#26 BIG TOE

I’ve been working on setting up a “Paintball Field” here in Palau. I have formed a corporation called Jungle Tag with a friend of mine Kevin Davidson. We also applied for and finally received our FIB (Foreign investment board), which means we do not have to have any Palauan partners. We were able to find an incredible location about ½ a mile from the middle of town right on the water! The lot belongs to Melwert an old friend of mine. He just so happens to be in jail at the present but is due to be released in about 10-15 years…But maybe getting an early out sometime in January. We started clearing the land last week and will hope to be up and running in February. We also have applied for a small business loan and hope to have final word any day now.

The TV show “survivor” just finished filming a couple of weeks ago and when they were done they call me and donated some of their “Props” for us to use on the filed. Nothing fancy but kinda cool none the less. The day before yesterday I was moving one of them and I managed to almost rip the toenail off the big toe of my left foot!! Shit! Yes I know I always have on my tennis shoes but I had my Zories on. So I go home and of course I don’t have any big Band-Aids, only some “Cute” little ones with “flowers” and “happy faces” on them. When it happened my foot was pretty much “numb” and it really didn’t hurt too much but about two hours later it’s really killing me and starting to “throb” and so I didn’t feel like going out to get something to eat so I decided to cook something for myself…Yes I know I don’t cook but I figures how hard could it be to open a couple of cans and throw it in the microwave. I then put it in the fridge and took a shower. I soon discovered that hot water applied directly onto freshly exposed nerve endings is exceedingly painful!! Ok, I then go to the fridge and open the door only to have my “dinner” fly out of the fridge and land squarely on what was left of my big toe!! Shit!! So I scrap up all that I could and put in on a plate and popped it in to the microwave, set the dial for “High” and the timer for 3 minutes. “Ding” goes the bell and I reach in, grab the plate and burn the shit out of my thumb!! I mean I got a blister!! SHIT, Ok all is not lost at least I have something to eat. I take a big bite and crunch down on to some kind of small rock encased in a ball of hair!! SHIT I really have to sweep these floors a little more often…by this time it’s 9:00 pm and I said “screw it” and went to bed…only to be awaken at 3:00 am by a goddamn pack of wild chickens trying to see who could scream the loudest, I go outside and throw a couple of rocks, that I have placed conveniently for just such an occasion, at the “winner.” Turn around and stub my toe on the front step! SHIT.

Yesterday I decided to seek professional help so I go to the doctor and he says that it’s best to just go ahead and remove it completely as it was only hanging on by a thread. So he proceeds to take out this big old needle and says, “This may sting a bit”… Sting a bit my ass…But by the time he ready to pull it off I can’t feel a thing, no problem…The nurse put on a big old bandage and I told the Doc he can have one free game of paintball… By the time I get home the Novocain (yes I know Novocain is what dentist use but for some reason I can’t thing of the right word at the moment) and my toes hurts worst than the day before. I take the two placebos, the nurse gave me, prop my foot up, turned on the TV and watched reruns of the “Simpson’s”

Tomorrow is Christmas day and I’m catching a flight at 2:30 for Manila, I’ll be there until the 27^th when Pauline will fly in from Japan and they we will fly to Thailand for 10 days. They are having problems in the southern part of Thailand as a Tsunami wiped most of it out. But we are only going to be in Bangkok for a couple of days then fly up North to Chang Mai and take the boat back down. If anybody asks us we will say that we are “Muslims from Switzerland” I figure that’s about as neutral as you can get…

Well that’s about all for now, I’ll keep you posted

Later

Lenny