Things to do.

[steveaki13]

Well I have just returned from the hospital. It appears I have broken the 5th metatarsal in my Left Foot. :(

(Waits for people to go awwwwww :D )

My main hobbies are out, work is out, so I have 6 weeks to fill of doing very little so I need some ideas of things to do in that time.

I have been sketching over the past few days so that's something I can continue with.
Posting nonsense on Motorsport Forums is a given.

Anyone got any other good Ideas.

[BleAivano]

Flightsimming is really fun. Get FSX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_X) or Prepar3D v2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Prepar3D)+ a joystick and your good to go.

Start with the default planes and airports before you move on to goodier and more advanced stuff.

[steveaki13]

That's a nice idea. I already have some of the things I need. As dull as it sounds to some, I also have a rail simulator.

Thanks for the suggestion

[gadjo_dilo]

- sleep a lot
- talk on the phone with your friends
-watch the winter Olympics
-solve sudoku
- read books
- learn a foreign language
- try on old clothes
- try to write a poem
- watch a movie. on TV
- bake a cake
..........................
etc.



BTW, I'm sorry for your injury.

[donKey jote]

Stand on your head :sailor:

[D-Type]

Swimming will keep the muscles in tone - obviously only possible if your foot isn't in a cast
Crafts - i.e. making things - model racing cars, Christmas cards, marquetry, carving wood or bone, jewelry making, restoring old furniture
Rebuild a car or motor bike - you can do most of the work sitting down
Furniture making - First make a stool to sit at your workbench
Study something you've always wanted to (e.g. my daughter did a postal interior design course when she had a leg in plaster)

[Bagwan]

There are loads of things to do , but ,
skydiving is out .
No tap dancing .
Most martial arts and other combative sports are no go , with the exception of thumb wrestling , if one is not too rambunctious about it .

Sorry to hear about your foot .
Accepting being pampered is the best way to heal , Steve .

Do you drive auto or stick ?

[Gregor-y]

Flightsimming is really fun. Get FSX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_X) or Prepar3D v2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Prepar3D)+ a joystick and your good to go.

Start with the default planes and airports before you move on to goodier and more advanced stuff.
For driving there's always Euro Truck Simulator 2 (http://www.eurotrucksimulator2.com/). It's more in the vein of flight and rail simulators than racers. You'll need a steering wheel with a lot of turns lock to lock for the best experience, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlTuC18xVII

[steveaki13]

There are loads of things to do , but ,
skydiving is out .
No tap dancing .
Most martial arts and other combative sports are no go , with the exception of thumb wrestling , if one is not too rambunctious about it .

Sorry to hear about your foot .
Accepting being pampered is the best way to heal , Steve .

Do you drive auto or stick ?

Stick Sadly

[steveaki13]

Thanks for the kind thoughts guys. You have actually given me some nice idea's.

[D-Type]

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Do you drive auto or stick ?

Stick Sadly
If it's a left hand drive car you could theoretically operate the clutch with a walking stick while steering with the left knee and shifting gears with your right hand. But not on busy or narrow roads.

Or, hire a car and break chips off the gears making clutchless gear shanges. :eek: It's not that difficult: you simply have to pause on your way through neutral to let the revs adjust. But it takes a lot of practice and crashing of gears to learn how. Have fun trying.

[Rollo]

- try to write a poem


Actually, why not write a whole novel - there is a thing called National Novel Writing Month in November - http://nanowrimo.org/
The task there is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. That doesn't sound so hard if you break it up into 2000 words a day for 25 days.
In six weeks, you probably should be able to write a 75,000 word novel, no problem.

I did this last year and a 50,000 word novel in a month isn't as hard as people think.

[D-Type]

I meant to ask: Is your foot is in plaster?

[steveaki13]

Yes it is now. Toes up to Knee.

I have an appointment at the fracture clinic tomorrow. I will find out how long I have to keep it on.

[Rudy Tamasz]

Yes it is now. Toes up to Knee.

