Thanks Bob! Yeah, they force me to get up and walk a bit daily as well. I'm still hooked up to an IV - it's antibiotics or something, and an electrolyte solution to keep my fluid levels up. I think it's also infused with vitamins and minerals because I'm not really eating anything. I'm not on IV morphine anymore though. Trying to rest as much as possible, and that helps a lot.

On the bright side, if the infrastructure of the world collapses and we descend once again into tribalism, or if there is a cataclysmic annihilation of humankind and you're one of the survivors, you don't have to worry about getting appendicitis and dying!

Play Games

As for wasting time, I fully reccommend creating an account on Kongregate and playing flash games to your heart's content. They have a huge range of games, and a lot of badges/achievements for the more popular ones, which quickly leads into a "just... one more badge..." mentality :P

Make Games!

If you're looking for something remotely productive to do and you've always wanted to learn how to program, Code Academy just recently started a load of online courses. At the moment they have 13 courses in Javascript, ranging from the most basic of basics to building simple games and tutorials in the more complex structures. If you're hesitant - coding is actually quite simple, once you get your head about what it looks like, and contrary to non-computer scientist belief, it's actually quite fun!

The 150 Best Online Flash Games

Some crazy games on there.

Read Atlas Shrugged.

Don't read Atlas Shrugged.

Read arguments about whether or not to read Altas Shrugged.

Don't read arguments over whether or not to read Atlas Shrugged.

Read into the meaning of reading arguments over whether or not to read Atlas Shrugged.

Try reading Ulysses

Play SNES games. 5 days will FLY by.

http://files.ipherswipsite.com/snes9...1.53-win32.zip <--- Snes emulator. Download, set up controls, and load a ROM file into it with the game of your choice.

edge|emulation | download Super Nintendo (SNES) ROMs <-- Here's an archive of every SNES game ever made. Download, unzip, load up.

If you're confused by the fact you can download 1 game and get a lot of different files, just look for the ones that end with "[E][!]" or "[U][!]", those tags refer to unaltered European and United States releases of that game. The others will be stuff like fanhacked mods and stuff.



Exactly the same applies if you want to play SEGA games btw:

http://www.eidolons-inn.net/tiki-dow...php?fileId=574 <-- Emulator.

edge|emulation | download Sega Genesis ROMs <--- Games