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Tuesday, May. 27, 2003 - 8:26 p.m. The day started out like many at work. I worked in the garden until starting time, and had just settled in to balancing my ledgers when the phone rang. It was Pumpkinhead. Since he uses his cell phone more than the state radio to check in, I wasn�t prepared for what he said next. One of our men had collapsed, and was unconscious. One minute he was fine, talking to a coworker. The next, he has lying on the ground after striking his head on the side of his batwing mower�s deck. He wanted me to call Beavis to let him know what was happening. Pumpkin had already called 911, and a firetruck with EMT�s was rolling up the job site as we spoke. I called all of the parties that needed to be informed, and waited for another call from Pumpkin. The next phone call was from Temp #1 (who I will call Marlboro Man). He said that the Ambulance driver wanted me to check the man�s contact information paperwork to see who he had down as first-to-call, and if we had any drug information for him, too. While we were talking, the injured man (Foo), came to, and immediately became hysterical, thrashing out at the EMTs, even though he was partially strapped down on a gurney. In his panic, he pinched one of the attendants, and struck out at anyone who was close by. He was totally disoriented, and it took 8 people to get him totally restrained. I heard all of this happening in the background, as Marlboro Man was one of the 8 trying to protect him from himself. About an hour later, they called me from the hospital. Seems he was back to normal, and they were ready to release him! There wasn�t anything obviously wrong with him (after running a bunch of different tests on him), and they wanted him to visit a neurological specialist before he was released to return to work. He has no history of seizures in his (or his family) past. He is about the youngest employee at work (36 years old), and is otherwise in great health. Too strange. Whenever something like this hits someone in good health, you always think of the worst (brain tumor, heart attack, stroke). He stopped by the storage to leave some paperwork for the state, and said aside from being very tired, he felt fine. I told him he should be tired, considering he tried to kick 8 people�s asses. He said he remembered being light headed as he approached his mower, and then shaking it off. He was in the process of greasing the bearings when it hit him again. He said he felt numbness in his left side, and then passed out. He remembers nothing after that until he realized he was on the gurney. I will just hope that this was a minor problem, caused by very low blood sugar (another possibility, according to the doctors), and not something more��. Late in the day, another of the new employees pulled me aside from the pack. He wanted me to check out something he found on the road. What he handed me shocked me, to say the least. It was a 4.0 mega pixel digital camera from a major maker. It had obviously taken a ride outside of a car (the case has several major nicks and gouges in it, and the lens cap is cracked and unusable), but was otherwise in decent shape. I brought it home, and I loaded it with some of my rechargeable batteries. It works fine. The media card inside of it contains 66 pictures. 64 of them are of the same toddler. The other 4 are of what appears to by this child�s parents and grandparents. The list price for this camera is $499. I looked on eBay (the open marketplace), and found most of this model are closing auction at around $325. If I found this camera, I would have to try to track down its owners. I don�t think this is what the finder will do, though. I also don�t think he could operate and download any photos he took with it to a computer. Hell, I don�t think he even owns a computer. This camera even has a manual mode that allows you to set the camera by f-stops and shutter speed! As close to a 35 mm camera as you can get, without buying one. If he tries to hunt the owner down and fails to find them, he will want to sell it. I would consider buying it, too, if he actually tries to find them�� As I was sitting here, typing my entry, I felt a little tickle on the back of my neck. It was my first encounter with a common tick this spring. It hadn�t settled in for a meal yet, so it was easy to remove and dispose of cleanly. I am racking my brain, trying to figure out where I could have picked it up: I did spread old leaves on the garden at work this morning, but I find it hard to believe I wouldn�t have noticed him before now. I did lay on the ground watching Codeman�s last home high school baseball game tonight (won by Mac 4-2--- who cares- he didn�t play again), but the area I was in was close cut grass. Not the likely place to find ticks. Hopefully this is not an omen of the summer to come. After last summer�s fun with the West Nile virus, we don�t need a return of Lyme�s disease again�.. p.s.- check out the photo from the boat races in yesterday�s entry (Click here to see the �before� photo) I mentioned how much I liked the photo, but didn�t like the power line crossing the frame. Leave it to K-style to fix things for me! Here is the �fixed� photo:
I have to remember to check with him the next time I have an editing question. He knows his stuff�..
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