Latest News

It has been a while since I made a post. I am going to be lazy this time and not post any photos, but there has been some fun stuff going on over the past couple months, and you can see some photos in my photo gallery.

Janel is doing really well with her ACL recovery. Despite having surgery ~3 months after me, it was looking for a while like she might "graduate" from PT ahead of me. My shoulder was doing pretty poorly though the end of April, but over the past couple weeks something happened and things have really turned around. I will be wrapping up PT after two more visits.

I went to Chris P's and Mariko's wedding in April (without Janel). My dad too a ton of photos, so I don't have any on my blog. It was a great chance to catch up with my family and a lot of my old friends. Good times. Best of luck to Mariko and Chris :).

This weather this weekend is great. Janel and I went on a nice bike ride after working in the yard, and I am planning on going on a run tomorrow (Janel won't be cleared to run for another month or so). I will be heading out to Dog Mountain this week with my group for a quarterly, and, weather permitting, I will get to really test out my new camera for the first time -- a Canon 500d (T1i) (my first DSLR!).

Janel is back from Surgery

Everything went well, and she is back at home ordering me around. It turns out she also had a minor tear of the meniscus, so it was a good thing that we got the surgery quickly rather than waiting for the summer.

ACL Surgery

Janel did end up tearing her ACL. Luckily everything else looks good. She is having surgery to get it repaired on Wednesday. They will be using some of her (apparently large) hamstring. Wish her luck! I guess it will be her turn to get taken care of for a while. If anyone wants to come over and help me with chores, that would be great :P.

March Madness

I am running a March Madness pool this year. No money or anything.

If you are in town, I am thinking of spicing it up a bit. Winner will get dinner bought for him/her by the other participants (only for people here in Portland). I am thinking of doing Mio or maybe Screen Door or something. Let me know if you are interested and if you have any suggestions. You do not have to participate if you are not into it :).

Join here.

John Stewart v Jim Cramer

John Stewart totally reamed Jim Cramer on Thursday night. It was a great "interview". I would highly recommend watching it.

On a side note, Hulu is great. Now all that I am missing by not having cable is Monday Night Football.

Janel's Turn

Well it's looking like Janel tore her ACL. She will confirm it on Thursday with an MRI, but it is looking like she is going to have to have surgery as well. We are a mess.

My shoulder is recovering slowly. My strength is starting to come back, but my range of motion is not doing so hot. I am supposed to be pretty much back to 100% from a motion perspective, but it is looking like it might be a while.

Credit Crisis

Allen sent this over to me. It is a short video that does a great job of explaining the credit crisis. I would highly recommend giving it a whirl. It is ~11 minutes long.


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.