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<\/p>\nSometimes a good proxy for how much fun you have over a vacation or even just weekend can be measured by how many injuries you inflicted upon yourself. <\/p>\n
By that measure, I had a LOT of fun last weekend.<\/p>\n
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On Saturday, we took a long drive from home through San Jose, up Mt. Hamilton, down Mines Road all the way to Livermore and then back home. It was a nice 116 mile drive on a really beautiful day. Of course we picked up some caches along the way. <\/p>\n
At one particular cache<\/a>, I was doing some completely unnecessary rock climbing and I slipped and fell about about two feet. I fell on my chest and got up immediately. I felt a little funny after that. I figured I just knocked the wind out of myself. Eventually I found the cache and we headed on, with my chest feeling a little sore.<\/p>\n Later on my chest, paricularly my left bottom rib, still hurt. It got pretty painful and sleeping was tough. I think I actually broke a rib or at least bruised it pretty badly.<\/p>\n Everything I read about broken ribs says that there’s really nothing a doctor will do for you other than tape it up unless you’re having trouble breathing (which I’m not). So for now I’m toughing it out unless it doesn’t go away.<\/p>\n On Sunday Anne was busy, so I went for some hikes by myself. It was another great day, so I headed up to Skyline Boulevard, hooked up my headphones to my Treo loaded up with a Gig of music, and hiked in a part Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve of that I hadn’t been to before. The a cache<\/a> was way at the end of what used to be Page Mill Road.<\/p>\n The trail near the end was pretty overgrown and had lots of poison oak. I tried to avoid it, but didn’t worry about it too much. I know I’ve touched the stuff a bunch of times in a the last few months but haven’t gotten any rash. Maybe I’ve become immune?<\/p>\n Sometimes a good proxy for how much fun you have over a vacation or even just weekend can be measured by how many injuries you inflicted upon yourself. By that measure, I had a LOT of fun last weekend. On Saturday, we took a long drive from home through San Jose, up Mt. Hamilton, down …<\/p>\n
\nFat chance. Today I’m feeling itchy all over, especially on my legs. Yes, I was wearning shorts and I didn’t bother with Tecnu<\/a>. Dumb. Tonight will an exercise of trying to sleep on my back while trying not to feel itchy. I should probably just find a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"