Thought i’d write a little something before I hit the sack.
My brother, Jim, sent me a page about how much Idaho sucks (where we’re from). It was pretty funny… and offensive. So I had to surf all over the site. Some good stuff there. I have probably spent 10 or more hours of my life reading prose from the site. I’m surprised I hadn’t found it earlier as it’s been around since 1998. Yeesh. The site is named The Best Page in the Universe, and apparently gets a lot of traffic. This character’s sense of humor and basic arrogance reminds me of my good buddy John. I’d say I agree with 98 percent of what the guy has to say. So enjoy or be offended.
Idaho is better than Utah btw.
The cat scratch infection is mostly gone. All that is left is some nagging pain in my wrist. That was one infection that got out of hand! Figuratively, quite the opposite literally.
My hand swoll up like somebody had blown up latex glove and my entire right forearm swoll up. The second night of sleeping with the infection (still before it had gone nuts) I woke up waving my arm around in the air moaning and groaning and whining about how it hurt… sorta weird waking up doing that. Fortunately I had made an appointment to see a doctor the next day. So the day after my ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ post, I was at the doctor, and they were like “Its a good thing you came in.” Got a shot of Rocephin in my right butt cheek and a perscription of Zithromax to take orally.
Then it proceeded to get worse… though the pain subsided just a bit. That may have had to do with the 800mg of Ibuprofen I was taking every 8 hours. The doctor fellow was actually pissed to see that it had gotten worse. He was a physicians assistant (PA), and went to get the doctor on call… after telling me that I was either going to the hospital or getting a couple more shots of Rocephin (one in each butt cheek!). When the doc came in he took a look at it and asked me some questions, then he & the PA proceeded to chat about how much they hated cats. Fortunately for me the verdict was two shots of rocephin. My right butt cheek was still a little sore from the last shot. This time they laid me down on my belly, pointed my feet together pigeon toe like and did the shots simulateously. As far as shots in the butt go, that was pretty nice, no pain at all that time, no muscle spasms, almost like nothing happened.
So I can type now, I can twist the wrist and do all the motion stuff for the most part. Yay. The two shots did their work, and the Zithromax seems to have alleviated the Cellulitis (that is some painful stuff, Cellulitis, which I guess constituted the swelling and redness). I can continue life normally once again.
So last night while I was holding a cat that doesn’t like to be held, this cat went nuts and tore my right hand/wrist to shreds and bit the dickens out of my left thumb. Now I’ve got a big swollen infection on the outside of my right wrist. It hurts like a biotch. I’ll try and post some pics of the damage. Off to Rotaract now.
Just noticed that the pictures didn’t properly upload to gallery. I’ll fix that as soon as I’ve got the time!
So I’ve been purchasing stuff left and right. I was just about to spend another $800 bucks on some more cool crap, but I suddenly had the sensibility to check my account balances and decided not to. Guess I’ll have to wait 2 weeks to the next paycheck. It was good stuff too. A tv tuner card for the computer. A pull down screen so I can see my projector’s images better. Two projector bulbs (one for john who would pay me back and one as a backup for me). Those mutha’s is egg-spensive. Nearly $300 a pop. Projectors are sweet, but you tend to forget about that expense. Every 4 years or so, you’re going to have to shell out another $300. And the technology by then makes it almost feasible to just get a new projector… maybe plasma screens will be affordable when my bulb fails. Oh… I was listing what I was planning to buy. The only other thing I was getting was a sidewinder joystick connector to usb converter. Video games via emulators galore. Speaking of video games, I did purchase an eVGA nVidia 7800 GT card. I think it will kick some ass. Hopefully I’m correct.
Other stuff I’ve purchased. Beaver Sports had a mad sale so I went nuts. Climbing shoes & some accessories, quality socks, xc skiis & accessories, nice clothing for xc skiing, and some xc stuff for Casey… all said I blew nearly 600 bucks! The bindings have yet to be mounted on the skiis, but I can’t wait to go try out my new gear! I slept in my fleece long johns last night. Wow, warm & cozy. Usually I’m snuggled up tight with my woman, but this qualifies as a distant second place. 
I’ll be picking Isaac up from Anchorage next weekend. He called me up today and was loaded on sugar. When you’re 5 years old I think sugar and crack are about the same. That kid was going nuts. The high was still going strong when we hung up a half hour later. Wow. But good golly gee willickers, it sure is nice to hear from him. On a more serious note Melodi & I haven’t solidified the amount of time he’ll be with me this time, but it will be at least 4 months. That takes us to summer. Once he goes back to Melodi, she’s got the 70% physical custody by our agreement, so I’ll start doing things like school or becoming the president of Rotaract. We’ll see which when the Rotaract election happens here in the near future.
Just loaded the photos off my canon. Look at the gallery link I’ve got goin’ on off to the right.
Wow, three days in a row after a long long silence. I’m on FIRE! … I need a little flame icon to insert right there.
Anyhoo, I just came out of Beaver Sports with $300 of gear all 20% off or more. Nice deal. Got a pretty nice set of XC skiing gear. Rosignol skiis, Fischer boots, solomon bindings, swix poles. When I finally get it all on tuesday or wednesday I should take a photo of it, to show off 
Also got climbing shoes and four pairs of nice smartwool type socks. Now I need to go back, get skiis for Casey and pick up some XC clothes (pants, gators, maybe a jacket). Lots of money, but I’m excited about the gear!
Huh… thought I had more to blather about, but I guess not.
Is it bad that I find this little computer puzzle clip so amusing?
What happened to everyone on yahoo? So few of the people I would always chat with are on regularly any more. Except Casey, and I get to talk with her in person every day. Mom? Alex? Jim? Mystann? Ah well. I guess I’ll just have to blather on my webpage.
Fairbanks recently experienced it’s typical week plus of 40 to 50 below. I ran out of heating oil about 5 days into it. Fortunately I’m like a boyscout and am always prepared I had 10 gallons of extra fuel in yellow diesel cans ready to go right into my fuel tank. Now I’m waiting for the perfect moment to fix my tank stand (now that the tank is empty thus lighter). You see the rear port post bowed out due to the weight of the tank and the lack of latteral support in the stand. As an interrim fix I’ve propped a couple pieces of fire wood between the house and the stand and attached a 2×4 to brace the two back posts of the stand.
The other day, John and I went to fix the stand and found out that it’s even more hosed than originally thought. We’ll have to take the tank entirely off, install an interrim tank (John’s old 55 gallon drum), and rework my current stand with tougher connections (3/8″ bolts instead of piddly screws). Now that its scorchin’ out there (over freezing often) and I’m back from staffing the Yukon Quest Circle City checkpoint, I ought to do it to it. I’ll keep you posted.
This game managed to fritter away a half hour of my life before I was like, “Holy crap, I’ve gotta go to bed!” Its pretty intriguing. You oughtta try it out. I would if I didn’t have work in the morning!
