Past 24 Hours

No shit there I was:

I'm heading up to Huntington to see if I can get some help from Best Buy with the Iphone my mom got me for Christmas. Since it's my mother, it's not a new Iphone but nearly that. It's one of the original models that a friend of the family had purchased a while back and then replaced. Since they weren't using it - it seemed a logical gift for me since my old cellphone kept dying.

Well... that's how things started.

I'm still trying to get the PHONE part of the Iphone to work (all of the other features work fine), but for now it's not wanting to connect to AT&T's network; unless you're standing inside an AT&T wireless store.

So when I show up to talk to the people, the problem of it connecting to the network is gone and I'm proven to be just another one of the brainless, techno-boobs who don't know how to use the technology in their possessions. When I walk away from the store, however, it losses signal and eventually drops the connection all together.

Annoying.

Later that day I found out that my Josh's dad, Frank, was in a motorcycle accident and was life-flighted from South Shore, KY to Huntington. He's now suffering from STML (no, not a new form of web code, that's "Short Term Memory Loss" to those who have never taken my Psych class) but nothing was broken.

So while up in Huntington, I offered to swing by the Hospital and help drive people - like Josh - back home because I'm sure that everyone piled in whatever car was available and drove up to be with Frank. However, before I left Chris "The Paladin" Ramey's apartment, his dog decided to take a hunk out of my left calf. At first it was thought that I stepped on the dog's tail and he had bit me to get me off of him. And then it turns out that I may have just scared him so badly that he turned and attacked.

Yes. Dog realizes that a six-foot, Bastet-ish Book-lover, has somehow shadow-stepped behind him for the kill and decided to attack first.

So with bleeding dog-bite marks I head over to the Hospital to pick up Josh and say hi to the family for a bit.

The first thing that Frank says when he sees me is "Vas est loss" (or some eqivalent in German). Considering that he couldn't remember why he was in the hosptial for longer than a minute or two - or why all of his family was hovering around him - it was a display of long-term recall to pull off a German phrase. He knew what he asked, that I would understand him, and my response. He just didn't know how he knew.

Gotta love STML.

So I drove Josh home and realized that my Iphone was still not working and will probably either have to replace it with a new, Iphone 3G, or see if the local AT&T store can do something. I wasn't able to take all the time I needed up in the Huntington Mall because Chris was with me and he doesn't like crowds.

Yeah, I'll never figure that one out.

But anyway. I wanted to update this thing since I'm now on winter break for the next two weeks.

Blah

Weekends.

-Tom