Laura called me “just to talk” and asked me how I was doing with my ankle and what not. She also asked if I was going out or if I was just drinking by myself. Just to clear this up, I’m not an alcoholic in the sense that I NEED to have a drink each night. Since this injury I haven’t consumed a sip of alcohol going on almost two weeks. I drink because I think it’s fun and makes life more entertaining. Now, I am an alcoholic in the sense that I 100% completely abuse drinking. There is no off switch when it comes to having enough. I pretty much drink myself into oblivion and even though this is a different type of alcoholic, it’s just as dangerous. I just wanted to clear that up so my readers know what type of drunk I am.

My brackets have been going pretty well as I never had Louisville advancing past the next game and actually had Richmond to the Sweet 16 in all 3. I’m still waiting for the last 4 games but I swept the 7:00 games. Bake’s pick is to take UCLA with the points so I jumped on board that as well. I’ve been devoting more and more time towards poker and have posted winning day 8 of the last 9 for a profit of 500 bucks in 10 days. I haven’t had any big days yet so I’m still waiting to break through but I can sense it’s close. It sort of nullifies any money I use for sports betting because it’s all pocket change. I’m also reading the book Toys and will post a review after I finish the book. It’s 368 pages and I’m already 200 of the way through in 3+ hours of reading so it’s a real shorty.

I haven’t been posting to many updates to anything mainly because I’m not doing anything. On Friday, I went to the ER because of this:

So blood started going into my toes so I decided it was probably a good idea to visit the hospital but as it turns out it’s only a hematoma and there was nothing to do but elevate it and ice it. I played a good amount of online poker. I watched Jackass 3d, the Lost Boys, and inception. I can tell I’m still a week or two from even walking which still blows and I’m just hoping the ankle heals back to normal because it feels really funny trying to walk. As of now, life is slow.

We aren’t Yeah 3x by Chris Brown quite yet. I’m just starting to get used to everything taking 3x as long to do. Waking up, getting ready, moving, and just about anything else I can think of takes longer. I also hardly move around so my intake of food has been significantly less. I ate breakfast today at 9 and it’s 2pm and I have no feeling of hunger. I’ve honestly just been playing gobs and gobs of online poker because I don’t have to move and it entertains me. I’ve final tabled 2 of the 180 mans in the last 2 days with a 3rd and a 7th. I also got 24th out of 1650 people in a $11 dollar turbo. I have a feeling this weekend is going to contain more online poker then I know what to do with but it’s only a matter of time before I break though because I’ve been playing some really good poker. I even cashed 4 out of 4 180 man tournaments which is pretty impressive in itself.

I’m still unable to walk so my thinking of only a few days to let it heal and at least I’ll be able to walk again was incorrect. I have this walking boot but the ankle is still pretty purple near the ligament damage so it’s not even close to fully healed. At least the swelling of the actual ankle has gone down. The walking boot doesn’t really help though because I still can’t walk right without the crutches. At first I was pretty depressed but now I just want to get through these couple of weeks and at least walk again without feeling handicapped. I really have a new found respect for people who have to deal with an issue like this on a daily basis because if people with problems similar to mine are able to accomplish things, and I can’t accomplish shit with all my features in tact, I must be doing it wrong. I’m going to remain sober and probably be a hermit this weekend but I just don’t see any reason to jeopardize the recovery by trying to do anything “fun”. I have a post on normalcy that I’m working on and will hope to finish up by Saturday that I think is pretty funny.

So I’ve reached day #5 of my busted ankle and I spent the full day at work. I’m limited to sitting and talking so that sort of makes my duties easier to fulfill. It’s hard to get distracted when you can’t really do anything else. I’ve gotten used to crutching around but it’s a slower process and traveling longer distances can get tiring. I almost bit the dust today when I tried to take a shower and put some pressure on my bad ankle and nearly slipped. Everything you do can easily turn into something worse if you aren’t careful. Sleeping was annoying because I tried to sleep without the boot and then my ankle would start to turn in a weird direction and that would be mildly painful but enough to wake me up. I then decided to just sleep in the boot and that sort of helped but mid way through the night I ended up kicking that off. The worst part about this is trying to take something somewhere. It’s extremely difficult to clutch something in your hand and take it somewhere while on crutches. The holding of the item and the holding of the crutch don’t coincide so well. Someone needs to make a pouch on the crutch. I also don’t feel comfortable going anywhere on crutches. I just feel like a giant inconvenience and not only that but it’s a hassle to reach into pockets or move out of the way. I’m just hoping this heals faster than expected.

I’ll stop blogging about this whole process because it’s not that interesting but I still have to get my frustrations out of my system in the early going. I can’t imagine coming up with too many creative topics in the near term as my interaction with people will dwindle. When I was sitting in the room at the doctors yesterday I could overhear these females talking about this other girls hairstyle and this one lady much have said “it looks good, it looks great, I love it” like 3 times in a row. There would be a slight stop to the conversation and she would just blurt this phrase out. If I could have walked I would have gotten up and strangled her but alas. I’ve lost the feeling of depression now because I won’t need any surgery and it’s basically let it heal on its on which is finally a break. Everyone always uses that joke too and now I’m just like ha. Aside from people laughing when I’m hopping around or calling me a gimp, I should be able to make it through this unscathed. At least it provided for 3 days of blog material.

750 unique people found my blog yesterday which is pretty much off the chart. I almost had a day where 400 people showed up but yesterday was tops by far. You break an ankle and then all of a sudden people start noticing you. I had people pushing buttons to open doors today, asking how I was feeling or do I need anything. The extra attention is sort of annoying but producing more web traffic has always been my goal of maintaining rnningfool.com. Early on it was strictly for my own personal record keeping but now I’d like to see it prosper. I thought an interesting post would be to delve into some of the more unique search terms that people have put into Google to arrive at my site.

– Just to get the main ones out of the way “suri cruise”, “tatyana ali”, “Ashley Banks”, and “Alex Mack” all produce.

– Someone got here with “you clipped me” a little which is a reference to the career builder commercial which was funny.

– “Black Men in Manayunk” also had a hit which is funny because I literally think <5% of the population in manayunk is black.

– “Drunk Sofia Vergera” had a hit. I wish I had a story with this.

– “if i have two jack daniels and coke drinks how drunk will i be”. I’m hoping any one of my posts helped this individual out.

– “most people, due to fears of dying alone, will marry some jackass because they think nothing better will come along. they’re usually right”

– “What is Shawn Bradley doing now?” – probably couldn’t shed any light on this one.