When Things Break It’s Never Fun

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This week is going to be a light blogging week for me, for two reasons both of which revolve around things that are broken.

First Monday evening I slammed my bare foot into the leg of my dresser smashing my toe. Having broken more than a few bones in my past I knew instantly that it broke. Shortly after the break was confirmed as I felt and heard bones crunching as I gingerly walked around my bedroom.

The next day I went to the doctor to have it X-rayed. I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t so bad that it would need surgery. Lucky for me as you can see in the image to the left it broke in just the right way as to spare me the need for surgery.

Second as many of you know my blog has been experiencing performance problems for quite a while especially in the early hours of the morning between 1am and 2am PST.Â The net result during this time is a broken blog and no one likes a broken blog any more than they like broken toes.

Over the past month or so I’ve narrowed down the problem with my blog to my web hosting service. I have been using the same host for nearly 8 years now and my site is on a server that is nearly that old. Later this week I’ll have my site transfered to a new web server. I’ve been told that the back-up scripts that run nightly on the new server will not impact my blog. I think that is something we both will look forward to.

Once I’m feeling better and the blog is transitioned to the new server I’ll pick up with some very interesting posts that I’ve had in the works for sometime. Stay tuned and thanks for bearing with all that is broken.

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Posted by Jim on 06.04.2008 at 11:09 pm
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Carlos Manta Oliveira

Get better soon!

Dan Mitchell

Jim:

Sorry to hear about the breakage(s) - take it easy on that toe and get well soon!

You know me - I have to use this as an opportunity to tell a story... my broken toe story. A few years back I was wandering through the house at night with the lights turned out. Dumb, I know, but as you will see that seems to be a pattern. Like you, I slammed my little toe into some furniture and, as you probably did as well, dropped to the floor cursing - but expecting the pain to go away in a minute or so.

It didn't. I should have gone straight to the doctor the next day. I didn't. But I had my reasons. They went something like this. I had a weeklong eastern Sierra pack trip planned for the next week. If I went to the doctor I might be told that my toe was broken - duh! - and if that happened I wouldn't be able to go on my pack trip. So I convinced myself that _maybe_ it wasn't really broken - despite constant pain - and that it might just get better on the pack trip. Really.

So, I got to the Sierra, sucked it up big time and hiked up the trail to the Fourth Lake region, thinking, "Hey, maybe it isn't broken... but it could be." I survived the uphill hike and spent the next several days taking short walks around base camp, but getting by. Then it was time to head back down the trail to the trailhead. Within the first mile of the downhill hike - toe jamming into the front of the boot - I thought I was going to die. I finally made it down and THEN went to the doctor. What happened there is along story I won't recount, but needless to say the toe was broken, and this fool had just gone backpacking with a broken toe. On purpose.

Really.

Dan

Antoine Khater

Well get well soon :)

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