Ronon was staring at his laptop trying to decide what to do.

Sleep would not come. Not because of pain, although the pain was some of the worst he'd ever had but because he had just finally sort of gotten used to his room enough to be getting almost 4 hours of straight sleep. The infirmary had different noises and people constantly telling him to rest, how was he suppose to do that if they kept checking on him... he wished he could stun the next person to offer sleeping pills or pain meds... stupid vow to Dr. Weir. A vow that the staff seemed fully aware of as no one seemed fazed even in the slightest to be facing a Wraith stunner immediately upon entering his room.

So, here he sat propped up, staring at the Earth games. Minesweeper was out: if it was a single symbol by itself he could usually figure it out, if there was more than one symbol they would move on him and he inevitably blew up. Mahjong was out too, as apparently the symbol was considered different even if it was just turned around; plus it gave him a huge headache. Hearts had been another failure: the cards had enough differences that he thought he might be able to play but little bubbles kept popping up in Earth script, which of course he couldn't read. Solitaire he could do but it was boring and pointless especially considering how hard he had to work to decipher the cards.

That left chess, which was more fun live... sort of... well it depended on who was playing.

Elizabeth had been nice to teach him; but he always won... so boring... she said Zelenka was the Atlantis Master and that she would send him around.

Zelenka had come and they had been mid-game when Rodney came in ranting that Zelenka had been gone far longer than had been approved. Ignoring Rodney, the little scientist beamed at Ronon and suggested when he was recovered he should join the chess club... that shut McKay up... but only for a second.

"What? But Elizabeth just taught him!" Radek just calmly waved to the board.

While Rodney stomped over to the board, Zelenka replied, "As you can see, he is quite good. It is much fun to play against someone with such good grasp of game... Hey! What are you doing? We are still playing!"

Rodney had thrown Radek out of the room, grumbling the whole time, "You the best we have to challenge him with, ha! I'll be back to the lab in a minute. Go... go! You'll just make him nervous."

Hours later, Carson had come and yelled at Rodney for not letting Ronon rest. "I've placed a time limit on the games Rodney and you're not to ignore it! Just move the board aside, no one will disturb it."

A very stunned Rodney mumbled something incoherent and walked out the door. That had been fun.

Alas, there was no one to play with now, so Ronon glanced at the movies: there was Jaws (very cool, he'd watched it five times already) and the Athosian documentary which he watched once, out of obligation to Teyla, and nothing else. Sheppard had promised to bring disks, including football, but hadn't had a chance; and apparently the only other available movies that could be put directly on his computer were for girls or really corny. Ronon liked corn and Teyla's popcorn wasn't bad either so he didn't understand why being corny would be a bad thing; but John had just said, 'Trust me.'

Listening to music was an option as many people had donated 'playlists' he just had a hard time lying in bed listening to music. On Sateda music was expressed through the motion of the listener. If you gained entrance to the hall you danced, unless the music accompanied a performance; if you couldn't gain entrance everyone placed their radio in the door and you danced with your friends and family in the street.

The only thing left was Amelia. She had allowed Teyla to share her video letters from Earth with Ronon (he especially liked the letter in which she taught how to make brownies because she had sent the supplies to make them on the Daedalus). Then after Caldwell had been a Goa'uld Ronon and Teyla had many questions, so with permission, Amelia had been sending audio summaries of SG1's mission reports with corresponding slide shows. The mission reports were incredible and sometimes John would sit and listen too. He said Amelia cut through all the bull and just told you what you needed to know, she was like your own personal executive summarizer. Sheppard assured Ronon that was good.

Amelia had been sending about two summaries a data burst, apparently General O'Neill had given his approval and support to her project so if her duties allowed she could work on them during her shift. However, once Amelia knew Ronon had nothing to do she was recording more during her lunch break and some before leaving each night after shift allowing ten summaries a data-burst.

While Dex really appreciated the reports, in all honesty, he enjoyed the video letters most. He didn't play them in the day as they were private and unlike Teyla he didn't have permission to share. At night the nurses came in every three hours - plenty of time to watch a video about how two of her brothers began working with her at the SGC and they all shared a dwelling, or how to make apple pie, or what an Earth apartment was like, and how she kept in touch with the rest of her family...

Ronon clicked on the 1st letter Amelia had sent after the bomb scare only it didn't play right - there was no video and it only played extremely small parts of the audio message, specifically the words were pieced together to say: "You are safe Ronon, I'm here, you are safe." which repeated continually until he clicked on the next letter. This one was the same letter intact, Teyla must have realized it hadn't transferred to his computer correctly.

He watched the whole thing: how the SGC had learned of the bomb, how scared they had been for everyone at Atlantis, warm wishes that everyone was safe and then because she had promised Teyla: how to begin knitting a simple scarf.

Amelia appeared quite flustered and Ronon finally thought he understood cute or why else would he be watching how to knit? Amelia kept apologizing over her lack of skill even suggesting that she should film her sister or her mother, even her one brother, a priest, apparently was better at this knitting then her. The knitting appeared to look similar to what Teyla had called yarlic but with two sticks instead of three. When it was over Ronon waited until after the nurse checked on him yet again, then he put the despised ear buds in and without really knowing why clicked the broken message.

Three hours later Ronon slept blissfully unaware when the nurse opened his door as he listened to Amelia whispering that he was safe.