One thing I didn't mention yesterday is that while I'm favoring my bad foot, the rest of my body is taking a beating. Jumping around on my left leg, as well as getting up and down on it, is starting to knee. My arms are sore from using the crutches to support me. My back hurts since I'm not standing properly to do certain things like eating. Such things happen whenever you injure something and start favoring it: other parts of your body are strained more and may become injured also.

Since I've been home so much, I've been watching CNN since there's not much to watch during the day. I had forgotten how intersting the news can be. What's going on in the world, not just disasters, but the world events and such. There are also political shows and Wall Street reports. I usually don't have time for news, but maybe I should start watching more when I get back to my regular schedule.

One thing I'm learning more and more is that the political system is quite complicated and rather interesting. The focus right now is on the Republican race, since the Democratic nominee is going to be Al Gore. But the Republicans have two strong candidates in George W. Bush and Ed McCain, with the only other candidate that I remember being Forbes.

Now, the candidates right now are focusing on their records, what they've done before and are currently doing. One of the politcal commentator's had a "so what?" attitude. It's not important what you've done before, what voters want to know is what you're going to try to do once in office. Not only that, but what is your main philosophy that will guide your actions. All the candidates are capable, but it's up to them to convince people that they can be trusted to do what their consituency wants.

So I'm waiting for the players to arrive for the last BattleTech scenario in my campaign. Next week will just be a sort of wrap-up and an occassion to discuss the campaign, for I want to know what I did right and wrong. But tonight is going to be a slugfest, with the three main characters fighting for their lives. Once more into the breach, as it is.

Two of the syndicated shows that I watch have gone into their mid- season reruns. Some reruns from earlier in the season will be shown and then new episodes will be shown. I remember years ago when a show would have new episodes all the way through and then show reruns continuously until the next Fall. The first show that didn't follow that pattern was Star Trek: The Next Generation, which did some episodes, then repeats during the winter holidays, then more new episodes/repeats cycles. Now a lot of shows do it, and at the same time too so there is nothing to watch except another show when all your regular shows are in repeats.

The twenty-six episode standard has also gone somewhat by the wayside, especially for syndicated shows. Most syndicated hour long series that I watch are now 22 or 24 episodes to a season, which means there'll be some free weeks if every episode is shown twice. I'm not too sure what the broadcast stations do about this. Maybe some shows are shown three times? Actually I think there's a few weeks in the summer where the shows aren't shown, but maybe I'm just trying to fill up space.