JIM..I'M A DOCTOR NOT A ....QUIZ TAKER!

I would have rather been BONES.
Go figure a healthcare professional with results like this. This test must be accurate.

Your results:
You are Beverly Crusher

Beverly Crusher 75% Spock 62% Geordi LaForge 60% Uhura 55% Will Riker 55% Worf 50% Deanna Troi 50% James T. Kirk (Captain) 45% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 45% Mr. Scott 40% Chekov 40% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 40% Data 36% Jean-Luc Picard 35% Mr. Sulu 15%

A good physician and a caring parent. You are devoted to your children and to your occupation.

It's beginning to look a lot like...... Halloween.

In light of everything going on it is nice to take my mind off things and do some Halloween projects. I purchased some items form my cousins shop and decided to get some of my projects out and see what I have and what I have yet to get. Here is an interesting shot of some of my masks I have collected over the past few years.

Home again.

We returned from Kentucky with the relief that a loved one has made it through surgery with flying colors. Unfortunately this is the start of a battle that maybe fought for some time to come. I appreciate all who visited and kept my family in their thoughts. Thanks.

Going Home.

Tomorrow after work we are heading down to the promise land for the weekend. I wish it was for a nice visit and good times but unfortunately this is not the case. I am sure I will get to see my family but not for a pleasant visit. I just hope everything turns out alright. Have a good weekend everyone.

Here's to the bad times.

Last week on Friday I received some bad news. I won't go into that but on Saturday I get nailed with jury duty. The date for said Jury duty is Sept. 11th.....Nice. Today was crappy and tomorrow seems to be promising the same. When it rains, it pours.

Last weekend was somewhat eventful. Needles and I went to the big city and did some retail therapy. I bought us new cell phones and Needles purchased a nice dining table and chairs. She is bring it home today and I get to put it together. I don't mind doing it but I am not really looking forward to it. I hope all the pieces are there and the wood is in good shape when I get it out. It seems that whenever we buy something like this there is always a blemish somewhere on it that drives me nuts. I just gotta keep telling myself. It will be fun.....Maybe after a few hundred times I might start believing it.

Home Early.

Today was slow. I got off work a whole hour early. It's been awhile. They have our old CT scanner completely out and they are painting the room. Tomorrow is the new install of our new scanner. It is supposed to be up and running Sat. Fingers crossed.

Happy Hump Day.

Today the week is half way over. They have the CT Scanner in pieces but it is not out of the building yet. The Semi Truck was there when I left to pick it up. Tomorrow the new scanner will be here and they will start getting it up and running. Hopefully without to much trouble. I hope the rest of the week goes as smooth as today. We will see.

Crappy week.

I have to agree with Cynical. This week is starting out to be a crappy one. Yesterday I work over 2 hours and today I worked over an hour. I guess the pay check will look nice but it's not worth it. Tomorrow they are getting ready to put in a new CT scanner. A Phillips 16 slice. Our old Marconie is being de-installed tomorrow and our new one is supposed to be up and running by Monday. I hope the rest of the week goes quick. I am already ready for the weekend.

Home Alone...

I am home alone, if you don't count our crazy cats. Needles has run off and abandon me for the BIG city and the promise of lots of yarn and fiber goodies. When I talked with her last night she sounded like she was having a good time. Today will probably be and expensive day for them.....I get the feeling. While Needles has been away I went and visited my Brother and his family. We ordered out from the Trace Inn and Rudys nappy head needed cut so I commence to shearing his melon. I trained myself to cut hair with electric clippers when I had a black cocker spaniel named Spanky many years ago. I had flash backs of it while I was cutting Rudy's noggin. Last night I worked on the gas chamber abit. As I mentioned before it is very heavy and I am stripping it down of everything that doesn't need to be there. I think I have gotten it as light and it is going to get. This prop is in serious need of a dolly to help maneuver it around. I worked out in the garage until about 8:30 pm and then came in to watch some T.V. and surf the internets. I am not sure what is on the agenda for today. The day is wide open.

Get it over with.

