Monday's Missives

My guess is 100% people write Murphy when taking this street name verbally and it is presumed the person saying Morphy has a speech impediment.

• Zac just called me to let me know that we're under severe thunderstorm warning with large damaging hail.
• Here it comes. Wow it is black.
• Recently I saw a police officer involved shooting video. It was interesting because the guy that got shot turned around and started running backwards toward the cop.
• Cop friends told me years ago that this happens. People find it hard to believe but yeah- I've known about it for years.
• The idea of making my own knife at least once in my life intrigues me.
• Our server at Olive Garden last night was not wired to be a server.
• She was competent but nerve wracking.
• I have way too many movies that I will never watch again. 
• Clara Smith It's Tight Like That.

I Knew A Guy Once...

who was born without thumbs

Thursday's Thoughts

Earbud set we were issued for listening to training modules during compliance and ethics training week. It may just be me-but that motto seems vaguely threatening and definitely not reassuring.

• When I was a boy I would save my money to buy Hot Rod magazine subscriptions. My brother who was really looking out for me and wanted to see me be a better or more sophisticated person I suppose or whatever got me a subscription to Car and Driver.
• What is a dream car of yours that would surprise people?
• The Caddy Escala is beautiful and amazing and is now also on my list of dream cars.

  

  I mixed this with some Ramen type noodles. It sustained life and nothing worse happened to me the rest of the day I suppose 

• I've mentioned dodging a bullet regarding an old girlfriend who left me before things could get serious enough to get married. I've also mentioned that a mutual friend saw her once years later and told me about how beat up and bad-looking the same ex was and how she didn't age well and all of that. Friend must have saw the ex on a bad day or been mistaken or was trying to make me feel better. Ex looks great and is still super pretty and in fact- she's nearly 50 years old and probably looks better than she did when we were together.

  

  I always liked this guy- he seemed like a pretty good ole boy. We called him The Breeze. It was a nickname within a very tight circle so I presume it didn't catch on at all otherwise. He got the name based on a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. His obituary reported his official nickname being Pop A Top. I think the obit said he was 52.

• My son texted me last night with pictures of an immature red tailed hawk. He says he sees it every night near his hotel where he is working out of state. Interestingly, he also told me that he sees them all the time nearly every day from the towers that he climbs. Even more interesting? He said he sees them catching snakes all the time. I know that they specialize in hunting snakes but the crazy thing is he says more often than not he sees them with a snake and it was strange to see them not catch one.

  

  I spend a little more time hiking around Sunshine Lake than I have the past as I still love the outdoors but I can't get around to new and bigger places as well as I could in the past. There is always a ton of dead stuff around there. It may just be that is the way it is but I could also be convinced there is some type of super predator that has moved into the area that animals there are not ready to defend against. Yes- I know this animal may died of a heart attack and been eaten by possums but I see remains in the same general area around there all the time.

• Recently I created a word from a combination of 2 company names that could absolutely merge together. The crazy thing? That word is not already a registered trademark or web domain name. I'm not saying I'm definitely going to- but I might buy it.
  
• Explorer based cop cars look really cool. That is something I thought I would never say.

  

  Very oddly uniform patterns on this fresh beaver dam work. Honestly I am not sure of the how and why it came out like that.

  
  
  
  
  

  

  You can tell the deer track to the left is at most hours old by the loose material surrounding it and the sharply defined appearance. The dog track to the right is at least a day old but probably not much older.

  

  Tracks in the mud especially if the animal is running will be distorted making the print look easily two to three times the size of the animals actual foot. 

  
  
  
  
• Unless my recall is incorrect- when I was a kid Pepsi was sort of an off-brand soda and you could buy them a lot cheaper than Coca-Cola.

'Til Tuesday

• When I read someones profile and they describe themselves as, "son, brother, husband and father" I feel tired all over and presume an impending religious whippin'.
• Feel a most always come out fell on here.
  
• My foreign born patients often presume I am a doctor. Also often, they cannot comprehend me being a nurse even after it is explained to them as- girls are nurses and boys are doctors.
• I think more often than not I get the use of somebody verses someone right but I cannot tell you the rule for the use of those words in a sentence.
  
• An ex always thought she could do better than me. I am correct in that assessment as-essentially as she told me as much.
• She in fact- did not do better.
• The preceding was not a judgement, or me nursing a grudge- it is just a stament of a fact.
  
  
  
  

Monday's Missives

Thursday's Thoughts

Odd: there were glove fingertips laying around the trailhead to MW Trailway.

• I don't necessarily have a thing for Hispanic ladies but all things being equal and were I forced to choose- I would pick the Mexican.
• A nice Colombian would be OK also as at least when she is prattling on with inane details about how her day went- it would be with that amazing accent.
  
