wacky1980

i keep clicking yes but NOTHING'S HAPPENING!!

do you answer it? well...yeah of course. don't be rude, man. answering =/= cyber.

on the morning we took a ferry across lake superior for our isle royale hike, the only place in walking distance that was serving food was a little bakery/smoked meats shop right by the dock. i'm not too keen on sweets in the morning, so i bought a half a pound of smoked salmon and some black coffee. the 3-hour boat ride across the choppy lake directly following that meal, was almost enough to make me lose all that salmon over the edge of the boat. probably didn't help that i was also fighting a gin hangover.

this child... no new injuries, but now he's running a fever. i'm pretty sure it's not from infection; the wound is actually looking really good at this point and there's no other signs of anything like that. probably just a viral thing, one of many going around right now. doctors want us to bring him back in if he's not over it soon, because they think it could be related to the injury. but they're just being overly cautious. #pleasedontbesepsis

a cool scar is probably how this will end up. he's already got a matching scar on the other eyebrow from doing the exact same thing about a year ago, but it wasn't deep enough to take him in for stitches. might be time to look for a softer headboard...

It's state insurance. Not Medicaid, but discounted based on income.

Copay, maybe $50. Gonna leave a real nice scar though. Cut right through his eyebrow and about as deep as could be.

Finally got a bed. They applied a lidocaine gel to numb it. Gonna be another 30 minutes before they can clean and fix. The boy is handling it pretty well so far.

I was wrong. Still sitting. Pretty sure at this point that of everyone still in the waiting room, we beat everyone here. Approaching 90 minutes now...

Yeah the town this hospital's in is only like 50k pop. Waiting room is clearing out a bit now. Might get to head up soon.

This is actually the longest ER wait I've sat thru for one of the boys. But the other visits were more urgent, so meh.

On a lighter note, the dude sitting across the aisle from me in a wheelchair keeps shifting in his seat. He's wearing pretty short shorts. At one point, I'm sure I saw a ball.

Still in the waiting room. Been almost an hour now. The boy is sleeping so it's not an urgent thing, but my ass is getting numb from these shitty chairs. We've been here enough times with these kids that I'm pretty used to this routine.

Kinda difficult to accomplish those from in here. That's why I'm asking for suggestions. Gosh.

No worries, this is all covered. Now what?

So I'm sitting in the ER waiting room with the 3yo after he split his forehead open on his headboard. Got a nice gouge in his left eyebrow. Judging by the number of folks in this room with us, we should be here for awhile. What do now?

fun story no one cares about. johnathan davis' half brother mark chavez just left his role as lead singer of adema earlier this year. the bassist / singer / utility guy in adema, his name is tim fluckey, he's from here. they rolled into town on their bus one night when i was bartending in like 2010. i had no idea who any of them were except tim because local, plus he kinda stands out...or he did back when he had the hair and the beard. and he's like 8' tall. i assumed the rest of them were in the band with him. anyways, that's about it. nothing crazy happened. they had some drinks and took off. aaaaaand that wasn't such a fun story after all. oh well, carry on.

wife has been doing hello fresh for a few months now. she only gets vegetarian meals. i'm not complaining because i don't have to buy the stuff, but a little red meat wouldn't kill a guy. they're pretty good though.

the matrix part 4? really?? 😒

red rum, sir, is murder.

me rn

sorry, i don't speak italian. i do, actually. but not that fancy proper version.

tastes like artificially-sweetened cotton candy. i dunno, they're all about 2x sweeter than i think they need to be. if they didn't way over-do it with the sucralose, i think they'd be better off.

hey back off man. soco was some ok shit on a tight budget. i preferred turkey, but soco on the rocks was some white trash sophistication like 20 years ago.

sure, with the exception of several clashes with the kurds, some political assassinations, and a coups or two throughout the 60's and 70's, it was totally peaceful.