So, aside from being Rain Man smart when it comes to the math necessary to manipulate digital audio, my boss at Regular Work also gets called up to do other projects. A big one last year was to compress the entire New Yorker magazine catalog into a few DVDs. Using math I could not begin to understand, he did just that. Now, we're not talking about just some crappy looking HTML here, you can actually thumb through every page of every New Yorker from 1925 to the present. You can also search by author, image, cartoon, interview, and so on. All that is on eight DVDs for less than a hundred bucks.

As a result, he got two more jobs of the same type. One was for the entire Rolling Stone catalog (an awesome collection in and of itself), the other was this:

That's right, every last page of every Playboy ever produced. Oh, happy day. This is the box for the two DVDs that make up every issue of the 1950's. I'm waiting with baited breath for the full collection to arrive here at work. Then I can relive all of those joyous adolescent memories of inheriting/finding/stealing the odd copy and enjoying the trenchant political commentary, off-color jokes and insightful interviews with important people of the day located therein. Oh, and the nudity, that's also a plus. 

Speaking of off-color:

That's what my ankle looked like the day after dropping my ball into it. In my last entry I alluded to this incident, which happened during my last trip to the Kegel Training Center. I was there for a full day lesson, which I needed to jump-start my (until now) wayward training regimen. About 10:30AM both Jason Couch and Patrick Allen arrived with a boatload of balls to drill up for the upcoming PBA season. They spent most of the day about fifteen feet away from me testing out balls and talking smack. To add to this distraction, Patrick's cute girlfriend was there as well as this sneaky-hot Scandinavian woman who worked the front desk. (Incidentally, I've come to the conclusion that women are 10-15% hotter when bowling. I'm also inclined to have feelings for female operators at bowling supply houses who can talk competently about differentials and pin distances. I know, I'm not well.)

These distractions are partially to blame when, just before lunchtime, I broke my wrist too early and chucked one directly into my right ankle. It hurt to be sure, but I was equally embarrassed to have done so in front of the 2003 Player of the Year and/or the three-time Tounament of Champions winner (I couldn't bear to look over when it happened, but I know at least one of them was over there to see it). And we were videotaping my release point at the time, so I could review the carnage frame-by-frame. Not for the faint of heart, to be sure.

Lucky for me nothing seems broken, just some soreness. It bruised fantastically, however. I normally don't wear flip-flops outside of the house, but in this case the situation warranted it, if nothing else it made grossing people out much easier.

One other note: the guy I call "coach" also works with Patrick and Jason, and after lunch he went over to Jason to talk about his recent knee surgery rehab. "Coach" was suggesting that Jason keep his trailing leg on the floor to take stress off the surgically-repaired knee on the sliding leg. (Jason tends to end up at the release point with his slide leg straight and his trailing leg up in the air, putting a lot of stress on the right knee. Keeping the trailing leg on the floor would force his other knee to bend at the release and lessen the stress at the finish.) Well, Couch was having none of it and the static in the conversation was palpable to me, even though I was four lanes over. You won't find that inside info in BJI, that's for sure.  

Damn. Where to start.

Actually, there's too much to get to all in one go. Suffice it to say that in three months I've been involved in the ownership of the other pro shop in Gainesville, got my PBA card, came within a spare of cashing in a regional on my second attempt, saw Walter Ray throw 290 with his spare ball in a pro-am, had a small skin cancer removed from my face with a LARGE incision (resulting in a week of looking like Frankenstein followed by an amazingly-hard-to-see scar), some unrelated neck muscle spasms that were cured with the aid of my first trips to a chiropractor, became the University of Florida collegiate bowling coach, had some small interest from the ladies, had more than a few beers, and, two days ago, had the opportunity to throw a ball directly into my ankle while standing ten feet away from Patrick Allen.

See? Way too much. My plan is to break it up into small chunks and write it all down in detail. The good news is that I have internet access at home now and will be able to blog away during my free time, not just while pretending to work at the straight job. Frankly, I needed to get back to this. It's good therapy, like trepanation.

So, what's new?