Hospital tales part 2

I'm sorry. I am a terrible blogger. I have time to kill, but I never want to use that time to update my Blog. I will try harder from now on.

I've always had an issue with my finger. It's always been itchy and red. it had never gotten out of control until that day.

August 13th, Wednesday morning,

I wake up to get ready for work and hop in the shower. Once I get out of the shower I take a look at my finger and it looks like this..... Gross I know.

So I finally make the call that I can't go on avoiding this issue any longer. I take a walk do to the Thorek Hospital which is just down the street from my house. If I had known how big a problem my finger was going to be I would of went to a much nicer hospital. So walking down to the hospital I thought they would just look at it and say that it's not that bad, give me some cream and send me on my way. Boy I wish that was the way it happened. Instead I spent 2 nights in the Hospital getting pumped full of different antibiotics and stuck in a room with a 60 year old man who checked himself in because he couldn't stop crapping. He was also the night security guard for the hospital. So everyone knew him and would stop by to say hi. I laid in bed for two days watching a shit ton of olympic coverage and sleeping like a mo-fo. I also had a great window view so I saw a lot of the planes doing test runs over the city as they geared up for the Air and Water Show. Since leaving the hospital My finger has cleared up 100%. It turns out it was a very bad case of Eczema that got infected after I didn't take care of it for some time. And of course what did they give me and tell me to do after I left the Hospital. Just put this cream on it. I give Thorek a D plus. Food was awful, people didn't have answers for your questions and they put me in a room with a guy who shit all day.




My view from my room

Outside the emergency room. That's just a man sleeping in the hallway


My view at night


Another gross picture of my Fingers.


My view for 2 days.

Hospital tales coming soon....

Oh no!! What happened here?


I'll explain later. Gotta go.

Chicago!!

Went to the movies at Amc River East 21 last week and then walked home. Just some photos I took. I love summer time in Chicago!

I'm still alive

Wow talk about doing nothing. Well thats just what I did. I watched a whole bunch of TV and watched The Fifth Element on dvd. Gary Oldman is one of my favorite actors. I could watch his movies all day. Well I finally left the house at 11pm and walked over to the Holiday Club to meet friends. Cesar, Tim, Molly, John,  and Tristen were all there hanging out. Cesar and I sang Pearl Jam's "Alive". Also Fernando helped us out by playing some really rocking  air drums.  I'm enjoying my time in Chicago, but part of me can't wait to get back on the Boat.

Playing catchup

So it's been a little while since the last entry, here is what has been going on this week.

Friday:

I went to Arlington Race Course with some friends and had a great time. I broke about even for the day by winning on the last race. If you have never been to Arlington get out there. It's one of the nicest horse tracks I'm ever been to. With some bets only starting at a dime it's easy not to spend a lot of money.  Later that evening I did a Improv show at the American Theater Company. It was fun and Nora Dunn from SNL did the monologues. Thanks the Adal for inviting me to play the last couple weeks it's been fun. 

Saturday:

Went to work for a couple of hours and watched Cannon Ball Run. So I didn't do much working as you can tell. Then went up to IO and sat in again with Whirled News Tonight. It was a fun show despite the fact that there were only 5 of us playing. There is a podcast of the last two shows I was in on itunes. Just go to the podcast section and search Whirled News. After the show I headed to my old apartment where friends were hosting a Beer Pong party. Now as most of you know I don't drink alcohol, but also most of you know that I am very competitive and if there is any sort of game going on I want to win it. So I will drink a beer as long as I can win something from it. Arnie and I joined forces in an effort to win pong but came up short by losing to the Bess Romano Trio in the first round. My character the Professor was not happy about it.

Sunday: 

Woke up way to early to play in a poker tournament that never happened and was not to pleased about that. So I just hung around the house all day and watch TV. I headed up to IO to do Deep Schwa at 8. We had a very fun show and I did some new Character choices that I had never done before. Watch 3033 then headed home for bed time.

Monday:

I didn't have to work so I slept in pretty late. I woke up and headed to the Apple store and bought and Ipod shuffle. I have an Iphone, but it's a little bulky to work out with and the shuffle is perfect. For only 50 bucks I thought it was worth it. Went to do the Armando show at IO at 8. Had fun and it was a great house.

Tuesday: Went to work but as I closed my apt door I realized that I had left my keys on the table. So I locked myself out and was not to happy about it. Luckily my brother and roommate Tim was off of work at the same time I was so crisis adverted. Poker night! I didn't do well and I'm not to happy at the way I've been playing. I was upset, but luckily for me Niki got a little buzzed and started singing on the piano about what was going on in the hands. She was also doing it in a very funny Chinese accent. So as for the rest of the week I plan on keeping it low key cause my ass is broke. 

Coldplay

Last night Chris and I went to see Coldplay at the United Center.  We sat in the front row next to the side stage it was very Awesome!! Both Chris and myself play for the Annoyance Theater's softball team and before we went to the concert we were on the winning side of our battle against The Factory Theater. I like a lot of music and I pride myself on my music knowledge and I don't care what people say, I likes me some Coldplay music. The concert was great and the stage setup was really cool. After the concert I headed to The Holiday Club to do some karaoke with friends and to once again Celebrate Molly Hall's Birthday. Man she stretched that out.

Chris with his Idols Razor Ramone and Walter Payton 

Bring it In!!

Back in April I flew home from the Cruise ship for a couple of days to shoot a pilot episode of a show written by Dina Facklis called Bring it in. Well tonight was the premiere and it was a lot of fun. We all put a lot of hard work into this and it was great to see it come to life on the screen. We had a party at the studio we shot at and had drinks and BBQ. Thanks to Dina for putting everything together. The studio had a great roof top deck and I took advantage by taking some Chicago at night photos. Here are some pics from last night. It was a lot of fun!!

And of course one final photo, Bill Boehler living his dream in his huge bath tube.