There’s a huge whooping cough outbreak at a local daycare here. The child who brought it to school was un-vaccinated, and several very little babies now have it, including a 2 month old. Over 120 children were exposed to the cough, as well as all of the adult care providers. Those adults then went home…
Category: Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two
Fishing
When my father started his naval career, a college graduate in the officer’s program, he made $8,280 per year. Adjusted for inflation, that amount would equal $32,706 today. First year college graduate naval aviators make $28,000 today. When my father went to college, he paid $355 per year to go to a state school. It…
Careful What You Wish For . . .
The back pain has settled into a dull, constant ache. So maybe I preferred the ache-free, sucker-punch-at-any-minute stage more. I don’t know. The dull ache sucks. But it’s an ache that aches in such a way that I know it’s healing properly (it also sort of tickly itches, in that way that major bruises do…
Initial Thoughts
Both the liberal and the conservative reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden are irritating me. We are irreconcilably divided in this country, and it’s never more obvious than taking a gander at my facebook status feed in the wake of the death of a terrible, terrible man. People have been so spun, they…
Quick (and Depressing) Brain Dump
I cannot say this aloud to the people I want to say it to, so I’m going to splash it here. But quickly, bc I have a lot to do. So a little boy in Jack’s class has leukemia. It’s the “good” kind of leukemia – as in, the kind that is more like a chronic…