Pain
Finally had some time to get back to this site. Seems with all the urls that I’ve been dealing with lately that I’ve neglected this one. I’ve been working on software for the Livescribe SmartPen, trying to learn objective-c, and keep everything at Ripware, LLC, my full-time job and teaching in order.
This past week on a not so good day for me, I went for a mountain bike ride, my front end slipped out from under me and I ended up on my head and shoulder (OUCH). At first I thought I could just shake it off and move on. When I grabbed for my handlebars and gave a good grip with my left hand, I immediately released the bike and knew something was seriously wrong. I tried my best to shake if off but the pain was too intense. I reached up with my right hand and gave a little examination to my left collar bone then I realized what I’d done. This was really gonna put a damper on my holiday weekend. Luckily for me there were a few guys walking the trail that helped me out to where an off duty Fullerton Fire Fighter saw me. He looked at me, knew I was in pain and quickly offered to take me to emergency in his own car. Gratefully, I got into his car and he drove me to St. Jude Hospital.
After being released with x-rays that confirmed I indeed had a broken clavicle, I was schedule to see an orthopedic to provide me with options which happened to be surgery on Friday. While most people were preparing bbqs and calling friends and family over to celebrate, I spend my Friday getting my clavicle put back together (not recommended). Never having surgery before my whole image as to what surgery feels like and what it actually is are two entirely different things. I mean I wasn’t even in the ball park. I’m going to save you all the details of my experience, but man was that not fun!
That said, I’m home recovering from the surgery, hoping to continue work soon. Not sure when I will be able to ride my bike again and keeping myself busy so that I don’t think about what’s happened.
That brings me to this post. Usually I blog about some experience I’ve had with some technology (I haven’t been very consistent in the past) blogging about C#, Java, JavaOne and other techie interests that I have, and I’ve slipped away from blogging anything in some time. In fact, my last blog post was in May 2008 and the site (http://www.bradrippe.com) was kind of forgotten about because I’ve been busy. Since I’ve been catching up on some reading and trying to get other things done. I thought I might fix the root of bradrippe.com on my down time, as all the static pages have been removed and you would just get a forbidden access error. So here I am with WordPress installed. My first blog entry in over two years and the root of my site working again.
