Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in food, healthcare, in the news on Jun 12th, 2008
How the hell didn’t I hear about this salmonella in the tomatoes debacle? I must not be paying attention to CNN when I’m at the gym or maybe it was first announced on that one day when I missed the gym. Missed, like I was looking the other way and it snuck past me. Skipped [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general, plans on Apr 7th, 2008
When I woke up this morning I felt rested and ready to get up, then I looked at my alarm clock.
3:02
Despite feeling just fine — my brain alert — I decided that it was entirely too early to start the day, having been asleep for a few hours. I rolled over and got a sip [...]
Posted in culture, healthcare, idiots, parenting, youth on Mar 20th, 2008
There are a lot of kids in my community that are spoiled rotten these days by their parents.
As I was running out to do some errands the other day I saw no less than nine cars parked on the side of the road, whose occupants were all waiting for their kids to be dropped off [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general on Jan 8th, 2008
I’ll wait out headaches and deal with muscle ache and a host of other ailments. I head to the doctor once in a while if some problem doesn’t right itself after a while. I don’t usually medicate unless I’m a complete mess and can’t function, such as the other day when my nose just would [...]
Posted in complaints, healthcare, idiots, privacy on Jan 7th, 2008
When I awoke today it was clear that I was going to need to buy some cold medication. Weis opens at 6, so I drove over there on my way to work. It turns out that the “good stuff” with pseudoephedrine isn’t on the shelf anymore thanks to the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. [...]
Posted in boozing, food, healthcare, music, things i'd like to see on Dec 3rd, 2007
I don’t really care if people smoke or not, but it does irritate me to come home after a night out and have to throw my clothes outside or start a load of laundry immediately to prevent the house from smelling like stale cigarette smoke. Not to the point of not going out, but enough [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, healthcare, things i'd like to see on Dec 2nd, 2007
Reading about that lingering bar smoke aroma that emanates from our clothes, it reminded me that I left Bateman’s Friday evening, my clothes reeking of stale cigarette smoke. I was only in there for 30 minutes and I didn’t see a single person actively smoking. It was all residual. This is a sharp contrast to [...]
Posted in cars, food, healthcare, life in general on Nov 20th, 2007
I finally got back to the gym today after a brief hiatus. I was briefly worried over the weekend when I found myself short of breath, but after a good amount of cardio this evening I feel much better and assured that my lung capacity is alright. I worked my abs proper, such that they [...]
Posted in healthcare, housing on Nov 19th, 2007
Joel Spolsky recommended a neat mashup today, rating the “walkability” of an address according to how many places of interest (stores, restaurants, etc) are nearby. The area surrounding my house has a Walk Score of 23. That’s pretty low, but if I use the address of a house nearby the entrance to my community I [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, healthcare, humor on Nov 13th, 2007
Over the weekend I was described as “a binge drinking, promiscuous enabler.” Even there were no ugly people present, it reminded me of the t-shirt design to the right. The comment was made in good fun and I’m still chuckling about it a few days later. Does that mean that I enable promiscuity? Or are [...]
Posted in culture, healthcare, life in general, youth on Sep 29th, 2007
I’m a morning person. There’s little better than waking up at 7:30 to a soft and crisp breeze passing through one side of the house to the other. Its air conditioning, by Nature. I can hear birds chirping happily outside the window. This is my favorite time of year, where the price of comfort indoors [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general, things i'd like to see on Aug 21st, 2007
My throat has been bugging me for two weeks now. It isn’t even a cough most of the time, just a slight tickle in the back of my throat that won’t go away but it happily soothes with throat lozenges. It started a day or two after the FAH gig at Nottingham’s; I had been [...]
Posted in healthcare, humor, life in general, oddities on Jul 31st, 2007
Someone paged my SkyTel today with the following number: 847-816-3200. I didn’t recognize it so I used Google to look it up.
Americana Healthcare Centers
1500 South Milwaukee Avenue
Libertyville, IL 60048-3723
Phone: (847) 816-3200
Business Types: Alzheimers Help Groups, Nursing & Life Care Homes, Rehabilitation Products & Services
I am responsible for responding so I called just to be sure. [...]
Posted in culture, healthcare, life in general, plans on Jul 3rd, 2007
I am a habitual drug user.
I take approximately fifty-five milligrams of methyltheobromine every weekday. Sometimes more, usually on the weekend or for special occassions. Sometimes I chase eighty milligrams with sugar water and immediately demand more from my supplier. On a few rare occassions I’ve taken so much that I’ve experienced muscle twitching and irregular [...]
Posted in healthcare, life in general on Jun 13th, 2007
Have you ever noticed that most dental hygenists wear their poker face while doing routine cleanings? Even wearing a mask the eyes reveal nothing; they continue to poke, prod, and scrape at our teeth and gums. No outbursts or exclamations and certainly nothing to give the client sitting in the chair the sense that anything [...]
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