Short Bus Musings

Uggh - what a week. Started not feeling well last Sunday with some flu like symptoms, so I promptly popped some Advil and put myself into bed to ride out the crappy aches and chills that come with such flu. Normally those last for a day or so, and you can at least get on with life and dealing with the various other lingering symptoms. Tuesday I tried to come in to work, only to return home and to bed shortly after. Can’t last much longer I thought. Finally Wednesday night I got into the clinic to get checked out.

Got right in at the clinic and the nurse came in and got all my normal vitals. Then she comes back with a 8″ Q-Tip! Blah - time for a strep test I figured - you know the one where they try and make you throw up on the nurse by scraping the back of your throat with the long ass Q-Tip, and then you sit around waiting for them to come back and give you meds. So, I open up my mouth to say “ah”, when to my surprise, the nurse says, “Umm, no - this one actually goes up your nose.” Gross!!! Okay - I thought that would be fine - swab my boogers if you want to see if I have the flu, no big deal. Much to my dismay, she bypasses the booger department of my left nostril and is apparently trying to swab the underside of my brain!!! Now, apparently the even my feeble brain knows that things should not be stuck that far up the nose because my head involuntarily jerked backwards and I am pretty sure I muttered an “Arrrghhh”. My next thought was to get out of there, but the nurse was like, “Can’t pull away…”. Cha - didn’t mean too but you shoved that Q-Tip up my nose and in the interest of self preservation I thought I should. I also thought that I should go ahead and spill any national secrets I may hold or any other useful information I might have to get me out of this.

I was brave though, and even though it made my eye water for the next hour, I survived. Turned out they were very excited to see that I had the Flu “B” strain, and oh, there is no treatment after the first 24 hours so sorry. Don’t forget to pay your insurance co-pay at the desk on your way out.

So many great things about this ep - beware of 2046!!

If you read this blog at all, you know of my affinity of mashups and remakes. I never thought it would reach beyond the normal podcasts and mp3’s that I have though. But low and behold - the good people at Planet Moon Studios are bringing the madness to the Wii. The game play is very similar to Guitar Hero, where notes (in this case Wii-mote movements) scroll across the screen and you make the proper gesture at the proper time. The title has 30 songs ranging from The Ramones to Cyprus Hill, but here is the catch - each song is preformed by a different cover band. Bands include country, metal, latin/mariachi, marching, and hip hop. Hard to imagine? Check out the 2 player mode videos included. The player that does the best, gets their band to sing. I can’t wait…

Here is your follow up to my previous posting about former WWE star Brock Lesnar and his big chance at UFC glory. What started out well didn’t end well. See for yourself.