Bryan - Now with Ninja Slash Action!

Yesterday I booted up Ninja Gaiden for the first time since using my "collectible," "sold seperately" Leatherman Squirt knife on my own finger.

Check out the professional renactment.

Don't you hate it when you die just before a save spot a number of times during a really hard part in a game? You just know you'll have to go back through it all the next time you play. Well, that's what happened to me. I had died at a pretty difficult part just the morning prior to the knifing. It's still hard.

But because I'm playing now, I have the bonus of directing Ryu with a thumb that is still missing something in the way of feeling. It tingles on contact, so you know its working. You know how you can feel when your leg is asleep, but you can't quite feel the actual leg enough to control it? Its like that - but it doesn't go away! It makes controlling direction difficult, it adds another whole dimension during pretty intense fights, but wait, its will also become somewhat uncomfortable if my thumb pushes down the wrong way.

Why move around the action in a smooth, fluid way when you can move around in a boxy, stuttering way?

Tingling in the thumb controlling the directional joystick, lack of full feeling, discomfort if pressed on the wrong way. You can't get that from controllers sold in stores!

That's a $30 sensation; yours absolutely free! But only for a limited time. We can't go on like this forever.

All I can say is Sham Wow.

Thumbs, all thumbs

Here's a pic of my thumb Tuesday in its bulky bandage and "sling" - 40 hours after the stitches and probably 42 hours after the cutting.

This bandage is off now and I'm running solely on neosporin and bandaids for protection. I was actually feeling really, really well about my thumb after the gauze came off. Actually thought I might be doing push ups soon. Then I made the mistake of putting a little weight on the heel of my hand. Boy did that produce a deep fiery burn.

The left side of my thumb, just beside the nail, feels tingly to the touch now. I'm hoping its a result of my overreaching earlier, or the general fact that I had a knife through the meat just below it recently, and not something serious.

If I get adventurous, maybe I'll post a pic of the stitches and the entrance and exit wounds.

Posts likely to come less frequently - putting a knife through your thumb will do that

Yep. Pocket knife. In one side, out the other.

So you'll excuse me if the spelling isn't perfect on this one. Its a but of a struggle to type with a 1" bandage on your thumb. Still, I think I'm doing OK so far. But trust me, I've deleted or backspaced pretty much every other word.

Two hour hospital stay. 2 stitches.

Kind of put a crimp in my plan to work on my novel Sunday night. HOpefully getting back to that tonight, or at least later this week.