Thursday night, saw Kylesa, Medic, Triac, Mannequin & Never Enough. Great show. Great friends. Kylesa was great, again. After the show, had to take a friend to the ER, she gashed her chin open falling down the Ottobar stairs. I thought it was minor until I saw the gash... it was big, and only oozing blood, not gushing, which I took to be a bad sign of shock or low blood pressure.
We dashed to the ER, sat and waited for them to do something. Eventually, Sonny and I went home to prepare Medic's van for tour. I got to sleep, around, 7am, called in sick from work.
Ben and I went and got art supplies, went to eat awesome jerk chicken at Negril. So good. Then we went to Georgia thrift and got this nice lady to let us see the special room, filled with cameras and trumpets and like 3 I-openers.
Then I slept on the futon in the living room for awhile, only to be awoken by Ben's foot nudging me. He needed me to race him to the Dragon Express bus to NYC. So I raced him over, and then went to the art supply store to buy silkscreen supplies they didn't have at store #1. After that, I tried to go to the Warehouse Cafe but it was closed. Sally called and said she wanted to help silkscreen, so I waited for her at Starbucks, and I hear a voice from the back of the line call my name... It was Kevin!
So Kevin and I chat for awhile, about business ideas and iPods and real estate, until Sally shows. Sally and I go get smoothies, then meet Kevin and Kenny from Flowers In The Attic back at the Dirtfarm, where we try to make screens. The guys decided they want to try re-doing the screen. So we drop Sally off at the metro and the guys and I go to Kinkos to rework the design. I get a million calls while we're there, including my friend Miriam from HS who whas moved here. She is apparently in a sketchy living situation, so Kenny, Kevin and I go there and move her to her new place.
I go home and work on the logjamming servers and then crash out.
Saturday, I work on the logjamming servers and then go to Baltimore to eat crabcakes with Ron, my family friend who is getting a series of leg surgeries. He is staying in a nicer place now, a nursing home of sorts. After, I head to Reptilian to shop for a minute. Then it's back home and to the logjamming servers. Meredith comes over, eventually, to drag me away from those accursed servers, thankfully.
The next day I work on servers more, and eat bagels with Scott. We go to a vegan feast at Sarah's house. I get a call from Andy from Memory As Perfection, telling me that they have broken up and cancelled their tour and asking if they can spend the night at the farm. So we head back to meet them. We hang out, shoot the shit, talk about old times. Eventually, i have to pass out.
Now I'm here, catching up on Friday's work and posting.
kevin [email] said at 12:24 PM 08-16-2004: a horror movie theme bar would be rad!
i wanted to do a cartoon (an adult swim sort of thing) based on the lives of people who work at a horror movie theme park. like a demented disneyland (well differently demented). totally over the top like, with cheesy bad rides based on various decades of horror movies.
josh [email] said at 11:49 AM 08-16-2004: i totally missed out on like a dozen things i wante dto do this weekend, horror con, erica's party, navies... :(
rick [email] said at 1:54 PM 08-16-2004: "only oozing blood, not gushing, which I took to be a bad sign of shock or low blood pressure."
This is the sign of venous bleed, not an arterial bleed. More definitive signs and symptoms of shock are a sense of impending doom, cool, clammy skin, raised heart rate, lowered blood pressure, and altered level of consciousness.
kara [email] said at 2:10 PM 08-16-2004: she got 7 stitches in her chin.
the next day I was FURIOUS to find out that she was going to the ER or dentist because her teeth were fucked up.
I explicitly asked the doctor to check inside her mouth and the lazy halfass didnt listen.
rick [email] said at 2:17 PM 08-16-2004: I am not coming down on that! I am glad you showed concern as opposed to saying, "whatever, dood . . . walk it off." If there was ever an endorsement of Josh as fellow partygoer, it is this incident. Josh will not a bleeding buddy.
rick [email] said at 1:59 PM 08-16-2004: Alcohol may alter one's level of consciousness.
But it should be noted a lot of very ugly wounds are not as serious as one may think them to be and a lot of innocuous wounds may be much more serious than they appear.
rick [email] said at 2:10 PM 08-16-2004: I would guess this is not really an innocuous wound but I am aware of a victim who was run over by an automobile. The vehicle ran over their legs. When the paramedics arrived, the victim was sitting up, alert and oriented, and even joking. Unbeknownst to all there, a clot in one of the victim's legs was knocked loose by the collision and it went up to the victim's brain, which resulted in their death.
For that sort of injury presentation, that was rather unusual.
jake [email] said at 1:11 AM 08-19-2004: Yep.
But the thing that stuck with me was the kid that stayed out on the hill to be the first person in the united states to see the sunrise that morning.
jake [email] said at 1:35 AM 08-19-2004: It's strange--the backdrop of that book's plot blurs with the middle chapter of the sound and the fury...
Have you read the sequel? I've got it on my shelf...
jake [email] said at 1:54 AM 08-19-2004: Yeah, the harvard piece with the preoccupation with a ticking stop watch.
It's just the finer plot points that blur...and to be honest, there's a little "portrait of the artist" and "the chocolate war" in there too.
Definitely no Beezus or Stacey with diabetes, though.
rick [email] said at 2:12 PM 08-16-2004: If one were to draw back on an intravenous catheter and push again, an air embolus might be released into the blood stream which may be serious. Likewise, if the same sort of catheter's needle were to shear off a strip of the plastic tubing, a similar result could occur.
rick [email] said at 2:15 PM 08-16-2004: Out on the street.
I once encountered an inmate though who had been stabed at least three or four times in the chest and was not seriously wounded though. That was a surprise.
rick [email] said at 2:14 PM 08-16-2004: It is very possible for someone to take a blow to the head and seem completely usual at the time but hours later die due to a bleed inside the brain.
