Downtime Is Good HT Time

[David Meek]

Hi all. Just sitting here in a nice Vicodin/muscle-relaxant haze. If anything good has come out of messing up my back, it's the quality HT time I've gotten (the chairs in the HT and my bed are about the only places I've found that are comfortable). So far I've managed to watch:

Tombstone
Final Fantasy
The Mummy Returns
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Jet Li's The One
The 13th Warrior
Spy Game
Ronin
Leon: The Professional
Total Recall: SE

plus, do a 64-point convergence on the Pioneer, re-calibrate the audio with Video Essentials and start playing with my new AVIA disc. After the MRI today, I'm planning to watch a couple more and listen to some tunes.

Anyway, I just wanted to say "hey". Later . . .




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[Lex]

Sure hope you get the :sos: you need David. I forgot that your still on the injured reserve list. Goodluck on the MRI!!! As long as you've been injured, it would appear you did mess something up, unfortunately.

I just watched Spy Game this weekend. Pretty good flick, although a bit slow moving at times I thought.

Lex

[John Holmes]

Glad to hear you've been getting some quality time in the HT. Sorry that it had to be under your current condition. Get well soon!




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[George Bellefontaine]

That's a pretty neat viewing list, David.




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[David Meek]

George, yeah, I've got that manly action/adventure/western thing going right now.

Thanks everyone for all your thoughts - it's nice to read things like that. But, I really can't feel too sorry for myself. If I hadn't been stupid, I wouldn't have dinged my back. :?




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[Markj]

David have a great time watching and get well soon. Nobody needs to know that it was your fault.

Take care,
Mark

[Lex]

yeah, especially the company, neverknow, it could be lawsuite time. Of course, that wouldn't help the career ladder to much.

Lex

[David Meek]

Actually, I'm trying to decide whether or not to 'fess up about how I hurt myself. I was moving a 21" monitor when I did it. I haven't reported it as a work-related injury as I don't want to screw up departmental yearly bonuses by bombing the "safety" portion of the calculation. But, if this is going to run into surgery and/or an extended period off, I don't want to leave myself vulnerable to a lay-off. Decisions, decisions.
:?




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[Andrew Pratt]

David I'd recomend you fill a report of what happened...you never know if this might get serious and without a report of the incident you'd be SOL later if it got $$$ and insurance was called in etc.

[George Bellefontaine]

Hey, David, I agree with Andrew.




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[David Meek]

The viewed movie pile is getting pretty high. Add:

Pay It Forward
Conspiracy Theory
Bram Stoker's Dracula: SuperBit
The Replacement Killers: SE
Rambo: First Blood
Rambo II

Also, I took "youse guyse" advice and reported my back as a work injury. After a little wailing and gnashing of teeth everyone was pretty good about it. HR and Safety both needed a detailed timeline on the last 3 weeks and there was other paperwork to fill out, but other than E-mails to all IT staff reminding them to report work-related injuries immediately, nothing remotely negative happened. Whew!

Thanks for the good counsel gang. I appreciate it. :T




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[George Bellefontaine]

Glad it worked out. Hope the back is better soon and all returnes to normal.




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