tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26178842011-04-21T11:13:41.066-07:00Oh! - My! - God!Temperate Reactions to Current Events & Principled, Pragmatic Solutionshighhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-1092435954060770612004-08-13T15:17:00.000-07:002004-08-13T15:25:54.060-07:00Friday, 15:30 hrs.
I have won a bronze medal for my poem "Maturation" from poetry.com. However, in order to get it, I have to pay $190 shipping and handling and to cover the cost of reading my poem aloud at the semi-annual convention and symposium in Philadelphia. Had I accepted all their offers to commemorate my "excellent" and "outstanding" poem, as well as one of the transportaion & highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-1089260487650037742004-07-07T20:57:00.000-07:002004-07-07T21:21:27.650-07:00Wednesday 21:10
I got a bill from my health insurance company the other day for a minor hernia repair that I had done on an outpatient basis in March. The hospital charge, that is, the charge for the operating room, prep room, and recovery room for the few hours that I used them was $8K. $6K was written off by contract between my insurance company and UCSF. So I paid $400, which equals 1/5 ofhighhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-1088968920320900662004-07-04T12:19:00.000-07:002004-07-04T12:22:44.916-07:0012:22 hrs. pdt.
Just read and article with photos of the American general who's supposed to train the Iraqi army. He's never seen combat. A very intelligent and apparently competant officer, but he's never seen combat. I wonder what made the Bushoisie think that he was a good choice.highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-1088480012742822962004-06-28T20:28:00.000-07:002004-06-28T20:33:32.743-07:0020:30 pdt.
So, just learned that one of my fellow alumni, of a preceding class, is going in for an angiogram. He's obviously pretty concerned about it. I wrote him saying not to worry, particularyly in NYC, which is what I truly think. The cream rises to the top, in this case, and if you're going to have any surgical procedure done, without having time to research it, you're best off in NYC. highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-1088452888723065872004-06-28T12:57:00.000-07:002004-06-28T13:01:28.726-07:00Monday, June 28, 2004, 13:10 hrs. pdt.
Just finished posting a message on my alumni bb to the effect that we should get out of Iraq immediately despite the fact that the resulting chaos would kill many Iraqis. How could that asshole have gotten us into the position where I have to hand out cold blooded advice like this. If we had just kept out of other peoples' business, we could be arguing highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-1088032186425306612004-06-23T16:06:00.000-07:002004-06-23T16:09:46.426-07:00I guess that I don't have to date these. The system does it automatically. I wonder if it puts the time in as well.
Just got back from the dentist for the second time in three days. One central incisor was loose and the other temporary crown had come off. Another two and a half hours on the table. Perhaps crowning hasn't progressed far enough in reality to be of use to the hoi polloi. If highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-1087928998290943482004-06-22T11:06:00.000-07:002004-06-22T11:29:58.290-07:00My, my. It's been over three years since I first started this blog. In that time I have aged ten years. Really. People look at my driver's license and think that the photo was taken ten years ago. We have also invaded Iraq. A president who came of age in the Vietnam Era; used his father's political connections to avoid service therein; and was as conscious of the carnage as was I, started ahighhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-26989012001-03-08T19:45:00.000-08:002001-03-08T19:57:11.150-08:00Pacific Bell Internet Services - Homehighhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-26522252001-03-05T21:06:00.000-08:002001-03-05T21:08:25.153-08:00Monday, March 5, 2001, 2110 hrs pst I just got the bill for my first office visit with my new internist at UCSF (The Uncommunicative Center of Stolid Forgetfulness) - $455! That means my doctor earns $21,840/day - without overtime! How much more would it have cost if he had actually done anything! Next visit, I want an extra kidney. highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-26204902001-03-03T18:02:00.000-08:002001-03-03T18:12:56.713-08:00blogger.comOk, I don't know what just happened. I don't know what the gibberish in front of "Ok, . . ." is. But I'll just keep typing this stream of consciousness stuff until I reach the bottom of the page, just like Jack Kerouac, but without the alcohol, and then I'll hit "post and publish" and see what happens. There doesn't seem to be any limit to length in this little box, because there highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617884.post-26202862001-03-03T17:45:00.000-08:002001-03-03T17:55:40.043-08:00[Carbon of original post consumed by site.] I just saw "Starship Troopers" for the first time the other day and realized that it was a very good faschist spoof. From the first scene, in which we are told that the country is run by the "veterans" who ousted the decadent democrats, to the last scene in which a captured enemy is being tortured on tv, the movie is a fractured faschist propaganda highhatsizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11615785215051296224noreply@blogger.com