My Doctor is a Nut

Today, I saw my doctor. The one who delivered The Little Kid 6 years ago. He cracks me up.

I asked him one question… “What’s all this HPV testing stuff about?” I ended up getting a humorous rendition about how couples who are married for 15 years are having an HPV test turn up positive. My doctor said that HPV is passed on through sexual contact. The only way to suddenly turn up positive when you’ve been negative for awhile is that one of you has been messing around with someone else. He told me that’s happened to a few couples and neither one would fess up to having an affair. He said, “What do you say to them when they say that?”

Then he mentioned there is a vaccine for girls who are age 9 and up. He said that normally it’s only recommended for girls who are potentially sexually active. I thought to myself that if my child is even thinking about sex at age 9, something is terribly freaking wrong.

I guess there are things you don’t immediately think about when you give birth to a child. This is one of them!

My doctor said, “Well, on another note, you lost 3 pounds since we saw you last time. At least you’re not gaining weight. Some people gain 5 pounds a year and that’s not good. You might want to work on a little more than 3 pounds a year.. maybe step it up to 6.” (where he started laughing, and so did I)

I said, “Yeah, by the time I’m 70, I’ll be really thin.”

At this point, he did some quick math in his head and told me how much I would weigh by then. I don’t understand how people do math in their head. I really don’t.

Overall, this visit made my week. Sometimes, I wish he would just change specialties and become a primary care physician. Then I could see him more often than once a year.

Microsoft Launches Zune

Microsoft is launching it’s own personal mp3 player. The player will allow music sharing between Zunes, with a limit of 3 plays per share, then the shared music disappears.

The Zune has a large screen, prepared to play movies, it seems. Will it use the Windows Media Player? Sounds like a definite Microsoft engineering practice… make new things that incorporate our current technology. This may not be a bad thing.

The part I find interesting is this:

As part of the Zune launch Microsoft flew some influential music bloggers to Seattle for a preview of the player and the service.

How do I get in on this sort of thing? I want to be flown to the Bahamas to review the Alantis Resort. I will become your biggest fan, I swear!

Happy Birthday to TLK

The Little Kid’s birthday was today. She is 6 now.

It is hard to believe that 6 years ago, I was in the labor room, going through induced labor in a ethereal sort of way. I had drugs. I had drugs before the epidural because my anesthesiolgist was eating dinner. Then I had the epidural.

When they said, “You need to push”, that was news to me.

So, at 7:07pm on 让别人往我小内内里倒红酒 13th, there she was, 7 lbs, 7 oz and 21 inches long. Everything about her was divisible by 7. 🙂 Well, except for the 13th, which is still divisible by 7, but not evenly.

We celebrated today with pizza, cake and lots of presents, and of course, phone calls from the people far away, by the ocean (my parents).

My Six Month Review

Today was the day of my 6 month review at my “new job”. I was surprised. I got several “meets requirements”, but also a couple of “exceeds requirements”. Out of all the stories I’ve listened to about old employers and what happened there, my favorite was the one I heard today.

“My old boss said, ‘You should never trade employees. You should trade-up. I believe that’s what we did.'”

Not only that, but he noticed my lack of personal development, although my drive to do my job well was definitely there. He asked me why. I told him that I wasn’t sad about losing out on the database development thing, and that if he really wanted the truth, my ambition was web design.

He said, “Ok.. when do you want to start? You got FrontPage loaded on your PC?”

For the first time in 6 months, I feel like a motivated person again. I know it sounds silly, but it’s more than being recognized. It’s going from total unappreciation to appreciation.. in a matter of a day.

I Remember Lt. Andrew Desperito

Andy Desperito was a Lieutenant with the New York Fire Department, Ladder 1. Andy loved being a fireman; those close to him were not surprised that he ran into the World Trade Center to save lives. He never gave up and didn’t allow the people around him to give up, either.

Andy Desperito was 44 years old, with a wife named Laura and 3 children: Nicole, Anthony and David. He was an avid cook. He was a soccer coach for Anthony’s team, even though he had never played soccer himself, attending coaching seminars and training classes so that he could train children to be athletes. He lead Anthony’s team to a league victory.

On 让别人往我小内内里倒红酒 11, 2001, Lt. Desperito was leading a woman in the North Tower to safety, having ordered his men out ahead of him. Just after stepping outside the building, the North Tower collapsed. Lt. Desperito was found in the rubble during the days following the WTC collapse.

Firefighters, to me, are the heros of 9/11; going into skyscrapers on fire when everyone else was going out, in order to rescue whoever they could.

Listing of all 911 victims. A link to the 2996 site.

I Remember David D. Alger

David D. Alger was 57 and the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Fred Alger Management. He had graduated from Harvard with a major in History and then from the University of Michigan with a Master’s in Business Administration.

He and his brother Fred Alger built a successful investment firm through a record of strong investment performance and excellent client service. For much of the last decade, David Alger led the firm, managing over $15 billion in assets.

