My Dad

second from left. Picture could have been taken close to end of World War II or just after.

Clinically Speaking

• A co worker said of my nursing buddy and I: I'm so glad you guys are here. Ya'll have brought new life to this place.


• The other day a disaster preparedness guy in my agency used a zombie outbreak to frame a plan for staying in service after an event that alters our normal operations. It was a funny bit. I've known that guy for years and wouldn't have guessed he had that in him.


• A favorite homeless patient just got approved for assistance and moved into his new apartment. Good for him- it could not have happened to a better, more deserving person. Of his first night in his new home he said, I was stunned- shocked. I lay there that first night and looked up at the walls and reached out and touched them. I picked up my little radio and just plugged it in- there are outlets everywhere! He has always been very pleasant and fairly light hearted, but it just looked like the weight of the world was off his shoulders when he walked into my office that morning. He had camped for years in some woods on the edge of town- until somebody burned his tent down.


• How does one human do that to another? They are minding their own business, have just barely more than nothing in this world and you take that from them?


• Women at work worry about me. They'll say to each other when one goes out, Will you bring Kevin something back? He never eats lunch. When somebody does feed me I'll say, If mom can see you, she's thanking you right now for taking care of me.


• Jedi mind trick: when we do an off site screening I often bring Krispy Kremes in early and give the front office girls first pick. In a leadership position it's just the right thing to do, but you have to remember- it's really those people who more or less run the show. They can make your life much easier in subtle ways or conversely, make it passive-aggressively as hard as they want.

My Eldest's Birthday Party

a few years ago at Medievel Times in Dallas. I still have never been, his aunt used my ticket and I stayed home with baby boy. Big brother brought home a real sword- quite a memento. They said the food was quite good which I thought a little surprising. I'll go someday but, his hot- uh oh, there's a Freudian slip for you, anyway his aunt had always wanted to go so it was nice I was to be able to help with that.

Deep Thoughts With Zac

"Zac has been playing with that wooden snake of bubba's for a couple of days. This morning he decided that snakes probably get jealous laying around on the ground, staring up in the trees watching those caterpillars turn into butterflies!!!! Its not fair that only caterpillars get to turn into butterflies, that’s probably why snakes bite!!! "

Wednesday's Digressions

• Is there anything worse than stabbing yourself in the roof of you mouth with the corner of a cracker?



• What's the bottom of your mouth called? Anyway it's pretty bad there also.



• Also- isn't it more of a ceiling?



• Zachary and I went out on my friends boat Saturday. When we came back in he said, You want to keep the boat wet and drive Zac around the lake while we pack up camp? I thought you'd never ask...



• He was gone an hour and a half.



• We went out to an island in Mineral Well Lake SP. There were two geese sitting on nests. Zac said, Why. Are. They. Hissing. At. Us?



• We named it Goose Island.



• Maybe weird: I picked up a turtle off the road and carried it in my car to show everybody and let the kids turn it loose in the water. Interesting: when it burrowed under my seat, it shoved out my phone- which had been missing for days.



• And the rain will kill us all if we throw ourselves against the wall

Monday's Missives

• There's a couple at church I really like who I bump into frequently. When he and I were working nights we'd see each other often with our children at the park. For the life of me I can't recall his name, but I remember hers.




• Recently, my daughter said, I can say my ABCs backwards! Whereupon she turned her back to me and started doing just that, A,B,C,D,E...




• When I write say, the or play out in a sentence I often write each twice (play play or say say etc) and I don't know why, but I see others doing it also.




• I'm not so sure it's ever going to quit raining.




• I could absolutely live in a cave.




• The green Nyquil tastes terrible.




• It seems the death of a twin at birth leads to a lot of mental burdens throughout a persons life. I'm sure it doesn't happen in a vacuum- it's caused by the parents who could never let go.




• Boom Shakalaka

Sunday's Summary

• Correctly your article helped me terribly much in my college assignment. Hats off to you enter, will look forward for the duration of more interrelated articles in a jiffy as its united of my choice issue to read. That was an odd, but nice old comment here on our ole blob- and it didn't even have a malware infected link associated with it.






• A heart warming video of a dog trying to save his cat friend.






• "I know I've been flamed a lot for making this video and including a burn victim. I would like to say at the time i made this video, I grabbed a bunch of random pictures from Google images and put it all together without really paying attention. He's not the ugly person. I am.
  I'm sorry."






• I'm nearly speechless that someone had the gumption to place that comment on their own yoochoobs channel. If they're sincere- there may be some hope for this world, after all.






• Once while trying to get to know a woman I thought I could get interested in she told me a little about her job then said, My real passions though are barrel racing and poker. I'm a semi professional poker player.






• I couldn't hear a word she said after that- honestly, I couldn't get away from her fast enough.






• Depeche Mode Somebody