Post-surgery

Know what I hate more than going down relatively narrow and steep stairs on crutches?  Going down relatively narrow and steep stairs on crutches in the dark because there's a three-year-old asleep in the middle of the landing.

So, yeah, I was into surgery around 1800-1830E, and conscious again sometime around 2000-2030E.  I don't know how it went, really, except that my leg under the dressing appears to be painted pale blue and my knee hurts a lot.  I'm downstairs because between the knee pain, an infuriating endless-loop earworm, and the annoying little neurotic yappy dog next door that WILL NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP, I can't sleep.

The good news:  the post-op pain isn't really any worse than a typical Bad Knee Pain Day.

The bad news:  the post-op pain isn't really any worse than a typical Bad Knee Pain Day.  Or to put that another way, a typical Bad Knee Pain Day is as bad as immediate-post-op pain.

I just took two more Vicodin, and I'm sitting here listening to Julia Ecklar on headphones rehydrating with a can of Hansens mandarin lime soda because we're out of milk.  I also just slightly loosened the very top of the dressing (the outer wrap is one of those handy velcro-tipped Ace bandages) in the hope it'll alleviate where my thigh is hurting just above the knee.  I have a Sqush foot massager pillow on top of an upside-down wastebasket under my desk as an improvised ottoman to elevate my foot a little, but it's not very stable and not really working very well.  Getting my foot up on the desk would probably work better, but I don't think I can right now.

Extremely cool helmet

This is partly for my own future reference, and partly "Hey, this is a really cool helmet."  It's a Caberg Justissimo, now being imported into the US from Italy.  That externally-controlled fighter-pilot-style drop-down visor, in particular, is a really nice feature; it would completely eliminate the issue of finding sunglasses that (a) fit properly inside a helmet, and (b) can be put on and taken off with a helmet on without gouging grooves in your temples.

Caberg helmets are manufactured in Italy; they're being sold in the US by Motorcyclestyle.com and DesignerHelmets.com now that they're being imported and distributed under the Caberg name by Nichols Motorcycle Supply.  They were previously sold rebranded as the Mono X2 JAROW and distributed by ProtecQ, but ProtecQ's service was apparently the source of many complaints.  At significantly under $300, it's pretty reasonably priced, too.  Webbikeworld has a review here.  The word from a rider on the NEDoD list who owns one is that it's an extremely quiet helmet; the webbikeworld reviewer agrees, saying "it's quieter than many full-face helmets I've used, and it's definitely the quietest flip-up helmet I've tried."  The visor is pre-treated with an anti-fogging coating, and has five click-stop detents.  The lining is removable for washing.  The helmet is DOT approves and meets the European ECE 22-05 safety standard.  It comes in silver or metallic black, or titanium finish with silver graphics for about $30 more.

Promises, promises

suzilem pointed out this free domain name appraiser at leapfish.com.  Unfortunately, as they say, "You get what you pay for, if you're lucky," and I'm guessing it's WILDLY optimistic.  It wasn't very impressed with caerllewys.net, quoting about $2900, but it claims babcom.com, my primary domain which I've had since about 1994 or 1995, is worth slightly over $71,000.

Holy crap, Batman.  If someone offered me $71,000 for babcom.com, I'd sell it so fast there'd be scorchmarks on the Internet.