off home today plus review of "The Virgin Queen"

My interior is still feeling a bit bruised in a few places, so I'm going to take a day or two more at home. OTOH, it's feeling much better than I would have expected right after the surgery. As much of a surprise as it was to me how much it hurt right after, I'm astonished at how fast the body bounces back. There's still some inside pain and outer tenderness, but I swear right after I was feeling as if I was never going to be the same again, like it would take forever to come back from something that ouchy. I guess what they say about guys and dogs (we only ever live in the moment) may be true. :-)

Another nice evening with Da Grrlz. Nora came over and watched her basketball game (at first it looked like we couldn't get it, but what had been blacked out was the previous Knicks-Celtics game that ran over--although I have no idea why *that* would be blacked out for a DC audience...), but the four of us didn't go out to dinner. NB was feeling a bit off, and I was still a little dodgy for transport. So when C & M got back from an afternoon of shopping, they heated up the rest of the delicious stew from the night before and we watched the second half of the Elizabeth program.

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oh, and...

I was very impressed that my surgeon called yesterday to check up on me and see how I was doing. Yes, the surgeon himself, not a minionion, called on a Sunday. Now, the phone readout said he was at the hospital, so I'm guessing he had surgery scheduled and was filling in time, but still, I thought that was pretty nice of him! He filled me in on the surgery itself (everything was fairly straightforward, he said, with one side needing a bit more repair than the other), told me the post-op bleeding I'd had was nothing to be worried about, said it sounded as if I was well on the way (he sounded distinctly pleased that I hadn't found the need to use much of the percocet--I think all in all I'll have used fewer than half a dozen of the 40 they gave me), and said he'd see me in his office in a week.

update to the Austerlitz link

Someone posted this link to a two-hour Czech TV program on the reenactment.

http://www.czech-tv.cz/vysilani/prog8314.html

I've only watched about 10-15 minutes of it, and I wish I understood Czech at all. I can't see watching the whole thing with as much talking as they're doing (and the frequent stopps to buffer the feed) but some of the images are pretty cool! (Nice flat-screen TVs they have in the Czech broadcasting studio, and I think I've seen something about George Best go by in the text stream at the bottom of the screen...)

SNOW!

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that is all :-)