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Well I had to break down and go in and get shot for the allergies.  It took about a day for it to kick in and I was able to wake up without being congested.  With harvest coming on I figured I better do something quickly or I would be really hurting.  Nothing like being allergic to outside.

Vacation has come and gone and the weather was hot.  I broke down and finally went and helped my uncle shingle his house.  I’m crossing shingling off my list of things I can do.  My body just isn’t able to be doing that stuff anymore.  It had been like 10 years since I shingled, guess it doesn’t change much.

Darwin leaves Thursday for his 2nd year of college.  I don’t expect him home next summer, so we will have to wait and see I guess.  I know he will still come back and visit when he can.  He is still in the hunt for a vehicle.

CJ is in training for Supervisor Shift, I just don’t ever see that girl any more.  Ally was out for a few nights and has been babysitting for various people.  She came down with a bug, but sounds like she is doing much better now.  A flu had been gowing around so maybe she got a touch of that.  I’m just glad I didn’t get it.

I made it down to the cabin and worked on the trail some.  The blueberries were ready for pickin so I picked enough for mom to do some baking with.  Luka and I enjoyed BBQ burgers on the grill and we got to see a coyote down by the river.  It was peaceful and relaxing to be down there.  I definately wasn’t in a hurry to return back to work.

I don’t know what is in the air right now, but whatever it is, yikes.  My eyes are just unbelieveably itchy.  I go outside and it just takes my breath away.  I don’t know what it is, but something strong is in the air.  It’s going to make for an interesting weekend if it doesn’t let up.  We got musicfest weekend going on here and of course everything is outside.  The Dredan museum sounds like the place to be for events on Sunday.  They are gonna have contests and demonstrations from the pioneer days.  I believe this will draw a large crowd.  I’ll have to see how my allergies are doing.

It’s been a quiet week for everything except for Luka getting sprayed by a skunk.  Skunks seem to be thick and this one was right in the yard.  That was fun to deal with, but in the end the dog is smelling fine again.  1 quart of hydrogen peroxide, 1 cup of baking soda and some Dawn dishsoap for the first bath and than a second bath with regular dog shampoo.

Let’s hope we don’t have to go through that again.

Luka and I celebrated yet another birthday and Luka is 3 now.  I guess we are out of the terrible twos stage now.  In human years she is now legal to drink, yikes.   She got her gifts and had her b-day cake as always.  The years are going by faster and faster it seems like.  I still remember bringing Luka home and how tiny she was.  She is a good dog tho and tries very hard to obey.  She is spoiled and hates to be left out of anything.  She loves swimming, part beaver or something.  She just gets so excited over things it’s funny to watch her.  She keeps a person hoppin that is for sure.

I myself got a lovely SpongeBob fishing rod.  I added it to my SpongeBob shrine thing I got going in my room.  It all started a few years ago when I bought a SpongeBob cookie and kept it.  I still have that cookie and over the years people have just boughten me SpongeBob stuff to add to the collection.  I also got fishing shirt.  Luka got a chewing bone and rag along with some treats.  It was funny watching her stick her head into the bag and dig her bone out.  Got to love dogs.

I really should blog more, but I seem to forget to.  I’m back to work after having the last 10 days off.  I got the boat 100% legal now to put in the water and it’s running great.  My back has been acting up the last 3 days so I never got a chance to put it in the lake.  The weather has been so up and down and even severe weather.  I snapped the above photo out in the back yard.  That is getting close enough to home for me.  Rolla, ND lost like 20+ houses, but nobody was seriously injured in the weather.

The 4th of July came and gone and we had a local family loose their home due to a firework that landed in a woodpile stacked next to the house.  No pets or people were harmed thank goodness.  The house is a total loose.  I can’t imagine going through something like that.  They have a benefit for them next weekend and I hope they can get things worked out quickly and try to get back to normal living as soon as they can.

Fishing has been slow.  I blame this weather for that.  The last few times we have been out we’ve caught some pretty small ones and sent them back or no bites at all.  The forecast for this week looks like the weather is gonna be up and down so I really doubt fishing will be good.

A month from now the college kids will be heading back to college already.  Time is whizzing by so fast.  I saw I got my buck tag for the gun season, time to send in for my doe tag now.  I saw they have like a ton of tags left.  They really need to make the tags 1/2 price if they want to get rid of em and help thin down the population.

