Great Zombie Jesus.
Tonight is the night where I try to catch up on all my blog entires from days past. Also a time for relaxing, after a somewhat eventful day.
Four days ago on Maui I decided to get my ear pierced, out of the blue. Most people who know me might not have expected this, and they surely wouldn't have expected me to get it pierced where I did.
Predictably, the 'Pete, do you know how I know you're gay?' comments followed quickly. ~sighs~
Anyway, last night I was starting to get the idea that something might not be going as planned, with my cool new piercing. This morning, this inkling was confirmed when I looked in the mirror, and saw my ear.
As you may know, I have things that I am currently working on with myself, physically. I have a bit of a tummy, and the extra baggage also shows in my face.... not especially cool, especially when I know I can be much more buff, and have been at prior points in my life. Sooooooo when things that are -perfectly- fine, like my ears, get messed up, it's cause for notice.
this morning, int eh mirror my pierced ear was a bit larger and thicker then my other ear, and where my -normal- ear behaves and lies flat against my head with the same general non-tan shade the rest of my body is, my problem ear defitely was not.
It was red, a bit bigger, and was sticking out like an open taxicab door into traffic. At least it was... it is much better now. Today while we were packing up from a camping trip off the grid, I looked at the shadow of myself on the ground.
I could clearly see in the shadow that my head was now asymetrical.
In a brisk wind, I'd have a 10 degree list to port.
To let the healing begin, I had to spend some time in the ER down at the bottom of the moutnain, in Waimea, getting IV antibiotics and then fill a prescription for -more- antibiotics.
I have another piercing in an even more sensitive place that has given my -no- problems at all... but, this one went rogue, so to speak. Lordy. Maybe it was the establishment that did the piercing... it was a bit fly-by-night, relatively speaking. Of course most body piercing places don't exactly have an air of credibility and hominess to them. This was a sort of place other body piercing places might have looked down on.
Duh.
And then, on the way home from the ER in Waimea ( after we had come down off the mountain, from camping ) Charles and I flew past a police car laying in defilade, probably just waiting for two haoles who were speeding at the end of his quota-month.
We saw him start to pull out as we crested a hill. the lights and siren could only be seconds away.
Immediately Charles... freaked me out and gunned the truck, and wequickly turned in to what passes for a ghetto here on Kauai. We then moved over very crappy streets, zigzagging in a Raiders-of-the-Lost-Ark-esque Cairo scene in an effort to escape from The Man. You'd think we'd just robbed a bank, and were going to ground.
Our ridiculous efforts proved successful. I was never fully on board with the whole Let's Be Fugitives thing, but I did nothing to try and wrest control of the truck from Charles, either. On the TV show COPS, I would be the slightly chunky, untan guy with his face blurred out referred to as "the willing passenger/accomplice".
So... the rest of the day was spent winding down, and now getting caught up with the blogs, as best I can.
The pictures from Maui can be seen here
I'll catch up on the blog entries as I can, with the day and temp and such up top. I've been taking notes. Thanks for everyone who's written me... if I haven't gotten back to you yet 9 that would be almost all of you ) I apologize. I will talk to you soon.
Take care, for now.
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