I spent this afternoon at a geek convention of sorts - Games Workshop held their "Conflict" day at Leederville Recreation Centre (where I play soccer). It was a minature gaming tournament and for $10 entry I went and had a look at it. To their credit, they had a lot of other things happening alongside the games including an "Iron Painter" competition where you had a minature, 20 minutes and a specific colour that had to appear on the model, introductory games, gaming organisations and clubs, tutorials and displays. I like the little men, and wish I had the time to paint an army and fight other people. There's a fair bit of thinking and tactics that go into a game and that's the part I like the most. Anyways... I digress...

Because of the unfortunate glass incident, I was not able to compete in this morning's City to Surf race. Whilst it sounds like a good excus, especially when I tell you the rest of my story, anyone that has run with me in the last few months will (hopefully) tell you that I was excited and keen for the race.

I've been walking on my sore foot as normal as the pain was not too bad. It was always there, but not screaming at me. For some reason I've left it alone over the last few days and thought that it was time to have another dig. The human body's pretty cool, as mine had pushed some of the glass out to a point that the nail scissors were scraping the glass again making that nasty glass-on-metal sound that I'm sure you all know. I pulled a small shard out without any hassles and started to get excited - maybe I could get the rest!

I cut away a bit of the skin that was dried and could see the glass shard poking out the end. It was as if my scissors were magnetic or there were tiny people in my foot pushing the glass out because it seemed to just slide out when I put the right pressure on the right areas.

My mood changed from "hell yeah, take that you glass-shard-nard" to"crap, why didn't this happen 24 hours ago?" Hence the title - it's a little bittersweet. Next time I think self-amputation might solve the problem head on.