Motor cycle moron

So this guy is in front of me at a red light on a motor cycle. Pretty normal. Dressed appropriately but not like he's a member of a race team. There is a car in front of him.

The light is red.

He revs his bike. a lot.

vrooom vvvrroooooommmmm...

not annoyingly so. not over the top reving. But enough to know he isn't bumping the throttle by accident he's trying to do it.

Light turns green.

Ford taurus in front of him goes.

He starts to go and then almost stalls.

Then his left foot is moving furiously to get him into first. His foot is waving crazy with the gear shift. Finally he goes...

Rather quietly.

car towed to russia film at 11...

I got my car towed tonight. By a russian.

The car runs and I'm lazy. It runs not so well. Ok it runs really shitty right now. Actually right now it better not run cause its on top of a fucking tow truck being driven by a russian dude, who doesn't speak any english beyond "Membership Card?".

The deal is I ignored the letters from the nice german folks. They were calling my car back home. A recall. Did I listen, um no. There is this thing called an ignition coil. My car starts so it must be ok right? no. It runs bad. It's bad you know. It runs rough and over 30 mph it shakes, but it runs. I said that to vladimir or what ever his name was "joe" perhaps, who know maybe its "membership card" and he was just introducing himself... again and again and again...

He just didn't get that it would run. He kinda freaked out when I started it up. Made his life easier.

ah well. I'm lazy. I could have driven it to the dealership and it would have been "interesting" but fuck that. This guy can haul it. I just hope it goes to the dealership he didn't give me a receipt. It could be on a cargo container anywhere by now.

"membership card?"

Shoeless Joe

by W.P. Kinsella.

short review: great book. Great esp if you've seen the movie it lead to, field of dreams. certainly not the same, but both the movie and book are great.

I read it as an eBook.

If you cry at the end of an eBook does that make you eSensitive?

Strep it...

What is with antibiotics?

lets break the word down for a sec.

Anit (against) Bio (life) tics (tastes icky going down)

So this is something that kills the disease shortly before (hopefully) it kills you.

I had strep this last weekend. I know I know I was gonna have HAM stories. Nope I have fever stories. I'm getting old. old I say. I'm 34 (hear me yelling like an old man) 34 I say! In my day when they cultured you for strep they sent your ass home with NOTHING. Nothing and then when they got the results in 48 hours then... and only then would they give you anything to help.

So now they guy takes a giant cue tip and rubs my tonsil (that sounds obscene and it... IS) it fucking hurts. It hurts bad. Guess what fucker? its INFECTED. Of course that hurt.

Ok so I have to say the fucker was fast. He was in and out of my throat with that giant swab from hell. It looks like a cue tip that giant squid would use to clean something you don't want to think about next time you're eating callamarri.

and I gagged. Oh I gagged wholesale. I had excessive gags. Well he rubbed my tonsil so thats what you get. But he was quick. He was back with the results with the new test (the rapid test) and I was so pathetic, I was still gagging. I could feel the swab hit for hours after.

And he came back in and wrote me a little paper with a fountain pen. He uses a fountain pen. That is way cool I think and this Doc write calligraphy prescriptions. So of course the pharmacy has to one up the guy and they have a monk on staff from the 1500s who illuminates my drug interaction warning sheet with those big letters at the start of each paragraph. its special. And... AND its all true.

So antibiotics. I got three.

Not three kinds

Three

Not three weeks

nope

Three days.

three pills.

I shit you not. one a day for 3 days and you're done. Just done. you gotta like that. They are big. (not like big like my car big, but big like a big ass pill) but you're done that quick.

pretty sweet.

It used to be 2 the first day and one a day for 4 more days for a 5 day series but now with even commercials getting faster you have to get your antibiotics done really quick or the person will lose interest and tune in another pharmaceutical.

so there you have it. I'm cured. But my throat still hurts like he left a piece of that giant cue tip in there...

So rather than syrup he gave me vicadan for the cough. That works... night night. no cough cause you're asleep and happy... it did work.