I don't know what to say.

So a few weeks ago I said I would post on here every two weeks... I'm at two weeks (sorta, I'm not counting my last post about my thumb), so I sat down in front of my laptop and I have no idea what to write...

Well.

So...

Hmmm...


My thumb is doing better, I can play my violin again, so that's good.

It's kinda funny actually, not having an operational thumb, I have to be creative with how I do various things, it makes you appreciate how good it is to have two opposable thumbs...

Yeah. Sometimes it's hard to write a post every two weeks, sometimes nothing interesting happens, and I don't have any concrete ideas to dump onto here. I guess that that is life!

On the plus side, I went for a nice walk yesterday. The snow is nice.

I Hurt Myself!

So this isn't exactly news, seeing as it happened almost a week ago, but I've been busy.

So, story time (there won't be pictures because it's pretty gross)!

As some people may know, I work for a small airline as a ramp attendant. This means that I have to take carts of bags and take them to the plane (there's a lot more, but that's all that's important to this story).

So, I was at work, and I pulled a cart out of the baggage area. This cart weighed a total of about 600 pounds, and I had to pull it by hand to my vehicle where I was going to attach it to the back of another cart. Now as you can imagine 600 pounds carries a lot of momentum, so what often ends up happening is that we just line up the hitch with the pin of the cart we're attaching it to and let the two carts hit each other. They're very tough so this doesn't damage them.

So I'm pulling this cart towards the other cart, line up the hitch, and somehow fail to get my thumb out of the way before impact. So my thumb took the entire impact of a 600 pound cart going at a reasonable speed (the ground was sloped)... Ouch.

So my boss took me to the hospital. I got an x-ray, and amazingly nothing is broken! There's a fair bit of damage to the blood vessels (more on that in a minute), and some other damage to the tissues, but that's about it.

Now, because of the blood vessels breaking, there was a lot of blood pooling under my nail, so the doctor drilled through it to relieve the pressure. It was honestly the worst part of the whole experience.

Anyways, They gave me t3s for the pain, and I was back at work two days later (probably not the brightest idea, but there you go. My brain was pretty foggy from the drugs anyways).

So why am I writing this?

Well, I'm on my first day of my week off, and it still hurts a lot, and of course it's my right thumb so I can't do pretty much anything I like. I can't hold a pen or pencil, I can't hold my violin bow, I can't operate all the buttons on my camera (another reason why there aren't any pictures), and I can't go sledding (the snow looks great) because I don't want to hurt it any more.

So basically, I wrote this blog post out of extreme boredom.

Shouldn't I be studying or something? Probably.

Well Then...

So it's been two weeks (ish), so here is another blog post!

Last time, I mentioned a simulator evaluation (I think), which I did last Thursday. It was quite the adventure.

So without further ado...

Story Time!

The original plan was that I would fly down to Winnipeg for my eval on Wednesday, do a practice on Thursday, the eval on Friday, and fly home to Thompson on Saturday. It all started to fall apart on Wednesday when the weather was absolutely awful, and my flight was cancelled. Shoot. Fortunately I managed to book a ticket on the Greyhound that left Thompson at 2200, and so I arrived in Winnipeg at 0800 on Thursday morning, ready for my practice sim at noon. That's when I got an e-mail saying that I would be doing my eval Thursday after my practice. Yikes! So I went to the training department, and did my practice sim. It went smoothly, and during the de-brief, my instructor/examiner told me that he would count that practice as the real thing, and so I passed my eval without knowing I was actually doing it.

Plus that meant I had all of Friday to enjoy Winnipeg, which was unacceptable, and so the weather decided that it should rain hard all day.

Well, God is good, I passed and can (sorta) relax now.

Which brings us to today... It snowed quite a bit last night because I wanted to go fishing today. I honestly don't think I can get my car out of the parking lot... When I took these photos I was up to my knees in snow...