The Blog describes the ice hockey game of life of John Diehl.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Man that hurt

I like to think I am a pretty humble guy. In fact there is no one more humble than me. But every once in a while you have that event that helps to bring you even a notch further down the humble ladder. Today I went ice skating with my friend and her 11 yr old son. I was trying to teach the kid how to stop on skates when I bit it... Hard. Man that hurt. Imagine, my ass going from 3 feet in the air onto the rock hard, ice cold... ice and putting 215 pounds of pure man on top of it (that's right, I'm a big boy). After some R&R and some ibuprophen, my back side is starting to improve, but it will be a long road to recovery.

Friday, October 27, 2006

JL strikes again

I had planned on dedicating this entry to a movie I saw today entitled "Seducing Dr. Lewis" Which is a foreign film that takes place in a tiny village in rural France that needs to convince a doctor to work there full time or the town will go under. It was a cute film and reminded me a lot of "Waking Ned Divine." However, the day was soiled by my return trip to the Jiffy Lube. I went to go get my aforementioned receipt, and because it took me 3 days instead of one, they decided that their corkboard space was too precious and threw away my recipt, but decided to keep the scrap of paper that had my name and phone number. Then the employee had the stones to tell me that it was my fault for not coming the next day. Well pardon me ass wipe, for working 13 hours overnight and having to help people when their hearts stop or their lungs give out. Crimeny! Now the brainiacs at the JL claim they will mail the receipt, which in the grand scheme of things really doesn't mean anything anyways since I paid cash. I am spent after typeing all this, goodnight.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Aviator

As the title of this entry implies, I saw the Aviator last night starring Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. There was great camera work, I found the choices for background music interesting at times, and the acting was well done. I don't know, the whole thing with 50 bottles of urine in the theater really creeped me out, who does that?
In other news, the World Series, the only thing I look forward to every year was rained out last night. Hopefully, they will be able to play this evening.

Monday, October 23, 2006

How many Jiffy Lube employees does it take?

Being time for the every important oil change in my car, I took my illustrious ford escort to jiffy lube, which is just a stones throw from my place. I dropped it off and went back to my condo so as to be productive with laundry and cleaning and the like. Returning to the JL about a half our later, my car is done, and I proceed to stand in line for 20 minutes while the braintrust behind the counter fumbles unproductively on their circa 1992 PC to ring up the customer in front of me. Apparent something drastic had gone wrong, and they could not figure it out. Finally I just slapped some money on the counter, gave them my name and said I'd return on the morrow for my receipt. Cheese and Rice, is it that hard to operate a computer (says the man who calls the only reader of this blog for any and all technical problems)

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Scanner

Scanning in photographs, I found is not a particularly difficult task. However, today I scanned in 5 pictures, only to find that each one of them was terribly tainted with several dust particles. Much to my chagrin, the particles were not on the scanner, but in it. How, oh how can I solve this problem? Help

Thursday, October 19, 2006

A Classic

In a great game 7, The St. Louis cardinals defeated the New York Mets 3-1. There was a fantastic leaping grab by the Met's Left fielder, a couple of ridiculous errors (one on each side) and some great pitching. In the end it was the light hitting Yadier Molina of the Molina brothers, who deposited a 2 run home run over the left field wall which provided the margin of victory. Though the Cardinals' closer made it interesting by loading the bases before striking out Carlos Beltran, the cardinal killer, LOOKING, how can you end your teams' season looking. On a side note, St. Louis should consider relegating Preston Wilson to East St. Louis for as bad as he sucked. A mean thing to say about Mookie's step-son, but sometime the truth hurts.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

I came to the realization that a majority of my blog entries begin with the word "so". and this disturbs me greatly. With all of the verbage afforded us by the english language, to begin my tale telling with such a drab word is inexplicable. I am going to try and start no more entries with that sad, small little word.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Everyone knows its Wendy...

Two epiphanies struck me today while in the que at the local Wendy's resturant. First,is that chipotle can have a line literally 3 times longer than the 6 people I was behind today and still serve you in a more timely fashion. They have truely mastered fast service. Secondly, and this may just be a personal thing, but if I believe that the establishment serving my food is up to healthcode in sanitation, I would prefer that my server not be wearing a gold grill whilst I order my crispy chicken sandwhich.

Monday, October 16, 2006

Cubs Get a New Captain

So after the regime of Dusty Baker came to a close in the Windy City, there was much speculation that the Cubbies would turn to Joe Girardi who was recently fired by the Florida Marlins, and who many believe will win the Manager of the Year award. However, the North Side occupants announced today that they will instead go with the well traveled Lou Pinnella. Lou won the world series while managing the Reds in 1990, and since then was the skipper for the Seattle Mariners, and the much maligned Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Over the last season, Lou was a full time commentator, but apparently has had the coaching itch, and decided to scratch it in Chicago. Hopefully the Cubs can garner some more talent for Sweet Lou to work with, otherwise there isn't much reason to expect an '07 post season birth regardless of who is at the helm.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Hooray

I learned today that I passed step 3 of my board examinations. For those of you who don't know, this test is a 2 day, five hours per day exam that evaluates your overall medical knowledge. Now that it is behind me I can move forward towards becoming the worlds most wonderful doctor. Yea!

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Being John Diehl

So I watch "Being John Malchovich" and I came to the conclusion that Mr. Malchovich is a fine actor. When he was acting as if John Cusak's character was controlling hime, I believed it. But overall just a strange movie. The most amazing thing is they succeeded in making Cameron Diaz look unattractive. No small feat.

