Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Wednesday Digressions



  • I came home the other day and found a giant bunch of Tiger Lillies on the front porch to be transplanted. I like it when things like that happen.

  • When we do a shot clinic the shottees are asked to put their last four on one line of the form. They are told,"Write your last four where it says social security number." You would be surprised at the number of people who put your last four there.

  • Some police recruits came in from training. They wore the ugliest, goofiest uniforms imaginable. They were a drab grey for the tops and bottoms and they wore the old time round black police hats with a bill. On their duty belts were plastic radios, pistols and batons and they wore pretend body armor. One said,"Oh these stupid uniforms." as he was trying to get undressed to a point where I could give him his shot. I said," I bet you are a real chick magnet there, slick." "Yeah, you know it." came the reply. When he was leaving I said,"I guess you got to get back to the ice cream truck huh, bud?"

  • I'm glad he had a sense of humor or I would expect a good old fashioned tasering after he graduates.

  • Life is so much easier for an attractive person.

  • I did clinics at schools: Every teacher when they came up to me felt compelled to move their chair (which I had already positioned appropriately to give the shot) around before sitting down. I would then have to say, "Come closer." or "Turn this way please" or "Move more this way please." When all they would have had to do when they came up to my station is sit down. We vaccinated 100s of fire and police personnel and maybe one or two moved their chairs before sitting.

  • Wonder why that would be true and why on earth would I notice some arcane detail such as that?

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I Like Plays On Words

and the Three Stooges, so here you go.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A Few More Digressions

  • I may be wrong but, I think I'm going to live. I don't know what kind of terrible disease it was or how we got it but, the worst may be over. My oldest went to school and I've stopped contemplating calling Dr. Kevorkian.
  • Part of it is my advanced age I know but, that stuff was brutal! It's no surprise ancient man would be considered elderly if they made it to forty. If I had been living in a cave eating berries and rotten mammoth meat my mouth breathing children had scavenged I never would have made it through that.
  • Waaaah call me a wambulance!
  • Comics and women and women comics joke about the difference between men and women when they're sick- goofing on the guys for being wimps. I wonder if there is something to this. Is it harder for a guy biologically somehow all thing being equal? I mean, maybe it's programmed into us all because historically the women and therefore the families that survived had a higher misery tolerance to allow them to care for the children (and maybe sissy men so they could hunt) for survival.
  • I was 22 the first time I had a flu, before that point I could never understand what the big deal was. I thought come on, so it's a bad cold- drink some OJ, eat some chicken noodle soup, take some Nyquil, then a nap- problem solved. Right?
  • Empathy is the capacity to recognize or understand another's state of mind or emotion. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or to in some way experience the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself.

Wednesdays Digressions



  • Nearly everyone in the house has been sick myself included for the first time in 3-4 years. I threw my back out, hurt my knees and my toes are sore from curling them up while yakking.

  • I probably could have left that last sentence off.

  • We took the dog we found to the shelter. The officer on duty watched him unload and immediately said,"Hey Fluffy, what are you doing?"- he belonged to her next door neighbor and had jumped out of the truck before we found him. She loaded him right up and took him home.

  • I'm happy for him, he had a fantastic set of testicles he would have lost if he entered the shelter system. I noticed them right about the time my daughter said,"Let's name her Princess!"

  • I'm not feeling so good again. I'm going to lie down.

Monday, October 6, 2008

From The Next Blog Button

Name: KOAKIRA
Location: East Timor
"I think positively comfortably everything."

I like KOAKIRAS outlook, it really pumped me up and encouraged me with its simplicity so I wanted to spotlite his blog here with his picture. I saved his pic and then looked for it by scanning my pictures and my documents. I didn't see it so I used search with the file name I know I gave it- after 10 minutes (literally) of allowing the search to continue I gave up and Xd out of it. That's crazy! How could it take so long? I never find anything (well hardly) when I use windows search for files.

I'm bummed again.

Thanks for the effort KOAKIRA, you looked like a nice guy, sorry I can't share you with my legions of faithful readers. Come see me in Decatur, America sometime.