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Originally posted by Dan_ref
And I may not be getting any basketball for a while, since I may be physically incapacitated for a few weeks. It's enough to drive someone like me to insomnia, closet rocks and desperate puns.
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I hope you're ok...
Another book sort of along the same lines is Gun, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond. The basic question he asks is "How were a handful of Spanish soldiers able to travel across an ocean and defeat tens of thousands of powerful Incans and why didn't the Incans come to Europe first to defeat the Spanish?" His starts with the assumption that all humans have equal abilities and then explains the disparities between various cultures on a purely environmental basis. He does a good job making his case. [/B][/QUOTE]
I am just fine and if I never had this surgery it wouldn't make any difference in my daily life, but it's affecting my basketball, and I just want to get it over with. It's more embarrassing than anything to talk about it, so if there are no major complications I will never say another word about it. The only thing any of you will feel is if I get so desperate for basketball that I start showing up at Padgett's games and razzing him.
We don't even get anymore WNBA around here, since Portland blew it bad in the last couple of weeks. AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
Dan this book actually does sound very interesting and I may very well add it to my reading list for the hospital, if it isn't too heavy (physically and mentally). Book I mention above is 750 pages of geology, not exactly light reading!!