Mike Says Meh|The blog of Mike Kauspedas

I did it again. For some reason I have been incredibly accident prone lately. I took the dog out around 10pm on Saturday night. We usually run for short little sprints. Moya and I never go across Downing towards the country club, but that night I decided I’d take her over there so maybe she’d stop pulling so much every time we get close. She’s like me, hates taking the same route twice and loves going to new places. So I bolted with her across Downing. I slipped on a thin clear sheet of ice and slammed my face right into a curb. Fortunately I didn’t knock myself out and Moya came bouncing back to see what was wrong. She staid by my side until I figured out where my glasses were. For the 2 or 3 minutes I stood there collecting my senses, glasses, and trying to keep blood in a cab sat maybe 2 feet away. He sat there and watched me but never rolled the window down to ask if I needed help. When I got back to the tower I scared the shit out of some lady taking her dog out. Literally my face and hands were covered in blood. I mumbled it looked worse than it was and then got in the elevator. She never said a word.

When I walked into the apartment I told Grace I broke my glasses again. She said how in an annoyed voice and I walked into the office where she was playing WoW with my hand soaked in blood holding about 50 paper towels to the cut. Of course she freaked out and I told her I wasn’t going to the emergency room. My last experience was horrible and they hurt worse than the actual accident. Typical of my bloody injuries I could not look at it without wanting to vomit and then pass out. I knew I just had to wait and my nerves would calm. After about 2 hours of laying on the couch and reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians I took a look at it.

Man did it look cool. I put a huge gash above my left eye. I mean huge as in flesh showing and stuff. What happened was my glasses hit the curb first and then moved above my eye and cut a huge gash. My brand new glasses by the way. Then I bled all over my nice North Face jacket and brand new new balance running shoes. When it rains it pours I guess. I never thought it was that bad because head wounds bleed like crazy. I thought I just made a little scrape, maybe worthy of stitches but if it wasn’t that bad I wasn’t going to the emergency room to deal with f’n needles and burning saline solution. Unfortunately this was pretty f’n horrible and the bleeding still hadn’t stopped. Grace took me in and of course I got stung with a thousand needles and then they burned me with the f’n saline solution when they cleaned it out. At one point the doctor was numbing an area the nurse forgot (that was burning from the cleaning) and his syringe exploded. I’m not kidding. Numbing medication burst everywhere. In my eye, my mouth, my face, Grace, the doc. And he left the needle half stuck in my wound while he scrambled for another. Yes, they have to stick these f’n needles in the actual wound to numb it so they can sow it shut.

Needless to say I’m going to try and be more careful. Today I am incredibly sore and I can’t open the eye. I did manage a shower though so at least I’m clean

*Warning*, the pics below are f’n awesome.

Here’s some pics from the 17th floor of my apt in Denver. At Country Club Tower.Just north of wash park.

I added some more pics after the snow.

wtf?

I just saw this ad on a blog I frequent. The ad is for a site that gets married men and women together for affairs.

Here are some pictures of 10 Lined June Bugs or as I like to call them Buzz Buzz!

Last week on Thursday I chopped a bit of my finger tip off. Maybe I should back up. For a while now I’ve been more and more interested in cooking and every other month I take a stab at it. My most recent stab was some pan seared grouper with a mango salsa. In my forays into cooking I bought a decent set of knives that included a chef’s knife. I had the chef’s knife out and was going to town on some roasted peppers and went right through the tip of my left ring finger.

My immediate reaction was to curse and shake my hand. It felt like I jammed it, not like I’d cut it. Shaking it spurt blood all over the kitchen. I realized I cut it pretty deep so I ran it under some water which hurt more and made me realize some of it was gone. That’s when my wife Grace lost it. I stayed pretty calm and told her to find me a towel or something and I flung it on and applied pressure. Then Grace rushed me to the emergency room with me telling her to slow down because I wasn’t in mortal danger.

We ended up at Denver Health downtown, the closest hospital. I waited 5 hours in the trauma ward (no joke, trauma) and after they stopped rushing people in from motorcycle accidents and assaults I finally asked someone if they could stitch my finger up. The stitching and cleaning was the worst part. I’ve never felt that burn before, holy f’n shit did it hurt. The nurse gave me some pretty painful numbing shots and before waiting for it to get number she started cleaning it. And all she did was squirt some sterile water on it. Albeit on my open finger tip. She finally stopped and left with a hellish cackle so her boss could come and try to cause more pain. haha! The finger was numb.

In between all this I realized I don’t like the inside of my finger. At one point I was sitting in the nurses office answering questions and all of a sudden I got queasy and then almost fainted. I had no idea how to handle it. I just said, “I feel faint.” And then I couldn’t see shit and the nurse told me to put my head between my legs because I was a big pussy. I did it one more time when the doc was stitching me but I had enough control to make it through. She gave me some bs about my heart rate lowering and no oxygen to the brain but I what she really meant was I was a dickless excuse for a man and shouldn’t have even come to the emergency room. Then she spat in my open wound.

