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10 Mar, 2011

Day 5 on Broken Ankle

By |2011-03-10T15:35:01-05:00March 10th, 2011|My Life|0 Comments

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.

9 Mar, 2011

Search Terms

By |2011-03-09T14:53:12-05:00March 9th, 2011|My Life|1 Comment

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.

9 Mar, 2011

Broken Ankle Xray Update

By |2011-03-09T13:13:49-05:00March 9th, 2011|My Life|0 Comments

I went to an orthopedic specialist today and he confirmed it was a break. The good news though was that I don’t need to have surgery and I don’t even need a cast. They put me in a walking boot which I will most likely have to wear for 4 weeks. I think all in all this was relatively good news. I still need to rest it though and walking on it still isn’t happening but at least I can shower now with some regularity. I took a bath last night for the first time in so many years and basically had my one leg sprawled out of the tub and it was completely uncomfortable and washing myself with my own water still had me grossed out. Luckily I made it out of there alive and no further damage or slips. I have a follow up appointment in a week but for now we begin the healing process.

In an unrelated / sortof related topic, I find the percosets to not really have too much of an effect and I don’t understand why people who aren’t injured like them so much. I’ve noticed that my mouth seems to always have cotton mouth which seems to be an effect of the pain killers. In one bizarre dream sequence, after I took a percoset and fell asleep, I felt like I had a female robot voice trying to jerk me off. I’ve never in my life had a dream like that and it was pretty wild so maybe the percoset had an effect and if so, maybe I’m wrong on why people like them so much.

8 Mar, 2011

That’s the Breaks

By |2011-03-08T15:46:00-05:00March 8th, 2011|My Life|1 Comment

That’s a picture of the swelling that a broken ankle will do to you. Here’s a post describing the ER experience. Safe to say I’m out for any type of athletics for the next 6 weeks, most likely 3+ months. I received some texts and emails asking why I’m slacking on my posts and the easy answer is that handicapped people tend to do things slower. This whole process is pretty much a nightmare as it slows me down considerably at work and any type of cardio exercise is not happening. Meaning my Broad Street run is out the window which really sucks. It also means over these next 6 months I’m probably going to get fat due to lack of exercise which is going to make me have to eat healthier to compensate.

The one thing I’ve noticed is that random people take pity for a cripple. Everyone always tries to move out of the way or they say excuse me. I’ve never received this kind of treatment in my entire life. I also notice that people say it can be a good time to gather your thoughts and think about things but I have to admit I can tell I’m going to get bored and this is only day 3. I have a meeting with a specialist tomorrow who can shed further light on the situation like what to expect in the future. The reality is that I should be able to come up with more blog posts then ever due to lack of things to do. I went to work today for 3 hours or so and just the moving around and the constant action was agitating my ankle so I know that I have to cut back on that in the future. This pretty much eliminates all activities for me for a while but I’m going to hope to turn this into a positive and maybe fix a few things in my life. Aside for devoting more time to my blog I also get the chance to catch up on reading which I’m going to look forward to. I apologize to anybody who interacts with me for athletics or social events because I’m pretty much going to be living in a cave moving forward.

A few things that bother me from the micro perspective. The crutches smell like hospital which means every time I have to go somewhere I have this smell lingering and then I have to wash my hands and that starts to dry them out because they are getting washed so much. Also showering is nearly impossible because I can’t get this splint wet. With that being said I haven’t showered since Sunday night. I’m actually going home to take a bath which really disgusts me but I don’t have any other choices. I can’t wear jeans properly because they don’t fit over the splint so I’m forced to wear these nylon pants which makes me feel like I’m supposed to be exercising non-stop. Even the little things like hopping around gets bothersome because using the crutches for every movement isn’t fun either. Just finding places to put the crutches is difficult because they have such bad balance and they insta-fall and since they are like 5 ft tall they start hitting anything in the area. This experience will certainly make me appreciate having two legs to a further extent.

