Mercy Hospital - Medical Aid 08.09.2006

Location: Mercy Hospital

City: Des Moines

State: IA

Employee Reporting: Lance Shuey, Intervention Specialist and New Father

Date of Report: 08/12/2006

Date of Incident: 08/09/2006

Time of Incident: 14:59:02 CDT

Type of Activation: Large Belly



Incident Description based on Employee reporting: On Wed, Aug 9th at 2:59pm Amanda Shuey, wife of Lance Shuey, gave birth to a baby girl. The suspect was named Antonia Leigh Shuey. She is 20” long and weighs 7lbs, 7oz. Mother and Daughter are both resting and doing well.



Voicedown Conducted: No

Images Available: Yes

Weapons seen in Live Video: No

CPPA Meeting

On 07.22.2006 my friend JT and I travled from Des Moines to Vinton, IA. There was a organizational meeting for the Christian Paintball Players Association. I brought my camera but forgot to take photos during the meeting.

On I-218 there was a farmehouse with strange sculptures out front.

JT for scale.

Beau's party

My friend Beau had a party on Wed 5/21/06. He didn't want to call it a Birthday party, because it was. He wanted to call it a Memorial Day/Grill Celebration party.

Whatever.

Photos of the shenanigans.

This is actually the mess BEFORE the party.


Will, Beau's roommate and Brandon arriving. The dog is greeting them.


Beau, a man with his grill.


Charcoal.


Grilling, now a team sport.


Brooke and Megan, on the way to being drunk.


Brandon, Katie and Nate. More drinking.


Nate and Beau decide that Brandon needs to be restrained. Drinking hats are in place.


Beau decided that Katie needed arresting too.


Brandon, Megan and Nate. Some people are more drunk than others.


Brandon and Katie have a competition to see who can put their foot behind their head. There was no clear winner.


Friendly wrestling.


Friendly wrestling part 2. Nate helps Brandon with his drinking hat.


Somehow Katie won the wrestling match.


When you consume mass quantities of alcohol it needs to go somewhere.


Brandon astride Ol' Red.

Canon news! 

Oh to have money.... :) 

Updated blog

Now with 25% more content. Forgotten Sanity is now featuring AdSense, a Flickr badge and is linked on the webring 'Blogs that Flickr.'

No biggie.

Now a dog covered in baby powder.

New Car II: The Art of the Deal

After borrowing Amanda's Grandfather's car for several months, we decided it was time to get our own car. Just a few weeks ago I picked up the Saturn. So far it's been a great car. I bought it from a real nice young couple and feel that I got a nice deal on the price.

With both of us, Ian, another one on the way ;) and the dogs Garcia and Sadie we felt we needed a larger car. No SUV, gas is too expensive. So we were going to get a Station Wagon.

Ian and I set out on 3.23.06 with every intention of buying a Wagon. Our first stop was Platinum Motors. We had only been on the road for 10 minutes but I saw a nice used Wagon. We took it for a test drive and it was pretty nice. Then when we pulled into the lot to return the car, I put it into reverse and it stalled. Now it started right back up but this car is was for Amanda. It needs to run right every time. Then the car salesman piped up,

"Are you mechanically inclined?"
"Nope."
"Do you know a mechanic?"
"Yes."
"Maybe he could look at it and figure out the problem?"
"Yeah, maybe he could. Bye."

Then we moved on to Sam's Riverside. A strange place. They buy damaged cars and offer them up to be fixed. The Wagon they had was a bit beat up. Hail damage. Tore up inside. Broken front light. Oh well.

The first odd thing is the car showroom is inside a warehouse. The car are parked bumper to bumper and side to side. So I asked,

"How do I test drive it?"
"You don't until you sign the check."
"Oh....."
"I can start it up for you."
"Ok."

I had already checked out the car and knew it didn't have power. Soon the salesman figured that out too. No problem, he went and got a jump pack.
The car wouldn't start.
He got another jump pack.
Still wouldn't start.
He hooked up both jump packs to double the power.
Still wouldn't start. Then he said something about the other guys using both of the packs to start a diesel truck.
Sure.
Then get got out the BIG jump pack. The one so big it's on wheels and he plugs it into the wall outlet. We even let it sit and charge.
Still wouldn't start.
At that point I walked out.

Then we headed to Waukee, found a little dealer called Auto Image. It's run by two older but nice guys. The Wagon there had a small warranty, was clean, undented, ran well, didn't stall and started right up.

I now present our new 1997 Ford Escort.

Last Days

I'm in my last week doing Security work at the mall. I'm moving on to another security job, *edited for security purposes*.


No Audrey or Buchanon though.

New Car

 
On 02.01.06 Amanda was in a car accident on her way to a church meeting. Oddly, I was home that night sick so Ian was not in the car. Sadly our '99 Nissan Sentra was totalled.

Meet our new replacement car, a '96 Saturn.