Aches and Pains

Due to the physical nature of my job as an electrical engineer, the bumps and bruises are starting to pile up for me. Well actually, it's more from playing ball and lifting, but anyways, my body has been feeling beat up lately.

I've had this twinge in my elbow that I feel every once in a while when I shoot a basketball. A nagging pain in my collarbone that acts up whenever I lift something heavy, so I haven't been able to work out in weeks. Rolled my ankle playing ball this weekend, which had me limping around like a cripple for a couple days. And whenever I sleep funny, I wake up with a stiff neck and/or a sore back for a day or two.

In a lot of ways I feel like my car. A few years ago I was brand new, at the top of my game. Once in a while I'd get a minor scratch, or a bird would crap on me, but nothing that a little washing and Z5 polish couldn't take care of. But eventually, the scratches started getting deeper. Dents and dings started appearing out of nowhere. Overall, I'm still capable of high performance, but signs of age are becoming apparent. And you know these things aren't going away anytime soon.

The only difference between me and my car is, I use more expensive towels to wash and dry my car.

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If any of you use the internet to get driving directions and look up maps, might I recommend you check out Google Maps at least once. Specifically, type in your destination and origin, and click on the "Satellite" view. It's pretty cool, they use the pictures taken from space and zoom in on your route from above.

At the same time, it's a little scary to think that the government (or whoever it is that runs these satellites) has a pretty clear view of anything people do outdoors. Google doesn't let you zoom in all the way, but I heard that these satellite photos are capable of seeing license plate numbers at their highest resolution. Beware of Big Brother!