Today was humpday and I wish I could look on the rest of the week like the worst is behind us, but I am afraid this is not the case. Today was a total cluster. While being busy with patients the other idiotic thing we in the healthcare field has to do is babysit Doctors. Both yesterday and today patient reports had to be done TWICE because the dim witted doctors sign reports that don't have there name on it. I wouldn't have been bad if it was an accident or just one or two were signed, but these reports were knowingly signed wrong and there was about 60 of them all together. This is about like you signing your name to the bottom of your neighbors check and expecting to cash it without problems. It just doesn't work! You know it. I know it but because they are doctors they think that the world should bend to their warped sense of view. I sorry that I have to vent here but I am afraid if I didn't, I might not make it the rest of the week. Our main doctor seems to think he can just come and go with whenever he wants and to hell with the schedule and the patients awaiting their exams to be read. He was scheduled all week and Last weekend he didn't show up. Also we found out today that he will not be in tomorrow either. If you or I tried this at our jobs we would probably have to find new jobs.

Time for a Schwan's ice cream sandwich break.

That knocked the zookeeper in the head. At least there is only 2 days left but then again....There is 2 days left. Oye.

Done!

The both lawns are mowed the laundry is done. I am hot a sweaty and ready for supper, which Needles is making right now. Stuffed shells ..... YUUUUUMMMMMM. So the list of things to do is smaller but at least I accomplished a few of the items I wanted to get done this weekend. Hope tomorrow goes smooth as my boss is out of town for a week and things tend to go ape feces when she is gone. Have a good week everyone.

CACHE SLASH FEST 2006!

The event is posted thanks to Rudy. Check it out.

CACHE SLASH FEST 2006

Full Weekend.

Friday night I was taking a nap when I was awaken by my sweetheart. She said I have a call. I roused my lazy rear out of bed and staggered to the phone. It was Rudy and Ed wanting to know if I wanted to go ghost hunting. I said sure why I stumbled to get on some presentable clothes and wipe the sleep from my eyes. We left around 9pm and went to our first cemetery of the night. We took several pictures and tried an EVP. I don't think we caught anything there. We then went to another cemetery where a young man died of a somewhat suspectious nature. We thought we would see if there was anything going on there. It just seemed the ghosts didn't wan to communicate that night.

Saturday we got up bright and early to go to a street long yard sale. The sale was down Rudy and Ed's street so we went to see what they had. After a short visit, it was time to go south the Needle's Moms house and can kraut. The cabbage had been working for 6 weeks and was ready for canning. 11 heads of cabbage ended up making 10 cans of kraut. They are all nice and sealed and ready when we want them. We then went to the big city and was able to knock off one of the Halloween items needed for a project. Saturday night we went up town to watch King Kong. Since we already saw it and it was getting late we decided to leave early.

Today is laundry and mowing. It is hard to get the energy level up to get things accomplished so I made some coffee. Hopefully that will get the wheels a rollin.

Family

That's the good thing about family.....Forgiveness.

Cuz's Shop

My cousin is opening a shop this month. He has done a lot of selling on ebay but his sales has gotten to the level where a physical shop was needed. He is getting in a shipment of Halloween costumes and other festive items. Here is a few shots from inside the shop. It is awesome. Definitely my kinda place.

My co worker G talked me into bringing home an old blood bank that looks cool. I may have some pictures of it sometime but it is in it's second life as a gas chamber for Halloween complete with smoke and a thrashing body. Wish me luck becuase this thing is severly heavy. I got to do some stripping of the equipment to lighten the load. Wish me luck on this project. I'm gonna need it.

Paranormal Graduation.

Last Thursday night I attended our last Paranormal class and received my official ghost hunter certificate. We then went to a cemetery in order to see if we could pick up any activity. After being in the cemetery for awhile it started to sprinkle. The sprinkling gave way to a down pour and the night was cut short. We didn't even get a chance to thank our teacher. I did email him and let him now the I appreciated the class and what he taught me. Here are some pictures from the rain shortened night.


And Here is a picture of some of the equipment we were monitoring in the cemetery. There was a couple of spikes but nothing that stayed constant.



