{"id":2546,"date":"2009-12-04T10:04:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2009-12-04T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:04:58","slug":"on-wintry-aches-and-pains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2546","title":{"rendered":"On Wintry Aches and Pains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I am in massive pain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the old foot ailment.<\/p>\n<p>The story, for those coming late, is this.<\/p>\n<p>In college I, being the excitable person that I am, would spring from bed, jumping out of the top bunk and onto the hard tile floor.  In time, this proved to be a stupid thing to do, as one day I landed incorrectly and fractured a bone in the ball of my left foot.<\/p>\n<p>However, I was unaware of this, because how could I tell the difference, when the balls of my feet hurt from jumping out of bed and onto the hard tile floor?<\/p>\n<p>The bone healed in time, but when the weather changes &mdash; either it becomes damp, or it becomes cold, and we&#8217;ve had damp <i>and<\/i> cold recently, despite yesterday&#8217;s spring-like weather &mdash; the old wound <i>aches<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, I&#8217;m hobbling.  It hurts to stand.  It <i>especially<\/i> hurts to walk.  I&#8217;m doing this limp\/shuffle.  I&#8217;ve just loaded up on ibuprofen.<\/p>\n<p>At home, I&#8217;ll wear my sandals, rather than walk around barefoot as I am wont to do.  There&#8217;s something about pulling the strap across the toes <i>tight<\/i> that makes it possible to walk relatively normally.  The sandals are not an option for the office, however.<\/p>\n<p>In a few days, probably around Tuesday, the ache will subside.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"70%\" \/>\n<p>There is someone, I kid you not, who visited my website on this search phrase: &#8220;allyn gibson in sex and the city?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Presently from Google, this takes a person <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?tag=memes&#038;paged=2\">here<\/a>, where there&#8217;s a meme from late January about television shows I&#8217;ve seen.  <i>Sex and the City<\/i> is among those I have <i>not<\/i> seen.  Never ever, not once.<\/p>\n<p>However, that&#8217;s clearly <i>not<\/i> what this mysterious Google searcher wanted to know.<\/p>\n<p>I am not an actor.  I can absolutely, positively guarantee that I have never appeared in an episode of <i>Sex and the City<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"70%\" \/>\n<p>And for the person who wanted to know about the Irn Bru Christmas commercial:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xfiqrkV_ZqI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xfiqrkV_ZqI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And&#8230; &#8230;I am in massive pain. It&#8217;s the old foot ailment. The story, for those coming late, is this. 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