Saturday, December 17, 2011
Cemetaries
they should revolutionize caskets, make them biodegradable, I was thinking put seeds in the casket so that when the casket degrades have flowers and a tree sprout from your grave, and instead of a tombstone have an ID that can be scanned by a smartphone that takes a person to an autobiography of your life and pictures of your life, kind of like a story of your life, maybe with a link to ancestry.com
Friday, December 16, 2011
Nervous
Ok, wow, I am a little shocked right now, I just found out that I can check to see the traffic on my blog, and it breaks it down by country, and interestingly enough, or frightening enough, I have a huge following in Iran..should I be nervous?
Perhaps its time for a new title for my blog
Well I am an attending, I work at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. Being a full fledged physician has its perks and it definitely has its own set of learning experiences. Thus far I have learned how to start my own corporation, how to start a corporation with partners, how to be a trustee, clerk, president, and multiple other business associated activities that I had no clue about a little less than a year ago.
I must say that I do enjoy my job a lot. I like to work with people on a daily basis. I love having the specialized knowledge that I have and the sense of accomplishment that I have. I know you may be reading this and to yourself this guy is naive, a little too sentimental, but no I just live my life by my own standards and by what makes me happy....
Per the vacations that I seem to write about in the past, we went to Ogunquit again this year. We enjoyed a very good dinner this time around at the Front Porch in Ogunquit. Not bad. We stayed at a bed and breakfast this time in Perkins Cove, it was definitely a great place to stay.
This year I have been more involved with my son Oliver in running. He has run in a number of 5 k races and has performed very well.
Well its Christmas time and I just put up my lights, I gotta run and do some stuff, so more writing later. Adios.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
A true blog
Maybe this year now that I have time I will try to blog at least once a week to make this an actual blog of what I do on a daily basis for those who maybe interested.
CA3 year
Well again it has been over a year since my last post, which is amazing because it seems like yesterday that I posted in October 2008. Since then I have been made the chief resident, completed my CA2 year and am half way done with CA3 year. CA3 has been exciting thus far. I have learned all the subspecialities of anesthesia and am now focusing on honing skills in areas that interest me. I have learned OB anesthesia in a little more detail. I am now learning regional anesthesia, nerve blocks with ultrasound guidance, in more detail.
Also I am now applying for positions and have narrowed it down to a position in the area that I live and another position in Maine by the water in York where we vacation. Since October of 2008, we went to Ogunquit again in October of 2009. Again we went shopping and again went out to eat. The food wasnt very good but it wasnt as expensive as in 2008. So the pros of the Maine job is the area. The pros of the job in the area we live now is that we have in laws close by, the hours of the position are good, and the pay and the vacation is better. It is a tough decision.
Tomorrow will be some routine cases, knee cases. Will either do a femoral block or an epidural with general anesthesia. I am reading the Love Dare book. It is good thus far. I have to make sure I do the things it says to do. I am learning now to be a better father and husband now that I actually am starting to have the time to do these things.
Also I am now applying for positions and have narrowed it down to a position in the area that I live and another position in Maine by the water in York where we vacation. Since October of 2008, we went to Ogunquit again in October of 2009. Again we went shopping and again went out to eat. The food wasnt very good but it wasnt as expensive as in 2008. So the pros of the Maine job is the area. The pros of the job in the area we live now is that we have in laws close by, the hours of the position are good, and the pay and the vacation is better. It is a tough decision.
Tomorrow will be some routine cases, knee cases. Will either do a femoral block or an epidural with general anesthesia. I am reading the Love Dare book. It is good thus far. I have to make sure I do the things it says to do. I am learning now to be a better father and husband now that I actually am starting to have the time to do these things.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Stratton weekend
We went to Stratton this weekend, beautiful weather, it was a great time. We went to the Adams Family Farm and went through the corn maze, very expensive farm, was it Green Acres? We all had a great time in VT, we went swimming, made a fire, and my wife and I watched the Sox game at a local restaurant. I cant wait till my next vacation. Oh well back to my case involving a rotation of a leg, but it was a good case, did a fiberoptic intubation and then an epidural!!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Our weekend away.....
Man it is funny how in residency whenever there is even a sliver of free time it can be condensed and made into useful time.. Take this weekend as a for instance, I am on call on Friday night, my wife and I leave for Maine on Saturday at 1030am after dropping our kids off at her parents house. We get to Maine at 230pm get ourselves organized in our hotel room and all of that and then go out shopping at the outlets in Kittery, we finally buy ourselves clothes, which is something I havent done in years, and we have a great time shopping together, so much so that we ran late meeting our friends for dinner.
