Doing the surgery thing Tuesday, the 28th, if all the items come together. One day in the hospital... 8-10 days of recovery at home. A nurse will come once a day to change my bandages, and no shower for recovery... just "bird baths", to prevent getting the region wet vs infection)

From the sound of it, I'll be in much better condition, and the nerve damage in my leg should be alleviated. I'm going to be chilling at home for Halloween this year, with the Newtster.. works for me. :)

I'm *very* positive and comfortable with the doctor and crew... even though I had to wait an extra three hours because he was called to do some emergency work during my visit-span. Apparently he's quite in demand, and very talented.

Well, after that, I had a bit of a windfall... we're getting some techs to take over some call time, just in time for my recovery, and they'll be staying so I will only go on call 1 week a month. Looks like I can't avoid being the boss of someone, no matter where I go to work. Somehow, I'm scheduled to be a sub-chief. I'll have three techs, and a couple of volunteers, too.

Well, Riverworld as an adaptation of the books was bad. If they make it a series, I won't bother. It didn't really have the right vibe. Looking at it without the books attached, I'd give it a 5/10.. nothing special but not lousy, either. A lot of lost potential.

Misfires but not a problem for me

• Everyone can speak English


• No Hermann Goering


• No Joe Miller


• Beards

Elements that ruined the spirit of the books-

• No personal grails (key element to how society got by)


• Horses?? Those can be food, weapons, and useful tools.


• No mention of the "Suicide Express" (On riverworld, if you die, you're born again somewhere else on the river.)


• Sam Clemens as poorly written as possible


• Metal?? Enough to make swords & armor?


• Go For Broke (rather than Not For Hire)

Flipside, Blade Runner was a great movie, and wasn't a very good adaption of PKD's book, but was a fine movie.

Launching for the doc shortly. Hoping that the information will be solid and downtime minimal.

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New Internet speed Record: 1.1 Terabytes of Data at 5.44 Gigabits a Second

CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, said it had sent 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second (Gbps) to a lab at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, on October 1.

This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second -- an operation that takes around eight minutes on standard broadband.