Well back to upgrading wordpress blogs here - 2.6 just came out so upgrade time.

What is the deal with engineers?  Do they really think of the most impossible ways to make things so you can’t fix or work on a product?  Today I was working on changing the various oils on the inboard engine that is in the boat and after doing all that, I really have to scratch my head and wonder what they were thinking.  To change the oil on the engine it is impossible to put any sort of tray under it to catch the oil.  One must go out and purchase an attachment to drain plug or buy a device that can suck the oil out the dipstick tube.  I do like the one guy’s suggestion on a forum tho.  He says to use doubled up garbage bags and to drain the oil in the bag, but be very careful not to get a tear in the bag.

Changing the gear lube oil isn’t any better.  You have a top plug and a buttom plug and you have to fill the oil from the bottom plug till it run out the top plug.  Does that make any sense?  Why not fill through the top plug till oil runs out of top plug?

So by time I was done changing everything I had more oil on me than anything else.  I just think that engineers need to think a bit more about how things need to be worked on and implement the ability of repair without having to go out and buy special devices to simply change oil on something.  Do they really think it’s not going to need maintenance or need repairs?  It’s like as they design something they are thinking of if I do this I can design a tool to do that and than charge them again.  Nawwww they wouldn’t do something like that to us.

The days of do it yourself are getting tougher and tough

It finally gets nice and the temps rise and the mosquitoes come out in full force.  I’ve heard of two west nile cases in North Dakota so far.  It’s been kinda calm here the last few days so when you step outside in the evenings, look out.  I’m hearing people talking about listerine repels mosquitoes, but according to snoopes it’s false.  Apparently mosquitoes are attracked to carbon dioxide, which is what we humans give off, so Deet has proven to be the best repeller.

We had an apparent suicide attempt in the community yesterday.  Sounds like the person is doing fine, but I am truely amazed at the suicide rate here.  I’ve lost count now of how many we’ve had in this area in the last year and half.  Some you can understand why, such as terminally ill, but for others using it to escape their problems is wrong.  Suicide is just wrong period and there is resources around that can be accessed to help people if they would just try.  I know depression sucks, but it can be over-comed.  I’ve dealt with it in my past on all levels so I know what it is like to experience it.  I know everyone is different, but you and only you is the only one that can cure your own depression totally.  I just got tired of always being down and going no where, so I decided to do something about it and got my life back slowly but surely.  It’s important to also learn your signs of depression so you can catch yourself before you fall back into the hole of misery.  There is a National Suicide Prevention Lifeline available if you are unable to find anyone in your area to talk to.

I shouldn’t complain too much about the weather as we haven’t been hit by a tornado and haven’t been washed away by raging floods yet, but mother nature really needs to lighten up some.  I’ve been seeing videos and pictures of areas hit the hardest and it’s truly a mess.  It’s bad enough our economy is in the toilet and now people are loosing everything they once had.  It’s not even summer yet so this is just the beginning of it.  Here we are waiting for the temps and rain to go away.  The last couple days the temps are like 45 degrees F with the windchill.  The wind blows constantly and it just rains and rains and rains.  I do hope things turn around soon and we can get back on to summer mode.

I missed/forgot about the primary elections the other day.  What was I thinking?  I am surprised a bit by some of the results.  The city approved the 1% sales tax increase.  I’m not going to go into detail of my feelings on that, but do hope that we do see positive results with that money.  A lot of mixed feeling on that one.  I just hate to see the money put into something that doesn’t offer any new services to the community.  The mill levy passed to help with road improvements.  I believe that was needed, but I would like to see better decision made with the roads tho.  I didn’t know what to expect for county commissioners so now big surprises there.  By the results, it looks like we will be getting a new commissioner in the end.  I guess we will wait and see this fall.

Gas is currently at $4.01 and of course it is expected to go up.  Every morning when I am watching CNN it’s another record day for the barrel of oil.  I just don’t know why the USA doesn’t start drilling and building right here at home.  This will help boost our economy in every way possible.  Can someone explain why we don’t do this as we have huge amounts of oil in our own ground?   I don’t know, with no relief in site, the world is slowly coming to a stop.  People are changing their habits and the roads are getting quieter.

