Blown out of proportion

After the teardown for the game that never ended, I was exhausted. I got back to my apartment around 5pm or so and it was time to take a nap. I had hoped to get up at 6:30, a nice power nap and go over to happy hour at the Hyatt. They have a pretty good happy hour every Wednesday, which seems to get a good turn out and the views are unbeatable.

Apparently I slept through or woke up, turned off my alarm and then went back to sleep. I was awoken around 9:30pm by a phone call, and realized that my knee was throbbing. It was fine when I took the nap, but when I woke up the pain was unbearable. I then looked at my knee and it was swollen. I've been using the phrase as large as a basketball and that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it gets the point across.

This is the same knee that I had ACL surgery on. The pain then wasn't this bad. I'm able to walk on it and it's not too bad, but I can't bend it past 90 degrees without getting stiffness/resistance, and then about 5 degrees later on the contraction pain. I've been doing the usual Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation and will give it one more day before going to get it checked out.

This photo doesn't look like much. In fact it looks like a mess, and honestly it really is. What you're looking at there are strands of fiber optic cable hanging on a fence. Fiber Optics can be used to carry all sorts of signals at a great bandwidth over long distances. They really are revolutionizing the industry. The downside about fiber optics is that they can be extremely fragile if not handled properly. Here, the fibers that went to the booth were terminated and not jacketed. The sharp bends in the fiber is a really bad thing, and makes it subject to breakage. You can see how much more robust the fibers in the yellow jackets look, and how they don't bend as much. This almost caused us to lose all audio to the booth during the game. It did cause us to lose all audio and video to the booth about an hour to the game.