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Wednesday, 15 May, 2002 19:21

DIYDADIYD

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That's Damned If You Do And Damned If You Don't. Pronounced die-daddy-iid. I just made that up, just now. What a brain... worthless but fun. I coined an acronym. Seems like I've done that before...

That was from 11/26/1998. I had forgotten about it, but someone typed DIYDADIYD into google.com and hit on my site.

There are some strange, strange people out there... but you already knew that, that how you got here, after all....

Interestingly, that one page is the only reference to DIYDADIYD on the whole web, according to google, so it is really highly likely that I actually coined an original acronym back in '98, and I'll never get credit for it 'cause nobody will have ever heard it.

The other acronym that I originated which has never come into widespread use relates to baseball. The acronym is FOOP, and it stands for Fouled Out Of Play. I sent a postcard to the KC royals announcer once, but he ignored me completely. I really wanted him to say, "The ball was FOOP straight back into the bleachers..." but it never happened.

I suppose that these things will catch on after I'm dead... isn't that when all artists are appreciated?

So I googled on "+FOOP +baseball -fell" and got 26 hits, none of them translating to Fouled Out Of Play. Yep, it's another original!

Anyways, I went in to do the Pre-op testing today, it really wasn't much fun, except for the flirting with the nurse part, that's always fun, of course. I just barely made it to work on time and I started by registering before 07:00... 90 minutes of questions and answers. I also got an EKG done, but I didn't need the blood work.

And work was... well, work. I was running the console today, so all of my activity was of the sitting-down variety. We were pretty busy, though.

Came home and I really felt like going to bed. I think that the BP-medication-change doldrums have set in, it really seems to take an effort to stay awake. I can do it, but just barely.

Tomorrow I have to remember to go get some crutches, I'm supposed to have them when I go home on Friday... although I'm not supposed to need them.

Anyways, it's past 21:00 now, so I can go to bed without feeling bad about it.... not that I would, but I might... nah.


Thanx for being here!

All Material © 2002 by Douglas C. Franklin

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