http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Life as I know it... en Vox Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:44:53 -0700 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/wente-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/wente-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/wente-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:44:53 -0700 Wente RR 40 starters – teammates – JS Course 3 laps (4 times up Carroll). Weather: cool and WINDY. Bike: Felt b/c it has climbing gears! I warmed up solidly – got the HR up to 160 on the trainer. Learned that some friends had missed their st... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/wente-weekend.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f011017be0fe2860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cycling mouse race report crit wente http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/race-report-numero-uno.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/race-report-numero-uno.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/race-report-numero-uno.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:59:58 -0800 Merco Crit Cat’s 3 and 4 women Teammates: Cathy, Ashley, Mo, Bergen, Bev, Jamie, Weather – overcast but dry 25 lap race. Going in we had the idea that we would drill the first 3 laps – trying to make it safe for everyone. Then perhaps go for ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/race-report-numero-uno.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f0110166d30dd860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cycling 2009 merco roaring mouse http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/its-go-time.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/its-go-time.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/its-go-time.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:17:53 -0800 yea yea yea I've been away from this blog thing. No excuses though. I'm just picking up where I left off, and moving forward (just like life and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". Everyone and their mother has this flu/cold/sinus infection thing righ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/its-go-time.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f0110162d789f860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cycling racing 2009 tour of california http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/from-total-darkness.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/from-total-darkness.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/from-total-darkness.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:00:28 -0800 My first thought when I woke up from surgery was “I wanna go back under” followed immediately by “why does my arm hurt SO MUCH”. I was so dopey and drugged. In the recovery room I was faintly aware of a few things: 1) that I was recovering from... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/from-total-darkness.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f010980c2d811000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> recovery surgery 2008 http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/spinning-in-circles-in-place.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/spinning-in-circles-in-place.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/spinning-in-circles-in-place.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:33:56 -0800 Welcome back - I've been absent with the holiday, but am back to tell yet another installment of my navigational skills within the health care sector. Tuesday, the 23rd, 3 days since I broke my olecranon/ulna, and I'm at the hospital. I'm ready t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/spinning-in-circles-in-place.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f01098151b692000d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> surgery 2008 kaiser permanente http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/have-you-ever-sat-with-your-arm-in-the-air.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/have-you-ever-sat-with-your-arm-in-the-air.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/have-you-ever-sat-with-your-arm-in-the-air.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:32:14 -0800 Continued from yesterday, where I growled at hospital personnel... High on morphine and I took home a nice souvenir on my left arm – a fiberglass splint from wrist to armpit. It’s so cool these days – they have dehydrated fiberglass… well it’s ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/have-you-ever-sat-with-your-arm-in-the-air.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f010980bb5d30000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> hospital broken bones kaiser permanente http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/part-deux-lhopital.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/part-deux-lhopital.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/part-deux-lhopital.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:22:48 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f010980bb38dd000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f010980bb38dd000b-50si" alt="Marissa on Morphine 092008" /></a> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f00fae8e0f4dc000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f00fae8e0f4dc000b-50si" alt="Broken" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> continued from yesterday.... where I hit a fire hydrant and broke my elbow... Anthony's car (aka The golden chariot) landed, picked me up and after I struggled to get in the car, my level of discomfort was approaching new levels - a drastic fo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/part-deux-lhopital.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f0109d06e5848000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cycling hospital doctor broken bones kaiser permanente ulna http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/backtracking.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/backtracking.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/backtracking.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:56:18 -0800 so many of you know that my thirtieth trip around the sun started with a bang crash boom crunch. The following are excerpts of what I've been up to, the story of the crash, the hospital, the surgery, the recovery. Sit back and enjoy. You broke ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/backtracking.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f010980bb1009000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> crash cycling 2008 elbow broken bones http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/housekeeping-dusty-race-reportsenjoy.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/housekeeping-dusty-race-reportsenjoy.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/housekeeping-dusty-race-reportsenjoy.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:42:13 -0700 Dunnigan RR – start time 8:40 – real start time, 9:10 (or so). 46ish miles. Wom 3 – 9 women in the field. This was my very first road race. The roads were crap last year – this year most of them were repaved/chipsealed – so much smoother overal... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/housekeeping-dusty-race-reportsenjoy.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f00fa969e8d860002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cycling racing 2008 giro dunnigan http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/one-handed-typing-is-a-drag.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(em-ay) http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/one-handed-typing-is-a-drag.html?_c=feed-rss http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/one-handed-typing-is-a-drag.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:13:44 -0700 so is NOT riding, NOT racing cross, SITTING around all day, bored out of my gourd... going to doctor appointments... my HAZY outlook, thanks to Vicodin. The surgery went well last tue. The post op recovery did not. But I lived to tell the ta... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://axellrocks.vox.com/library/post/one-handed-typing-is-a-drag.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3ab25f3cb8f00fa969e8e120003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> hurt drag 2008