It’s graduation day today. The past week or so, the groundskeepers have been busy spiffying the campus up in preparation for bigwigs, high muckity-mucks, graduating medical professionals and their families. And today, hundreds of former medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy and other allied health students will finish the first part of their training and disperse out into the world to continue the rest of their education. Med students (now ‘doctors’) get blown about by The Match while the rest get to fend for themselves to secure their places in the workforce or other post-graduate training.
Good luck to all of them!
2006 Storm Names
Only a few more weeks to go before this year’s hurricane season starts. Time to start freshening up the storm kit I guess.
This year’s storm names are:
Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie, William
It never pays to be in a rush
One thing I always try to do is never be in a rush to get somewhere. Whenever you’re in a rush, invariably something goes wrong that delays you, so you end up having to rush even more. Traffic is too slow, there’s an accident slowing things down, all the stop lights are conspiring against you. Stuff like that. It just gets really aggravating, frustrating and stressful, and it’s easy stress to avoid too. I figure what’s the point in rushing. I’m going to get there anyway. If I’m a little bit late, I’m a little late. I think I’d rather just be a little bit late than get pulled over for speeding or get into an accident.
Today, I wasn’t in a rush but the wife was to get to an appointment. So what happened? I start pulling out of the garage and hear a funny noise. I get out to see what’s going on discover that one of the front tires is flat. Pretty much blows any chance of the wife getting to her appointment, so she had to call and reschedule while I busted out the jack and spare tire to replace the flat. Good thing we bought that air compressor last year too, because the spare was a little low on air. 30 minutes later, the flat tire’s in the trunk and the spare is on and filled up. Off we go to drop her off at work.
Well, it looks like I needed a couple of new tires anyway, which means a trip to Sears after the weekend.
I’m a great bleeder too
So not only do the Red Cross donor center staff like me because of my big fat veins and AB+ blood type, but also because I bleed so well. I suppose that’s a good thing if I’m donating, but I hope it’s not a sign of trouble if I happen to accidentally sever an appendage or something.
Where to go next
It’s a few years off yet, but the wife is already thinking about where we might end up next when she starts her residency. One of the people from the dog park told us about this website, www.findyourspot.com so we took the little quiz to see what spots it would suggest to us.
We both ended up with very different lists. My top 5 spots were
- Anchorage, AK
- Denver, CO
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Fort Collins, CO
- Salt Lake City, UT
Admittedly, they weren’t exactly places I would have put at the top of my list if I were picking, but interesting selections. Always wanted to try living in the Yukon or Alaska. Just seems like it would be a cool place to live. Kent, Olympia and Tacoma WA were the next three spots to live in. Wouldn’t mind those three areas.
Now we’ll have to compare lists and see if there was anything in common. Maybe for another iteration we’ll take the quiz together.