Those darn nail guns...

` Nail guns and cell phones do not mix, and not just for the obvious reasons....

` Short story long: Back when my mommy was here, I'd added another line onto my account for Lou and got a new Sprint phone, free! (Cingular is always cutting his calls off!) Unfortunately, due to a few complications, my apartment number somehow got left out.
` So, I got a postcard in the mail saying that UPS tried to deliver my phone but didn't have my apartment number. (Okay... so, if they didn't have my apartment number, then how did they know which mailbox to deliver it to?) They gave me one day to get to UPS and pick up my package - the eleventh. I was almost there when Lou called me to say that he'd had a little incident with a nail gun and that I was needed to drive him to a hospital. So, I turned around and drove to the apartment.
` A few minutes later he showed up, his knuckle wounded and swollen. Aparently, he had been nailing through a board toward himself, which wasn't a problem until the gun decided to fire two nails at the same instant instead of one. The first nail hit its mark and the second nail was fired diagonally, going through the board and straight into his knuckle bone.
` Ow.
` So, I took him down to the clinic, where his hand continued to swell and become increasingly painful. As proof, I have Crappy Digital Photos (CDPs): Here he is about to get his tetanus shot....

` You can see here on his X-ray that the nail left a puncture wound somewhat between the white dots. Owie.

` So then, he washed his hand really well and they put it in a splint, which was not to be taken off for two weeks.
` ...That was bad because that's his guitar hand and he has a gig in two weeks! Later on, filled to the gills with narcotics and unable to so much as jostle his left hand, Elk Man calls and tells him he has to be at work the next day. Lou was like, "I don't think I can work until the day after next. I mean, the nail broke the bone and I can't use my left hand at all."
` Elk Man became highly irritated and so Lou said; "Well, I'll come in tomorrow anyway and see whether or not I can do much of anything, okay? ...Hello?"
` Elk Man had hung up on him out of irateness.
` Well, he did go to work nonetheless, but not for long. Elk Man, at least, knew enough to keep his mouth shut. And later on, I dragged the very drugged Lou to Seattle Town Hall to be lectured by Michael Shermer. As you may already know.

` About my phone... After hearing from a couple of Sprint reps about my phone being in Kentucky, one said that it was at the warehouse and that they would send another.
` Darn nailguns, always messing up your hands and your efficiency of getting a decent cell phone service.
` Well, yesterday, Lou unwrapped his splint to see what would happen and his hand swelled up again!

` On that day I also hung out with Book Listener and Dandruff (his psoriasis is getting better, so perhaps I shall call him X Dandruff!) until he had to go get pumped full of fun medicine... though later on we got together and had many insane advantures. Disturbing photographic evidence pending.
` This morning, Lou got up and went back to the clinic and got a lovely cast installed on his arm. It's not to be taken off for three weeks!
` Thankfully, his phone magically appeared at the door with a UPS guy! Hooray!! Unfortunately, Lou was still stuck with the dilemma of having a cast while he's supposed to be playing the guitar. ...And then, an idea struck him: Try playing the Dobro on his lap!
` It works! Here he is, playing away, his new cell phone sitting on the chair beside him. So it was a happy ending after all!

` This CDP reminds me, I have to take the garbage out!! ...But it's really cold and wet outside right now. So I haven't. So blah.