Welcomed honesty to the game of soccer

Soccer can be a game of wonderful teamwork, skill, and unfortunately, the occasional theatrics to con the referee. This video is a breath of fresh honesty by a player who admitted to the referee (who awarded the penalty kick based upon a "foul") he was not fouled when he fell in the box.

Challenge

Well, when you have time on your hands (recovering from surgery), you have time to blog, blog, blog. So, here's some more blogging. I'm finding this recovery from triple hernia surgery one of the greatest physical challenges I've ever faced. Never have I felt so handicapped before. So, I'm trying to keep myself from being too handicapped. I can still blog. Obviously, this surgery fixed a problem I had physically. So now that it is fixed, I'm looking forward to full recovery and challenging myself even more. My goal is to knock several more goals off the list. Time to check them off. So, the next goal is full health recovery, then full physical recovery as in strength and stamina, then complete a triathlon by the end of this year. I'm not talking about some crazy Iron Man triathlon but just a basic beginners triathlon to challenge myself. I want to continue to be a person that establishes goals and complete what I start to hopefully inspire my family (wonderful wife and son), and possibly others who would choose to be inspired. So, with God's help, that is the goal I'm striving for. Praying for full recovery. And there's my blog thought for the evening.

New experience of excruciating pain.

I've felt pain before, but never something as terrible and overbearing as the pain I'm having now. Yesterday, March 7th, I went under the knife for triple hernia surgery. Being a person who is the type that loves to stay active, whether sports, working out, or even my interest in actually liking yard work, I was bound to have problems eventually. I guess being over 30 and it's attributes of healing slower then my injuries of younger years caught up to me. I was expecting discomfort after the surgery, but since the numbing help of anesthesia and pain medication wore off, I have felt pain as never felt before with the first moment my feet felt the floor this morning. Every step from the bed to the restroom was a challenge of overcoming the pain. And the trip back to bed was just as painfully nightmarish. I'm now confined to the bed for however long this pain will last, and this is an incredibly new and challenging experience for me. Yes, I love being able to voluntarily sit down with free time and watch some television, especially when my sport of soccer is on, but the ability to do other things just isn't there as this pain is blocking that ability. I'm usually a patient person and understand that strengthened patience comes from tested patience. I'm definitely being tested in patience as I must wait this out. So, with that update, this blog has helped pass the time. So, what else can I do with my time of being severely limited in what I can physically do? Thinking, thinking, thinking.