Don’t ya wish you could do that?  I’ve been busy learning photography and along with that, one must learn photoshop more to be able to do fun things like the above or to get the most out of a picture.  It’s amazing at how you can clean up a photograph and bring out the true colors to bring in a brilliant picture.  It’s time consuming, especially if you’re shooting 100s of photos at a time.  I’ve been sticking with landscape shots and gonna slowly move into taking portrait shots, but I need to get a lens with a better aperture first.  The indoor shooting is a lot different than outdoor shooting.  I’m still learning lighting and need to get a real flash system.  Nothing is cheap in photography and when they say you get what you pay for, they really do mean that.  I’m just saving and getting what I need when I can.  I’ve been looking to online prints, where I can send in my digitals and they mail me the prints.  It’s only 8 to 10 cents a picture so it’s really reasonable and you can do assorted sizes at various prices too.

If I can just get this weather to cooperate, life would be better.  A guy gets a day off and the wind is blowing 40mph and bringing in crappy weather.  They have freeze warnings out once again.  I really hope it don’t freeze as things are just starting to come alive here.  I’m afraid it’s going to go from these cool temps to hot temps and that transition is going to be a rough one as we are not use to any sort of heat.

Gas prices are at $3.95 a gallon now.  I heard a guy talking the other day and he said $6.00 a gallon is possible.  I just can’t imagine paying that much as it is already reaching unaffordable price.  The standard gas cards with the credit limit all have to be raised as one can’t get one tank a gas filled without hitting the limit.  It’s just insane, all you can do is sit at home with no relief in sight.  I just don’t understand why we are not drilling more here in our own land.  ND has a huge oil field that was discovered and I forget how many 100s of years of oil could be pumped from it, but that makes more sense to me than trying to buy it some place else.  It would provide economical growth as it would be producing jobs for our own people.

Well I hope everyone had a safe Memorial Day weekend.  Get out and take some pictures!

Well my allergies kicked in, so spring must officially be here.  I was hoping I wasn’t going to be effected like I was last year, but I went in right away and got my singular to keep myself on my feet.  We finally got a nice 1 day rain so I’m expecting the world around me to burst open with even more pollen.  It seems like it’s been a slow and long spring.  The last of the snow in the yard finally left as the temps have been cool.

So what’s been going on beside suicides around here?  Well lets see, training and more training.  The corrections officer medication training and the prehospital trauma life support classes came and gone.  We had the grain bin extrication class, which was great.  Darwin is back home for the summer from college and is busy with his wii.  Spending way too much time at the dentist, but was definitely needed.  We’ve had 2 suicides in like a 2 week period,  which is not a good thing.  Let’s think happy thought people, it’s spring, live it up outside.  I can’t even remember what all else been going on, it’s been just busy and trying to keep up is the name of the game.

I’m thinking of doing a new look to the blog here.  It’s been like this forever, but finding time to change it will be the fun part.  I’ll keep my eyes out for a cool theme.  Wordpress 2.5 really brought some new looks to the administration part of it.  I’m still trying to get use to it and not liking a few things.  I think the new post button should be before the new page button.  Most people are gonna be making new posts more than a new page so I would think the most used button should be first.

I’m really getting tired of turning on CNN and seeing election BS.  This country has turned this Presidential race into one of the biggest fluxered things I have ever seen.  I thought the Gore/Bush election was a mess, but this is taking the cake all the way.  The democrats have now managed to divide themselves and the republicans are having a hay day crossing the line to vote democrat to keep the mess going.  That doesn’t even bother me, but what bothers me is that the amount of money all these people are wasting just so they can get on the ballot.  That money could of really been to a much better use, like our economy.  We have oil and food shortages going on in the world and we have people spending millions on an election that doesn’t contain a person worth voting for in the first place.  This country is how old and still has it’s priorities in a mess??  I guess when the economy does a complete crash someone will wake up.  They just finally decided to stop sticking oil into reserves.  Shouldn’t that of been done like $2.00 a gallon ago??  I better change subjects before I write a novel of frustrations.

Yay for photography!  I’m slowly learning it and loving it.  To bad with the price of gas one can’t drive to exciting new places and take pictures.  I will have to build fake things in the backyard to make it look like I went some place exotic.  I decided to go with at Canon Rebet XT.  That should do me for a lifetime.  I’m not looking to make a career out of it, just a hobby.  Some thing that gets me away from a monitor and out enjoying nature.  CJ wants to take her senior pics in the snow of all things.  So I will be needing all the pointers I can get on that ordeal.  I’m thinking a barn in the snow type thing.

