If Dante's Inferno were rewritten and adapted to modern times, I am certain one of the circles of Hell would include having to sit endlessly in a doctor's waiting room. I did this twice yesterday. My first visit was to my oncologist for a routine followup exam. The time I routinely spend in his waiting room is without exception far more than I spend in the actual examination room. I don't mean I spend ten minutes in the waiting room and five in the exam room either. I mean I have sat in that waiting room flipping through outdated, dog-eared secondhand...
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Saturday, 21 January 2006
No more cell phone
Posted on 17:41 by Unknown
If the one with the most toys wins, I'm one step closer to the agony of defeat. I recently gave up my cell phone. I know to some youngsters this may seem equally as horrible as selling one's kidney, but for those of us over the age of thirty, we realize that a personal phone number is a luxury that dates back only to the early 2000s. In fact, it wasn't much before that that obtaining a phone in one's own bedroom was viewed a considerable right of passage. Even then, kids who shared a line with other family members often had to interrupt their phone...
Wednesday, 11 January 2006
I'm a freak; you're a freak
Posted on 10:01 by Unknown
While I was at the bookstore yesterday I noticed a display of the book No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life. I asked the clerk behind the counter whether the book I wanted was in stock. It wasn't, so I picked up the autobiography with the long-winded title and wandered through the store leafing through its pages. I wish I could say I was looking for the recipe for championing life, but I wasn't. I didn't care about wrestling either. I just wanted to see pictures of an amputee. Here was...
Sunday, 8 January 2006
Editorial apology
Posted on 18:56 by Unknown
On the previous entry dated January 4, 2006 I alluded to a fictitious character I referred to as Pat Robertson-Roddam-Clinton Jr. Please note that this comment was made both in jest and before the recent indelicate comments spoken by the Reverend Pat Robertson regarding the untimely stroke of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. I woud like to express my most sincere apologies to the members of the Roddam family, the Clinton family and to anyone who uses the suffix ...
Wednesday, 4 January 2006
Wish list for my kid
Posted on 13:26 by Unknown
As I quickly approach fatherhood, I think of the things that have made a positive impression on my life or the lives of those around me. I hope my future son or daughter in due course will also develop some of these defining qualities and experience some of these epyphanic events. Not necessarily first but definitely foremost on the list is getting married. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't wish nuptuals on someone who's too young or someone who didn't get them right the first seven times, but when I think of those people that have had the most wonderful...
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