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Look on the Bright Side
Yesterday was the first day of Autumn. Happy Autumn! Was that too cheerful? You know, I used to watch the show Monty Python’s Flying Circus years ago. I thought it was outrageously funny. What reminded me of the show was Sena telling me that on Wednesday night, a member of the Flying Circus cast, Eric…
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‘ay, this here be international talk like a gentleman o’ fortune day
The title of this post is a translation of “Hey, This is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.” I used a Pirate Speak translator to generate it. Sena reminded me about this holiday, which got started back in 1995 by a couple of guys from Albany, Oregon. She says she heard about it on the…
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Are Safety Matches Really Safe?
Sena likes scented candles. She lights them with the usual safety matches. They’re called safety matches because you can ignite them only by striking them against the side of the box in which the sticks (sometimes called splinters) are stored. Match splinter is an apt name. We found out the hard way that safety matches…
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The Geezer Survives Another Computer Disaster!
This is another gripe about computers. I had to reset Sena’s PC because I accidentally crashed it after trying to follow Dell’s YouTube video instructions for how to fix the problem that a lot of Dell computer owners are having: the inability to install or reinstall a piece of software called Dell SupportAssist. There’s another…
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GFCI Outlet Torture
There’s this exercise machine commercial which has actors ask “Do you want some more?” This is the usual exhortation letting you know more pain and torture is needed if you really want to get in shape. Well, replacing Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) outlets is one way you can get more torture—but only if you…
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Ever See Bigfoot Splooting?
I wonder if anyone ever got a picture of Bigfoot splooting? Why not? It’s a large furry animal which has no way of cooling off other than by panting or lying on its belly with its limbs splayed out, which is the definition of “splooting.” I found a news item about splooting squirrels and quickly…
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I Say Omicron and You Say Ahmicron
Well, we tried the Miracle Whip salad dressing on egg salad sandwiches the other day. I thought they tasted better than the tuna fish sandwiches we had before. But maybe it was the mustard in the egg salad. Anyway, Sena says we’ll be going back to Mayonnaise after the Miracle Whip is gone. The difference…
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What is the Answer to Automated Answering Machine Recordings?
I’ve been calling local pharmacies in an effort to schedule getting the updated Covid-19 vaccine updated bivalent booster and the flu shot as well. I imagine I’m not the only one encountering the frustrating automated answering machines. It’s confusing to find out that if I answer the question about how many Covid-19 vaccine shots I’ve…
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What Happened to Miracle Whip?
Okay, the update on the Mayo vs Miracle Whip thing is not going as planned so far. A couple of days ago, we had tuna fish sandwiches using Miracle Whip. This was not the Miracle Whip I knew growing up. Neither of us could appreciate much of a taste at all. It’s a crisis. Even…
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What Would Make Psychiatry More Fun?
I just read Dr. George Dawson’s post “Happy Labor Day” published August 31, 2022. As usual, he’s right on the mark about what makes it very difficult to enjoy psychiatric practice. And then, I looked on the web for anything on Roger Kathol, MD, FACLP. There’s a YouTube video of my old teacher on the…
