Dear Coca-Cola, I enjoy your retro 8oz. classic bottles. I don't enjoy the 6.5 cm laceration on my cornea..

Dear Coca-Cola,
Today was a retirement celebration for my Supervisor Troy.
As today was a special day, there was a potluck. People brought many dishes and there was cake. Cake is always good. Anyway, we had drinks and the coolest drink was the vintage glass bottle style 8 oz. Coke.
The day was turning out pretty good.. My friend asked me to open her bottle.
Imagine my surprise when I opened the Coke and the bottle made a very loud pop. Champagne bottle loud POP! The bottle cap hit me in the eyeball, not my eyebrow, my eyeball..... I seen a large bluish gray flash, blinding pain and stinging...
The Pop as so loud people around me were looking for the source of the noise.
The strangest thing is, the Coke stayed in the bottle. Not fizzing or over flowing, it spilled not one drop. I'm a child from the 70's. We had those bottles or that style at least. So I know how to operate them.
Being almost 40, I have never had a bottle pop that loud before. The Coke didn't make a mess, that's crazy!
That's very odd. So I rinsed my eye and used the ice packs from our first aid locker.
The stinging and pain didn't go away after 2 hours. So I left work early, I'd only been there for an hour and a half. So I went to the doctors. After a short wait, I was seen by the doctor.
The Doctor was a nice enough fellow. He' put some numbing drops in my eye. Fantastic, those drops are.. My eyeball was killing me. Then he put this fluorescent stuff in my eye, to illuminate the cut across my Cornea.
He showed my girlfriend. She took a picture with her iphone.
Check it out-

Somewhere in there, is a 6.5 cm scratch, in the shape of a "T." It's almost like a big paper cut, on my eyeball.  It's like having an eyelash wrapped in sand, in your eye. Yep sucks, as much as you think it would.








After the Doctor was done swabbing my eye with a q tip, and prescribed me Vicodin and some drops.
I'm also out of work till Tuesday. Which kinda sucks for the vacation time I took.
Here's some more pictures...

This is the culprit.

Delicious, dangerous to eyeballs.

  

Imagine this Flying at your eyeball. 

POP goes my eyeball. I get to go back on Sunday and get my eye looked at.

Junk In the Trunk3

So I've keeping an eye for all the things we need for camping in my High top bus.
As I've said before, I don't want to spend a ton of money on this endeavor.
Thrift stores and bargain hunting camping and VW bus supplies is something that we do.
I found a Satellite radio at a thrift store, for dirt cheap-I might add.
Now, I have found a satellite radio boom box.
The radio and the boombox together, have a grand total of 10 bucks.
Here's a picture or two- nah I'm just going to do one picture.

It has the antenna and all the connections.
It wasn't until I got home with it, that I realized it was for a different style radio.
BUT, it does have an auxiliary input for Ipod, satellite radio, or what ever.
All is not lost.
It should be usable....

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It's called CheapGeek tips (original, I know)
They'll be listed at the top of the posts I do.
If I can figure out a way to make them show as updates or new posts I will.
I'm going to add them. You'll see, we'll laugh, we'll cry, it'll be great.
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I'll post them and make sure you get the credit for them, good or bad.

The Ugliest Shoes in the world...cost 5 bucks, at Walmart.

Spring is coming and I can't wait.

I need to some work on projects and yard work will start again.

Honestly I'm looking forward to it.

This year, I need to buy some sneakers or shoes that I can destroy.

I need to have them for the purpose of doing whatever. 

I usually don't give it much thought and will get out there and 

ruin my work shoes. Or,shoes I wear to work is probably a better way to look at it.

It's a business casual work place, so you can wear sneakers or loafers or whatever.

Provided your shirt is tucked in, and you're not wearing jeans. (except Fridays)

So today I was on the hunt for yard shoes, or project shoes. 

Think Mr. Rogers changing into his play shoes.

I am a CheapGeek by nature, and since the ultimate outcome of my shoes is ruining 

them, Cheap is what I was looking for.

Ha! I found cheap! These also happen to be some of the most ugly shoes I have ever 

seen. It's a win! 

Check these shoes- The X1's ---Carbon fiber, ventilation slots, high visibilty, low 

comfort, chrome accents and much, much more fake looking crap.

If these shoes we're a car, they would be a 2002 Hyundai Accent that's trying to be Fast and Furious with all the WalMart ricer/racer crap you can throw on it, while trying to be 

serious about it. (Hyundai owners. relax- I've owned 3 brand new Hyundai's and put 

over 150,000 miles on each, I think they are the best bang for the buck. If you're 

offended, I'm sorry. With a small amount of seriousness.) 

Got these shoes on Clearance and they are worth every penny.....

Here you go.

These things do look pretty...shitty.

I'll wear them out in the yard or in the garage. 

Or out in public- if my daughters or my girlfriend needs a good embarrassing.