Today is one of those rare bad knee days. The right knee was rebuilt at the VA back in the mid-1990s and they called it a Fulkerson Osteotomy. For awhile they left the screws in place but eventually they went back in after them. This was for the knee trouble that ended my military career. The left knee can’t be improved by surgery, but it bothers me far less in the first place. You can’t see it when things flare up on the right, but I can sure feel it. It is generally uncomfortable and then at random intervals less than a minute apart, it twinges and hurts bad enough to make me cringe. The pain generally reflects simply doing too much of the wrong kind of activity, but it’s hard to pick out exactly what was the excess. It’s capricious.
But it’s not a matter of whining, because it offers the excuse to sit and do little or nothing for as long as it lasts. So long as I’m not hurting so bad I simply have to lie down and moan — I’ve done that a few times over the years — I can still do some writing.
I’m completely out of the mode for pastoral writing the past few days. No brilliant spiritual insights and no fiction stirring in my soul. I’m just working on an update of my old “RHEL for the Clueless” series, but making it fit the latest version of CentOS (a clone of RHEL). The whole selling point is that this is corporate grade Linux for the SOHO and it runs on XP machines just fine. It should be supported and working fine until around 2020. It’s not the answer from Heaven, just an option for folks who can’t afford a bunch of money for upgrades. This particular brand of Linux is very popular in the corporate world.
If you have questions to ask, this is a good time to do it.
