I need to vent about my HB troubles ...

[Micah]

So Thursday was pretty cool. I got to meet up with pretty much everyone, Talk to Joe and Ant. Have Robo call me a **** piker or something to that effect which Nicky later explained was "a term of endearment" and I got to talk a little with a few of the guys from Nexus. Great group of guys. Failed to find Baca or TeeJay.

I ate at this little Surfer shack place (the name escapes me) on PCH at second. With a couple of guys from Hundredth Monkey (the only team to sport a pump player) DO NOT get the steak sandwich. Damn it tasted good, but more on that later. I thought about sneaking into the captains meeting. Didn't. Started driving the Hour North along PCH home to Santa Monica and my frigging oil light came on. Had to stop at pep boys and put two quarts of oil in the thing. My bad there. So I get home more than a little later. Thank god for Car CD players.

Remember that steak sandwich? Yeah well less than 2 hours after eating it, I was feeling the food poisoning and less than 2 hours after that I was praying to the porcelain gods ... So getting up early Friday to drive down to HB just to hang out was out of the question. I heard the guys who got burgers were fine though. To make my life even worse I couldn't get out of working Friday night or Saturday morning until 12:30.

So I'm set to drive out to HB and then Pomona on Saturday afternoon, but I need to go pick up some film before I get on the road. Long Story short I get about 2 miles from my house when I have this belt shred in my engine. It's that one that runs off of the radiator fan and controls the alternator and some how or another the power steering. Getting home wasn't easy and my mechanic is closed 'till Monday.

So I have no way of getting Joe my photos from Vegas and other past photos to prove to him that I can actually take pictures reasonably well so that I can be ensured the spot of covering all the pan am series events next year. And (more importantly) I have no way of getting to Pomona to visit with Jen and Jess The Smart Parts Twins ....

Ok, I'm done. Thanks for listening.

-Micah

 

[joe bob]

Sucks to be u

 

[JoseDominguez]

Better sick as a dog in HB than well in Sunderland mate.

 

[Micah]

But Alas, I'm not in huntington but an hour away at home.

And I may be loosing out on a job because of my illness and broken car.

So yeah, sucks to be me!

-Micah

 

[Gyroscope]

Sorry to quibble, but food borne illnesses don't manifest for 12-72 hours. It was probably breakfast or dinner the night before. I got hospitalized for a case of food poisoning about four years ago. Now I own a food service establishment. I rule with an iron fist so's we don't make people sick like that.

Anyway...

Sorry to hear about your bout. Been there... wished I was dead. I'm glad you're well enough to work a keyboard, though.

 

[Micah]

It was the only thing I could think of that would have made me sick. I had Pizza the night before with the rest of my family non of which got sick. and All I had before the Steak sandwich was a jambajuice. It may not have been regular food poisning (Felt like it tho) but I'm rather sure that the food from that place is what made me sick. I dunno for sure tho.

I can't figure what else it could have been ...

oh and thanks for tha sympathy guys

-Micah

 

[JoseDominguez]

Depends, some forms of food poisoning can hit you really quickly, but that tends to be shelfish and other sea-food (shrimp can be a killer).
As for steak etc... gyro is right, you tend to blame what you had most recently and never think back to the day before, the big ones (E.coli, salmonella and listeria) tend to take a while to incubate. Think back over 24 hours... sauces are a good bet (bad mayo etc...) as they tend to contain raw egg.
Barring that, probably a GI tract virus, and probably caught from someones dirty hands and nothing to do with the food industry.
Nasty stuff.
Drink lots of fluids.

 

[ices]

yeah some rotten git may have not washed his hands after a dumpin trip.
urghh!!

 

[Davo at work]

Food poisoning

Food poisoning must be able to manifest in less than 72 hours.

It was only this weekend when after drinking 14 pints of strong european lager I ventured into my favourite Kebab Establishment, after my usual XXL Doner with double chilli I promptly went home and chucked my guts up all over the bedroom floor and that was within around 1 hours of eating.

Also the funny thing is it happens every week, without fail, I should really try eating somewhere else

 

[JoseDominguez]

Similar thing for me, I keep passing out in a local park (next to the toilets) and always wake up with a foul taste in my mouth and a sore backside. Weird?????