Been a while

So I totally blew off the whole posting twice a week thing. But I have excuses, and half-assed decent ones too.

To to catch up from the last time I wrote:

I had a flight a few days after my last post. The patient was sedated with a heavy dose of sedative in Alamosa. He woke up halfway through the flight (20 minutes before landing) and started getting combative. So they gave him a maintenance dose of sedative. Then another one. Finally, to be able to off-load him (He would've been violent at this point if it weren't for the restraints since the sedatives weren't working), we had to give him a paralytic and intubate him. Except the usual dose of paralytic agent didn't last too long, and they had to give him a second, and a third. Finally, paralyzed and leting a machine breath for him, we got him into the ambulance. We literally pushed enough pharmaceuticals to bring down a horse. I never thought I'd meet the person that makes Keith Richards look like a little girl that couldn't hold his liquor.

While there in Alamosa I ran a few errands: Autozone (oil and filters for the cars), liquor run (I could open a small bar at this point), a Walmart run to get all kinds of crap, and finally picked up a big order of Thai food to take home.

Then I had days off. Since I hadn't been home in a week, I spent most of my time doing crap around the house: changing the kitchen faucet, shower head replacement, shoveled some snow off the carport, securing threshold pieces, hanging pictures, etc, etc. We also cooked a bunch (lemon chicken soup, roasted red wine chicken, caramelized rum bananas), and baked a shit ton of cookies (mostly oatmeal-raisin-chocolate chip). And I got to spend some money at True Value, even got to buy a shiny new radial saw. Well, a yellow one at least (it's a DeWalt). I have a honey-do or two left, but got most of what I needed to get done, done.

shoveling snow off the carport

I got to spend some quality time with the PS3. I found Assassin's Creed at Walmart for $20, and totally got hooked on it. Took me four days, but I managed to complete it. Now I have Assassin's Creed II and I have to wait till my next days off to play it.

Also had a chance to go sledding with the kids. There's an awesome hill in Blanding that was still covered in about three feet of snow, and I think it's our new sledding spot. There's pics on Facebook from it, and I think Stacey uploaded a video on her FB page.

Sledding with Keira

Me eating crap

Cassie eating crap

I left home about 6 hours earlier than I needed to, to head to Chinle to start work cause I didn't really feel like dragging my ass out of bed at 0400. As it turns out it was kinda a good move, since I got a call at 0500 to start early. Then I napped most of the day away.

And that pretty much brings us up to date, and I'll try to make a semi-conscious attempt to post a bit more often, we'll see what happens.