Finally made it out to the great outdoors.  The snow is still there in the deep shadowed areas.  There isn’t a lot of color out there yet, but at least no woodticks.  Flies are starting to show up more and more.  I got out Friday and Sunday and took 120 pictures with the new camera and I am really happy with this camera.  I am hoping to get out more now that the weather is finally getting nice.  I just need to find some way to protect Luca from getting invested with woodticks as they will be kicking in big time now.  The rivers aren’t very high for this time of the year.  We are definately going to need rain soon to settle and clean things up.  It felt so great to get out and the hiking with fresh air kicked ma butt.  I was expecting to be sorer, but I wasn’t doing too bad.  I can’t wait to get out and do it again.

Monday we started our Correctional Medical Training.  One class down and two more to go.  I found it truely amazing that they go on and on about medical stuff, but not once deal with inmates and withdrawl.  We are going to deal more with that than an inmate having diabetes.  In most cases, small time jails are not wanting to house inmates with long term health problems as it is just too expensive for the counties to pay for their medical costs.  I know it’s not fair, but once again, it all boils down to money.  Someone would have to have it out for you big time to go through the costs.  So I left a comment on the feedback form about no withdrawl issues.  I’m sure someone out there has a witty answer.

I got the last parts for the car today and got them on.  I was disgusted once again with the grill.  First they send you the grill, which one thinks is a complete grill, but nope.  So I ordered the top grill molding and I got that, but apparently the grill emblem is yet another part.  I guess they need to put warnings on things like that or something.  When your grill gets smashed in, more than likely you are gonna reneed all the pieces to the grill so ordering “a grill” should include everything.  I can live without the emblem.  All I have left now is the hood to get painted.  I got the oil changed yesterday morning before the crappy weekend weather is to roll in.  Parts of the state just south of us are in a Winter Storm Watch.  Sounds like we are to get like 1/2 and inch of snow/rain.  I wish it wouldn’t as the yard is so so wet, muddy and buried in snow yet.

I been watching Ghost Whisperer and came to disk 6 the last 2 episodes of season one and all I can say is Wow.  I never seen that coming.  I know I am behind in this series, but I just found out about it not long ago, thanks to netflix.  I think this is the best way to watch tv, wait for DVD release.  You can watch all the episodes at your own time, speed and no commercials for the win.  I can’t wait to see what season 2 is going to bring.  Jennifer Love Hewitt plays the role so well.  I still think she needs to do something different with her hair tho.  Great series for anyone interested in Ghosts.

Keep your wits about ya as I am sure someone out there is just itchin to play a prank.  Lets hope the weather has a sense of humor and starts to kick into spring mode.  I’m getting impatient and each day I wake up and go outside it is a big let down.  The past weekend after working the past two weekends brought in snow/rain and crappy roads.  There is still snow banks higher than me in the yard.

I went over to Cavalier on Saturday to help Jill with some remodeling.  Nothing like remodeling and trying to get it all back together.  I couldn’t help out with the sheetrock mudding as it was just too much for me.  I’m not a mudder to begin with and that requires a lot of mudding.  Sounds like she got one of her friends to git r done.  It will look so much better when the mudding is done, nothing like looking at bare sheetrock.

I went in and seen the new baby of Jay and Kim’s on Sunday.  One forgets how small those new borns are.  She slept the entire time pretty much, such a quiet baby.  I just don’t know if I could do that again.  They are so dependent, hard to get use to when your own have be independent many years now.

So wordpress 2.5 came out and holy man did they ever change the GUI a lot.  It’s going to take some time to relearn it.  I actually dread a new release coming out as I have several of them to update.  I only have one left to update for the Emergency Manager.

I ordered the last two pieces of trim molding I needed for the car.  All I will have left is to get the hood painted.  The car is working great and it was a good choice to go with, even tho it required some manual labor to get it rolling again.  I just hope it will last many years now.  Jason is thinking about parting out cars at the farm and listing them on ebay.  Apparently car parts are sought after and worth some good money.  I noticed that when I was looking for parts on my car.  A single piece of chrome molding is $35.00 brand new and that doesn’t come with nuts either.  I’m still trying to figure out how I got so many screws left over, hmmmmmmmmm.

