Goodness Me, Goodness Me, A Million Things To Do

Wednesday, my surgeon gave my left leg the status "weight bearing as tolerated".

That afternoon, on several different occasions, I took a few halting steps... without the walker.

Thursday, I did some more of that. It's exhausting as hell, and I've got to be careful not to push it... but the more I do, the more I can do.

Friday, I was discharged from Imperial. Because, really, the physical therapy folks can't do anything more for me except supervise exercises I can do at home. And the nurse staff was basically giving me three pills and bad food.

However haltingly, I'm beginning to walk on my own.

And I'm doing it at home.

Where, to ice the cake nicely, I can has broadband.

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I have more e-mail to catch up on than anyone in the history of e-mail catching-up-on. I have orders to send out. I have a gazillion thank-yous. And, oh my, I have music to write. So I may not post as much as I likely should. And my trousers have no recourse or resource.

But.

I'm back in the saddle again.

How are you doin'?

Biden: His Time?

I have to go over all of the various and sundry recollections of Joe Biden's record and life story to solidify things in my head. But I do have one huge problem with the guy.

In my experience, he don't walk the walk.

I seem to recall a whole bunch of times when he got huffy, he got loud, he got in people's faces on national TV, he said the right things with an appropriate level of outrage and some sterling eloquence... and then voted for whatever BushCo wanted anyway.

My problem with Obama on this is perhaps subtler: He picked Biden to spackle over Obama's inexperience in foreign policy, at least as perceived in comparison to McCain.

We don't need "experience". We need some FUCKING LEADERSHIP. Some brains and thought and compassion and common sense.

This is one of several moves -- not a huge number, but noticeable and each fairly major -- that I feel Obama has made to hedge his bets. I'm sure he and his advisers would say they are "compromising".

Things as they are now are awful. They have become awful because of all these motherfuckers with "experience". We need new blood, new ideas, new ways of thinking and living and prioritizing and doing.

And Joe Biden ain't on that particular team.

Thoughts?