Really Boring Stuff Only III: Resurrection

[fuzz092888]

I might eat some pretzels. It's still undecided.

I'm still eating leftovers from Christmas. Tomorrow my GF's Mom is making a nice big pot roast. As if not working out for 6 months and eating mostly takeout wasn't bad enough. Nothing like losing 20lbs or muscle mass and gaining 15 lbs of fat.

On that note, I'm still hungry

 

[Adam]

Still undecided.

 

[fuzz092888]

Just started playing Destiny. I have no idea what I'm doing.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Working ten straight days this is the fifth. Long way to go. It's pretty slow, the hospital is totally full so not many new admissions to need work ups. Lots of old folks in with the flu. Little for a radiologist to do...

Back in my clinical days, the Radiologist just slept with the nurses when it was slow. Have things changed?

 

[afterlife2]

My PB1000 is dead. Not sure what happened I turned the receiver on and no light on the sub. It's well protected with a surge protector. The plug was checked by an old vhs player so that was not the problem. ordered a new amp from Ed from SVS should be here next week.

 

[Adam]

I feel like I was rode gently and put away dry. My whoring ain't as hard core as it used to be, that's for sure.

 

[Adam]

My PB1000 is dead. Not sure what happened I turned the receiver on and no light on the sub. It's well protected with a surge protector. The plug was checked by an old vhs player so that was not the problem. ordered a new amp from Ed from SVS should be here next week.

Sorry to hear that! Was it covered under warranty?

 

[Adam]

Hmmph. My dryer power outlet is four-prong, and the spare cord that I was going to use is three-prong. That, and I reminded myself that I can't connect a garden hose directly to the water heater connections...apparently people who work inside of a house like a different thread than those who work outside. Looks like a trip to Home Depot is in my future.

 

[Dan]

Now my water heater has leaked. I drained it and killed the power, but now I'm doing the evening shift at work again.

 

[afterlife2]

Sorry to hear that! Was it covered under warranty?

Yes Ed took care of me. I'm so glad too because I spent alot on other things like you know.

 

[Adam]

The dude at Home Depot who was initially helpful ended up making me mad. The part that I wanted showed as in stock but wasn't on the shelf, and he told me that he was going to track it down. Skip forward literally about one second, and he starts helping someone else. After watching him help a number of people for, I don't know, 15 to 20 minutes (as I continued to look for a part that would work) while utterly ignoring me, I just put my other stuff back and left.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

I just put my other stuff back and left.

That should teach him....

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Sometimes my procrastination really upsets me. One of my goals for 2014 was to put in 3,000 miles on my road bike. I don't set a goal on mountain bike miles as I just ride that as much as humanly possible.

So...last time I looked at my mileage, I could have ridden an average of 4 miles a day and hit my goal. Since our normal rides are around 30 miles I figure, it will just take care of itself.

The holidays come up, I skip a lot of training, I eat too much and gain 10 lbs, I ride my mountain bike too much and I'll be danged if today isn't the final day that I have available to hit my goal. I figured I was just a couple of miles short and I could knock it off easily at any time.

I really expected me to be over my mileage goal when I checked it. So, I just checked and I am exactly 50 miles short. Easy right?, it's just 50 miles.

Well, here's the rub. I have been in rehab for a back injury the past month. It feels fine while I am riding but the next 2 days post ride I have trouble getting around. With a lot of deep tissue massage, core work and stretching, I am fine to ride after a two day recovery.

Had I looked at my mileage yesterday, I wouldn't have chosen to go on a very technical mountain bike ride which was only 10 miles but beat me up pretty good. I could have done an easy road ride of 25 miles and then done the final 25 today.

I don't miss my goals in life so this will get done today. I can't even bare to look outside or check the weather report. I only pray that it's not windy(the wind was around 18 mph all day yesterday and the wind chill was 32), it's not cold and it's not raining.

My back is killing me so I am about to start trying to loosen it up but the 3, late night martini's, have killed my morning motivation.

It's 50 miles and it's a bike so it should be easy.

Maybe my back will feel fine when I get moving.

Maybe the sun will come out.

Maybe the wind will calm.

Maybe my legs will feel fresh.

Maybe I will watch my mileage a little closer in 2015.

 

[Adam]

That should teach him....

That's exactly what I thought to myself as I walked out.



Nah, the other stuff didn't do me any good without that part, so there was no reason to buy it.

 

[Adam]

Sometimes my procrastination really upsets me.

If you're upset at yourself now, then you aren't a very good procrastinator. Maybe you should make a goal to work on that.

 

[Adam]

Btw, have you ever calibrated your odometer? Perhaps you've already gone 3000 miles, or maybe you still won't have gone that far after today. Just sayin'.

Well, that...and 2950 miles plus countless miles on a different bike is pretty freaking good. I'd call it a win already. Then again, I'm much better at procrastinating.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Btw, have you ever calibrated your odometer? Perhaps you've already gone 3000 miles, or maybe you still won't have gone that far after today. Just sayin'.

Well, that...and 2950 miles plus countless miles on a different bike is pretty freaking good. I'd call it a win already. Then again, I'm much better at procrastinating.

My bike computer works off of wheel size plus off of GPS so it's likely very accurate.

I should stop setting goals but I don't have many and I have to hit the ones I make.

Someone look outside for me and tell me it's beautiful....

 

[Adam]

Someone look outside for me and tell me it's beautiful....

Clear skies here, man. Still in the 20's, though.

 

[Dan]

Back in my clinical days, the Radiologist just slept with the nurses when it was slow. Have things changed?

Not sure when you were clinical but rads is a 24/7 kind of a thing now. Too many high end emergent studies that didn't exist twenty five years ago. It's not like a simple trauma hand x ray any ED doc can read. It's CT scans for pulmonary embolism, kidney stones, appendicitis, , CT angiograms for stroke or GI bleeding, ultrasound on kids for appendicitis which the rad usually needs to scan himself. The CT angiograms usually have two or three thousand slices and need special workstations. My slow day yesterday had ischemic bowel, CT angiogram for bleeding duodenal ulcer followed by embolization of the bleeding artery, one subdural hematoma, the usual fractures and an unsuspected hydrosalpinx on CT. We are not even a trauma center. Went home at 10 pm. Back at 7 am.


I do remember an old attending telling me of the good old days in the 70s when there was no CT and little useful diagnostic studies available. He lived a block away and went home to his pool in the afternoon in the summer. The techs would bring him any stat xrays and he would hold them up to the sun and give a prelim report!

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Clear skies here, man. Still in the 20's, though.

I mean in FTW, TX....