Ketchup (catch up)

I got back from St Louis last week and stopped on the way home by ye olde mailbox to gather a week's worth of junkmail, and then proceeded to my driveway. When I got close I punched the button on my garagedoor opener and proceeded to back into my driveay and up to the garage door. when I turned my head around to steer myself in, the garage door was still closed. "Weird", i thought.

So i punched the button again thinking it just hadn't picked it up the first time. The door started to go DOWN....what the?!?! So i punched it again and watched, it did go up bot only about 1/4 of the way and then it stopped. What is going on? Bad part is I had lent my key out to my dad so i didnt have it to get in the front door. nope, i had to 'indiana jones' it and slide under the 1/4 of the way open garage door.

....and there was the problem. snapped coil spring on the door. Bet that was a monster to hear when it broke! So i've got a dude coming out today to fix it. Parking in the driveway in this heat is torture. I dont see how everyone else does it, i melt like the guy at the end of raiders of the lost ark when i climbed into it all weekend. its dead hot here.

I also saw that movie Wall-E. i usually like pixar movies, but this one was a little different. First off, much of the movie contains no dialog, just wall-e and eve doing their thing. Its amazing to me how someone can A. visualize such a story and B. animate it without live action. I guess there's a methodology they use and scripting tools and whatnot, but i certainly bow down to their abilities as much more clever than mine. It was a great movie, very touching and sweet. Pixar, you've done it again.

I've also been on Facebook recently and gotten in touch with not only old friends, but have made some new ones as well, so to all of you coming here from there, howdy.

Johnny B Goode

So yesterday I flew to St Louis. Usually when I go to St Louis I fly direct, none of that changing planes hassle. But this time i had to alter my plans slightly because my co-worker whom I stay with, Barb, wasn't going to be home on Sunday when I normally fly.

So i booked a flight that left on Monday, which meant I had a layover in Dallas. I got on the plane and who was on the flight to St Louis? Chuck Barry. I wouldn't have recognized him if I hadn't overheard people talking about him. But I did nod at him and he did smile back. Seems like a nice man. I tried to see if he was playing in St Louis while im here (he lives here) but sadly he isn't playing again until July.

Next time I'll ask for a quick tune before I get off the plane :)

Learning

So with much time to think while i'm running, I frequently come up with my 'musings' and ponder on them. I mean what else is there to do when you're spending 35-40 mins just jogging?

My most recent revelation is that Im a good number 2, but not such a good number 1. What does that mean? Well i think im pretty good at excelling when i have rules to go by, defined boundaries and guidelines to follow. But when I have to be the one making up the rules or the boundaries and guidelines i tend to second guess myself too much to be effective. Some people are natural leaders. Some people are natural leader 'support'. I think that's the place where I fall. I can do the leading thing and do it ok, but im not a 'super' leader.

And I think im ok with that. Im not out to be a CEO or anything, I dont want to own my own business. But sometimes that 'number 2' thing can become a bit of a problem in my personal life. Like I can't really pin down what my 'plans' are going to be in the next few days, weeks, months, etc. I dont think that far ahead , im not a true visionary, either personally or professionally. Time to invest some thought into how to make my personal life a little more #1-ish than #2-ish.

Paging Dr Oppenheimer

So this is me today. I had an injection of radio-active phosphorous material so that they can do a bone scan later today and see what my bones are doing. The injection went easily enough, I didnt have any issues with that. But after I removed the gauze-pad-and-tape they give you after a shot, I noticed a really dark bloody lump under the skin. I'll have to ask them if its ok or if that is something to worry about. Dont want a blood clot!

The guy that gave me the injection said to make sure I drank lots of fluids to disperse the material in my body really well, and then to make sure I urinate a lot to dispose of the bits that didnt get absorbed. Wonder if my pee will glow in the dark? I promise NOT to post a picture of it if it does.

A word of advice

If your mother tells you that she's going to have breast reduction surgery, and then tells you that the doctor wonders why she took so long to come in because she's abnormally top-heavy, and then tells you that the nurse commented that her bo-jangas must weigh 20 lbs each, and then your mother says she responded that they do, and that the nurse asked if she had ever weighed them, and then your mother says that she responded that she had weighed them....

PLEASE.....for your own safety and peace of mind....

DO NOT!!!!!!

...ask your mother how she weighed them. You really really really really really dont want to hear that story.