3 Mar, 2011

Best Porn Scenes

By |2011-03-03T20:47:34-05:00March 3rd, 2011|My Brain|0 Comments

I told my mom to visit my site tonight at dinner so I figure I might as well give her a taste of what my blog content is like. I was listening to Howard Stern today and he was telling a tale of how he only uses his Ipad for spanking it and then described that he liked baby sitter porn. There are certain factors that can make a porn scene good or bad. Howard said that he doesn’t like a girl with a gut and I agree 100%. You are in the business of getting naked and showing off your attributes so I can’t imagine it would be beneficial to not be in top notch shape. Here are a few of my pet peeves in porn scenes.

  • The guy shouldn’t talk or grunt, ever. You basically don’t even want to know he exists except to know that he’s a critical part of the main storyline which is the girl getting banged. His role is simple, let the girl be the lead and just do a good job of pleasing her.
  • No close ups. The reason a girl can be good at porn is because she’s got a banging body and a pretty face. When the camera zooms in on the actual intercourse, it could just as well be anybody. I don’t want to watch a zoomed in version of a dick going into a vagina. This reminds me of health class and not a pleasant experience.
  • The ideal position for a porn scene would be a zoomed out, reverse cowgirl with a smoking hot girl with big tits getting railed. The guy is completely blocked out, the girl is the center of the action and she should be enjoying herself which brings me to the next point.
  • The girl should be going wild. I don’t want the guy to make a peep but the girl should be having orgasm after orgasm (even if she is pretending). There has to be a feeling that the girl is actually enjoying herself to make the scene enjoyable. If she’s just half-assing it, the scene won’t come out authentic. I recommend watching Charlie’s girl Bree Olson in a tutorial on how to perform on screen.

    Well mom there you go. Look at the monstrosity that your son has become. I think it’s hilarious though because I prefaced by telling her that I’m 27 now and just be aware that I’m not a little kid anymore. I guarantee if she even reads the first line she won’t ever read another post which I think I’m OK with. She won’t ever understand the success that I’ll become from rnningfool.com but hopefully she’ll accept me for the fact that I tell it how it is. Next stop will be directing my own porno with all my porno wisdom.

    • 2 Mar, 2011

    I want to party with celeb alcoholics!

    By |2016-10-28T15:57:48-04:00March 2nd, 2011|Celeb|0 Comments

    With this whole Charlie Sheen spectacle ongoing, I think a good topic is which celebs would you like to hang and get wasted with. As someone who likes to party I think I might be able to spot a few party animals.

    Mel Gibson

    I’m well aware he’s an anti-semite and I’ve heard the phone calls to Oksana-Grigorieva, the guy is a maniac. He’s made statements about battling alcoholism and I just get the feeling this guy loves to get bombed and do crazy shit. He was banned from driving in Ontario after rear ending someone while drunk. He would drink 5 pints of beer for breakfast while he was shooting a movie. In 2006 he was arrested for a DUI and made the following statement “Fucking Jews…the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” I have no problem with Jews as most my friends are so I don’t support these statements, but I just think this guy would be a blast to hang out with at the bar. He probably has millions of awesome stories from being in the biz and banging tons of broads. I know he has turned off so many people with his drunken outrages but I feel like he’s probably not a bad person but just says stupid shit when he’s drunk, which I can relate to. Plus he’s William Wallace and you know he’s an awesome talent.

    John Daly

    This picture says it all because it should make you say wtf. His nickname is “Long John” to which is also hilarious (because of his driving distance off the tee). He came out of the blue in 1991 to win the PGA championship and won the British open in 1995. His personal addictions have gotten in the way and his golf success has been non-existent of late. He claimed he would drink a fifth a day of Jack when he was 23. He also has a drink named after him which is sweet tea-flavored vodka and lemonade. His gambling stories are even better which say he lost 60 million dollars in a 15 year span and 1.5 million in one night playing 5,000 dollar slot machines. I just get the feeling he is an overall likable guy. Just hanging out with him, watching him chain smoke and getting bombed seems like we’d have a lot of fun together. I just feel like his attitude is “I don’t give a fuck, I’ll do what I want.” I bet he’s great in bar fights because after looking at that picture it’s either that or he got in a fight with a cat.

