Not me, though. I'm busy keeping the world running, or at least my part of it. Maintaining the continuity. Saving lives. Well, OK, I wasn't saving any lives. I was helping other people save lives. OK, OK, I was watching other people save lives. Dammit! Gimme a break, here! OK, so there weren't any lives to save, we were ready, anyway! Just because they didn't come in...

It's pretty damned boring tonight, too, let me tell you. I did my last patient at 22:30. It's now 02:49. Paperwork all done, rooms all stocked, inservice stuff taken care of, and I've already talked to all of the nurses that I care to tonight. So I thought, lets fire up the old computer and ramble some.

I've got a friend in the pharmacy who is getting me some pill bottles. I'll mark them with the days of the week that I'll be gone and put my daily pills in them. That way, I won't get mixed up and not take them or take too many. Old people have to resort to such measures, y'know. Well, maybe you didn't know that, but you do now. File that away for when you get old. I do hope that you can make use of this information some day.

The best way to get old is to avoid dying. It's pretty simple, but there are a lot of people who just don't understand that. The best way to stay young is to die young. Does anybody think of Elvis as old? No, of course not. He will always be young. But if he'd have stayed alive, he would be getting old. Weird. Old Elvis. Wonder what kinda songs he'd be singing now?