Hey – still alive.  As far as joy juice (“general anesthesia”) goes – one moment I was looking around the operating room and an hour later, but felt like a second later, I woke up feel nauseated.  The only aftereffect has been my ability to keep a thought process going even though my body starts snoring off to sleep.

Here’s a link to procedures, including surgery, for removal of a ganglion cyst in the wrist area, similar to mine (although mine was arthroscopically excised).

WARNING: actual surgery images in video:

However, for me, Dr. Maddox I have to thank, seeing as he took care of other problems in my wrist area that I can’t detail here.

Suffice it to say that I owe a debt of gratitude to The Orthopaedic Center, Dr. Maddox and all the staff there.

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On to a continuing subject: the difficult year of 2011, where I have to keep looking for the ultimate set of emperour’s new clothes to fashion for you.

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  A successful banker, back on his college campus for a class reunion, visited his old economics prof, and picked up the current semester’s final exam.  “Holy smoke,” he exclaimed, “these are precisely the questions you asked our class fifteen years ago.  If you always ask the same questions, don’t you know the students will get wise, and pass them on from class to class?”

  “Sure,” answered the prof blandly, “but in economics, you see, we’re constantly changing the answers.”

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Anyone read John Hyde Preston’s A Short History of the American Revolution that maintained the school stories of the Boston Tea Party were not what you think?  Even bunk?

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Enough burning through a book of BC’s stuff.

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The truth is where you want to find it.  Observe the sleeveless magician – anything up his skin?  In my working experiment, the U.S. defaults and starts an economic war not seen since you know when.  Are you profiteers interested in this or shall we chicken out for the umpteenth time and play reelection politics one more time?