Blog Number 300

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well the Wednesday doctor visit went almost exactly like the Monday one.  Namely, we had an appointment at 1:15 but did not see the doctor until 5:05.  The good news is that the wife can take off her neck brace and wear it as needed.  She walked out the car triumphantly carrying her neck brace in her hand but still not moving her neck at all.  Once we got in the car she immediately put it back on since there is some bumpy roads around the clinic (truthfully, some are so bad that I wish I had a neck brace too).  On the way out of the clinic we saw a man who we recognized from our 3+ hours in the waiting room.  Evidently he was parked over by the hospital 2 blocks away and had caught a shuttle over to this clinic.  Since we got out so late, the shuttle was no longer running so we gave him a lift back to his vehicle.  Still though, with the shorter cast and no neck brace, the wife is like a new woman (well like a new woman with a stiff neck and small cast on one of her arms).

While waiting, I was able to finish the book "Julie of the Wolves" which I had found on our bookshelf.  Evidently the wife had read it as a child and saw it at the half priced book store and bought it.  It is about a 13 year old Eskimo girl who runs away from her new husband and his family.  She tries to cross the unforgiving arctic and only has the skills her father had taught her (he being a true Eskimo and her mother having died when she was 4).  Anyway, it is a very good (albeit short) book and covers her few months in the cold while backfilling her past and how she arrived at this point in her life.  As we waited for the doctor, we made jokes about our time there being as long as Miyax (Julie in the book) and how we had better hurry up and do things like gather caribou dung for fuel and go hunt for lemming nests for food or follow the wolf pack to the hunting herds.  No one around us got our inside jokes but so be it.  We did spend about 45 minutes in the actual examination room waiting for the doctor.  Time in that room goes real slow as there is little to occupy your time.  I killed time by playing with the blood pressure machine (though the wife constantly told me not to) and by looking in all the cabinets and drawers.  This leads us to...

Random Bad Quality Pictures With My New Cell Phone

This box was on the counter next to the sink.  I was amazed that it had in addition to English, 9 other languages translated.  I am used to many products having both English and Spanish.  Some items even throw in French.  But 10 languages!!!! Come on!!!  I could make out English, Spanish, French and German.  As for the rest I have no idea.  Attempting to pronounce all the various translations helped us kill a few minutes so it served its purpose.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon