Oww.
May 30, 2008 Hydrocodone, Inflamed body parts, Self-Referential Stuff
I had my gall bladder removed yesterday. Seriously. So I am sore and tired (and the top of my pubes itches like crazy where they had to shave me). I am also all hopped up on hydrocodone, which is a fine way to spend one’s Friday.
As an aside, though you certainly wouldn’t know it by my health history since I started this blog, I have always been a fairly healthy individual. In fact, prior to the migraine episode in Houston back in July, I hadn’t been sick at all for nearly 5 years. Somehow, then, I think all of this is Tim’s fault.
Don’t call it a comeback
Jan 28, 2008 2008 Season, Had to post something, Hydrocodone, Jacoby Jones is slighty less unheralded, Jared Zabransky, Roster, Self-Referential Stuff, Undrafted Free Agent watch list
So, I’ve been absent lately. I nearly wrote “notably absent,” but that would have been presumptuous on my part and, most likely, incorrect. We’ll just stick with “absent.”
Anyway…as I have bitched to a number of you over email or text message, I managed to catch some sort of virus last week, which filled me with roughly twenty pounds of snot. By Saturday, I was feeling better, so I allowed myself to be roped into helping someone move, which caused me to spend all day out in damp, 40-degree air. Apparently, this was a bad idea, as my doctor informed me today that I now have “severe bronchitis, a double ear infection, and tonsilitis.” Which is another way of saying I feel like I got skull-fucked by a rhinoceros.
Why am I telling all of you this? Because I like to pretend like you care. Moving on…
As has been discussed here and elsewhere, the Texans hired Ray Rhodes. There is absolutely no way this can be seen as anything but a fantastic move. Whether Rhodes is merely an assistant and is tasked with helping to improve the secondary or he is made an assistant head coach and has more oversight, the end result is that someone with a MUCH better defensive mind than Richard Smith is going to have input on the defensive side of the ball.
1Texan’s dream of a Jared Zabransky-led offense is kaput–the Sooner Killer is expected to sign with the Steelers. He’s expected to “compete to be the team’s 3rd-string quarterback.” There really isn’t anything else to be said here.
[Author's Note: The movie The Number 23 is playing in the background as I write this. I am, coincidentally enough, 23 minutes into it. Does it get to a level even approaching "decent" in the near future, or should I change channels at the top of the hour?]
Finally, it seems that Jacoby Jones is back at Lane College this semester and hopes to graduate this summer. Good for him. I hope one of his final classes focuses on not being horribly cliched and boring in Q-and-A sessions. Reading that was like watching him return punts against Tennessee–painful and awkward.