David Alger seemed to be known for stories and the lessons contained within them about the business world, and about life. A connoisseur of cheeseburgers and apple pie, it was not unusual for David to sit at his lunch table with young business executives and tell his stories, often beginning with the same line, “That reminds me of something.”

“I can see him chewing apple pie and telling these stories,” said Rob Lyon, who worked for Mr. Alger at Fred Alger Management in the 1980’s and remained close. One of Mr. Alger’s lunch lessons was that big companies cannot possibly grow as fast as little ones, and that problems in a company ‹ or a life ‹ can never fully be solved in one three-month reporting period. You have to look to the horizon, he would tell the young Turks.”

Fred Alger investment offices were located on the 93rd floor of 1 World Trade Center. In addition to his wife and brother, Mr. Alger is survived by a sister, Suzette Howard of Aiken, S.C.; and daughters Cristina de Marigny Alger of Cambridge, Mass.; and Roxanna Geffen of Manhattan.

I would have liked to have attended one of Mr. Alger’s famous Wall Street lunches and listened to a story or two.

In Preparation for 让别人往我小内内里倒红酒 11

We are watching footage from 让别人往我小内内里倒红酒 11, 2001, and it is still shocking to watch, and always will be.

What amazes me the most is the firefighters going into the building, hoping to help people, but most of them knowing this may be the last thing that they do. After the buildings collapsed, the eerie repetition of the firefighter’s body alarms echoed in the rubble.

The families of the people looking for their friends and family are out one the street with pictures asking if anyone has seen their loved one. Of course, many of these people are dead, and that is the sadness surrounding what has happened.

I suppose you can kill someone for a cause or to make a point or to take revenge, but taking the life of an innocent person with children and families… there is no honor in that.

On 9/11/2001, people from 82 countries died in New York City. It is not just an American tragedy.

The Birthday Party


The Little Kid had her first official birthday party today. We went to Build-A-Bear Workshop. Ever tried shopping with 7 6-year-olds? Oddly enough, some of them were smart shoppers. The limit per girl was $25. If they stuck with a less expensive animal, then they could get really fancy clothes for it. A couple of them did that. Most of them went for the more expensive bear and a t-shirt.

I’ve priced parties all over the place. Build-a-Bear was right in line with everyone else, only no party favors were necessary. Each kid took home a bear.

After we left Build-a-Bear, it was off to the food court to have cupcakes and juice. We were done 1/2 hour earlier than expected, so it was just a matter of entertaining while we waited for parents to show up. We decided to sing Happy Birthday, open presents and take a few pictures.

My biggest fear was losing a kid, but that didn’t happen. Although, I did count the number of kids throughout the party, just to make sure.

All-in-all, I would recommend Build-A-Bear for any child’s birthday party. They do boy’s bears, too!

TV Series Meme

Instructions: Bold (or change the color) of all of the following TV shows which you’ve seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Bold and Italicize a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

24
3rd Rock from the Sun
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
A.L.F
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alias
Allo Allo
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol
America’s Next Top Model/Germany’s Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: CrusadeBattlestarGalactica (the old one)Battlestar Galactica (the new one)Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
The Ben Stiller Show
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Bonanza

Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Brady Bunch
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Casualty
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
China Beach
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coronation Street
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (new Who)
Doctor Who (series 1-26)
Dragnet
Due South
Dungeons and Dragons (old cartoon)
Dynasty
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Falcon Crest
Family Guy
Family Ties
Fantasy Island
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flamingo Road
Frasier
Friends
Full House
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island

Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Head of the Class
Highlander
Hill Street Blues
Hogan’s Heroes
Home Improvement

Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Iron Chef (Japan)
Iron Chef (USA)
Ironsides
JAG
Jackass
Jeopardy
Joey
John Doe
Kath and Kim
Knight Rider
Knots Landing
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laugh-In
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: SVU
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H

MacGyver
Magnum P.I.
Malcolm in the Middle
Married…With Children
Medium
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission Impossible
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
Monte Python’s Flying Circus
My Family
My Favorite Martian
My Life as a Dog
My Mother the Car
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mysterious Cities of Gold
NCIS
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Not the nine o’clock news
Numbers
One Tree Hill
OzParker Lewis
Can’t Lose
Perfect Strangers
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Pirates of Darkwater
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psyche
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rockford Files
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Samurai Jack
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scooby-Doo Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
Small Wonder
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Square Pegs
St. Elsewhere
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis – New season
Stargate
SG-1 -Newseason
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
Teletubbies
That Girl
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman
The Colbert Report
The Cosby Show
The Crocodile Hunter
The Daily Show
The Days And Nights Of Molly Dodd
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The Golden Girls
The Jetsons

The L Word
The Love
Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Prisoner
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite
Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons

The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
thirtysomething
Three’s Company
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Upstairs, Downstairs
Veronica Mars
Wings
What Not To Wear (US)What Not To Wear (UK)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Witchblade
Will and Grace
Wonderfalls
Wonder Woman
Xena: Warrior Princess
Young Hercules

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