I have an appointment at the fracture clinic tomorrow. I will find out how long I have to keep it on.

I had the exact same situation in December. Slid on the first snow, fractured the same bone. Plaster, out of action for five weeks.

I read books, watched movies, listened to a lot of music, played logical games. But the most important thing was spending time with my family. I had never spent this much time with my family before that and making up for it was just awesome. I loved it, kids loved it, my wife told me I became a better person. There's nothing like your eight month old daughter falling asleep in your arms while music is gently playing.

[Big Ben]

cry in the bathroom

[steveaki13]

Thanks for all the ideas.

Just been to hospital appointment and been told my foot has not healed at all in those four weeks.

Also been told if its this slow to heal, it could be 6 months without doing much.

Really sad and pissed off now. :mad: :( ;(

[BleAivano]

Thanks for all the ideas.

Just been to hospital appointment and been told my foot has not healed at all in those four weeks.

Also been told if its this slow to heal, it could be 6 months without doing much.

Really sad and pissed off now. :mad: :( ;(

http://perioddrama.com/Games/Jane%20Eyre%20told%20through%20Smilies/images/mad12.gif

Sorry to hear that. Have you tried any of the suggestions in thread? ;)

[steveaki13]

Done a few things on here. I guess there is time for some more now.

[gadjo_dilo]

Really sad and pissed off now. :mad: :( ;(
:kiss:

[D-Type]

Thanks for all the ideas.

Just been to hospital appointment and been told my foot has not healed at all in those four weeks.

Also been told if its this slow to heal, it could be 6 months without doing much.

Really sad and pissed off now. :mad: :( ;(
That's a b*gger isn't it!

One more idea is to catch up with reading all the classics you didn't read while at school - Dickens, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, etc. It sounds a bore, but once you get into it, it's an enjoyable way to pass the time. I had an assignment abroad and found this one way of filling the evenings (that was in pre-Internet days).

[D-Type]

Thanks for all the ideas.

Just been to hospital appointment and been told my foot has not healed at all in those four weeks.

Also been told if its this slow to heal, it could be 6 months without doing much.

Really sad and pissed off now. :mad: :( ;(
That's a b*gger isn't it!

One further idea is to catch up with the classics you should have read at school - but didn't. Charles Dickens (OK once you realise it was written to be read slowly), Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, John Buchan, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, etc. I had a job abroad a few years ago (ie pre-Internet) and a colleague suggested this was one way to fill the evenings.

[BleAivano]

So any news and any luck trying out the suggestions?

[steveaki13]

Flightsimming is really fun. Get FSX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_X) or Prepar3D v2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Prepar3D)+ a joystick and your good to go.



-I haven't done flight simming, but have done some more Rail simming. I have the old Microsoft Train Simulator and have the Great Eastern Mainline. So I have done most of the tasks on there.


- sleep a lot
- talk on the phone with your friends
-watch the winter Olympics
-solve sudoku
- read books
- learn a foreign language
- try on old clothes
- try to write a poem
- watch a movie. on TV
- bake a cake
..........................
etc.



BTW, I'm sorry for your injury.

-I have slept a lot. :p
-I watched all of the winter Olympics.
-I have read some books, that I haven't gotten round too. (Monarchy in England/Great Britain) (A couple about my home City) (A couple of Football books too)
-Believe it or not I also did the trying on old clothes suggestion. :o I chucked a load out. Although my general lack of exercise will make me fat soon, so I might have to throw out some more.

I haven't baked a cake, written a poem or learnt a language yet.


Swimming will keep the muscles in tone - obviously only possible if your foot isn't in a cast
Crafts - i.e. making things - model racing cars, Christmas cards, marquetry, carving wood or bone, jewelry making, restoring old furniture
Rebuild a car or motor bike - you can do most of the work sitting down
Furniture making - First make a stool to sit at your workbench
Study something you've always wanted to (e.g. my daughter did a postal interior design course when she had a leg in plaster)

I have been working on the garden (easy stuff that I can do sitting down)- i.e planting seeds and weeding beds.

