And the Black Hole award for excess packaging goes to...
GNC!
I took your advice and searched out arnica gel to use on any future bruises. Too soon for any verdict on the gel, but it was easy to give this award.
Did they really need a 6"x6"x8" box for a plastic tube barely 5" long and 1" in diameter? ::le sigh::
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Today is Tuesday (yeah, I wrote this yesterday), and it has been...
::counting furiously on fingers and toes::
five (5!) weeks since I last fell down!
Sort of like AA's medallions for x weeks/months/years of sobriety, I intend to award myself something similar for every week I manage NOT to injure myself by falling.
The perspicacious among you may notice that "NOT injuring my self by falling" is not exactly the same as not falling down. Last night I was walking around the van to the driver's side after putting my tote bags and purse into the passenger side. It was dark and I was tired -- perfect conditions for a mishap -- and I ran into the trailer hitch on the van; it sticks out about a foot beyond the rear bumper. I got a little bruise on my leg (arnica gel used, but no verdict yet), but more importantly, I did NOT injure myself by falling onto the pavement. I attribute this 100% to my newly-acquired habit of walking more slowly. I did sort-of fall, but caught myself on my hands; if I had been walking at my usual speed I would have landed -- on my bad knee! -- before I could react.
Now, to decide what my reward should be...
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A couple more images from the Thorogood/Lang concert.
Why in the world would anyone pay $30 -- let along $45 -- to go see this turkey? I can be annoyed by him for free any time I want.
Besides the Harley Davidson apparel that was so evident among the audience members, there was, of course, a fair bit of brand-new Thorogood apparel.
The very best Thorogood-inspired t-shirts, though, and ones that I tragically failed to get a photo of, were worn by three guys who hung out near the video cameras. Each had on a light green t-shirt; the back of the first said, "1 BOURBON," the second, "1 SCOTCH", and the third, "AND 1 BEER". When they were shown on the big screens the crowd cheered.
But not everyone in the crowd was an aging boozer/low life.
And lest we ever forget that I live in the great Scandinavian north:
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A sign at the Bristol zoo snack bar that cracked me up when I saw it at boingboing.net:
