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So I finally let Tracy stick me with a needle. For practice! I must be in love or something. But it had to happen one day, might as well get it over with. She's been salivating over my veins since the first day we met. She and her nurse friends would say "wow, you have such great veins!" while gathering around my arms like vampires. But, it wasn't too bad. She did an IV for practice. A weathered nurse does it in about .5 seconds, but since Tracy is new, it took her a bit. And it was the first time I started to feel ill at the sight of my own blood. Mostly because I watched the little plastic thing wiggling around in my vein. Shouldn't have done that. But I lived and she got more practice.

The only bummer is that she didn't hook the IV up to a keg. Even though I specifically requested it. But she swore that's not good for your liver and so I got 0.0 proof Saline instead.

Tracy and I went up to LA today to see Body Worlds at the California Science Center. It's an exhibit of a new technology that has allowed plastination of human bodies. It is bascily a chemical process that turns living tissue into plastic/rubber material. The bodies are on display in various active positions so you can check out what a body looks like with no skin, muscle, etc. They have the ability to only preserve the parts they want (the blood vesseles for instance), which was pretty neat to see. It's only in California for a little while longer, I highly recommend you go. It is very cool, especially if you are in the medical field or have any interest at all in health or your body. Beware to those of you that are squeamish: it's gruesome.

The tech behind it is neato. They wash all the blood from your body and let it soak in water. Then they replace the water with acetone. Once all the water is gone and only acetone remains, they suck out the acetone and replace it with a checmical that plastinates it. Then they cure it with light or heat. Pretty neato. They even had a full horse and rider near the end, pretty amazing.

Traffic afterwards was terrible, but David and Ann met up with us for some Korean BBQ in Hollywood. Good stuff, and my first experience with it other than my man Nick. ;)

Geoff, Karen, Zac, Will and I ventured to LA to see the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show. The weather was incredible, raining the whole day and absolutely pouring on the way home. But we survived.

Saw a lot of neat cars and a lot of stupid ones. Saw the Spyker, a car that I have been wondering about since we saw it parked outside a resturant in Carmel, on our 2004 Monterey trip. It was dark and we couldn't see much other than they looked neat. Well, in the light, they are ugly as hell. Airplane theme on everything (because Spyker used to make plane parts), even the steering wheel. is shaped like a prop, ugg. Read the blurb here.

I think the most interesting car was the Venturi Fetish, an electric sports car. It costs 600K but the rep said that in 10 years or so the parts would be cheap enough to build it for $30k. I look forward to that day. I also pretty much decided that I'm going to buy a Lotus Elise in 2 years.


My pics here.