal, save for the big bump on my knee and some lingering movement issues.

I really hope I didn’t totally mess it up. Grr! If I can’t use my knee, I can’t continue working out, losing weight and getting into better shape.

So yeah, I felt awesome yesterday after my marathon day. I played in the two flag football games and played Indoor Soccer despite my knee injury. Felt great after all of that, I was really psyched up. I even got pulled over for going 85 in a 65 on the way home. I figured I was in for a ticket, but the highway officer let me off with a warning to just slow down.

How did I avoid a ticket? Because I’m nice, courteous and I respect police officers. He wasn’t a mean guy and I just complied with everything he asked, since he was in control of the situation. Nice guy. I slowed down the rest of the way. I didn’t mean to go 85, I was actually going 75 before I lost track of my speed. Grr.

Yesterday was fun, but the knee injury wasn’t necessary.