Nuts.

This one I found this morning in sobriquet’s diary. She said that she, in turn, found it in HQ magazine. I hate to admit this, but I am unfamiliar with HQ magazine. I know GQ, and I’ve heard of IQ’s, but HQ is something I’ll have to look up later. What is the first thing…

The paracentesis was a bit of a disappointment today – we only got 3.3 liters of fluid out this time. Granted, that was enough to change me from a beached humpback to a beached grey whale, but it’s hard to feel grateful for it. We had a little trouble with bleeding this time too, which…

The Professor and I watched “Dead Man Walking” last night. I found it especially interesting in light of the recent execution of Timothy McVeigh. The movie was neither pro- nor anti- death penalty. It was instead a view of the last days of life on death row, and a story of redemption (at least, of…

9754 games of Snood on the screen. 9754 games of Snood. You knock them down, and end one more round. 9755 games of Snood on the screen. Come on, everybody. You know the words!

A Parable for My Times. The starfish is a carnivore, a predator. There are different varieties of starfish, each with its own Epicurean specialty. The ones here in the Northeast prey on mollusks such as clams and oysters. They are voracious, and a single starfish can eat as many as 50 clams in six days….

Well, the Aspirus movement seems to be growing slowly but surely. I continue to get daily hits from search engines that have been instructed to seek out “aspirus” on the net, but now I note I am not the only Dear Diary journal to come up on these searches. I also note with interest that…