Awesome nerdom

I bought myself a nice new flash drive last week since the one I already had is almost seven years old and is so old school it only holds 128 MB. So I set out to find a nice new one and settled on a 2 gig that can pretty much hold the world. Naturally, I couldn't just buy some boring, plain black one that so many people have, I had to get a special one. So I found a R2-D2 flash drive that is totally awesome. Does it look awesome? Ohhhh, yes it does. Is it practical? Not really. Doesn't fit into the USB ports on the PC, but does just fine with the laptop. But if I cared about things like that I wouldn't own about half of my possessions. It's just fun to look at him sitting there on my desk. I nearly lost his head once, that's the downside, but I found it again sitting on my blue bed sheet. See the problem? Still, I love the thing and I'd love it more if I could figure out how to get rid of the infernal PDF files that came with it full of coupons I don't want for idiotic Star Wars Clone Wars merchandise that I will NEVER buy under any circumstances. George Lucas is busy puking all over the franchise, I don't want to get that on me.

You'll Thank me Later

I've noticed something interesting in the course of my EMT training. Saving people involves a great deal of discomfort and awkwardness for both parties. Putting a K.E.D. spinal immobilization device on someone, for instance, isn't on right unless the person feels like they're wearing the most horrible corset ever invented and the straps around the legs are so tight that they can't stand up. Naturally, we do this for your good. Same goes for the collar. If it feels uncomfortable, it's on right. Basically, most everything is designed to keep you from moving and unfortunately that usually involves very tight straps and things jammed where you'd rather they wouldn't be, but since your leg is broken you have more important things to worry about. In the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter that all the things are uncomfortable since that's what's keeping your spine, broken bones, or whatever from getting even more messed up than they already are. I just find it funny that everything that is designed to keep us safe, from seatbelts to spine boards, is uncomfortable.