As many of y'all know, I battled a shoulder rotator cuff tear the better part of the last year which I successfully managed to recover from after surgery and PT. This evening, I received news in the form of the radiologist review that I have a lateral meniscus tear in the front, back, and sides as well as a torn ACL and a meniscus tear. I messaged my Physical Therapist who I’ve become friends with over the rehab of my shoulder and her response was “Curious if they’ll wanna do a repair to opt for a knee replacement?” Gentlemen, I’m at a loss right now. I know that surgery is likely, but I have to admit that for one of the few times in my life, I’m scared. I’m not looking for sympathy or playing the “woe is me” card, I needed to get this out because I’ve kinda just shut down emotionally this evening to everyone, plus I’m currently on vacation and the life has been sucked out of me. Thank you for letting me get this off my chest.

So, some of you will get my nerdiness here. I have 32 sextillion outfit combos. But, I have a formula that calculations the percent of unique outfits I have worn since tracking. It was at 87%, meaning 13% of my outfits were duplicates. This seemed as close to impossible as my brain can fathom (and I have a big fat brain when it comes to statistics). Still, I kept asking the AI tool to evaluate the formula for counting duplicates and make sure it was calculating it correctly. It kept saying it was. Tonight I asked it to show me all of the duplicates. This is where I really like Co-pilot. It provides a running conversation of what it is doing and how it gets boggled when things don’t align. It finally figured out what the problem was (some #N/A errors in the outfit details) and corrected it. Zero duplicate outfits in 9 months of daily tracking. I explained to it why I kept having it look and it put out a crazy stat: I would need to live billions of lifetimes before randomly stumbling into a true duplicate outfit.