Mid-Summer

Ave Guys Reunion
(left to right: John, Dave, Me, Thom, Chris, Jeff)

Well it is Sunday, July 9th, 2006. Summer is more than half way finished and it's only a few more weeks until school starts again. I had a pretty good time these past couple of weeks. I visited my roommate from Ave, John up in Minnesota and hung out with his cousins and played lots of volleyball. We then went down to Iowa together to a friend from Ave whose family was throwing their annual Fourth of July party. The party was actually on the third and on the fourth I mostly drove all day (approx. 780 miles). Also at the party, first thing in the morning I went outside after breakfast and saw some people setting up for the party so I decided to help out. They were putting up a fence to keep the volleyball from rolling down the hill next to the net. So I grabbed the t-post and the sledgehammer and started pounding it in when all of a sudden my thumb got in the way and I gave myself a direct hit on my thumbnail... ouch. Pretty much for the rest of the day I was in constant sharp pain except when I froze my thumb in ice. Anyways, the blood pressure building up under the thumb nail started to be too much for me and so I consulted some people at the party and one girl said to stick a needle underneath the nail and let the blood out. I did that and almost passed out (again), but that didn't help out much. A couple hours later I found a doctor at the party and he say that you have to go through the top of the nail with a red hot need or paper clip. I did both and finally found some relief at about 11:30 pm.

Now I'm teaching piano, reading, riding my bike, and attending various summer events and parties throughout.