Please, Knees!

For the last several weeks, my right knee has been bothering me off and on, and for the last week, mostly on. Today, I went to see a doctor, who believes it is an inflammation of the tendon that connects my quadriceps muscle to my leg near the kneecap. He referred me to a physical therapist, who explained that the condition is 100% curable - it will just take a while. She gave me twice-daily exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee. Ice and ibuprofen are also recommended as long as the knee hurts, and I am to avoid squatting, climbing (stairs and hills) and anything else that makes them hurt. I start the exercises tonight!

Flickr

Came across this site in a library journal, and did a double-take when I saw the red jellies on the front page - it's so much like the photo I took in Monterey last November!!! The site is a photo-sharing site called Flickr.

Viva Las Vegas!

Visited Las Vegas with Marty for the very first time over the past weekend - had two full days of hiking up and down the "Strip," ducking into some of the major hotels just to see how they executed their themes: Luxor, the Bellagio, Caesar's Palace, and others. I was awestruck by the Venetian, which has an incredible outdoors-but-indoors feeling! But now that I've been, I have no urgent wish to return. It's so focused on gambling and is very smoky everywhere. Hucksters accost passers-by from every doorway - but if you're not willing to spend money, you're toast.

While in Vegas, I also visited my cousin, whom I haven't seen in over 30 years, and her son and grandson (what a cutie!) She took me to visit the Rainbow Library, a branch in the Las Vegas/Clark County Library District. Marty doesn't think visiting libraries is very interesting - I, on the other hand, find them immensely so, and brought back lots of good ideas to share at work.

I flew back to Sackatomatoes Tuesday morning to go back to work, but Marty stayed on till Thursday to attend a conference on state lotteries.