One more to go

Today I brought new life into the world, which means that I only have one more to go before my necessary deliveries are done. This is a momentus occasion which means I have one more requirement almost out of the way. Hopefully the last delivery will not interfere with my plans to see the columbus blue jackets hockey game on 1/13 which was one of the many cool christmas gifts I got. Happy new year all.

Merry Christmas

It is Christmas Eve Eve today, and I am off to the festivities of Canton, OH, so this will be the last post prior to christmas. I hope all my readers have a truely wonderful Holliday and we will talk to you next week.

Huge

What a huge last ten days it has been for your's truely.

1) I was chosen to go on the ice at a local minor league hockey game, and won a free weekend to Vegas

2) I was featured on the local Cincinnati news for research I helped with regarding hockey

3) attended "thirsty thursday" promotion night at the cyclones hockey game where crazy people chugged beer on the ice for menial prizes

4) Saw the most rediculous thing at a local bar, there was this guy who had a drum set, no microphone, no band. So the bar then turned on the juke box, and this guy just drummed along. I think maybe he was warming up for a tryout with a cover band.

5) Went golfing on freakin' december 17th, it was 63 and beautiful.

to be honest, it was a fun week.

Rock Christmas

Last night I got to go see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the US bank arena in beautiful down town Cincinnati. Many of you may know them for "Christmas Eve in Sarejevo" and it really was fantastic. Very reminiscent of an 80s band with the long hair and tight pants. The "orchestra" part was all of 4 violins, 2 violas and 2 chellos, not really orchestral in my view, but still cool. So after doing about an hour of rock versions of christmas music, they just break out into Clapton's "Vada" and suddenly I was listening to the worlds best cover band. Anyway, good times, and I am officially in the Christmas spirit.

Act Your Age

This is crazy. Today I'm in the hot tub at the gym enjoying the jets of warm water gently and rythmiclly massaging my sore back when this guy wearing camo swim trunks starts to head toward the jacuzzi. No big deal, right? It is a gym and there are often multiple people in there. However, there is a nice little set of stairs allowing entry into the warm water. This guy, who had to be at least 45 years old, gets a two step running start and leaps into the hot tub, subsequently splashing water, which is 89% chlorine, into my face. As I try to rub the burning out of my eyes, this guy then stands up and takes his trunks down to around his knees, and then submerges himself entirely under the hot water. Now you will have to believe I was suffering from a bit of trepidation. I was now alone, in a hot tub at the gym with a middle aged naked man somewhere under the 105 degree water. Being to scared to move, I remained still and 45 seconds later the man emerges, now completely naked, tosses his camo trunks on the ground hops out of the hot tub and storms off into the locker room. what the %$#!$

Doctor Diva

I like to think that I am a pretty laid back guy, but the other night I busted out the attitude for the first time in a while. Let me set the stage first. Two weeks ago I get paged at 1 AM by the hospital because they apparantly can't reach the doctor in the hospital for a question. Well, apparantly they paged me and two other docs at the same time, so that when I called back at 1:20 am, they said "oh, never mind we got it." And that was a bit frustrating, but apparantly the other doc that called in explained the appropriate chain of numbers to call to contact the in house doctor. Fast forward 10 days, and I get paged at 2:55 AM. I call the emergency room at 3:15 and get the same response, "oh, never mind" And that was it, I kind of lost it, I yelled at that person, that persons boss, the bosses boss and kept people on the phone for 20 minutes at 3 am verbally lashing them until I was satisfied that enough information had been exchanged so that this doesn't happen again. I felt a little bad for getting all up in there grill, but honestly I was exhausted.
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