Somebody please tell me: where does the time go?
SIGH..........deeply.........hard to believe that the w/e is over. Actually it was over yesterday, but thank god(really t/e school district) for the extra
day off. Looking forward to a shortened work week-
So Aaron is back in Oakland-:( so good to have him back home for a bit-I hate goodbyes-
Caitlin's party seemed to be a good time. Lots of laughs especially the after hours balloon project...right, CB?
Went and saw Harrison Ford do his "thing"...same old story line- "I'm just a sensitive guy trying to earn a living. People are always messing with my family. I end up having to kick some serious ass, and considering I am like @ 60 years old I do a pretty damn good job of it." oh well..........
Speaking of kicking some serious ass- I owe some friends a payback- tp decorating my entire front yard on friday eve...I know who you are and I will have my revenge-haha!
so on to an interesting book: (hang in there-it's worth it)
Physical: An American Checkup
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Physical is the story of a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive physical" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality - not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrixesque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that his youngest children are only six and five years old. He has to survive his own cardiovascular system, inherited habits, and genetic handicaps long enough to see Bea and Grace into adulthood. But even with so much at stake, and in spite of his terror of death, he may not have the willpower to follow the Mayo clinicians' advice." "On a related health front, McManus's twenty-nine-year-old daughter, Bridget, has lived with juvenile diabetes since she was four, and the Bush administration's opposition to the stem-cell research that could save her life makes him feel like he "might have to do something rash." Meanwhile, should he have a vasectomy? Or try for another child, having lost his only son? How much longer will he be able to perform such manly feats without Viagra? Is his grateful wife sleeping with the brilliant ophthalmological surgeon who saved their daughter's vision?" Physical negotiates the political and medical forks in the labyrinth of our health care system and calls for sanity and enlightenment in the stem-cell research wars. It's a no-holds-barred, wrenching, often hilarious portrait of the looming mortality of a privileged generation that can't believe the party's winding down, if not over.
I started this book and it's very good- check it out bookworms!
Have a great week!
day off. Looking forward to a shortened work week-
So Aaron is back in Oakland-:( so good to have him back home for a bit-I hate goodbyes-
Caitlin's party seemed to be a good time. Lots of laughs especially the after hours balloon project...right, CB?
Went and saw Harrison Ford do his "thing"...same old story line- "I'm just a sensitive guy trying to earn a living. People are always messing with my family. I end up having to kick some serious ass, and considering I am like @ 60 years old I do a pretty damn good job of it." oh well..........
Speaking of kicking some serious ass- I owe some friends a payback- tp decorating my entire front yard on friday eve...I know who you are and I will have my revenge-haha!
so on to an interesting book: (hang in there-it's worth it)
Physical: An American Checkup
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Physical is the story of a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive physical" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality - not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrixesque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that his youngest children are only six and five years old. He has to survive his own cardiovascular system, inherited habits, and genetic handicaps long enough to see Bea and Grace into adulthood. But even with so much at stake, and in spite of his terror of death, he may not have the willpower to follow the Mayo clinicians' advice." "On a related health front, McManus's twenty-nine-year-old daughter, Bridget, has lived with juvenile diabetes since she was four, and the Bush administration's opposition to the stem-cell research that could save her life makes him feel like he "might have to do something rash." Meanwhile, should he have a vasectomy? Or try for another child, having lost his only son? How much longer will he be able to perform such manly feats without Viagra? Is his grateful wife sleeping with the brilliant ophthalmological surgeon who saved their daughter's vision?" Physical negotiates the political and medical forks in the labyrinth of our health care system and calls for sanity and enlightenment in the stem-cell research wars. It's a no-holds-barred, wrenching, often hilarious portrait of the looming mortality of a privileged generation that can't believe the party's winding down, if not over.
I started this book and it's very good- check it out bookworms!
Have a great week!