Monday

I finally gave in to the discomfort and went to the walk-in clinic for my intestinal pain. Turns out I have a viral infection. Seven days on meds to kill it, and I should be fine. I also got some very strong pain meds, which really work well. So nice not to be in pain. The pain is not that severe, more of an annoyance, but something I just got tired of tolerating. Guess I really am a child of the 60’s. Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” has always been a favorite. You all remember that, ‘one pill makes you happy…’ The doctor said this little infection will not affect my trip, so all is good. I certainly understand how people become addicted to pain killers. While my pain tolerance is high, and my drug tolerance is low, the idea that there doesn’t have to be pain is great. This makes me very grateful that I am not a person with chronic pain.

One thing that is still ticking me off with this infection…my PCP wouldn’t see me for 3 weeks. That just isn’t right. Even the doctor at the walk-in said I should always see the PCP first. Well duh. It only makes sense that you see the physician that has been treating you and knows your medical history, first hand. Without electronic medical records that are available to the physician who is treating you, they are really flying blind. When a patient gets sick between routine visits, it seems there should be a way to be seen without waiting three weeks.

It was a nice day here in Flag. We had several showers at my place. Not a lot of rain, but the showers were nice. I’m getting ready for there to be a nice cool night so that the fall colors will be out around town. The mountains have already turned to yellow and orange, but here in town it hasn’t hit yet.

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Random Facts…
At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).

Odd Crazy Stuff …

Steely Dan: Based on the name of a dildo in William
Burrough’s novel, The Naked Lunch.

Three Dog Night: It is a practice of Australian aborigines
to sleep with three dogs on particularly cold nights.

UB40: Named after the British unemployment benefit form.

The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed lifted the name from a
title of a cheap paperback novel.


September Month Long Observances

Apple Month…Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month…Children’s Good Manners Month…International People Skills Month…International Strategic Thinking Month…National Honey Month…National Preparedness Month…Pleasure Your Mate Month…Healthy Aging Month…National Hispanic Heritage Month…

Before They Were Famous…

When Orlando Bloom was 13, he worked as a clay trapper at a local pigeon shooting range.

Jon Bon Jovi once had a job as a Christmas decoration maker.

Boy George was fired from a job at Tesco supermarkets for "choosing to wear the store's carrier bags."

Marlon Brando became a ditch digger after being expelled from military school.

Brandy has said that her first job was in a hair salon.

Week of 21 Sep…

Women’s Ecommerce Week

21 Sep Observances…

264 days so far this year…101 days remain in 2009
International Day of Peace
World’s Alzheimer’s Day
*Malta: Independence Day 1964
*Belize: Independence Day 1981
*Armenia: Independence Day 1991

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
…ARTS…
1866…. H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells Bromley, England (War of the Worlds)

1912…. Chuck Jones animator (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
1931…. Larry Hagman Fort Worth Tx, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas)
1934…. Leonard Cohen Canada, singer/songwriter (Death of Ladies Man)
1935…. Henry Gibson (Bateman)comedian
1944…. Fannie Flagg Birmingham Ala, actress/comediene
1947…. Stephen King suspense writer
1950…. Bill Murray Evanston Ill, comedian
1962…. Rob Morrow actor: Numb3rs, Northern Exposure
1967…. Faith Hill singer

…ATHLETICS…
1886…. Teiichi Igarashi Japan, climbed Mt Fuji at age 99

1949…. Artis Gilmore basketball: Chicago Bulls

…POLITICS/Business…
1788…. Margaret Taylor (Smith) First Lady: wife of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor

1940…. Bill Kurtis Pensacola Fla, newscaster

…SCIENCE/Religion…
1756…. John Loudon McAdam created macadam road surface (asphalt)

1866…. Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France bacteriologist (Nobel-1928)


Events on this day…

1451…. Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge

1784…. 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet & General Advertiser)

1897…. NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial

1904…. Chief Joseph (Hinmaton-yalatkit or Hein-mot too-ya-la-kekt) dies.
1937…. J.R.R. Tolkien, publishes "The Hobbit"
1957.…. "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premiers on CBS-TV
1970…. "Monday Night Football" on ABC premiers
1981…. Sandra Day O'Connor becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice
1989…. Colin Powell the first African American is appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Holy Mackerel…
1915…. Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for 6,600 pounds

Word Wise Word Games

Which word is defined below

a) separation of parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words (as what place soever for whatsoever place)
b) 1: having many syllables; 2: given to or characterized by the use of long words
c) marked by multiplicity of meaning
d) the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usu. in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one eg) Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -Groucho Marx
e) the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said) : redundancy
f) use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression : circumlocution
g) one whose mental imagery consists of words
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Here are the words
periphrasis pleonasm polysemous sesquipedalian
tmesis verbile zeugma
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Answers:
a) tmesis: separation of parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words (as what place soever for whatsoever place)
b) sesquipedalian: 1: having many syllables; 2: given to or characterized by the use of long words
c) polysemous: marked by multiplicity of meaning
d) zeugma: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usu. in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one eg) Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
e) pleonasm: the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said) : redundancy
f) periphrasis: use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression : circumlocution
g) verbile: one whose mental imagery consists of words

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