Yesterday... went to bed after 13:00 sometime, and I actually got up when the alarm went off at 15:45. Took a shower and got dressed to go to Med-assist. Shortly after Karen got home at 16:05, there was a knock on the door. Her cousin and his wife (Phil and Caroline Moran) and their (silly-looking but affectionate) dog were on their annual trip through Kansas. They live in San Antonio, and are kinda semi-retired. They've been in the antique business for years, and also own an apartment building in San Antonio. Really delightful people. We have been wanting to go visit them for years but have never made it, dammit, and after each of their visits we say to each other, "This is the year that we're gonna go in the fall". Of course, you don't want to go to San Antonio in the summer....

Anyway, they took Karen out to eat since I had to go to work. So I missed out on an Outback Steakhouse meal. Well, Karen brought me her leftovers, but that doesn't really count.

Work at Medassist was busier than it's been for a while. We had a couple of lacerations, the last one on a three-year-old girl who had split her lip open, requiring stitches. We have a "papoose" board for just such cases, but this was one strong little girl. Well, stitching lips on little people requires the best of the physician, seeing as he must hit a moving target. Very tricky procedure... no matter how hard you try, you can't hold a little girl's lower lip still if she doesn't want to. To make matters worse, she would blow the blood out of her mouth at every opportunity... our doctor did very good under the circumstances, she will not have a scar on her lip. She will, however, have an abiding fear and hatred of people in white clothes, which is unfortunate.

During a break in the action, the nurse noticed a rainbow. An exciting thunderstorm had just passed, and the entire eastern sky was gray. And there was a complete rainbow, and it was a double. There was about a five-degree separation between the two, and the primary one was about twice as bright as the secondary one. The sky inside the arch was the color of pearl, and outside of it was an angry pink. It was truly awe-inspiring, one of those sights that just make you drop your jaw and marvel at being alive.

I tried calling Karen, but the line was busy. Later, I found out that Packy had called her when he saw it, and one of Lisa's friends had also called. Rainbows are strictly local phenomena, of course, but this one was evidently pretty wide-spread.

I got home shortly after 20:30 and visited with the cousins, then went to bed about 21:30; I was pretty well beat. Then I was up this morning shortly after 05:00, not really raring to go but at least up. Cousin Phil had made coffee, and Karen was unable to drink it... it was about three times normal strength. It did compare favorably with hospital coffee, however.

Phil and Carol took their leave, on the way to Manhattan to visit some other cousins, then back home to San Antonio. I got on-line, and here I still am.

Today should be a day for me to get some stuff done. All I have to do is get started, which is the hardest part for me, of course.

But I will try, starting right now. More later, probably.

I did do another animated grafic today. Me on a bad day. Check it out... it's kinda heavy, though... size-wise, I mean.