As technology flourishes, thus does stupidity

If you are one of the five or six peo­ple who reg­u­larly read this blog you may have noticed I didn’t write yes­ter­day. That is unusual because I usu­ally write some­thing dur­ing the week.

The rea­son was par­tially because of an on-the-job injury I sus­tained the day before and the bureau­cratic iner­tia that has pre­vented me, 46 hours later, from hav­ing seen a doctor.

The injuries aren’t seri­ous: an ankle sprain that now mostly hurts when I am stand­ing and a back strain. All of this was caused by the very dan­ger­ous com­bi­na­tion of walk­ing while per­form­ing math­e­matic cal­cu­la­tions on my cell phone. In short, I hit a wall. Lit­er­ally. My left hand hit the wall first, then my left knee and then my right foot. I fell back­wards, try­ing to turn in order to accom­plish a softer land­ing on my but­tocks. But I ended up flat on the floor. Ain’t that the s**ts?

Hope­fully all the paper­work can get filled out so I can get checked out by a doc-in-the-box later this after­noon. Oh well, it’s out of my hands.

I bet­ter pub­lish this as soon as I can, so … Adi­das ami­gos.  Per­haps a fast good­bye as in ten­nis shoes?