by admin | May 6, 2012 | EMS
A medic friend of mine had his toothpaste stolen at work. From his toiletry bag which was in the base bathroom. He became incensed at this, and had some choice words for the perpetrator. I think those words were “pathological lying scumbag thieving shit bag...
by admin | Apr 29, 2012 | Amazon, e-books, publishing, Writing
They’re going to stop rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and start colluding against icebergs.There has been a lot of moaning by publishers and big bookstore chains about how e-books and Amazon are threatening to put them out of business. E-books are...
by admin | Apr 23, 2012 | American dream, Doomsday, EMS, End of the World as we know it
A friend of mine recently wondered why nobody takes “preppers” seriously. I thought about it. I know I don’t take most of them seriously. My friend is an exception. He lives out in the woods, off a dirt road in an area that has a low population and...
by admin | Apr 22, 2012 | bad dad, Living the Dream, Transformers
So the kiddo is really into Transformers right now. This afternoon, the wife pointed out a minivan to him that had a Decepticon sticker on it. For those of you who neither grew up in the 80s or have young children, the Decepticons are the evil Transformers, robots who...
by admin | Apr 19, 2012 | acting my age, EMS
We get a lot of patients on the ambulance who are hard of hearing. And there are a lot of accidental straight lines and perfect double entendres thrown out in everyday conversation that are hard to resist. When these two things occur simultaneously, we tend not to...