    Tara Reid

    I bet she is just a sloppy, sloppy drunk. I also don’t think she looks like this anymore but I’d like to hang with the hot Tara and not the plastic surgery gone horribly wrong Tara. I just think she’s really sexy even though I’m probably living in her glory days of American Pie and The Big Lebowski, she can’t look that bad nowadays (she does). She obviously loves to party and I bet she’s banged plenty of celebrities like Sergei Federov and Carson Daly. My feeling is she’d probably get a few drinks in her, talk your head off but she’s guaranteed to put out so it’d be OK. Not bad in my book.

    David Hasselhoff

    Seriously this guy is fucking awesome. He’s a raging alcoholic and asked his daughter to film him the next time he got out of hand. Apparently (I’ve never seen it) she has footage of him on the floor, shirtless, slurring his words, and eating a cheeseburger. In 2009 he was rushed to the hospital with a BAC of .39! In 2010 he was rushed to the hospital again after a 3 day drinking binge. I don’t know how these celebs go on these multiple day drinking binges because I can never seem to hang past 12+ hours of straight drinking. They must all have been injected with tiger blood. This guy must have such awesome stories about his days on Baywatch and I’ve read he’s huge in Germany that people envy his lifestlye. I think the Hoff would be awesome to sit down at the bar with and have a drink, and another drink, and another drink until we’d both be so shitfaced we wouldn’t remember anything but have the time of our lives. I think guys who can drink as much as these guys do and be as successful as they are is impressive any way you look at it. One of a kind.

    2 Mar, 2011

    Manayunk Sport and Social BBall

    By |2011-03-02T21:52:45-05:00March 2nd, 2011|Sports|0 Comments

    Ck4 vs the Titans was the match-up for our final regular season game. We went into the game with a 5-1 record and this game would give us a first round bye for the playoffs. The other team was 2-4 but had us out sized and it looked like we’d have a game on our hands. This was not the case. The gym is ridiculously slippery and Jeff gave the helpful tip of wiping the bottom of your shoes with your hand as often as possible. This proved to be a huge difference from the last we played at this location. We opened the game in zone and got off to a hot start with Ck4 burying 3 balls. They obviously didn’t realize Ck4 was a shooter and he probably buried about 3 treys before they got the message and started playing man. They couldn’t put the ball in the basket and we were up 24-6. We were playing good D, getting boards, and then making outlet passes for easy buckets and just beating them up and down the floor. We went into halftime up 20 and they came out in a zone D. Ck4 once again started punishing their zone with 3 balls and it pretty much demoralized them. They had a huge hole in the middle of their zone and we just worked it as we pleased for buckets. We had good chemistry among the entire team and as long as we scored some baskets, they weren’t going to come back. We finished winning by 20+ and will get the bye. It wasn’t a thrilling game but we finally played like a team that knew what they were doing and deserved to win a game compared to just squeaking by like we have been. Playoffs in a week or so and then hopefully a championship game.

    1 Mar, 2011

    Between a rock and a hard place

    By |2011-03-01T23:47:55-05:00March 1st, 2011|My Brain|0 Comments

    Just for some playful banter between Sam’s blog and mine, this is a post I was taking my time writing, as a draft, because I didn’t really have any direction.

    “I think I may have left my roots and taken a turn towards trying to satisfy google which may not be a great idea. It’s time to start drinking heavily again and creating some good stories…”

    So after reading that Sam is still going to maintain his blog as a personal “diary”, I do feel as if I’ve sold out a little bit. I’ve also noticed the majority of the traffic leaves my blog in a few seconds anyway so my content is going unnoticed. I have mixed feelings on this because people come, but people leave. Notice this is a much better scenario then people never coming.

