Category: Miscellaneous babble

Heard on a local morning radio show during a discussion about smoke-free amusement parks.

Host 1: I drive by Westvaco every day and that chokes me up more than anything else!
Host 2: Aren’t they one of our sponsors?
Host 1: Oh, crap.

Word has it that Star Trek: Enterprise is being cancelled, with the final episode airing May 13th.
This is too bad. I was just starting to enjoy it too after the writers finally wrapped up that messy ugly Delta quadrant story arc that took up the first two and a half seasons. Why don’t the Star Trek writers ever learn that time travel never works and just makes for ugly stories.
If you want to help save the show, go visit EnterpriseFans.com, EnterpriseProject.org or SaveEnterprise.com and see how you can help.
Just can’t find anything good on TV anymore. With all the so-called ‘reality show’ crap on the air now there’s just nothing worth watching anymore. It’s a good thing I have the Babylon 5 DVDs to watch. I’ll have to start working on the Stargate: SG1 and Farscape series now. Stock up before all the good TV gets drowned out by the crap.
Found on Slashdot.org.

I don’t know what it is, but lately the wife has developed a knack for being incredibly vague whenever she asks me about something. She’ll ask me things like

• “Where’s the thing?”
• “Did you do the thing for that guy?”
• “Did you send that stuff?”

and other equally vague questions. It’s really amazing how vague she can be sometimes. Usually I’m left with a totally clueless look on my face and waving my hands trying to prompt her for more information about just what it is I’m supposed to do or know.

Maybe all this med school stuff has filled up her brain and she doesn’t have room for everything else anymore.

There’s so much construction going on around the hospital that some days I feel like I should be walking around wearing a hard hat and safety vest or something.
There’s construction on the ground work for the new hospital being built near the parkade I’m in, construction going on for new sewer lines up the block, construction for rerouting utility lines on the walk between the parkade and the hospital, construction for the new cancer center building next door, construction on the ground floor of the library, construction for a new parkade on the other side of the hospital. Construction here, construction there, construction everywhere! Some days it looks like there are more construction workers here than there are patients.
Everywhere you look there’s a piece of heavy machinery lumbering towards you, or a crane dangling several tonnes of precast concrete slab over your head, or those blue sticky pads for picking dirt and dust off your shoes. Hammering, drilling, banging and thumping here and there. It just never ends around here.

Tomorrow I will be 35. A few years ago, I thought people who were 35 were old. Now I’m one of those people. There are days where I start feeling the years. Lately that’s been happening more often than previous years.
This year I’m determined to get back to the more active lifestyle I had when I was in my 20s. I think having a dog around will do a lot towards that. What I really want to do is get back into cycling, but that will probably have to wait at least another year until we get a little more financially settled after getting this house. In the meantime I’ll have to settle for getting back to the running thing. Maybe I’ll try for the Cooper River Bridge Run next year. I’ve always been more of a 5k person though. Never really been much good at the 10k distance, but there’s always a first time for everything!
Yes, Bridge Run 2006. That will be a good goal to shoot for.