when watching racing on sunday afternoons, you may sometimes hear the guys in the broadcast booth talk about “racer’s tape” or “200mph tape.”  its really just a name for extra sticky duct tape that us racers use to hold our cars together when bad things happen.
its also what ive been using to tape a garbage bag around my cast-ed foot so i can take a shower. 
the irony is not lost on me.

i am only on day two of what will be 3 weeks out of work.  yes, jay hasnt actually read this yet, but i found out today that my surgery is being postponed to a week from thursday.  why?  “scheduling issues.”  now to me it seems kind of insane that a guy who breaks his foot cant find his way into an ER to have the thing set properly for 3 weeks after the injury.  granted i’ve never broken anything before, and this isnt a simple injury – i’ve actually dislocated my 4 small toes and need bones fused and screws installed to fix them - but i was always under the impression that if you break something, you go the the hospital, they set it, put a cast on, and send you on your way.  ive found the way this whole process actually works to be quite maddening and fustrating.  i have an appointment at 8:15am today, where i am sure i can express my displeasure to my doctor personally, after having experincing the joy of sitting through rush hour traffic to get there.  i am sure it will improve my mood.

so i sit here, foot up.  waiting.  and waiting.  and waiting for someone to fix my foot.  why?
so i can heal up in time to run the last few races of the season of course.

what, you didn’t think i was gonna say so i could get back to work – did you?