Feliz Cumpleanos Mi Hermana!!

Happy Birthday M!! I miss ya and even love ya! (Just remember who always walked home with you from school when J wouldn't!)

Be careful what you poll for...

It might come true!

Can you guess? Yep, you are right, I shaved my legs this morning in anticipation of my next mountain bike race.

To me, a guy, now my legs look funny and feel funny. You voted and I did it.

Pictures soon...........If I get up the courage.

PS- if knees are the chin of shaving your legs, then ankles have got to be your adam's apple!


Bigfoot before
After using clippers to thin it all out. I almost took a pic of the pile of hair on the towel but who knows, you could be eating and reading this so I would hate to make you loose your lunch.
Going crazy, no turning back now!
Oh the embarrassment...

the interwebs bugs me today

so, how can i delete people off the little yahoo chat list that shows up on my mail page, dumb yahoo copying gmail and it is something i didn't want anyways? it adds people to the list but gives me no way to delete them? only blocking, but that doesnt remove me seeing them on my list. i'll have like 20 people on that list but really only 4 will matter to me at any give time.

and how come i can no longer browse or search blogs on here, blogger? one of the things i like is to read random blogs off of here and now i am no longer able to search or browse them. not fun!

-insert something funny here-

Today I am taking M to the airplane museum up at March AFB near Riverside. I am also studying for my EMT final tomorrow.

I agree with Ron Paul on something (rare) that health care is NOT a right. And the idea of "just tax rich people more, make them pay for it, they can afford it" is a knee jerk liberal simplistic response set to appeal to the lowest denominator in the masses. I like the saying that goes, "I've seen government housing, I don't want to see government healthcare."

Last night's mountain bike ride was 14 miles, 12 of them climbing. Some of the group was struggling so we finished when it was dark. None of us with lights of course.

Updating other personal stuff, I should be done with EMT school on Saturday after my skills test final. Then I have to take a national registry test a week or so after that. I am also waiting to hear if I will be taking a friend's job if he gets a promotion. This would be awesome as it is in the motorcycle field and I think I would really enjoy it. And I looked harder at the entry requirements for Physician Assistant programs in the Western US and most of them require you to take the GRE, have a year of chemistry w/ lab or at least biochem and organic chem along with microbiology. I have none of these! So that would mean a year of college down here before I could apply again, which would mean another year delay in starting!! As you don't start till a year after you apply! FREAK! I am not happy about that. It is very disheartening and once a stinking again I am unsure of what to do and unhappy about school/job stuff. I felt sooo good about the EMT course as a way to bolster my PA school application and it looks like it really doesn't mean anything. Oh, and most places want you to have graduated from college in the past 5 years. I graduated from college in 2002, so seven years ago.

I wish I could just be at peace with certain aspects of my situation, but I am not.
All I really know for work is stacking produce and nuclear medicine.

A wonderful, rowdy idea......

I think next week sometime, or even sooner, me and a bunch of friends should find a grassy hillside and lay down about 100' of plastic, spray it down with water and dish soap, throw on our suits and slip slide it away in a major fashion!!!

Who's down?

(a smaller version of this)

Riding the UCSD Rimac bike trails through the eucalyptus.

Saturday was a free day so we all decided to ride mnt bikes on an easy trail. Something I had heard was easy but had never done was the trails through the Par Course near the Rimac at UCSD. I switched the SPD pedals out of the other bikes, fitted M to my hard tail and gave him a few practice runs on my new jump. Then off we went!

It was fun. I would go there again for an easy beginner style ride. Also if you park on a weekend or after 6PM you don't have to pay for parking, in spite of what the signs say.

By noon is was so warm and since we were close to the Shores we thought we would just buzz into Ross and buy cheap towels and swimsuits and head over and cool off. Just like 10 thousand other people it seems!! I had to park farther away than I ever have, EVER! And just 'cause it is in La Jollla, Ross is still Ross and it was pretty ghetto in there. (this was the day we saw the fat guy naked at the beach posted about earlier)

Anyways, some biking pictures!

Ambulance Ride Along & rant

So I spent 12 hours Sunday on an ambulance out in East County as part of the requirements for my EMT class. While it was a hot day and I started to get a little car sick riding around in the back I did get to see quite a bit of stuff, where some of my class mates had to simulate patient experiences I had all I needed before dinner time!

People say we need "Universal Healthcare" but we really already have it! Call 911, the ambulance shows up and it goes like this, "Do you have insurance?"

"No."

"Ok, get in the ambulance let's take you to the hospital. Where do you work? Do you have a doctor? Are you a US citizen?"

"I don't, nope and no."

"Ok, we're at the hospital let's go inside and get you taken care of."

People talk about it being a "right" but yet soooooooooooo few people then exercise the other side of the coin for rights, responsibilities. Yep, with every right is a responsibility. If you think healthcare is a "right" then you need to do all you can to be healthy. No smoking, no alcohol, no drugs, no fast food and exercise. If you can't do those things you shouldn't get a damn thing for free.

Long time readers will know I like pictures, so here you go:



pnt1:diabetic iv drug user who fell off the wagon after 40 days and was totally drunk with blood glucose of 400+, found at a hotel.

pnt2:heroin user who was totally drunk and barely responsive, with cigarette burns in their clothes who only 5 hours earlier had been discharged from the hospital due to alcohol abuse. this person also stated they just wanted to die.

pnt3:old person with an altered mental status who fell trying to get in the shower and maybe hit their head. there are on blood thinners so off to the trauma center for a head CT. the pic is the one of the spine board being turned on its' side so they can vomit. they also had a possible broken foot.

pnt4:post traumatic brain injury with left sided weakness. addicted to oxycontin. complaining of back pain a week after a fall and pain 10/10. requesting to be taken to hospital because, "i just cant take it anymore!"

pnt5:a car accident happened. one of the occupants walked to a nearby house to get a drink of water. everyone else at the scene gets taken care of. this pnt shows up after all the ambulances are gone and we have to be called back to get them. now this person is complaining of chest pain. c spine and trauma center here we go again.