I met with Dr. Kwong again this morning. More x-rays, more poking, yada yada yada. My elbow (technically the head of my right radius) is still broken. This time I could actually see the break on the x-rays.

The doc is concerned at my limited range of motion, so he’s banned me from wearing the sling. That’s a good thing because the sling was a real pain in the butt, but a not so good thing because moving my arm around is an even bigger pain … in the arm!

Probably the biggest benefit of getting me out of the sling is the effect it has on me mentally. I need to stop babying my arm so much. Yes, it’s still broken. Yes, there are limits to what I can do. But with my wing untied, I can quit worrying about it so much and get back to using it.

I will be starting physical therapy this week and that should help a lot. For now, I just need to get over the pain and get the muscles, et al, back to work. Dr. Kwong says I shouldn’t twist (like turning a key or door knob) nor lift anything heavier than half a pound (My arm weighs at least five pounds, so I’m not sure how that works.) but I need to work towards straightening my elbow completely. Right now, it just won’t go.

Thanks to everyone for continued thoughts and prayers.

This week’s WBQotW comes straight from my favorite source of t-shirts and cubicle toys, ThinkGeek.com.

2 + 2 = 5, for extremely large values of 2.

St. Paul City Hall has ordered that a “religious display” of a “cloth Easter bunny” be removed from the building’s lobby. How dare they infringe on my right to worship a comically over sized rabbit and psychedelic chicken embryos. According to the Third Testament of Saint Sponge Bob, we are all required to grovel before the Bunny of the Lord and burn offerings of plastic grass in order to receive our reward of eternal gingivitis.

In the past, St. Paul has banned red poinsettias from the building, because, of course, they symbolize the Holy Order of Red Messianic Shoe Shiners.

According to the article, the city’s Human Rights Director, Tyrone Terrill, demanded that the horrible hare display be removed, although no citizens had complained. Well, this citizen demands the removal of Mr. Terrill. If anything in that City Hall is offensive, it’s him.

Short answer: No.

I remember seeing a picture where some folks tiled their bathroom with those annoying, unsolicited, AOL “Free Trial” CDs. I thought that was funny. But this… This is just sad.

Randypants sent me a link to AOL CD and Tin Collecting. It would be funny if it weren’t true. This guy has a huge wish list, an eBay store, even a book all about collecting “rare” AOL CDs.

This book vividly discusses ways to organize your AOL CD collection and help it grow, the financial worth of rare AOL CDs, codes, packaging and much more. There are over 50 photos that bring to life the allure of these frequently overlooked disks.

“Vividly”?! How can you vividly discuss junk mail? “Financial worth”?!! Dude, seriously. If you pay anyone anything for a junk mail CD, you need to have your bank account taken away. I’d be willing to bet that this guy lives in his mom’s basement.

You’ll notice the price of the book has been “slashed” to $5 (plus $3 S&H). Maybe he’d do better if he sent the book out, free and unsolicited, to everyone in America and then charged them $30 if they read it. It worked for AOL, right?

Do Days of Our Lives and Jerry Springer make you stupid? I always thought so.

Research conducted by Brooklyn College has found a direct correlation between intelligence and day-time TV.

A study of 289 older women without dementia found that those who rated talk shows and soaps as their favorite programs performed more poorly on tests of memory, attention and mental quickness than their peers who cited other types of shows.

The researchers warn that the cause and effect can’t be shown, but that some relationship is certain.

That doesn’t mean that daytime television is a brain drain, they say … it’s not possible to tell whether the programs somehow contribute to cognitive decline or whether women in the early stages of decline gravitate toward those shows

In “day time TV” terms, that means they don’t know if Oprah makes you stupid or if stupid people like Oprah. It’s a thin gray line if you ask me.

Full article.