The next time we design a travel trailer or a boat cabin, or a tiny basement apartment, we’re gonna remember this articulated commode… When it’s folded in and closed, the counter is only about 18" deep.

Sinus of the times

After days of staring at the random twitches of atrial fibrillation on Lee’s monitors, this was a very welcome way to start the day. Maybe home today…

Radiologists must be smarter than other doctors: the main waiting room has People and Good Housekeeping, but here outside the CT scanner we have New Yorker and the Economist.

From a trip a few weeks ago: two goats and a well-hidden chicken playing hide and seek in Brookshire, TX.

On the one hand, not what I want to be looking at. On the other, what a bunch of cool gadgets.

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital apparently sits in a spot that is privileged for rainbows. I’m sure most people who look out these windows are hoping for something like a pot of gold: either as a metaphor for a return to health or more literally as a way to pay the bills.

And the memes steal my attention.

Confirmation

That is NOT a giant model of a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver. That is a CT scanner, which was used to confirm that Lee’s bellyache was more than just bellyaching. One emergency operation later, her worse-than-useless appendix has been consigned to some biohazard compost heap (hopefully located near Trump campaign headquarters).

As we answered the routine history questions at the (hospital owned) doctor’s office, again at the ED, again for the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, and at least two nurses, all of them armed with an electronic medical record system, I’ll admit I questioned the value of the work I’ve done over the years…

Time heals all post-op wounds, they say, but hopefully a short time in this case.

Browsing is learing

This self-styled resource center for art produced by people with special communication patterns recently appeared in a downtown Brattleboro storefront. On the one hand, yay for them, and shame on me for even thinking about taunting their spelling. On the other…

Update: they closed soon after I posted this. Anybody need a storefront?

Costco still rules

Earlier this week, I bought the melon on the left at our local grocery store. 10.6 pounds, $5.99.

Because of our big party tomorrow (with entertainment by The Snaz!), I bought the melon on the right today at Costco. Same price, 20 pounds.