NewTAN's Third Law of Motion (Page 2)

My day started out with me walking in the door and being told a fascinating story by a lady who had a bathroom emergency on her run this weekend!

Good morning to you too!

AWESOME!

Sorry, I just can't keep those stories to myself

I really did not ask to many follow up questions, but she said she ran up to some old ladies house and said she had a medical emergency and asked if she could use her bathroom, and the old lady let her! Thankfully my phone rang and I was able to get away.

So did anyone else have a completely weird as all get you week last week? It had to have been a full moon.  Probably had 2 of my top 5 most bizzarre cases at work..........lets just say its not goo when your orthopod is diagnosing your leukemia and FWIW....THAT IS NOT AN ORTHOPEDIC PROBLEM. 

For your entertainment.............My cat Tucker escaped thursday. I was completely FRANTIC running around my neighborhood shouting for him (He is an indoor cat)  Made flyers put them out more frantic running about filed missing pet report with the microchip CO etc etc....so I am running upstairs and there isa frigging RAT...a RAT on my stairs...............WTF?????????  If I had not already been completely flipping out over Tucker being gone it would have freaked me out a lot more.  I show it to the other 2 cats......who are afraid of it. Aren't they supposed to have an INSTINCT or something?  My 15# cat runs up the stairs and looks down at it....like gee mom get that thing out of our house............awesome.  Anyway I get it down the stairs trap it under one of those microwave plastic things you put over your food, (Yeah I threw that out)  slide a file folder under the rat and the plastic thing and do a catch and release and proceed to look for Tucker (I found him a bit later the little booger) 

My fiance says "Oh just get some of those sticky traps and put them out"  Yeah because I want LIVE RATS with their ratty little feet stuck to traps while they live...then WTF am I supposed to do with them? Next door neighbor says Oh just spray some foam around the foundation so they can't get in..........Yeah I am calling a professional.  So today I finally get someone on the phone and I explain what happened

Rat guy (RG) "So what did you do with it?"
Me: "Well I was not going to keep it as a pet, I did a catch and release"
RG : you didn't KILL it?"
Me:  Dude NO how was I supposed to kill it? It was a big friggin rat? That is not in my skill set" (And get rat brains and guts in my house??? EEWW)
RG:  "So you just let it go?"
ME: "Damn it Jim I'm a doctor not a rat killer"

He laughed at me and hung up.  geez o pete

I have one coming at 8am tomorrow.  YAY!!!  Thanks Spock

I was reminded again a couple times this last month how amazingly resilient the human body is...  It's ability to self repair, deal with pain, trauma, etc can be astounding.  A reminder to take care of it so it can take care of us/itself.

I was playing "look what I can do" after a couple cocktails...  I'm now missing body parts... 

But crazier story, a girl we know fell off a hotel balcony in Mexico.  Apparently, the TWELFTH FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!  And broke her back in several place, but is actually doing well, at home, and should recover quite nicely.  Seriously?  That sounds like one of those miracle stories.

missing body parts is certainly the crazier story.  stop vaguebooking.

I told the "trailer" to it last week.

The real story: had one of my toothes removed.  The sounds created and force needed to get it out was horrible.  That being said, besides a weird feeling of a  gap soon to be filled with a new tooth, zero pain, zero problems.  Haven't even needed aspirin.  Similar to a wisdom tooth.

It's like the body just says "oh, missing a tooth", turns off the pain and carries on. 

Same happened when I had several of my toenails removed because of stupid "black toe" from bad fitting shoes.  It was funny to see what could have looked like a terribly painful thing (doc taking pliers and ripping nails off) and not feel a thing (god bless local anesthesia) and the fact the body turns off the pain and heals fast and not having nails that first week wasn't even bothersome.  They grew back all purty and new.

I know a tooth is not that big a deal.  But I'm still impressed.  So the bone will quickly knit together to fill the void and repair itself.  They will put a titanium post and put a new crown on it and good as new.  They say it's good for a lifetime...

In other news my exterminator has assured me my house is rat free. Thanks God.  He could not figure out how my visitor got in but assures me I have no unwanted room mates.  He left some traps in the garage.  The cats' garage privileges are revoked. 

whoa - i just actually registered for some triathlons!  

also - re party coach - is he a new coach or a coach that has been a part of your league for a while?  i think you are probably making a big ish deal about it, throw a good party for your friends and enjoy.

> I just be happy that it means there will be less people hanging around at 2:00 a.m. ?

I would go with that. I host a BBQ each year near the 4th of July and most of my friends anticipate it and enjoy coming. There also tends to be other BBQs/parties that weekend and often some of my guests leave in the evening to head to them. This doesn't bother me much, as I was able to spend time with them earlier in the day and, as you said, there is less of a big group at the end of the night when wrapping up the party.

Ever deal with someone missing the forest looking at trees?  I'm sure you have.

OMG, I have an architect confused about a sidewalk that's built straddling the lease line.  They're in a kerfuffle about who builds the remaining two feet past the lease line or how to handle it - the owner or the tenant.  We have been going back and forth FOR DAYS about these "limbo" areas when I finally broke it down that he is making a huge deal about a 2' strip of sidewalk that's 75' long.  That costs $600 bucks to build in a project that costs MILLIONS AND MILLIONS.

I told him to pick a contractor to do it all so it's consistent instead of one contractor doing 4' and another doing 2' then the other contractor give them $600 for the effort of doing it all.  I also mentioned that we probably spent TWICE that going back and forth via email about it.  Some times technical people get SO hung up about some phantom line or some detail and miss the fact it's just not that big of a deal.  Just pick something and GO.    

going through that on a project here - we are redesigning one component of an injector and everyone is freaking out about this diameter that is like, 3 microns larger than we would like it, so spending tons of time on drawings, analyses, etc.  meanwhile, one component the material we are investigating literally VAPORIZES when i weld creating this "honeycomb" pattern so the part leaks, and therefore doesn't do its job (because i have to 100% inspect for a hermetic weld).  instead of focusing on identifying the right material, all anyone wants to talk about is this diameter.  GET THE HECK OUT OF HERE.

nerds unite.

I get the technical guy's point - he wants it exact.  But I'm high enough up the ladder to deal with the owners all the time.  When they ask about things like this and how much it costs and the answer is 600 bucks?  They flip out and almost pull some hundies out of their wallet and say "make it happen".  I tend to think like them.  Everyone gets scared about spending the clients money, but $600 in a job that costs a quarter BILLION dollars to build?  Shoot, I have submitted things then told them they have a $5k - $10k county fee and they just say "bill me" and it's done but this guy is hassling me a week about who is paying for 600 bucks of walk.  At my billing rate, we spent more emailing about it than paying the contractor to pour 2' more...

Whats up nerdy birdies.
I'm up to my eyeballs in work. My (very young) co-worker spaced on something this morning and asked me to cover - it was too late. She was just rolling in to work at 9 a.m. Then takes an hour-fifteen (right now, she's not back yet) lunch. And will leave early. Godd bless her, that used to be me.

15 minutes until my 2nd interview with a law firm in Austin... 

Fingers crossed!!!