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This is an archive collection of entries from  my main personal blog, My Mundane Mid-Life.

This collection of entries is from July 2007.

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Making a mil... on a practical joke

OK... so... you're a dentist... you're an office prankster... and you're working on your assistant... and she's out cold, under anesthesia...

So... you implant fake boar's tusks in her mouth and take a few pictures... some with her eyes propped open.... before you pull out the fake tusks and do the rest of the real procedure.

The pictures make it around the office, she's devastated, quits, and sues the dentist.

The dentist's insurance company refuses to cover the claim, so the dentist pays her $250,000 out of his pocket, then turns around and sues the insurance company for not covering the claim.

AND WINS.

Not only was the insurance company ordered to pay the original claim, they also have to pay the dentist $750,000.

Dentist Wins Case Over Tusks in Mouth

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posted at 09:24 AM | Link | Odd | Care to comment? | § |

Sunday, July 29, 2007

White Sox 1 - Blue Jays 4

Chicago White Sox Toronto Blue Jays

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Saturday, July 28, 2007

White Sox 2 - Blue Jays 0

Chicago White Sox Toronto Blue Jays

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

The standard 12-hour "bottle-to-throttle" rule ???

OK... first we had crazy astronauts...

...now we have DRUNK astronauts... on the shuttle... before launch

From a magazine I subscribe to:

Aviation Week & Space Technology... said that the committee found that on at least two occasions, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk.
posted at 03:41 PM | Link | Space | Care to comment? | § |
Grim Reapurrrrr

Do you remember a show on Showtime called "Dead Like Me"? It was a favorite of ours, a great show about... grim reapers. The concept is the reapers must take the souls of people before the actually die so they can "move on". I know, it sounds grim, but the show was anything but.

Anyway, there was an article published in, of all publications, The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat that lives at a nursing home in Providence, Rhode Island. I thought it was odd that a nursing home would own a cat, but then I remembered that animals do have a therapeutic affect on the elderly. And I thought it was VERY odd to have a story about a cat in The New England Journal of Medicine.

But, you see, Oscar lives on the third floor - the dementia unit.

Oscar goes on his own rounds each day... he has his own schedule, and he MUST visit each patient. If a door is closed, he waits to go in. He jumps onto the bed of each patient and surveys them. Most times after his survey he will jump down and move on to the next bed.

But, there are times when Oscar will curl up beside the patient.. and wait.

The staff knows that if Oscar is found laying next to a patient, they have to act quickly. The staff will start making phone calls. To the family.

Because, within about 4 hours, the patient will be dead. Oscar keeps them company until they pass. The staff calls the family to inform them that the time has come and gives them the opportunity to be with the patient for the last time.

When the patient takes his last breath, Oscar gets up, looks around, and leaves.

Coincidence? Look, I would say that... but if it happens a few times, you start to wonder.

But this cat has done this... 25 TIMES.

If anyone ever saw "Dead Like Me", you'd be convinced Oscar was a reaper.

The New England Journal of Medicine - A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat

posted at 03:08 PM | Link | Mundane | Care to comment? | § |

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Soda does... what???

So... as I sit here with my bottle of Diet Pepsi, comes word that this bottle is really bad for me. It doesn't matter what's inside, exactly... since it's a carbonated soft drink... pop... soda.. whatever you call it...

It doesn't matter that I drink the diet version because the lack of carbs is good for my Type 2 Diabetes...

... but then there's this report of a study...

Apparently, if I drink one or more soft drinks a day (which I certainly do) I would have a more than 50 percent higher risk of developing the heart disease precursor metabolic syndrome than people who drink less than one soda a day - diet soda or not, it doesn't matter.

The study, in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, looked at more than 6,000 healthy people, who showed no signs of metabolic syndrome, and then followed up. After four years, 53 percent of people who drank an average of one or more soft drinks per day developed metabolic syndrome. Those who drank one or more diet soft drinks a day were at a 44 percent higher risk.

So... nobody knows the "why" behind this. Not the carbs, not the calories... so... what is it?

posted at 01:18 PM | Link | Health | Care to comment? | § |
When somebody just doesn't get "it"...

OK... so...

...is it wrong to think that somewhere... someone... has started a Dead Pool... for Lindsay Lohan?

I mean, in my opinion, she's gone through all of this "alleged" rehab... and she has no one ... and I mean NO ONE... that is stepping-up to help this girl...

so...it's just a MATTER OF TIME... when she is going to KILL someone with her vehicle... perhaps even HERSELF...

No rehab will help her if she has no support in her life (yeah, like her own family are good role models)... it's obvious that she doesn't get "it"...

... and I don't believe I was actually compelled to even blog about this...

posted at 01:01 PM | Link | Current Events | Care to comment? | § |

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Kwik-E-Mart

I drove into the city this afternoon.. I just HAD TO GO to... the Kwik-E-Mart

Not the 7-Eleven.. there's enough of them out here for that... over 6,000 ... no... the Kwik-E-Mart

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

White Sox 6 - Twins 3

Chicago White Sox Minnesota Twins

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Saturday, July 07, 2007

White Sox 3 - Twins 1

Chicago White Sox Minnesota Twins

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07/07/07

Woke up this morning... and had forgotten about the date today. The Today Show was talking about the significance of this day... and at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas where over 700 weddings were scheduled for today alone... and in Chinese culture 8 is the lucky number, not 7, so China announced that the Beijing Summer Olympics will start on 08/08/08 at 8:00pm...

I rolled around in bed for a bit, scanning through the satellite guide... and stumbled on to the Sundance Channel and saw that they were covering the Live Earth concert, apparently since it started this morning in Australia (it's running 24 hours with concert venues on all 7 continents, in the cities of New York, London, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, and Hamburg ... and the British Antarctic Research Station in Antarctica where Nunatak, the band of the British Scientific Team played, just to make sure all the continents were covered)... I'll have to watch some of this... maybe grab some audio so that I can listen to it when I want ... the other interesting aspect of this event, even though it's all about saving the planet, saving the future, reducing our carbon footprints... was watching the acts at these venues... many are local to the region, so I have no clue on what I am watching...

UPDATE: Would you believe MSN has clips of every single act at every single venue? You can pull up any of them and watch... even if you never got the chance to watch them broadcast on the feed in your country... even if you don't have a clue who they are ... Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis

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posted at 07:07 AM | Link | Current Events | Care to comment? | § |

Monday, July 02, 2007

I am SO HAPPY that I don't drive here anymore...

ummm... I heard about it this morning, and I'm so happy I didn't hear about it yesterday... not to mention being happy to NOT HAVE TO DRIVE THROUGH THIS...

A busy section of highway was closed for seven hours Sunday after a truck tipped over and spilled pig ears, pig feet and grease.

I

CAN'T

IMAGINE...

posted at 08:22 AM | Link | Odd | 1 comment | § |

Sunday, July 01, 2007

*nose wiggle* *nose wiggle*

First of the month, first words today - "Rabbit, Rabbit!" said out loud for luck... (with two nose wiggles from our two bunnies)

... pausing to hear the echo in the empty room, wondering if there's anybody out there still visiting, still reading...

...after 5 years, 5 years of a mundane life, I'm having so much problem trying to get the motivation to write anything here... I still want to write, I just haven't found the motivation... and then there's the issue of trying to find something to write about... somehow I have to find something to write more often...

posted at 07:35 AM | Link | Memes | Care to comment? | § |

 

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