When the Smoke Clears

Turns out that today the high school students from the weekend were to get an experience in the same lab where I get to do my A&P studies. And again, true to form, surprises cropped up. I ended up getting the chance to help them in their examination of the bodies. I’m actually surprised at [...]

1. When a meeting starts to run long, a good, hearty, phlegmy, productive cough followed by a bit of throat clearing can speed things up.
2. Never buy untried protein bars just because they are on sale. You can probably make the same quality bars out of the sawdust by the woodpile.
3. A splash of [...]

Alright, listen up.
I’m sick. I don’t like it. I don’t want attention and the chance to do nothing for days. If I am going to do nothing I would rather not feel like my chest is full of fresh-steamed kelp (and I’m talking about the thin icky brown ones, not the tall flowing greenish [...]

When some of the mountaineering units ask me to go along on their weekends for medical support, I am glad for the opportunity. Not only do I get to push myself physically trying to keep up with people 15 years younger than me, there is much to be learned of mountaineering and challenges.
However, when [...]

A memorable week was had by many.
Back to another conference and the misery that goes along with hearing people give talks that have nothing to do with what was published about their session. That’s okay. I ended up meeting a number of really cool people at the conference including a few who corrupted me.
The [...]

Plans got cancelled. One of my best friends was heading over tonight for a little bit of guy-night. I had the steaks ready, a cold assortment of malt beverages and stronger spirits and cleaned chairs on the deck. There was even a stack arranged in the firepit. But his wife came home a few days [...]

At dusk last night the kill-fest began. Bees, lazy and full of whatever it is they like besides the logs of my house, wandered back to their squatter domiciles carved from my happy home without permission. As my taxes rise based on the perceived value of my house, they are cutting into that value without [...]

Summer is in full swing. I figure this out when I leave my property and head to town, or, even worse, head down towards the cities. It can be ten degrees warmer just 12 miles down the road from the cabin, but under the shade of all this green there is peace, and cool breezes [...]

then what does it say about where you live?
From the West Virginia trip… please note the additional signage at the Cowen Little League Baseball Field.

I’m taking a tutorial in Anatomy & Physiology. The head of a local medical program and friend found out about it. He offered to bring me into the school and let me do my lab work not with computer simulations and cats or pigs but working alongside his students on human cadavers.
Talk about focusing [...]

While traveling the other week with Butterbar to see his little brother compete in a lumberjack competition in West Virginia, there were a few chances for insights and revelations but for the most part, I slept. Once we rolled off the interstates into the backyards of West Virginia, we found the mountains and rushing rivers [...]

First off, to those of my friends who have asked… you probably shouldn’t have to ask but yes, I did give myself an IV. HOOAH!
Now the reality, it actually freaked me out a little more than I thought it would. I sweated a bit. I can give myself shots but since I was already dehydrated, [...]

Okay, so I don’t have the strength to do yardwork today as I try to rehydrate and get something in my system. But if I could, I would be out there flinging my body around like these guys:
Urban Ninja
Even their choice of music is cool. Rise Against. Good selection for this.
I’m betting these [...]

Finally home, after a bit more traveling. It’s good to see that progress continues without me. The yard is well into the overgrown state that rivals a recently stripped section of rain forest after fertilizer and a good storm.
One other thing I noticed from my Disney/Business trip was envy, pure envy, for the way [...]

Another trip under way and another conference. This time I am enjoying a stay at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, just like Bou. I got to wake up to wildebeest pooping, just like Bou. But I’ve even had visits from my northern blog-brethren, T1g of Drunken Wisdom fame. He happened to be in Florida and made [...]