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!
Pooh quotes
A couple of my favourites from Winnie the Pooh
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Long Words Bother Me – Winnie the Pooh
Owl, you and I have brains. The others have fluff. – Rabbit
Charleston Blog Party
Yesterday’s blog party was a lot of fun with a pretty good turnout of interesting people to meet and chat with (and with surprisingly little geek speak!). I think everyone had a good time, so hopefully more of these will be scheduled later.
I got there a few minutes late because of the train
The flag at the SC Aquarium was lowered to half-mast, but nobody knew who had died.
Dan Conover, one of the masterminds of the operation was one of the first people I met.
One of the great things about Toucan Reef is the view of the new Cooper River bridge
This is part of the old bridge stuck in the mud
Attendance was pretty good with a much more diverse crowd than I had expected
Joan from Walk This Way even managed to get us some schwag for the party
Mustang Rolling brought his car along
so everyone headed over to pose with it
I didn’t get a group picture, but everyone else did.
Vera from Vera’s Crafty Blog showed off some of her work
Everyone enjoyed the tasty food at Toucan Reef and everyone else’s company
Sunset treated us to a cool view of the bridge and the Yorktown
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
The dog food quest goes full circle
After meeting lots of dog owners over the past year, I think one of the distinguishing characteristics of a dedicated dog lover is how much they end up talking about poop.
Well, after going through the 40lb bag of Nutro NC Lamb & Rice, we’re back to Diamond. Nala and Simba were both doing pretty well on the Nutro. Their coats looked good, dogs looked good, Nala’s weight stayed good and Simba packed on almost 10 pounds in 3 weeks. The only problem with the Nutro was that there was so much poop! With just one dog, I supposed I could have lived with it and we probably would have stayed on Nutro. With two dogs, it was just getting to be a little much and a little too stinky in the back yard.
So we decided to go back to what worked the first time. Nala’s on the adult Diamond L&R, and Simba’s on the LB Puppy L&R. It’s been about a week now, and the decrease in the amount of poop is definitely noticable. Just finished the transition phase, so I’ll be keeping an eye on both of them to see how they handle things.