• There is a girl at my donut shop that I would like to be friends with. 
• The preceding was an odd thought that occurred to me as she just looked over at me and smiled. Don't ask me why- I am just very sure she is really cool, nice and fun.

  

  Nowhere near noon on a Sunday and I saw a woman in a parking lot kill this can of 311. It made my liver hurt.

• I have been shopping for an RV. 
• Recently my nursing buddy made no effort to flush the toilet after she left a massive turd in there. 
• The chorizo burrito breakfast special at R and K is great and cheap.
• Today (02/11/2018) the busser there called me Sweety- an apparent odd and bad habit learned from hearing the waitress say it. It was weird- especially as he is a dude.

  

  Both me and my server forgot that I was supposed to get a dessert with my lunch special. I ordered chocolate pie right before she remembered that I was due a sweet sweet banana pudding. Made my pancreas hurt.

• Oddly although I do have a certain place in my heart for Decatur there is nearly no way I would move back there. Regardless- being there is not really like coming home.
  
• From knowing cops, mechanics, to doctors to lawyers to judges there is nothing like having friends in those occupations. At least twice in my life somebody from that list has said, Let me see what I can do... and fixed a situation for me ( or definitely gave me the tools to fix said situation for myself).

From a craigslist ad: "Very cool vintage couch" it used terms like mid century and 50s to 60s vintage etc. Oddly, gross, smelly and bedbugs were missing

Til Tuesday

• My dad once informed me we were to pick up a classmate and take her and her family with us to a school program as their car was down. That family was known for being poor and I suppose- low class. I didn't need my school social life to be any harder so I balked. He more or less said that was fine- I could walk. Also upon arrival to their home he made me go to the door to tell them we were there. I was thanked and told the car had been fixed after all and that they didn't need the ride.
• I did not look at them, myself or my dad the same after that day.
• Especially myself- when my classmate profusely thanked me at school the next day while more or less acknowledging she understood I would have rather taken a whippin' than be seen with her tribe.
• One of the very few things I remember from a principles of economics class I took a long time ago is that tariffs are almost always a terrible idea and will also almost always backfire.
• A thing I had forgotten but a blurb I read recently reminded me of is that tariffs may have precipitated the great depression- or at least did not help matters.
• Man, my beard was getting white.
• Yes was- I shaved it today 04/01/2018).
• We played Uno at lunch yesterday. A good time was had by all.
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Spread Your Love live.

• It is 04/07/2017 and I am in the hospital with one of the fruit of my loins.
• A funny little flashback: I learned said offspring's flesh mother was pregnant by phone. She blurted out I'm pregnant and started bawling. 
• An observation: overnight your nurse is much more likely to have less experience than your day shift nurse. 
• One of the nurses would be super cute if she didn't have surgically altered lips to be puffy looking. She looks ridiculous. The people who popularize things like that and perform the procedure should be ashamed.
• When junior was feeling a little better we talked. What about you ask? Oh well- guns, monster trucks, hunting and chicks- oh, you know- America.
• Nurses should really- really be more aware of their surroundings and watch their mouths. I can tell you Ms. Johnson's blood sugar average (160) and nurse Esmeralda child count (6) and how she delivered number 5 after a spinal block (She just fell out!)
• Brother and sister nurses hear me- I was not even eavesdropping and I had my hearing aids out.
• As a general rule the uglier the nurse- the better the care. The pretty ones never really had to prove themselves at anything and the ugly ones always had to prove themselves in everything.
• Hood rat RNs I can give you some free advice that will help if you will accept it: If it looks good in the hood- it is probably an unprofessional look on the floor of a hospital.
• Health care in America is a racket. We should be ashamed.
• Speaking of should be ashamed: A nurse lied to a demented patient who asked to go to the restroom by telling her it was occupied and she would have to wait. 
• A security guard let me into the emergency room with my innocent looking face, scrubs and handful of charger cords that I told him I was bringing back in (he did not see me leave). Worse than worthless- he had no idea of my motives or what I may have been carrying besides the charger cords.
• The scrubs I have on happen to be the same as hospital uniform policy. Being a guy and specifically one who is older and probably a little jaded looking has overawed people and they are a little afraid to do their jobs. They are alternating between avoiding me and sucking up. 
• Easy kids- I'm just a goofy old fart (and not that great of a nurse anyway).
• This may be first in depth post from my phone. I hope it is good- it took me 9 hours to compose.
• Hello my name is human.
• Update: my evil spawn reports, I feel 1000 times better....

Looks Like SOMEBODY Won't Being To Work Tomorrow!