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Cartoons for dogs April 16 2010
I’m not always sure that people understand dog humor, but here’s a few of my cartoons anyway.- R
Solving the problems of BMX through design. April 14 2010
Gotta do what you gotta do… April 13 2010
Update on the back April 11 2010
A little over a year ago I hurt my back pretty badly and ended up having a surgery to try and fix it. I documented the process on my old blog over at Transworld BMX. A number of people have been asking me lately how things are going so it seemed like an update was due. I also posted a little re-cap of some of the old posts below for those who are interested. Well, it’s been over a year since I’ve been able to ride. I guess I’ve been putting off this post-surgery update hoping I would have something very positive to post. Hopefully something about how I was all better and back to riding. The reality though is that getting back on my bike is going very slowly. I’m still keeping up with all my physical therapy and rehab and for the most part I’m functioning like normal. I can sit again, don’t have any weight restrictions on what I lift and can ride around on a bike no problem. I still can’t “really” ride though. If I so much as hop up a curb shooting pain hits me right in the surgery area. Its pretty frustrating and been this way for about the last 5 months. I get the same pain if I pump a ramp at all as well. The result is that I can roll around, but really can’t get off the ground without my eyes watering from the pain. I saw the doctor again a couple weeks ago and he now wants me to wait another 5 months before he possibly performs another surgery that would take me out for an additional 6 months! Not really sure how that will work out. In the meantime I have been making an effort to push myself harder in the gym and that seems to be helping a tiny bit. I went and rode the new Empire ramp the other day and I actually got about 15 minutes of below coping riding in before I got too sore. All I can really do is to keep working on getting stronger and more flexible to compensate for the fused together disc. One of the possible causes of this is that the discs above the surgery were also damaged. Not nearly as severely as the one that was removed, but still significant enough to be causing some of this pain. Especially now that they are forced to move even more to compensate for the fused one that can not move at all. I guess its not abnormal for recovery to take several years too, but hopefully it won’t take that long for me. I have been riding around more and more. I can really feel the difference in my back… its even changed my riding position ever so slightly. I’m sure part of it is that I am protecting the painful area, but also because I simply can not bend my back the same was as before. Here’s the […]
My claim to fame April 09 2010
I reminisce about my days in the film industry.
Totally got a new bone April 09 2010
Dude, this new bone is the best! Chicken flavored raw hide. I’m going to carry this around for at least a couple weeks before I even think about chewing it up. This thing is awesome!
This is what I wake up to every morning April 09 2010
New product of the day April 09 2010
Packaging design April 07 2010
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Latest Fairdale News
Some days April 18, 2010
Cartoons for dogs April 16, 2010
Solving the problems of BMX through design. April 14, 2010
Gotta do what you gotta do… April 13, 2010
Update on the back April 11, 2010
My claim to fame April 09, 2010
Totally got a new bone April 09, 2010
This is what I wake up to every morning April 09, 2010
New product of the day April 09, 2010
Packaging design April 07, 2010
