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Heh. But I'm enjoying mine, and I exhort you to do the same. No, not enjoy *mine*, enjoy yours. Well, it's OK if you enjoy mine, but you must forgive me for thinking that you're a little strange....

Pretty cool day today. Got woke up at 07:30, went in and did patients until 10:00 and then, with nothing in sight, I went home, fully expecting to get called back. Didn't happen, though, and I turned off the pager at noon.

I didn't accomplish much for the rest of the day, but it's not all about accomplishment, is it? I had fun.

Lacee's birthday (her 12th) was today, and Matt's 37th is tomorrow. So we had a party. Or, rather, I should say, a party was had here. Karen made a wonderful lasagna, and there was cake and presents and kids running all over the place for an extended period of time.

But they're all gone now... the house is relatively quiet, and Karen is pretty much worn out. She has to get up in the AM and pick Lacee up at the skating ring... there is an all-night skating party going on.

All night. For 12-year-olds.

And in Florida, a woman is being kept alive. Against her probable wishes, and those of her husband. By a bunch of fu**ing xian congresspeople and their asshole leader BabyBush.

Eh, all the right-wingnuts are rallying 'round. Save her! Save her!

For what? She's a vegetable. Medical experts say that there's no hope for any recovery. But her folks, her parents? They say that she enjoys hearing them talk to her.

But she doesn't have a brain that can process anything. She can't enjoy, she can't hate, she can't feel....

But she can use up resources that could be used to help people that have a chance... not that that would really happen, y'understand.

To me, the whole thing is just about as sickening as the *real* tragedy that happened recently in Florida... the little girl, kidnapped and abused and killed.

Blame the right-wingnuts for the former, and the left-wingnuts for the latter. The latter asshole had 24 counts of... burglary? against him, and was a registered sex offender. But running loose. Florida needs the 3-strikes and yer out law... but that, too, is flawed.

The only real solution is, of course, to have *me* be the judge and jury of every offence that's committed in the world. No other recourse, no appeals. Sure, I would be really busy, but by golly, before I died, there would be *JUSTICE* in this world!

Carol over at Mercy Street has a son-in-law in the hospital with some brain lesions, and she would appreciate your good thoughts, however you wish to convey them.

And last night, I did a CT on a young fellow, very pleasant, who had a bleed in his head.

As I usually do in situations like that... I came home and cried.

Life is so hard on some of us, and shines so brightly on others... and I'm one of the lucky ones, and I know that, and I appreciate the fortune that has given me what I have.

For what I have wasn't all hard work, although that was a good part of it... it was sheer blind luck. So, as an atheist, I have to thank my lucky stars... whatever that means.

And having a positive attitude hasn't hurt anything either, heh.

And now... I have to go in early this week, and we're short a tech all week... so I must get to bed. Hopefully, the water bed is all warm by now....