On Friday we left for the promise land. We arrived around 6ish and Mom fed us until our tongues pooked out of our mouths. That night I slept in the bed I slept in when I was just a wee lad. The next day we went to my cousins shop and looked around at the items he had. He has a lot of items already but sounds like he has even more to come. We are planning a trip down there in early Oct. For the Grand Opening. After making a purchase we went to one of my favorite stores. Uncle Lee's we found some items for Halloween and some ammo for the guns. After arriving home it was time to go to Grannies for supper. I ate until I almost went into a coma while chewing. I then waddled out to the car a we returned home. Dad just got a new 17 caliber varmet gun so we decided to go in the back 40 and try out the noisemaker. We sited in the scope so that it will shoot within a inch at 100yrds. After that Needles and I went on a Safari Tour around the grounds. We saw turtles, frogs, ducks, snakes, rabbits, geese, alligators, raccoons, squirrels, bears, chipmunks, birds, turkeys and cows. It was very exciting but it was getting dark so we returned home and reclined in the livingroom until it was time to go to bed. This morning we got up ate breakfast and packed up to get ready to leave. It was a fun weekend and I was glad we got to make it down since I haven't been in Kentucky for a few months. We arrived home around 3pm and found a JC Pennys catalog coupon shredded in the floor. In the middle room was several puke puddles of frothy foam leading back to the back room where Copper was hunkered down and in obvious distress. He vomited again and the sputum had a red ting like in may have a little blood. I put Copper in the bathroom to keep him off the carpet while we had to make a delivery. When we returned home Copper was laying in the bathtub and acted like nothing happened. He has eaten and seems to be doing fine now. I think he swallowed some of the coupon and got choked. Stupid Cat. I bet this breaks him of his wanting to chew on anything paper or cardboard. I hope anyway.

Haunted House.

Paranormal Class 5 was a house haunt investigation. It was very neat to wander through the home and hear some of the stories and happenings that gave this once lovely but now unkempt home. You could tell the home was very nice at one time. The tile work around the fireplace was neat and the sculpted wood work on the interior and exterior of the home let you know that this home was built when there was pride in the skills of carpentry. Before the doors were opened I looked through the windows and my mind ran wild with visions of things flying around and full body apparitions floating up and saying BOO, but after we entered the home I was surprised that my feelings changed and the slightly ineasy feeling I had before I entered turned into giddiness. I was anxious to see the whole house, even the attic. Even when we turned out all the lights and I was in the attic by myself I felt very comfortable. I guess I had a preconception of what a haunted house would look and feel like but I was surprised. I just felt like a home. Here are some picture that was taken during the investigation. We were in the home from 8pm until almost 12:30ish. All I had to show for it was 2 possibly 3 "orb" (dust) photos and a EVP.

Picture From The Dark Side.

Here is some tombstones on the second night of class field trip.








The picture above is our class conducting an EVP.



The next picture is the suspected center of the Indian sundial.

This picture is of bees at a Cemetery we did homework at.

This picture was taken at a marker were a young girl died in a car accident. The large tree in the background still has the marks where the car hit.

Ghosts N Goblins

Tonight was the 4th class of our Paranormal class. We did have a lot of class time but got to go to a location that a young female died in a car accident several years ago. They tried to get an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) The first attempt was illegible but the second they picked up a background voice saying "Killed By Car." The voice sounded like man but a female is who died in the accident. They had a cross and concrete stone marker on the site. The tree nearby bore the scares of her fatal accident. Apparently she had someone else into the car but we aren't sure if the sex of the passenger. He or She supposedly died in the hospital several hours later. It is too late to mess with it now but I will try to get some picture of our class in action this weekend. Thanks God tomorrow is FRIDAY!

Phantom Stench!

Tonight was our 3rd class of paranormal investigating and we got to visit a cemetery. It was neat to walk among the tombstones at night. The temperature was a little on the warm and steamy side but not too bad. Apparently there was and old Indian sun dial in the cemetery which supposedly is marked by several mounds in the area. The tallest mount was were we thought we may have made a connection to the OTHER side. We started smelling a sweet vanilla type smell. Almost smelled like flavored pipe tobacco. The smell seemed to come and go without any reason. We investigated the surround area to see if we could pick up the scent in other areas but didn't have any luck. I suggested that one person stay behind and let the rest of the group move away to rule out any persons perfume or even fabric softener smells. As the group moved away the smell went away. My first clue to the origin of the PHANTOM SMELL. We returned to the pavilion and I just so happened to be there with 2 lady's of the group that I suspected and yep there was the not so phantom smell again. Drat! Oh Well! There is always Thursday night.