I described here what the plan of attack for my surgery would be once it was determined that the thing the dentist and the civilian lab discovered was indeed something to be gotten rid of. Here’s how it all transpired yesterday. I got to the hospital at 9:15AM Monday morning and finally about 12:15PM I …
Life isn’t always a box of chocolate or a bowl of cherries. Case in point: I was at Office Depot looking for rubber bands (our newspaper no longer comes banded; rather, it’s double-bagged in plastic) and I saw a special on 16GB flash drives — $7.99 apiece. “32GB would probably back up my iTunes library,” …
Which of these four library books should I take with me Monday in case I’m incarcerated overnight at the hospital? Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear Who I Am, by Pete Townshend Empire from the Ashes, by David Weber Judgment Call, by J.A. Jance Update: I should point out that the Jance and Townshend books are …
Twenty minutes of meeting with medical people today sandwiched into three hours of time. Gah. This was all in aid of knowing what to expect from the anesthesiologists on Monday, getting baseline vital signs taken, and filling out more forms explaining who my emergency contact is and stuff like that. In order to confirm I’m …
The political landscape according to Romney, as observed by Ezra Klein: That’s Romney’s political cosmology: The Democrats bribe the moochers with health care and green cards. The Republicans try to free the makers through tax cuts and deregulation. Politics isn’t a conflict between two reasonable perspectives on how to best encourage growth and high-living standards. …
Well, as was pretty much expected, the Army pathologists agreed with the civilian ones: the spot on the floor of my mouth is indeed cancerous. That was the subject of the first part of the meeting with the ENT doctors yesterday. The second part of the meeting was how to approach this. As mentioned below, …
Despite all the adulation heaped on generals and admirals by a press corps which knows next-to-nothing about the military, ask anyone who’s spent any time in the service or working for the service as a civilian (bartender at a club, retail clerk at a post exchange, etcetera) and he or she will tell you that …
I see that Kevin Drum watched the show last night and had the same reaction I did to the segment on manufacturers whining they can’t find enough skilled workers (the “skills gap”). First, $12 an hour for a manufacturing job is not “paying very, very well,” despite what Alcoa’s CEO says. My last accounting job …
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Apparently, if Politico is to be believed (chancy, I know), the entire Republican party apparatus was sandbagged, blindsided, gobsmacked and just plain stunned at the election results of Tuesday night. The National Republican Senatorial Committee consistently had a more upbeat assessment of races in North Dakota and Montana, among others, than their Democratic counterparts. One …