It’s been a whole month since I last updated. Man time flies when the sun’s out! It’s been warm by Aussie standards and damn hot by Seattle standards here since the end of June.  When the sun comes out here the whole place seems different. It felt like we’d all come out of hibernation all of a sudden. There was a party atmosphere in the air for July 4^th and the people flocked to the lakes and streets to enjoy the sun. Much needed vitamin D I suspect.  I got the DVD back from the recording that was done at Tula’s and I think I did a decent job. Not great, but with short moments of very good and  a steady stream of well done. I found things I could do better next time too but hey, I’m always really nervous the first time I do anything so I’m not beating myself up for it.

I’ve been out on the lake myself, last weekend actually. It was close to 39 deg that day and I was out with some friends of mine listening to music and basking in the sun. I took a dip and swam across with my mate Mike to another couple of boats owned by people he knew. When I moved from the smaller boat onto the larger one, the boats drifted apart and I pushed off of my right leg awkwardly, twisting my knee. It hurt briefly, and then whenever I tried to bend it forward it hurt too. I backstroked back to the boat and took it easy after that. I’ve been limping since and have been waiting for the swelling to go down through the handy use of frozen peas. Pea-ing on my leg has never been so cool!

In other news, I’ve been asked to help with TechEd this year in Australia and New Zealand so I’ll be heading down, firstly to New Zealand around the 20^th of August. Can’t wait. I’ll take a week off work after  the event and catch up with as many people as possible.

There are some Aussies here this week for internal MS training too so I’ve been spoilt with having them around to hang with in the evenings. Great to catch up with my old mates from work.  I’ll update this weekend after I hear more about the knee. They suspect it’s the meniscus but can’t tell because of the swelling. Tomorrow should give them a better chance to feel around and let me know.