Not the best night for me. My second time jamming I was tripped up my an opposing blocker and landed on my right knee. Due to the fact I have landed on the thing pretty much every practice, this one laid me out. I am unable to bend it completely, can't put a knee pad on and can barely put pressure on it without wincing. Just sucks.. but hey..what can you do? I'm just not enjoying my shitty run of luck lately.

I don't have much to do at work right now and my boss is out to lunch, so I thought I would ramble on a bit.  It's my way of trying to pass the time.

I was reading a story the other day about an white supremacist who shot a black security guard at the Holocaust museum.  When I read the article initially, I must have missed that the white man was 88 years old.  I don't know why that caught me by surprise but it did.  I felt the same "What the ---?" mind meld that I did when I found out about the little kid who shot his step-mom in the head at close range with a shotgun.  Did this guy think.. "well, I'm going to die soon, I need to make the other white boys proud."?  I mean seriously, what compels people to do stupid shit like this?  Oh, and what compels people to jump up and support his actions?  I mean I know most of the haters out there are silly but seriously, declaring his actions a "statement that will be remembered forever" is a little.. um.. retarded.  The only thing people will remember is another racist redneck with an NRA card shot someone.  The end. 

So as an update to this story, the son of the shooter released a statement that he wished his father had died instead of the security guard.  Wow, sounds like someone isn't winning father of the year, eh?  Not that I'm surprised in the slightest.

Links to the story so you can do your own reading.

online.wsj.com/article/SB124465512072602729.html

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526278,00.html

For the last two days I have been waking up with an overwhelming amount of pain.  Yes, my teeth are acting up again.  I was hoping for a long vacation before I started having problems again but alas.  Combined with the added discomfort of tattooed flesh I haven't been in the greatest of moods.  The tattoo may look terrific but wearing a bra is nearly impossible at the moment.  All in all, just one of those sucky sort of days. 

I'll survive though.  The tattoo will stop being sore in another couple of days and I have to wait a month before I return for a touch up.  My dentist called in a round of antibiotics for me so eventually the tooth pain will stop.  I'm so hesitant to go back to the dentist though.  I know I need to but after the last time, I'm terrified.  In case I hadn't mentioned the horror that was my last visit, allow me to explain...

I went to the dentist to have an extraction about a month or so ago.  Not the first one I've ever had and it probably won't be the last.  I knew walking into the appointment that the tooth was going to shatter.  However, I didn't foresee that it would shatter all the way down to the gum line.  A simple extraction turned into a surgical extraction.  What's the difference?  A regular extraction is a simple pull the tooth out sort of thing.  A surgical extraction involved cutting the shattered tooth into multiple sections and pulling said sections out, one by one.  Now as if that didn't suck enough, allow me to get to the best part.  One of the shards still had an abscess attached to it.  You can't fully numb a nerve with an abscess attached to it.  That means when they pull said tooth/shard it's like having your tooth removed without anesthesia.  

Now do you understand why I don't want to go back?

I'm dropping in while I'm at work to post a quick little note.  This is the only place that I forgot to mention it.  The Metroland (local free newspaper) did a story on the Hellions of Troy and we made the cover!!



This was last week's edition, so now that Thursday has come and gone, my one week of fame is over. -=giggle=-  It was neat though, I never thought I would be in a magazine, let alone on the cover of one.  A complete entry to come later.

So I had my appointment at 2 this afternoon to begin the process of covering up my old tattoo.  After about an hour of discussing designs and colors we got down to business.  I honestly forgot how badly the sternum can hurt while being tattooed.  Not to mention the fact that the tattoo is much bigger than the original one I had on there.  So I'm sad to say that it isn't finished, like I had hoped it would be.

I made a couple of mistakes going into the tattoo:

1.  I didn't eat anything before hand.
2.  I held my breath during certain parts of the tattoo.

Both of these factors combined made me incredibly light headed after a little while.  We got the outline done, and some of the darker shading around the scarab but when he started on the purple...  I literally almost started to puke.  Between not eating and feeling incredibly light headed it just didn't work well.  Add to it that my skin was incredibly tender due to the outline.

Needless to say, after 2 hours I told him to call it a day.  I'll be getting the tattoo completed in a couple of weeks.  I'm a little let down by the fact I called it quits but I've been told by a bunch of people that it was stupid to even attempt it.  I like to think I'm capable and tougher than I actually am sometimes.  I knew I had exceeded my limit when I stood up and nearly fell over.  My chest also feels like someone took a match to it.  Not a fun feeling at all.

Pictures to be posted in a bit.

P.S.  To anyone in the Albany & Troy area, I highly recommend Brian from Full Effect Tattoo.  He was totally cool right from the beginning.  I've gotten a lot of shit from people due to the nature of my original tattoo.  Most people basically tell me that I'm shit out of luck or that since I was dumb enough to get a tattoo I'm stuck with it.  I walked in and talked to him about it.  He said, yep.. I can do it.  He also had no problem with the fact that I needed to stop and take a break and didn't make me feel like a wimp for needing to stop for the day.  Again, Brian from Full Effect Tattoo.  You won't be disappointed.