    Nevertheless, my goal with this blog isn’t to create my own diary of events. It’s undertaking a project of creating a website that can gain huge amounts of traffic and when people pay attention to what you do, there are opportunities involved. Do you realize that in the past 500 previous posts I’ve spilled the inner workings of myself and guess what, no one cares. If I were to keep making posts about me, I’d still have 30 readers a day and nothing to show for it. People care more about themselves then me, they come to a blog to be entertained. When you visit my blog I want to have you learn something or read my viewpoint on something stupid. You don’t care if I ran 3 miles on the treadmill or ate a cheeseburger for lunch.

    The maintenance of a blog is challenging because you have to be current and update often and keep coming up with new ideas to write about. That’s the fun in it. In one sense I’m selling out but it’s because I’ve moved my stance from a personal blog to something that appeals to a more general crowd. In no way do I think the content I produce is at a lower level. I actually feel I’m doing a better job then ever. Anyone who visits my site now knows that spankwire is the best porn site. To the person who commented on Ashlynn Brooke, it’s hilarious because I actually thought about my favorite porn star list (another potential blog topic) on my way to work and I would have added her. So even though I’m not writing about me and my personal life, I’m still giving my viewpoints on anything I can think of. This blog is me, it’s my views, it’s my thoughts. I want rnningfool.com to be read and we will see if the work I put into it gets recognized at some point in time. Don’t forget I’ve been doing this for upcoming on two years now and this is the most interested anyone (google) has ever been in it. Time to ride the wave.

    1 Mar, 2011

    Let’s play the market

    By |2011-03-01T21:03:56-05:00March 1st, 2011|My Brain|0 Comments

    I’m by no means a worthy source for financial advice but every once in while even a blind squirrel finds a nut. I pointed out MOBI back at around 7 bucks a share and it risen as high as 11 before settling at 10 where it is now. I also have watched DANG pull back to near 24 and I think a buying opportunity is around 20 bucks a share. There are both Chinese, ecommerce stock plays and China’s market is poised for a slowdown so beware. I would personally sell MOBI any time it hits 11 and then see if you can buy back in on any dip. My thoughts are that the market is in for some tough times ahead. The dollar is starting to weaken again and other economies are looking for ways to diversify their money. When the dollar weakens, commodities tend to rise. I like purchasing agricultural ETF’s like MOO and DBA. Oil will also go higher which will bring the stock market down because businesses have higher costs and will cut into profits which will miss earnings forecasts. Moving out of equities now would seem timely considering what is up ahead. Buying puts on stocks that have risen so much like NFLX also crossed my mind.

    Keep in consideration I am a mere simpleton and no nothing more then the rest of you. Also realize that financial advisers won’t give you much better advice because they are in it for one thing and that is to keep you as their client so they can make money off you. They don’t care if you win or lose as long as you stay their client. The plays I mentioned above are all pretty risky but that’s my general feeling on the market from someone who is so far out of tune what is really going on. This does document my thoughts though which is why I wrote it.

    1 Mar, 2011

    New Site

    By |2011-03-02T00:36:37-05:00March 1st, 2011|My Life|1 Comment

    I’ve decided to buy another domain name and create another site. I already have the idea and hopefully with the increase in traffic to this site, it will be easier to kick start the other. It should only take me a day or two to set up word press and I have chosen a theme with a myriad of ideas so it should never go stale. I think it will give me some more direction compared to this site which took me almost two years before Google found it. I haven’t really decided what I’m going to do with this domain name. I obviously figure on keeping it but how I’m going to decide on which content on which site will take some thought. I do think that this is going to be a good idea though or else I wouldn’t do it. It may be a tad extra work to keep two sites going but honestly what else am I doing right now. I’ll put a link to it in my blogroll when I put it live.

    Just a quick Angry Birds update. I 3 starred every level in the Halloween version as well as the season’s. I haven’t played the original but the graphics seem terrible to these last two so I don’t really see any reason to. I’m pretty happy to say that I hope this is the last video game I ever play because the frustration involved with this game does not make it worth playing for a significant time. I probably spent between 10-20 hours playing it so it brought me back to my high school days of completely wasting time. There is literally no gratification received from finishing this game. At least in some games on playstation they’d give you an ending or something but this was just completely nothing which just reinforced my will of never wanting to play a game again. Me vs the computer is finished.

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