Quiet...........ahhhhhhhhhhh

Emily and Chuck are both working and it is quiet.  There were a few rolls of thunder and a scattering of raindrops; then a huge boom that sent the cats scattering like duckpins in a bowling alley.   It was so loud that it even made me jump.

Work was uneventful today.  I did gyne.  That is important if you are female.   I had a student today too.   He was from Ghana; his accent is British.   He has lived in the USA for 7 years.   He said in Ghana it is always hot.   He doesn't like the cold and doesn't like it too hot.  I told him the ideal place for him would be Virginia or North Carolina.   He did a good job.  His wife is still in Florida, because he could not sell the house.  He has about one and a half year to go.  It must be difficult to live away from your family and I would imagine it would be hard to move to another country, learn another language and know that you were going to live there forever.

But we all know the streets in America are paved with gold.   Honestly, life is what you make it.   You can be a success or a failure; it is all up to the individual.

I am glad tomorrow is Friday and the end of my week.  Just three days next week and then I am off to Philadelphia.   Tomorrow is not too busy and that suites me just fine.

My sister is in CA.  She is in Mariposa County; that is where the wildfires are.  It is close to Yosemite National Park.  I texted my niece and she said so far all was good.  Shawnna said she would take pictures and I could post them here.

The second week is going to be a trip thru the Napa Valley and they have a rental near Reyes National Seashore.   She will come home when I am in Philadelphia.  I can't wait to see the pictures..........

 

 

Wednesday

Today was a noneventful day.   I am on Chucks laptop.  Typing on it that is,   He is at work.   Did you ever notice.......When something goes wrong with my things it is because I DID SOMETHING WRONG.......When somethings goes wrong with something of his.....IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.......i THINK THE WOMEN CAN RELATE TO THAT.

Only five days of working before I can go to Philadelphia.  It will probably be 100 F and 100% humidity that week.   I am still looking at things to do, and I am looking forward to the visit.   It is about a five hour drive from one end of PA to the other. 

I am sort of tired today and think I will end with a picture.

Bless his heart

Chuck, bless his heart, has given me permission to use his laptop.  

I checked on my package tracker, and my laptop has been delivered to it destination in Texas.  Now it will be seven to ten business days until the repair is done.  So at a minimum I will not have the computer when I go to Philadelphia.   And, I wanted to download my pictures each day.    I will be bummer for sure.

Today was orthopedic day.   Nothing to serious but it took all day.  That group has ten patients on the ortho floor who have had fractured hip surgery.   I wondered if there was a senior citizen hit squad out there knocking down the seniors??   Tomorrow are cataracts......

I do not like the set up of these keys.   The shift keys are not identifiable by feel......makes it hard to type.

Guess that is all for today.....I have run out of thoughts.  And the address of all the other journals are lost to me for now.  I need to have something to do to amuse myself.   I read two more books.  Well, actually I started two and only read one.

????

I was, somehow, under the impression that AOL stored the favorites on their site.    I went to peruse my new favorite list and what I had saved are not there.   Guess they are lost forever.   All the links to other journals and my geneaology sites are gone.  

I did not click the link to only save them on the computer.  Maybe they will reappear when I reload them on my laptop.

Easter at the Phipps.

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Sunday

I started this yesterday and the computer somehow d/ced the internet and all was lost.    So, I gave up for yesterday.   My notebook should arrive in TX tomorrow.  They said 7 to 10 days to fix it.   Then the slow trek home.  

UPS added a $10 surcharge for fuel.... I, like may others, wish there was someone who I could add for my increased cost too  Our gas, energy and food costs have all risen and we have to bear the brunt and get others tacked on to ours.    The price of gas has gone down but I haven't noticed any decrease at the gas stations.    Guess that will happen tomorrow.

Emily and I are going to the THE DARK KNIGHT today.  One of the docs at work saw it and said something gets blown up every 5 minutes.  He didn't like it. It remains to be seen.

I have read three books since the computer left.  WINTER STUDY by Nevada Barr, which is the typical Anna Pigeon mystery adventure. 

  BLACK FLIES, by Shannon Burke.    This is written by an EMT and after the first three chapters it was the same scenerios only with different names.   I got tired of listening to how the EMTs are the only ones who can save lives.  I didn't finish it.

GARDEN SPELL, by Sarah Addison Allen.   This was a delightful easy read.  It put me in mind of PRACTICAL MAGIC  by Alice Hoffman.    In Garden Spell the gist of the story revolves around Waverly sisters and each of them have a special  magical talent, and it revolves around the house and garden.  It is a chick book.  This book is rated PG

THE LAST OF HER KIND by Sigrid Nunez.   This starts about two women who start college c.1968 and the first  is Ann who comes from a well to do background and Georgette who is dirt poor.   Ann has angst because of the wealth and becomes a fanatic or "changing the US and the class inequality."  Georgette is trying to find what to do with her life."   The books was well written.  I was in school at the same time; but, I was just to busy with getting an educationand my family had no money that I just could not relate with Ann.  By the end of the book I felt that Ann was just a fool who never learned any thing about living.

 

GRRRRRRRRRRR

I know I spend a lot of rants about my computer.   But this time it is not my fault.............It has crashed.................I got the blue screen of death..................I called tech support..........They were very helpful....The computer is going to Texas.....................It will be gone two to three weeks.................All I can say is  I am so damned glad I have an external hard drive and I have been diligently backing up my stuff.   I actually have 10G of music and thousands of pictures and documents from my ancestry research.    Not only on my hard drive but the pictures and documents are on a flash drive also.....AND ENGLISH WAS DENISES NATIVE LANGUAGE.  BLESS US AND SAVE US........I REACHED COMPUTER SERVICE NIRVANA WHEN I TALKED TO HER.

Word to the wise:

ALWAYS, NO MATTER HOW BORING AND TIME CONSUMING, BACK UP YOU STUFF.

I will not be able to add new pictures, but can recycle the old ones that are on AOL.   

Right now I am on an elderly (5 to 8 year old)  desktop.   But the sucker is still working.......................  

 

 

Tuesday

Something is wrong.   I feel out of sorts.   I haven't been keeping up with anyone's journal.  I really do not feel like writing in mine.    I think it is the weather, I just do not like hot weather; I feel cranky and drained.   I really do not know a solution to that.   We are on the home stretch of July. 

Chuck has one more day off and I have been working since Monday.  I was off last week and so was he.  I really didn't get to do any thing restful. 

I have only been back two days and I feel like it is two weeks. Maybe I should quit writing for the day and go to bed. 

I worked in the GI Lab today.  Spent the whole day doing colons and gastric scopes.   Did 13 cases in 9  hours; I am exhausted and seriously considering taking a shower and going to bed.   Fiddle dee dee, tomorrow is another day.

Boo Hoo, that sad child above is me.  When I was little my parents were building a house.  I guess I was of no help, they tied me in the play pen.  You can see the rope on the side of the containment vessel.    CYS would have a field day with that one today.   It is funny, but what they said was discipline in yesteryears today would be considered child abuse.  Guess they thought I was funny enough to take the picture of me in my misery.   BOO HOO

That is an appropriate picture for my sour mood; or did the photo make me sad?