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  • I was planning on doing a post about my return to work, but realized that I had been lacking any real updates recently

  • So you get a Random Shit post.

  • Healing continues. Still some soreness around the largest of the six incision points. But overall doing well.

  • The toes I smashed while on disability are also healing. Obviously not broken, but I'm still limping around. I would do this to my driving foot, right?

  • Dreading how I'd handle to the return to the work schedule, I went to bed very early last night. This turned out to be wise.

  • Going back was easier than I expected. A fairly light, but long, day helped.

  • How long? 2 stops in Milpitas, 2 stops in Livermore going out, drop in Modesto, pick-up in Stockton, pick-up in Livermore, and a drop in Walnut Creek.

  • It's that Walnut Creek drop that killed me.

  • I wasn't even in my truck. Evidently no one told the crew that loads them that I was coming back, so all the LV material was loaded in Raul's truck.

  • But I survived, and learned that one of our sales dudes also had his gall bladder out about this time last year... after a massive attack on Christmas Eve!

  • Re-learning food is progressing. Saturday we ordered a pizza strike. I ate an entire pepperoni and sausage pizza, less one slice, with not a hint of trouble. Huzzah!

  • I think I may have found the guy who did my tattoo after all these years.

  • Seen driving down 680 in Fremont, a Ford truck with a terribly drawn advertisement done on the back window in those markers that have become so popular. Off-center, poorly-proportioned, badly composed. But that wasn't the worst.

  • In giant block letters he was proudly announcing that he was "Forever You're's Tattoos"

  • No, I didn't get a picture.

  • Great news from the baseball world, Giants' (and Sunday Night Baseball) announcer Jon Miller has been named the recipient of the Ford Frick Award.

  • That gives us three microphones on our Wall of Fame inside the park, Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, and now Jon.

  • 16 days until pitcher and catchers report in Scottsdale!

  • GO GIANTS!

  • Oh, one of Jon miller's great moments.. Ruben Rivera and the "Worst baserunning in history." Enjoy!

Date: 2 Feb 2010 00:34 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] john-appel.livejournal.com
Good for Jon Miller. I used to love listening to him and Chuck Thompson call Orioles games when JM was here in Baltimore.

Date: 2 Feb 2010 02:28 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com
Some days, we pray for a rain delay just so Jon will have a chance to talk more.

I think my favorite moment was a Giants-Astros game that was uninspired to say the least, and had no score going into the 7th. Jon found more ways to announce the 0-0 score than I thought possible. Several times an inning. When the Giants finally scored a run, Jon acted like it was the single greatest achievement in history, then took the time to remind Giants fans of what a run was and what it meant to the game.

Date: 2 Feb 2010 03:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grimmwire.livejournal.com
In giant block letters he was proudly announcing that he was "Forever You're's Tattoos"

Hilarious!

Date: 2 Feb 2010 21:27 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allensh.livejournal.com
Jon Miller rocks...and is an avid Strat-O-Matic player.

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