I have also been studying and researching a couple of things. I was never massively interested in my home town, now a city of Chelmsford. So I have been reading books, looking online and studying old photo's on Flickr.
I have also been collecting together and writing down the complete records of the England football team. Being a huge fan. I am putting a personal book together of all Full International/B team/Amateur/Olympic/FA tours and youth results of the England team



I read books, watched movies, listened to a lot of music, played logical games. But the most important thing was spending time with my family. I had never spent this much time with my family before that and making up for it was just awesome. I loved it, kids loved it, my wife told me I became a better person. There's nothing like your eight month old daughter falling asleep in your arms while music is gently playing.

I have watched a lot of TV including more sport. generally I love sport so that has been OK. I have also got into some modern classical music too, which is a new interest for me.



So any news and any luck trying out the suggestions?

I have also been transferring my DVD collection to an external Hard drive by my PC as it was something I have wanted to do for ages and due to time its never been possible.

I have also been planning things to do once I am back to normal and can get out and about by myself.

I have another appointment at the hospital on Tuesday. Just hope they tell me something positive. I just want to at least have a feeling that I am progressing.

Thanks for asking BleAivano

[Firstgear]

...I was never massively interested in my home town, now a city of Chelmsford. So I have been reading books, looking online and studying old photo's on Flickr. ...

If you want to kill some time looking at the historic building of various cities and such...check out this site.
http://archiseek.com/

[BleAivano]

If you want to kill some time looking at the historic building of various cities and such...check out this site.
http://archiseek.com/

You can also look at this forum thread to see how Stockholm have transformed: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1503602
Also for Stockholm there is Stockholmskällan: http://www.stockholmskallan.se where you can find lots of old maps and old photos and etc of Stockholm.

http://www.stockholmskallan.se/Soksida/?tab=image&photos=1&film=1
http://www.stockholmskallan.se/Soksida/?maps=1

[gadjo_dilo]

You should read "Playing the Moldovans at tennis' by Tony Hawks (the moldovans were Moldova national football team ) . You'll have a laugh and I assure you that all the absurd situations aren't invented.
A good friend from the forum recommended it and even sent me his copy a few years ago when I was down. It was also great that the book travelled through 3 continents just to cheer me up.

[Tazio]

Sorry to hear about your slow recovery Steve. I'm facing knee surgery from my motorcycle accident. I'm not looking forward to that down time.

[steveaki13]

Sorry to hear about your slow recovery Steve. I'm facing knee surgery from my motorcycle accident. I'm not looking forward to that down time.

Thanks.

That sounds nasty. Not something you ever want to think about (surgery). What is it that needs to be done on your knee?

[BleAivano]

-I haven't done flight simming, but have done some more Rail simming. I have the old Microsoft Train Simulator
and have the Great Eastern Mainline. So I have done most of the tasks on there.


probably a wise decision when you think about the amount of time and money that is required if you want get the most of it.
Anyway this gave me an idea for a new thread. ;)

[Tazio]

Thanks.

That sounds nasty. Not something you ever want to think about (surgery). What is it that needs to be done on your knee?
I have a torn LCL, a torn meniscus, as well as multiple tears to my articular cartilage.

[steveaki13]

Good news. I had the plaster off today and was told the bone has meshed. Its now strong enough to begin walking on with crutches and over the next few weeks and months I can start building up back to normal levels of activity.

Over the next weeks the bone will continue to thicken and become rock hard providing I don't do too much to quick.

Light at the end of the tunnel anyway

[gadjo_dilo]

Great news Stevie. I'm happy for you.
:wave: :kiss:

[steveaki13]

Thanks Gadjo.

[BleAivano]

Great news Stevie. I'm happy for you. :wave:

Agree, good news. :)

[Tazio]

Glad to hear that Steve.

[donKey jote]

Here's wishing you a rapid recovery steve
... And make sure you kick any buckets with the right leg :p