things are starting to look brighter



i can't really say i'm at the home stretch of this injury. what it has taught me is that even though i get significantly better each week, i have a lot of significant progress to make. i have, just in the last week, developed a routine that will basically eliminate mild to moderate inflammation within a few hours. severe inflammation proably would take a day. this helps me tremendously. makes me feel a lot better, and my body can continue to heal faster without inflammation.



my first win at chess

after about 20 games or so, i was finally able to beat the computer. but i'm still in the beginning stages and still suck at chess. i think the shockwave.com's difficulty on level 1 is set way too hard. it might not play like BIG BLUE, but it never makes any mistakes and always thinks 2 steps ahead of your every move. hard to jump on the steep learning curve. on level 1, the computer should at least make some mistakes a beginning player would.



anyone a big Twilight Zone fan? i thought i was going to have to spend half a grand on the Twilight Zone collection because it would be impossible to find all the episodes online. well, i was wrong. I finished yesterday. Exactly a month from the day I started. if anyone wants a copy, bring a 40 gig hard drive with ya next time. it wasn't as hard as NewsRadio that was a 3 month long project, but then again, i wasn't there to watch it 18 hours a day.



So now I have complete collections of:

24 (permanent)

Alias (soon to be deleted)

CSI (permanent)

CSI: Miami

NewsRadio (will be replaced by official DVDs)

Seinfeld (permanent)

Smallville

Sopranos (deleted, all gone)

The Twilight Zone (permanent)