I had a similar experience with Art Garfunkel at the restaurant at the base of Buttermilk winter of '81-82. What a prick. Just nasty to everyone in the hotel. Just FYI never piss off the people handling your food.
Hunter Thompson was great in those days and we we see him often holding forth at the Woody Creek Tavern when we were living in the trailer park there.
Aspen in the '80s was pretty nuts.
Woody creek tavern was the coolest spot. I had a pretty normal (relative) conversation with HST over a beer and burger. Also had a very weird conversation about hockey and guns another time.
I used to work for the Aspen Ski Company, circa late 80s. It was a lot of fun, met a lot of rich/famous people, spent a lot of time skiing. Chevy Chase was there for Christmas and was generally being an ass. Everyone in the service industry in town knew him and had generally been treated like shit by him. No one looked forward to him being around and he had gotten several people fired.
I was working lifts one day and he came through the line. At the same time, there was a group of ski-wis (little kids in a group lesson). Because the kids were all little, we would split them up and send them on the lift with an adult(s). This lift had 4 spots, and CCs group had 3, so I ushered a little kid up to the line and when they stepped forward I asked if they wouldn't mind escorting the kid up. They said sure, so I slowed the lift to accommodate everything. As he stepped up, CC looked at the kid and said something along the lines of "this will be a great honor for you", and the kid of course gave him a blank stare. CC then said "Don't you know who I am?". At this point the chair was there and I could see bedlam about to unfold as CC tried to explain his acting greatness to a 5 year old. So I grabbed the kid and stuffed him in the seat, muscled the chair under CC so he had to sit, and said "Guess you're not as famous as you think you are". The chair was a fairly long one, probably close to 10 minutes or so. About 15 minutes after the incident, my boss came over and told me to take the day off. He probably should have fired me, but everyone was so sick of CC at that point, no one was taking him serious. And he was right, CC went right by me several more times that week, and I even helped his wife, when I was working patrol later and he didn't recognize me.
That year, I also got my Bill Murray and Hunter Thompson encounters. Those were much better.
I had a similar experience with Art Garfunkel at the restaurant at the base of Buttermilk winter of '81-82. What a prick. Just nasty to everyone in the hotel. Just FYI never piss off the people handling your food.
Hunter Thompson was great in those days and we we see him often holding forth at the Woody Creek Tavern when we were living in the trailer park there.
Aspen in the '80s was pretty nuts.
No, the hand is not an unusual injection site. Half of my treatments go into my hand as they are the most accessible and reliable in people of advanced age. Veins start rolling and doing things that make them hard to hit just as a matter of age. I'm running out of useful and accessible veins in my arms. We try there first and if they don't score, we default to the hand. We had to use an ultrasound to find an accessible vein in my arm for the IV to inject the contrast for my CT Wednesday night. Earlier in the day during my monthly IViG treatment we made two attempts to hit a vein and the hand did not work. We had to go elsewhere higher up in the side of my right arm. Nearby where the IV for the contrast ended up going. I'm 73 now just for the record.
Nice to see our resident doctor make an Alzheimer diagnosis with out an examination of the patient. But that's how you lefties roll.
And now I see that you deleted your post about injections in the hand as I was composing this. You're a real POS, spam_dragon.
"Nice to see our resident doctor make an Alzheimer diagnosis with out an examination of the patient. But that's how you lefties roll."
This, from the medical expert eager to remote-diagnose Biden as senile.
People are just asking questions, Kurt. Just like your right-wing bloviator heroes.
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Dec 6, 2025 - 10:32am
Those keeping track might remember that I think peripheral bruising in such an old old man is meaningless. Folks like to use it, alone, as a Sign Of Something, but truth is the arm vessels get more fragile as you get this old old old. So its presence is nothing.
This isnt the same as a bleeding or clotting issue, since we donât know about easy nose or gum bleeds. Thatâs a problem with clotting issue. Arm bruises alone - just a sign of a very old man.
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Dec 6, 2025 - 10:28am
kurtster wrote:
No, the hand is not an unusual injection site. Half of my treatments go into my hand as they are the most accessible and reliable in people of advanced age. Veins start rolling and doing things that make them hard to hit just as a matter of age. I'm running out of useful and accessible veins in my arms. We try there first and if they don't score, we default to the hand. We had to use an ultrasound to find an accessible vein in my arm for the IV to inject the contrast for my CT Wednesday night. Earlier in the day during my monthly IViG treatment we made two attempts to hit a vein and the hand did not work. We had to go elsewhere higher up in the side of my right arm. Nearby where the IV for the contrast ended up going. I'm 73 now just for the record.
Nice to see our resident doctor make an Alzheimer diagnosis with out an examination of the patient. But that's how you lefties roll.
And now I see that you deleted your post about injections in the hand as I was composing this. You're a real POS, spam_dragon.
Sorry, but where did I make a diagnosis? Quote it please. Otherwise, retract the falsehood.
"At first, people with Alzheimer’s disease may have mild symptoms, like trouble remembering names or forgetting recent events.
As time goes on, more severe symptoms may appear, like mood changes or confusion about time and place.
Eventually, people with Alzheimer’s disease may become unable to communicate or live independently... Symptoms of an injection-related reaction include redness, swelling, heat, pain, itching, rash, bruising, and blood collection under the skin at the injection site.
You may also develop headache, fatigue, or fever after an injection."
"Just sayin'..."
Isn't the hand an unusual injection site?
No, the hand is not an unusual injection site. Half of my treatments go into my hand as they are the most accessible and reliable in people of advanced age. Veins start rolling and doing things that make them hard to hit just as a matter of age. I'm running out of useful and accessible veins in my arms. We try there first and if they don't score, we default to the hand. We had to use an ultrasound to find an accessible vein in my arm for the IV to inject the contrast for my CT Wednesday night. Earlier in the day during my monthly IViG treatment we made two attempts to hit a vein and the hand did not work. We had to go elsewhere higher up in the side of my right arm. Nearby where the IV for the contrast ended up going. I'm 73 now just for the record.
Nice to see our resident doctor make an Alzheimer diagnosis with out an examination of the patient. But that's how you lefties roll.
And now I see that you deleted your post about injections in the hand as I was composing this. You're a real POS, spam_dragon.
"At first, people with Alzheimerâs disease may have mild symptoms, like trouble remembering names or forgetting recent events.
As time goes on, more severe symptoms may appear, like mood changes or confusion about time and place.
Eventually, people with Alzheimerâs disease may become unable to communicate or live independently...
Symptoms of an injection-related reaction include redness, swelling, heat, pain, itching, rash, bruising, and blood collection under the skin at the injection site.
You may also develop headache, fatigue, or fever after an injection."