Darwin is still looking for a car.  He sent me photos of a car he looked at earlier.  A 1999 Cavalier, sounds like he is gonna test drive it and see how he likes it.  He’s actually saving money up, very impressive for him, eheheh.

The temps have been colder and places are getting 8 inches of snow.  I guess that is March for ya, totally unpredictable.   I did manage to get the car back together so it’s drivable.   Jason came out and painted the parts I needed and that was a learning experience.  Those automotive paint fumes are pretty wicked.  I just need a couple more parts and it will be completed.  It’s amazing at what they get for prices on car body trim pieces.  If the temps would of been warmer, I would of worked on my pickup some, but I already had a chill from working on the car.  We found oil on top of the intake manifold, so need to track down why oil is on the intake manifold.  I know with the price of gas I won’t worry to much about it as it’s too expensive to drive around.

I was looking at pictures in the news of the flooding that is going on in Missouri and I fell so bad for them.  I know what it’s like to be in a flood and it’s no fun.  I didn’t loose much like others did, but still a memory you don’t forget.  I do hope the flooding stops soon and they can start the slow rebuilding process.

Congrats to Jason and his wife for having their second baby girl born on Good Friday.  I called him today to see how things were going and he said all was good.   They going to have their hands full now, ehehehhe.

With temperatures in the 30s it is a great sign that spring is coming that is for sure.  It also reminds us of the mess that must come first.  All the slush, water and mud as the process of spring comes alive.  When the temps are like this, it’s tough not to get spring fever.

I purchased the car and got the front end torn off of it and it’ ready to go back together once I get the parts painted.  I just can’t believe at how much things cost in the autobody world.  I guess I don’t know what it all entails so I can’t really comment much on it.  I know one can almost paint a house for the price of painting just a hood on a car.  It just doesn’t seem right.  It’s hard to be cheap in today’s world, everything is just so dang expensive.   I’m still working on it, I’ll come up with something.

Speaking of expensive, seen the price for a barrel of oil?  I’m just waiting for that to catch up to the gas pumps.  California reporting over $5.00 a gallon for gas.  The economy is just getting worse and worse and I love seeing how the news is reporting that we maybe headed for a recession.  All I can say it to look out your window and you will see your recession is here already.  I do not see anything being done about it till after the election.  If Bush had half a brain he would be doing all he can do to help restablish the republican image instead of hurting it more.   It’s going to be an interesting summer again as the tourism industry goes into bankruptcy.  What we spent on this stupid war we could of invested it into our economy, that is what burns me up.

Almost the middle of March and can’t wait for April to get here.

March has started out cold and nasty, must be Mother Nature’s way of saying enjoy your summer.  Once again we got rock hard snow.  You can’t blow it or shovel it, you just drive over it.  You can walk on it and not even leave a mark, it’s just unreal.

Made it out of town last weekend with Ally and got some quick shopping done.  The roads turned to crap for the drive home and even came upon a roll-over so I helped with that till ambulance arrived.  I guess I would rather have it -20 then warm and roads iced over.  For about 4 days, all one heard was cars in the ditch and accidents.

I managed to pick-up a new camera and going to see if I can’t improve/learn more about photography.  Right now there isn’t much to take pictures of with all the snow.  I am hoping that by time the end of April gets here we are starting to see green grass.  I would like to see a nice dry summer for a change.  I don’t want a drought, just less moisture.

I hope to find out if I found the solution to my car later today.  It will take some work, but I can save a lot of money and avoid financing, which is what I want to do.  I really don’t want to give these insurance companies any more money than I have to.  Always there to take your money, but a fight to get a claim out of em.

I so can’t wait for April.

So many websites out there now a days to keep track of.  It’s a good thing RSS exists and I can combine sites all onto one page and see updates without having to open every site.  It saves time and bandwidth, nice to see most sites offer RSS.  Information and knowledge is always a bonus,  can’t have too much at your finger tips.

February is on it’s way out already and the sooner March gets over with the better.  Hopefully April will be less hectic and the weather will be taking a major change to spring time.  I wouldn’t mind seeing green grass by the end of April.  Darwin will be turning 19 in April, man I am getting old.  At least I’m not a grandpa yet.

I’m gonna have to find some time and get to a dentist.  I’ve put it off for too long, it’s just deciding which dentist to go to.  It’s tough getting into a dentist it seems like.  Gonna have to get eyes re-checked here shortly also and get my yearly supply of contacts.  Contacts can be a bugger, but I must say they are better than glasses.  The corrective surgery would be the best thing if one could afford it.