So we meet our friends for dinner at 630pm at the Bull and Claw. We get a blue hawaian and have some good conversation with friends. My wife and I order the mussels and she gets a lobster roll and I a clam dish. The mussels were great as was the drink, but the main meal so so. The bill was large, over sixty bucks!!! So based on the bill alone I dont recommend this place, if I wanted to pay over sixty bucks I want french, tapas, or some four star dining, not some two star restaurant where everyone is wearing bibs... I would like an ambiance to come with that bill, this place didnt have much of an ambiance. But anyways the conversation was good, we talked about each others shopping exploits, talked about McCain vs. Obama, the recent crash of the market, and how different it feels to be without the kids for the night.
So we finish eating and the go to try to find the marginal way walk, we didnt find it but we went walking on the beach in Wells and talked about renting timeshares in D.C., we plan to go to D.C. for vacation in November and our friends spoke about how they rent timeshares when they go on vacation at a place called redweek.com.. had never heard of it, but will check it out.. Then after the beach we went and got a latte a local coffee shop, the downtown of I think it was Ogunquit and a cozy nice little area, lots of people all looking happy to be there and all comfortable with their ice cream or coffees. So we kind of window shopped and then walked a little more and then went home.
So my wife and I finally settled in at around 1030pm I got to watch my red sox and she zonked out. It was a great day, definitely a much needed change of scenery for the two of us.
The next day, Sunday, we again did more shopping from the Gap and Banana Republic outlets, nice outlet area in Kittery from the store you can see the ocean right out the window, definitely a prime piece of real estate and a nice experience to be together with my wife alone...Definitely a much needed break... The we meet our friends at 1130 and met at the Stonewall Kitchen, here we tasted a bunch of different jams and dips, our friends bought a bunch of stuff, but we dont really have the time, money or inclination to use dips or jams at this point in our lives, so we passed.
Then at around 1230 we went and walked marginal way. Such a nice walk, see the ocean see the horizons with the different color hues. Very relaxing walk. Then at 200pm we left. I slept during most of the ride home. We got to my inlaws place at about 500pm, played with my kids and ate dinner and left for call at 7pm. Did one vascular case for about 4hrs and then after that case slept for most of the night, with the exception of waking up at 4am to go to a code.
So as you can see, I had a busy, fun, relaxing, and much different weekend then usual. I am glad residency is only once, I need to get into a more regular schedule once I am an attending, I need a lot more weekends with my wife like this one, it is definitely lacking and definitely not helping our relationship.
So we meet our friends for dinner at 630pm at the Bull and Claw. We get a blue hawaian and have some good conversation with friends. My wife and I order the mussels and she gets a lobster roll and I a clam dish. The mussels were great as was the drink, but the main meal so so. The bill was large, over sixty bucks!!! So based on the bill alone I dont recommend this place, if I wanted to pay over sixty bucks I want french, tapas, or some four star dining, not some two star restaurant where everyone is wearing bibs... I would like an ambiance to come with that bill, this place didnt have much of an ambiance. But anyways the conversation was good, we talked about each others shopping exploits, talked about McCain vs. Obama, the recent crash of the market, and how different it feels to be without the kids for the night.
So we finish eating and the go to try to find the marginal way walk, we didnt find it but we went walking on the beach in Wells and talked about renting timeshares in D.C., we plan to go to D.C. for vacation in November and our friends spoke about how they rent timeshares when they go on vacation at a place called redweek.com.. had never heard of it, but will check it out.. Then after the beach we went and got a latte a local coffee shop, the downtown of I think it was Ogunquit and a cozy nice little area, lots of people all looking happy to be there and all comfortable with their ice cream or coffees. So we kind of window shopped and then walked a little more and then went home.
So my wife and I finally settled in at around 1030pm I got to watch my red sox and she zonked out. It was a great day, definitely a much needed change of scenery for the two of us.
The next day, Sunday, we again did more shopping from the Gap and Banana Republic outlets, nice outlet area in Kittery from the store you can see the ocean right out the window, definitely a prime piece of real estate and a nice experience to be together with my wife alone...Definitely a much needed break... The we meet our friends at 1130 and met at the Stonewall Kitchen, here we tasted a bunch of different jams and dips, our friends bought a bunch of stuff, but we dont really have the time, money or inclination to use dips or jams at this point in our lives, so we passed.
Then at around 1230 we went and walked marginal way. Such a nice walk, see the ocean see the horizons with the different color hues. Very relaxing walk. Then at 200pm we left. I slept during most of the ride home. We got to my inlaws place at about 500pm, played with my kids and ate dinner and left for call at 7pm. Did one vascular case for about 4hrs and then after that case slept for most of the night, with the exception of waking up at 4am to go to a code.
So as you can see, I had a busy, fun, relaxing, and much different weekend then usual. I am glad residency is only once, I need to get into a more regular schedule once I am an attending, I need a lot more weekends with my wife like this one, it is definitely lacking and definitely not helping our relationship.
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