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A list of People to Kill…

May 27, 2014 / / 10 Comments

Ok so this isn’t really a list of people to kill and I am probably on some CIA watch list now but you are here and reading arent you?  There is a special prize if you read until the end.

Today’s post was inspired by my wife’s OBGYN office.  Not the doctor, the receptionists, nurses and lab people all left me with a very bad vibe today.  If you didn’t know, My wife is pregnant.  She is due the first part of July and she had to have a test that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment in most countries around the world.  We had to go in for the wonderfully exciting 3 hour glucose tolerance test for gestational diabetes.  Without recapping the whole day time by time, here is what I observed.

1.  Glucose drink may as well be Karo syrup.

2. It says on the bottle may cause Nausea (check), cramping (check), Diarrhea (check).  And the lab techs are surprised at any of these symptoms.

3.  Certain 4 letter words that rhyme with “Truck” keep coming up in conjunction with this test.

4.  My poor wife, she is ready to puke, feeling terrible, cramping and ready to toss her cookies (she couldn’t really have cookies of course) and be done with the test.  The Nurse and the lab techs keep coming out and asking if she is ok and needing to get he blood drawn.

It was a long 3 hours.  There was a point where I really wanted to stand up and yell, “OK Somebody has to die now, You guys choose who it is!”

By the end of it, everything turned out fine and My wife is a trooper.  She made it through without killing anyone or puking on them.  It is funny to watch her argue with the nurses, she is a nurse too and can cut through the BS that the OBGYN nurse spouts like a hot hammer through butter.  Not even a knife stroke, smashed.  It makes me happy when she can put them in their places.  She has learned a lot of things being a trauma Nurse that a specialized nurse in a doctors office can’t even begin to understand.

They should outlaw this test.  This post may have been a better rant over at www.cantankerousoldcoots.com but I wrote it here first.  Take that and….I digress.

Ok you have read until the end so here is your prize.  You get tomorrow’s post for free!  Simply sign on to http://justinsbrainpan.com and read happily!  Sign up for my mailing list and you will get  an exclusive download released on Friday!!!  Thanks for reading

-Justin!

What I did today: The Grind Report

May 27, 2014 / / 4 Comments
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Not that there was any way to avoid it, but I am sure you have noticed my lack of postings here on the Catharsis the past couple of weeks.  Call it lack of motivation, call it laziness, call it what you will, but I have been absent.  I hope that there is someone out there who is at least annoyed by that.

I have written something like this post before and I am sure  that if you remember those you are sick of it and are ready to unsubscribe.  Let me just say, please don’t.  I have ideas again and things to write about but my time is not balanced well at the moment.  I could blame it on a number of things including sick kids and a 7 month old who likes to wake up in the middle of the night, but the only person to blame is me.
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Seeking out the flash we want instead of the stuff we need

May 27, 2014 / / 10 Comments

I love to fish.  I would be fishing now if I wanted to be cold.  Most of the lakes and rivers are still somewhat frozen here in Utah.  I am getting that spring bug though.

I was at Walmart the other day looking over the sporting good section like I usually do and it got me thinking.  How much of this is what my grandpa used to call “bait for fishermen” and not worth the money to buy?  Answer, most of it.  There is so much of every type of plug, popper, spinner, spoon, crankbait, or gimmick that it is oerwhelming to look at.

Of course I have a bunch of gear but it is gear that I chose to buy for one reason or another, based onhow it my catch fish.  I don’t have anything that looks like a beer can or a pile of junk.  I have good colors and shapes that willhelp me catch fish.  Period.

One of the best things that ever happened to me was when we moved.  I lost all of my fishing gear except for my poles.  as near as I can figure, my tackle boxes were lifted while I was loading up the truck.  I have not noticed anything else missing.  the only things I was not happy about losing were 2 of my good reels but, I guess someone else needed them worse than me.  I hope they got into fishing because of it.

I have replaced everything that I wanted to and now have a kit that I am really happy with.  I can’t wait to use it this summer.

I thought about all of this and how it applies to the internet. There is a lot of flash and bait on the net.  I have it on my site in affiliate programs and I will have in the future for product offers.  You can google anything and get millions of hits.  The secret is guessing at the good stuff and leaving the garbage.  There is plenty of both around the internet.

Sometimes it is beneficial to clean out the old stuff and start over.  I have dumped my bookmarks in the past and started over.  I am thinking about cleaning out my twitter.  I am considering purging chaff from my RSS reader as well.

The only real advice I am going to give is this.  Decide to do something and do it.  Decide on a post idea, write it (time permitting).  Decide to comment, do it.  Decide to purge, do it.  I am finally sick of myself putting things off and talking about doing things that never quite get around to happening.  Now, I am doing it.

So, Go Do Something.  NOW! Get out of here!

Justin

Of All The Books….

May 27, 2014 / / 2 Comments

When we first moved into our house almost 4 years ago we had a ton of books.  There were books that we had been saving to “read” later, and books from college, and books from the library out of date materials sale.

We had so many books that I built floor to ceiling bookshelves, each 6 feet long.  Recently we decided that, while we love books, we needed to thin the herd.

Now, I love books almost as much as I love the internet.  I always have.  I love losing myself in a story and losing sleep because the story is just that good.  There are certain books that were my only friends growing up, my only escape from the drudgery of Junior High.

In the past I always hated giving books away or donating them, because I was going to read that again! It is mine!  I have a Collection!  But that can’t happen anymore.  I have had to face some hard truths.  There are so many new books out there I may never get back to the older ones that are not favorites.

There are many favorites that I may never read again.  So I have purged many of the books that I used to have.  The good news is, there are always libraries to read new books from.  There are even books on CD which I love as well.

I just had a thought as I was packing up some of said books for donation to charity.  Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca, sort of.  Some of these books I looked at and said to myself in my best Bogart, “Of all the bookshelves in all the world and you ended up on mine”.

Cheesy I know, but there is a relationship that you have with books.  They come and go.  They give you what you need when you care to search.  They are patient and everlasting.  They are meant to be enjoyed and I am convinced now, that they are meant to be passed on for others to enjoy.  A book can enrich no one sitting on a dusty shelf in my basement.

Now for the DVD “collection”

-Justin

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