MAFB, Ionto, and TSOP: Everything (and Everyone) Old is New Again

Middle-Aged FaceBooking (yes, I know the 'B' really isn't capitalized; but MAF would make for kind of a sad acronym). It seems to be the latest craze sweeping through our office (even among those that aren't so middle aged yet), much to the dismay of some around us. Several of us have gotten into it, and meet up semi-regularly on Facebook while we're hanging out at home (see my previous post about how we can't do that at work). We all seem to have found long-lost friends, relatives, or classmates, and are having a fun time learning more about each other. We've also developed a new syndrome--profound irritation when someone we want to find does not have a Facebook page. How un-cool of them, and how very inconvenient for us. I mean, really. Get with it. Our goal is one day to eradicate the plague of LackaFacebookation that seems to be rampant across our land. So please--tell your family, tell your friends, tell your neighbors. Get a Facebook page. Then you can be cool. And hip. And young again. Like us.

My next reminder of middle age is the constant annoyance of my hip and knee. My PT has returned to an oldie but a goody (which means we've tried this before)--iontophoresis. It's kind of a keen technology actually. Basically, it's a way of using an electric charge to propel anti-inflammatory medication through the skin. The process is kind of neat, but feels pretty creepy--like really strong pins and needles. She puts the medication on one half of a patch, and puts a conduit substance on the other half. The patch has two small batteries on the outside, and has a plastic piece onto which you slide a small electronic device. The device stays connected to the patch for three minutes (which gets the batteries charged and going) and is then removed, while the patch stays on for two hours. [the picture is of the device connected to the patch] I usually wear the patch on the side of my knee, where things are most messed up at the moment. We're not yet sure if it's helping, but we should know within the next two visits if it's worth continuing or not. If not, we're back to the really old drawing board. Wonder if ACME makes IT bands...

TSOP. Who didn't love TSOP? For those of you who were perhaps doing other things in 1974, or perhaps didn't exist in 1974, TSOP was a song performed by a group called MFSB. Can't beat that combo with a stick, I say. Of course, I have no good reason to mention either the group or the song here, other than MAFB made me think of MFSB and TSOP. It's almost like a little electronic device is connected to my brain. It stays for just a few moments, gets my batteries charged, then....uh....oh.....maybe not. Though my head does feel a bit tingly...