Hey, how about some pictures?

All cleaned and full of burning

the bit I cut off

stitched

Bandaged up

I bought a little Sansa Clip to replace my iphone as an mp3 player. Not that I still don’t use the iphone but sometimes its just too big. Like on bike rides, working out, jogging, and that sort of stuff. So I found a well reviewed tiny ipod shuffle killing mp3 player. Get this, it has a screen and buttons! I don’t understand why Apple would get rid of those. Sometimes trying to be revolutionary is just taking a step back, or idiotic.

Anyway, I use my macbook to sync my iphone and it has the playlists I want. So I searched for a way to sync my sansa clip with the playlists in itunes, well actually just export them. But what I found was incredible. And free! All you have to do is follow the instructions in the guide below.

http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=clip&thread.id=3744

Thanks to the guy who wrote that and the script. Man, it couldn’t be easier.Here’s a picture of the little guy, and I mean little. It was only $40 too and 4GB.

Sansa Clip 4GB

1000 free mp3’s from Microsoft. Windows 7 free for a year and now 1000 mp3’s as well. Lets all be PC’s.

http://www.myspace.com/windows

I’m not saying any of this is good but its free. So just download them all and listen later, delete what you don’t like. These may not be in the list but here’s some tunes I’ve been listening to. Some new, some old.
Metric – Help I’m Alive
Animal Collective – My Girls
The Clash – Straight to Hell
Passion Pit – Little Secrets (The reeling is awesome as well)
Phoenix – Lisztomania (great band regardless of song)
Angie Reed – Hustle a Hustler
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
The Penelope[s] – Stuck in Lakaland
Cibo Matto – Stone
Client – Zerox (N Joi Radio Edit)
Empire of the Sun – We Are The People
Tegan and Sara – Back in your head (tiesto remix)
Bon Iver – Skinny Lover
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Paper Planes – M.I.A.
p.s. this site has tons of free music too http://www.rcrdlbl.com/

I was taking a look at the trailers on Apple’s site and ran across two interesting movies coming out. Both of them sci fi which is automatically a plus.

Moon

This one looks awesome. Its about a man working alone on the moon to mine resources for Earth. He has no live communication and can only send and receive recorded messages. It looks like his only other companion is a computer with a Hal like voice. Scenarios like this are always great. The root of sci fi is always “what if” and taking a deep look at the what if of human nature in scenarios like this is great. I watched the trailer and couldn’t stop thinking about the scenario itself. From the grander perspective of whether we would actually send one man into space or to the moon alone to how you would spend your time while there. Are video messages from your wife enough to keep you going? What kind of man does it take to do that? I also love character driven stories. I have a lot of hope for this and anticipation. Something I hate when seeing a movie because its common for hollywood to let us down.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/moon/

Surrogates

This one is a movie about robots you can control from home. They live your life for you providing you with complete safety. They’re super strong, never die, and bring the world peace. Oh, and if you have robot sex with another robot you can feel it. Even though your robots are doing it, not you. If your robot dies you just buy a new one. But someone figures out how to kill real people by killing their robots and this causes Bruce Willis to get beat up a lot and ultimately save the day. (Or not which will make the movie awesome if he’s the only real person left at the end.) There’s probably some cult or religious wackos that decide this isn’t the ultimate plan for humanity and shut off all the robots. I think the whole story is pretty clear from the trailer. Despite all this I’ll go see it because I love motha f’n robots.

Meh, is all I can say for this one. Robot puppets. I don’t think that’s been done before … But it does look action packed and if we’re lucky could have a good story. Its probably worth it just to see Bruce Willis with that awesome 80’s comb over. Funny he didn’t build a robot for himself with a bald head? Isn’t that his schtik?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/surrogates/

Here is my attempt to make some 80’s retro space sci fi thing. Gaze upon its horribleness.

Click the crap above for a full size

Got the new furniture right at 3pm. They brought in the entertainment center and put it together. Then one of the book shelves. Finally, half the couch. Yep, half. Our sales guy screwed up and only put half of it on there. Although its a whole unit so I don’t blame it entirely on him. Grace and I ended up going all the way to the Thornton store to pick up the rest of the couch. Hooked up the electronics and TV last night. Now I need to find some speaker stands for the rear speakers and an ottoman. The guys that brought that furniture and moved it in were great. As soon as we figured out half the couch was missing they called right away and got it squared it away. It was no hassle getting it from Thornton, except we had to get it from Thornton. Which meant rush hour traffic on I-25. I plan on giving American a call to see what we can do. I don’t think its unfair to ask for some of the delivery fee back.