Friday, October 13, 2006

5 in 3

So I learned today that I am not the most patient of people. I got up and played hockey at 6 a.m. And I realize that this is a good way to exercise and have fun, and I know I am not the most talented player ever, but sweet jimminy did the guys I played with this morning suck. They were slow, no one could make a good pass, people fell down. I am not going to go pro, but I would still like to get better, and playing with these jokers is not going to help attain that goal.
But keep on pressin, this was the first of 5 times I plan to play hockey this weekend.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

That's Big

So I love getting the kids meals. They are just the right portion size, they come in a colorful bag and are often accompanied by a special surprize. So this day at Wendy's the little toy was a personal record kit from the guinness book of world records. In it are cards with differnt random facts as well as a tablet so that you can keep a journal of all the world records you set in daily life(like the number of bad blogs you read).
But one of the cards said the tallest man ever was Robert Wadlow who, when he died in 1940, was 8 feet 11 inches. That is freakin huge. My best verticle jump only takes me to 8'8'', way to go robert.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Dream Big my friends

So I've started reading this book I got in D.C. about Dreams and how they are actually a marriage of art and science, and let me say that 2 pages into it I am fascinated. However, I had to stop to look up the word exegesis, which means, according to Webster.com, an explanation or critical interpretation of a text.

I personally felt that the author was just trying to show off w/ fancy words. Anyway, I also found that the local library branch near me has an awsome music collection (OK, well maybe not awsome, but still there are several hundred titles from both country and western) and I can borrow the CDs, rip them to the computer, and Bob's your uncle. Not only that, but also quite the movie selection, and as we all know I am never going back to that blockbuster crap. So I rented Being John Malchovich, can't wait to see it.

that's all for tonight knuckleheads

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Something for our sporting friends

I thought it would be a good idea if I put together our graduation slide show for the event next spring. Not only could I offer my superior knowledge of imovie and idvd to the project, but I could also decide which if any of the numerous embarrasing pictures of myself make it into said presentation.

In other news, I found out the origins of the game of lacross, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse, The sport was invented by Native North Americans. Its name was dehuntshigwa'es in Onondaga ("men hit a rounded object"), da-nah-wah'uwsdi in Eastern Cherokee ("little war"), Tewaarathon in Mohawk language ("little brother of war"), and baaga'adowe in Ojibwe ("bump hips").

The game was named lacrosse by early French observers. It is widely and inaccuratley believed that the name stems from the French term "crosse", for the shepherd's crooklike crosier carried by bishops as a symbol of office. Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix noted the resemblance between the crosier and the shape of the racket stick in 1719. Nevertheless, the notion that the name lacrosse derives from this reference is a myth, albeit a remarkably persistent one. In fact, the term crosse was a general word in French for any type of bat or stick used in a ball game. The term crosse was applied to the Native playing stick by the Jesuit fathers nearly a century before. The name lacrosse is simply a reflection of this term, and perhaps a shorthand for a phrase such as "le jeu de la crosse" (the game of the stick)." [6]

and if medicine doesn't work out, look out lacrosse league

Monday, October 09, 2006

What I learned today

So today I am at the gym and doing my typical exercise on the elliptical machine, and there are all these numbers and lights on the machines that show how far you've gone and how many calories you've burned but there is also this category entitled "mets" and assuming it had nothing to do with baseball, I asked a personal trainer what a met was. What I found out was two fold. First, 2 personal trainers and a physical therapist at my gym have no idea what a met is, and second, according to http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/mets.htm, The energy cost of an activity can be measured in units called METS, which are multiples of your basal metabolic rate.

which begs the question, what is a basal metabolic rate, and the same site states, Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is "the energy required for essential physiological functioning after 8 hours sleep and 12 hours fasting" - the number of calories to keep your body functioning whilst at rest. Your BMR (calories/day) can be estimated by multiplying your weight in pounds by ten for women and eleven for men e.g. a 150lb man has a BMR of 69 calories/hour (150 × 11 ÷ 24).


therefore a met is your BMR times x. Thank you and good night.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

What I learned

Hello to all the W. Addison fans, and thanks for reading. There has been a shake up in management and the format for this particular blog is undergoing a change, meaning that I am actually going to update the freaking thing

first, we had the fall formal for all the doctors, residents and dentists at a country club last night. The food was good and the drinks were free, and lets just say that some people really hit the bar hard. Dancing is a lot more fun if there are other people doing it.

second, I am going to start something that I hope will change the world. I am going to write down one thing I learned everyday, whether it be a new song, how to do a magic trick, random trivia or the meaning of life. And I would like to encourage my readers to submit something that they have learned and by way of international interaction we can stimulate some resounding conversations or get people interested in events and activities that they may have never been interested in otherwise.
So for today 10/8/06, I learned about a little shop just down the road from me called Micro wines (microwines.com) and they have wines from smaller vineyards from all over the world and every Friday have a wine tasting with appetizers and a presentation from an area expert in the tasty beverage. I hope to attend one of these tastings over the next couple months.

and again, I encourage all of my readers to submit anything at all, a new math equation, the secret to dusting stereos, a recipe for chicken, and we can all benefit.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Here we go

Just wanted to see if I remembered to log on. Updates on my recent trips to Sandusky, chicago and DC soon to come. peac