Perhaps this will mark me as shallow or merely pedestrian but I enjoy a good buzz ( Read more... )

I caught the midnight show of the Departed at the Somerville theater last night. I then came home around 2:30 and meant to watch the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica. Of course I convinced myself before I watched it that I had to see the last three episodes of Season 2 that I hadn't seen since the spring. To establish proper context and ( Read more... )

OK only some of my co-workers are morons. Tonight I was confronted with a scenario which while on its own has little importance signifies a larger failing. We take blood pressures on the unit, mostly to monitor people detoxing from drugs or alcohol. We have one blood pressure gauge, or sphygmomanometer, and two blood pressure cuffs, one small ( Read more... )

The time has come to officially throw in the towel on the 2006 Red Sox. When Mark Loretta is your DH, Youkilis your left fielder, your manager is spitting up blood and you have three starting pitchers on the DL it's bad. I'm not shocked by this turn of events, merely saddened. The sweep by the Yankees was a bad omen, but I knew the Sox were in ( Read more... )

I've got nothing better to do at this point than to talk about myself. I just discovered you can add the schools you went to as part of your account. Old news I'm sure to most of you. It was interesting scanning through the user names but I found no one I knew, except Micha, who I'm already aware of. I was hesitant to list my college since ( Read more... )

I'm finally thinking of replacing the dinky 13" round CRT TV I have in my bedroom with something larger. Some of you, when you helped me move, mocked it because it is smaller than the TiVo it's hooked up to. I bought this thing in college and it's time. However I like having a TV on my rolling stand so I can move it between my desk and the foot ( Read more... )

The hospital, or more specifically the folks in marketing (yes even non-profits are cursed with marketing), decided it would be a wonderful idea to pipe a lullaby over the PA every time a child is born in maternity. It does not matter what time the podling emerges from his prison, the entire Hospital, including your humble servant in the loony bin ( Read more... )

I realized as I was biking home that today is Spring. This observation was belied by the fact that it was below freezing and a howling wind from the NW was knifing through me. Now, I'm aware that the weather we associate with a season, at least in this neck of the woods, lags behind that season. Or, in NE, Spring and Autumn last approximately ( Read more... )

I am being disturbingly proactive this year, my gifts (with one or two exceptions) are purchased and my travel plans are booked. Usually I'm a last minute shopper, but not this year. Perhaps because I've had more time off this year leading up to the Holiday ( Read more... )

I'm feeling twitchy, and there's a good reason. I haven't had a cigarette in 1 day 17 hours and 12 minutes. I don't know the seconds. Nicotine gum is my friend, but not a good, pick me up at the airport friend, more of just a passing acquaintance. I'm still edgy, just not killing everyone with death thoughts edgy. I quit cold turkey once, it's ( Read more... )