desert trip with coworkers last weekend (11/12/05ish).  took
friday off to make it 3 days of fun.  rode go-carts, an offroad
golf cart, dirt bikes (250, 400, 500cc), a pocket sport bike, atv’s
across desert.  shot lotsa guns: an sks, a mauser with 1938
surplus ammo (that is a ridiculously huge and loud rifle), tons of clay
pigeons with a variety of shotguns (12gauge, 16gauge, .410),
miscellaneous handguns (9mm, .357), and for breakfast an AR-15 (aka
“m-16″, my ears rang for 3 days after shooting it after forgetting to
put in ear plugs.) burned everything we could find in huge ass bonfires
at night (aerosol cans etc..).. and also the right half of a magnesium
crankcase from a vw… looked like a huge flare in the fire, ultra
bright looking white light… shot off blue firework looking sparks…
poofed up big when dumped water on it… but actually not all that
amazing… wasn’t quite like “light up the whole desert” like some
people were anticipating… burned for about 15 minutes…
miscellanoues flare shot gun rounds (looked like lil bottle rockets)
… shot propane tanks with flares on them… they’d fly up in the air
in a ball of fire and spin around… and of course… did all this
while basically being drunk for 2 days straight…

went to downtown fullerton this most recent friday night because a
coworker had restarted his reggae band / was learning to dj… so about
30 coworkers turned out and we got all drunk and danced around.  i
realized i haven’t been to downtown fullerton in like a whole year… a
lot of hte places have expanded/remodeled… back alley is like twice
as big as before.. now several of them are charging cover because
apparantely the asshole firemarshals readjusted the capacity so low
that they can’t make profit without cover.  i’d kinda felt like
“oh yeah i go to downtown fullerton a lot”… but then down there…
i’m like damn i haven’t been here in a long ass time… it’s just funny
how things change when yer not looking… time flies.  even
friggin best buy that i went to on saturday had things all rearranged
and a new look… i was like “what the hell, when was the last time i
even went to best buy!” 

went to the USC vs. Fresno State football game last night at LA
colliseum… crowd at 91,000 people… so ridiculous packed in in that
place… USC was real cool before….walked around campus chuggin
beers… they really go crazy for every football game… like mardi
gras or something… fresno state was ranked 17, but they gave usc a
good run for their money… way closer than we thought… the fire
chief for fresno was sitting in front of us yelling “that’s another 1st
down for fresno state!”… it was fun… game ended a lil after 11…
but spent literally an hr parked in the garage not moving an inch just
waiting to get out… we were on the 5th floor and basically the other
floors had to clear entirely before anyone could get out…

finished reading ‘scar tissue’ after several months due to a
combination of reading less and less and putting this one on hold… it
was hard to read…  it’s basically just a recount of anthony
kiedis’ (lead singer of red hot chilli peppers) constant and ongoing
battle with heroin addiction and his countless binges… after reading
it was just like sick to my stomach with the thought of addiction…
man i needa start working on my own addictions…  the whole book
was just like “why can’t this guy just get his shit in order” kinda
tortous frustrating… but hey it’s full of sex drugs and rock and roll
so i had to read it just outta morbid curiosity… beyond just being a
showcase of those things… and an example of horrible heroin addiction
is…. didn’t have much else to offer… but i dilligently chugged
through it after having started it several months ago (and readin other
books instead)…

so i was on the upper deck at the driving range with mr. woo sunday and
we were totally sucking, hitting all kinds of crap shots. behind me i
hear this guy go “rooooarrrr” and then “thump” and look behind me and i
see some guy laying on the deck.  i was like “oh man this guy
takes this game waaaay too serious doing kamakazee dives into benches”
so i hit a few more balls and realize the guy isn’t moving.  then
woo and i start hearing weird animal like noises… and we’re like
“hmmm craaazy guy…” but then eventually we’re like “hmmm somethings
not quite right…” so we go over to him and he’s convulsing eyes
rolled back into his head foaming at the mouth all like crazy zombie
style and he’s like damn near biting his tongue off… we approach and
we’re like “umm are u alright” and his eyes roll back to look at us…
but it’s a distinctly vacant stare… the kind of glazed over other
worldly anasthetic stare all my piggies made after i’d shot them up in
the ass with a buncha ketamine and xylacine…

so we’re like “dooo dooo this guys having a seizure!” and he’s foaming
at the mouth so much he’s like starting to choke on his own foamy
spit… so we’re like “hey! lets roll him over into left lateral
recumbent!” then we like hold him down so he doesn’t bang his shit so
much and his girlfriend comes running back going “ooooh my god!!!” and
then the paramedics show up in like 3 minutes flat right when the guys
starting to snap out of it… and he’s like “whoa… what’s going
on?”  lucky he didn’t lunge the other way off the second story
deck.

so then i go back to hitting, and like i hit waaay better… just goes
to a show… a good seizure now and then can be exactly what ya need to
get yerself outta a golf funk.  i was like “gee that’s cool, i’ve
never had a seizure.”

so anyway, apparently the guy had a bad back and the doctor prescribed
ultram (tramadol) ironically the very first thing online about the drug
on yahoo! health is:

“What is the most important information I should know about tramadol?

Seizures have been reported as a rare side effect of treatment with tramadol. The risk of
seizures may be increased in patients who take more than the prescribed dose, have a history of
seizures or epilepsy, have head trauma, have a metabolic disorder, have a central nervous system
infection, are experiencing alcohol or drug withdrawal, or are taking certain medications. Talk to your
doctor about factors that may increase the risk of seizures during treatment.”

so um i think like he started having a seizure then he banged his
head reeeal hard on the bench when he fell, multiplying the effects…
but um wow “what’s the most important thing i should know about
tramadol?- “seizures.”  wow… now that’s an understatement.