I think Bullwinkle has moved on.  I haven’t seen him for the past two days.  He made the paper this week tho.  I was going through the newspaper and there he was.  He’s been causing quite the road side attraction.  People stopping taking his picture or just admiring him.

It’s payday today :-)  I love payday!

It’s one thing when it’s a human and you can simple ask them to leave your house, but when it’s a animal of some sort, they don’t listen to well.  Our latest guest is a young Moose.  I feel sorry for him having to be outside in the freezin cold, but they can really raise havoc of the trees.  You go outside and he isn’t scared.   He is more interested in you than you are of him.  Luka doesn’t know what to think of it and they just end up chasing each other around the tree.  It’s been a week and it’s like he isn’t going to leave.  People going by on the highway are all amused by Bullwinkle.

February is almost gone already.  I can’t believe we are going to be into the 3 month of the new year very soon.  Time just seems to be clicking along faster and faster as one gets older.  I only hope March flies by as fast as we will be short handed at work with one co-worker that is leaving for 3 weeks of vacation.

So is everyone tired of the election year yet?  I’m not a republican per say, but Mccain seems to be who I am leaning towards.  I didn’t vote in the Super Tuesday primary as I was too unsure yet.  I’m still not confident with any of them.  I guess we will see how the campaigning goes till November.

Sabayon is getting ready for it’s Loop2 release and yes a Loop 3 will follow.  I know people are getting impatient with 3.5, but when the dev team consists of 1 person, it’s amazing it gets done at all.  If the donations don’t continue, the more time the dev has to spend away from the project too.   It’s a lot to undertake for one person, just glad he is dedicated to his cause.

I think it is great that people are expanding and looking at other operating systems besides windows.  I don’t like seeing people whine and complain that they can’t get it or understand it.  The documentation is all there and today’s computer users don’t want to read or learn it seems like.  No wonder computer viruses and spyware/malware is running rampent on people’s computers.   Running a computer is no different than the other stuff you buy.  You have to learn it before operating it.

I don’t think I have seen a winter where the snow has blown in and settled in like cement as many times as this year has. It’s not doing anything for my back. After wrestling with the snowblower last Friday my back brought back horrible memories as it hurt like it hasn’t hurt in a long time.  I remembered the days I would pray for any thing to remove the pain.  The fear of not getting out of the pain came rushing back.  Pain is a very scary thing when it’s chronic pain.  You can’t make other’s feel what you’re feeling.  You can’t even relate it so how do you get others to even understand.

So I wake up the next day and all the snow is back, argh.  At least this snow was fluffy soft so snow blowing it went much better.   I can still feel it, but at least it’s not radiating into my ribs.  When it hits the ribs, that is the worse.  Just got to keep on truckin.

So I have been an EMT for 2 years once March gets here.  Where does the time go?  Seems like it was yesterday that I  was dreading the national registry test and studying like crazy to get through it all.  I just finished my EMT refresher over the past weekend and it was a good refresher.  Our squad has really been through some changes over that time that I have been there.  We are currently on our 3rd ambulance director since I started.  Talk about a lot of changing constantly going on, but the quality of care never changes.  The squad still responds to patient needs like nothing has changed.  Lately I have been having less free time to be as active as I was.  Honestly, I have no idea where the last 6 months went.  It’s just been go go go and one thing after another.  I suppose this is all good and all, but I can’t help wonder that I am missing out on the fun part of life.

It’s been a busy two years and the continual education has kept me busy.  I guess I should probably know a thing or two by now.  If I only new this stuff like I know computers.  A computer is way different than medical services.  A dead computer can exist and be revived when one feels gets around to it.  Unfortunately a human can’t and that puts the pressure on.   It’s all good,  the squad works well and continues on.

Well, yesterday brought a whole new sensation to me.  That thing between the battery and tooth pick is my latest kidney stone.  I don’t think I have ever felt such a sensation of this nature.  I think my body is still in shock from the aftermath.  Going to the bathroom is now causing horrible flashbacks.  It’s pretty much like, I never want to pee again, but what is a guy to do?  At least I was able to get it out myself this time.  I’m still amazed that a person is able to pass something that big through the urinary.  I just know it wasn’t designed for objects to be passing through there.

I don’t wish kidney stones upon anyone.