1/7/03
Tick tock, tick tock...another hour until I visit the doc.

All the two-leggeds I care most about is having a stinky time of it lately. All I can do is hope that the pendulum starts swinging in the other direction soon.

satellite photo of an airplane graveyard... I'd dig roaming around there and snooping though them all...it's freaky how symmetrical it all is.

Here's my neighborhood, too. The push pin is two houses too far to the south, though.

For tarpo... There's No Kasugi like Sho Kasugi

Apparently, my insurance changed over at the top of the month, and so I get to go to a new primary care physician tomorrow in order to get a referral to go to my specialist again. I found this out at my specialist's... who would not see me until that got done. Plus, they would like to bill me for the last month rather than the insurance company.

Um, no. I told them to send the bill to my old insurance company, as the referrals were still valid at the time. I don't think that there will be too much trouble

So, tomorrow, I get to see my new Primary Doc at 1pm. (It's for 1:30, but they'll need me a bit early to do all that paperwork (that I feel they could get from the insurance company, too... but whatever. Standards and procedures, and all that.) The HMO insurance industry has a rectally inserted thumb...at least as far as customer service is concerned.

100 se 15 ave

brwd e past fed 2nd traffic light

There's a light at the end of the tunnel... and it's not a train.

Benefit - My new doctor's office is *really close*.
1: Start out going East on E BROWARD BLVD toward NE 13TH AVE. 0.16 miles
2: Turn RIGHT onto SE 15TH AVE. 0.06 miles

Total Estimated Time:1 minute
Total Distance: 0.22 miles

stream of thought from a random word. and the word I found is...

Timestamp Start - 07:00:00 pm

Autopsy.

What a cool word. I got lucky. It means, literally "seeing for yourself". (Auto-opsis)

I'm really big on seeing things for myself. Taking a broken wind-up toy apart, learning what goes where and how things function, seeing what doesn't work anymore and ideally being able to fix it... a double treat. I’m happy to obtain fresh knowledge and a Non-busted walking duck (at least until it takes a few more horrible impacts from his giant orange predator's clawless, but nonetheless powerful forepaws). Side ramble note... My Dad once fixed my "Incredible Hulk" doll (they weren't called action figures yet) with a metal screw and nut. He offered to paint it green, but I thought it looked neater as a robot part. I wanted to swap out all the joints with metal, but Dad didn't go for that and made a point of telling me that if another joint was to break anytime soon, he'd fix it and give the toy to a kid who could play more gently with his toys. My friends, brother and I already regularly pulled off the heads and swapped them out with others...they popped right back on again, so you could have a Spidey-head on the Hulk and vice versa. We were also allowed to use 20 lb test tied to their hands as "webbing" so they could swing (read dangle) from the trees and lower them to fight crime. Since we had mostly only hero dolls, Hulk got relegated to bad guy status much of the most of the time...though sometimes Evel Knievel or The $6 mil man got to be thugs, too. GI Joe was *NEVER* the bad guy, though he had all the guns. (Evel and $6 mil's hands could hold the bazooka just as well anyhow.) Also...only GI Joe got to use the pistol and big knife. Oh! I forgot that we had a Black Lagoon Gill-Man, too. Cheaply made, he had the advantage of glowing in the dark.

I really enjoy living in the "information age". Most any reference can be found online, for free. When I was a pre-Internet kid, I had to hit the library on most of my fact-finding missions, and that promoted my fondness for books. One of the niftiest presents I've ever bought myself was a old set of World Book Encyclopedias from a yard sale for $10. They'd just bought a new set for the house, so I got a decade's worth of yearbooks with it, too. It was 1981, and with the yearbooks, the set was up to date to 1980. That’s very cool to a little yeti trivia-sponge. The Yearbooks were especially fun, as they had student science projects inside. These days, I can fit that same set in my palmtop and have room for All of Shakespeare's works, the Bible, and Bejeweled, too, without even looking online for stuff. My backpack would've been a heck of a lot lighter in the day.

My old schoolbag in 6th grade generally had at least three non-school pieces of literature in it. A softcover copy of D&D and a game module, copy of Mad or Cracked Magazine, and one of those yearbooks above, or an almanac of some sort.

Timestamp stop 07:05:00 pm (Not counting spellchecker)

Typos - Increedable Hulk, I didn’t know how to spell Knievel (thought it was Kinevel)