Today was my first day at the hospital since my interview last December. I had to get fingerprinted and get my ID badge. So thinking I want to look professional in my ID pic, I get all dressed up with a shirt and tie.
Took a little while to find HR for the fingerprinting but after that I was all set to take my picture. So I walk to the main hospital from the HR bunker and had take everything out of my pockets, my belt, and my watch for the metal detector.
Finally, I make it up to the 8th floor. I’m ready to take my picture up against the pale blue wall and the nice lady actually comments that I came prepared for my ID pic. My picture looks pretty nice, I thought. Sweet! Until she takes her little cropping tool and crops everything out except my face and the very top of my collar! :wallbash:
David wanted to do something manly while Angeline was at her bridal shower. Ended up being only David, Vic and me. Pretty fun. Want to go back. :guns:
Minding my own business. David comes out with laundry basket. Somehow I end up getting cuffed to the basket. What a fool.
Today was a great day. I got off work early and I came home thinking I’d take a nice nap before dinner at this place called Kathmandu Chullo.
Hey, maybe I should check my e-mail that I already checked on my phone before I got home. So I sat down at my laptop and opened up Firefox. Hmm, CNN has an article on the Hubble (Hubble repair mission OK’d). Wow, the telescope was launched in 1990 when I was only 9 years old and since then it has taken over 750,000 pictures. After looking at a few of the pictures Hubble has acquired, I started feeling mighty small and insensible.
The galaxies pictured each had billions of stars and each galaxy looked like a sprinkle of pixie dust. At this time, I began to feel even smaller. Next was a picture of a galaxy over 100 million light years away meaing the light that was imaged was over 100 million years old! The little description said the exposure time had to be one million seconds. WTF!? I can just picture Dr. Evil asking for the picture. So I wanted to know how long one million seconds was and because I was too lazy to calculate it, I Googled it. It was interesting to note that my query returned over 23 million results.
I got to the third link and I finally found my answer in the FAQ: one million seconds equals 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds. Even more amazing, the telescope can capture images “without deviating more than the width of a strand of human hair from a mile away.”
Since I was on a roll, I Googled the number of stars in the universe. I got almost 44 million results this time but the first link gave me my answer. I should have just clicked the “I’m feeling lucky” button instead but even more importantly, there are 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe. How many atoms are in the universe? The first result out of almost 5 million had a good enough answer. To give a little perspective to those who still use pencils, but without specifying what kind, it is written that there are 25,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in just the lead. Anywho, a scant 4×10^79 is a conservative estimate of the number of atoms in the universe. That’s 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms!
Since my finger is tired from typing all those zeros, I will conclude today’s lesson in boredom. But not before talking about Kathmandu Chullo. It is supposed to be a Nepalese restaurant. I’m expecting it to be good simply because Kathmandu (kat-man-doo) is home to roughly 800,000 people and the capital of Nepal which is, in turn, home to 8 of the ten tallest mountains on our tiny Earth.
I’m going to take a nap now to forget I even exist. Happy Halloween!
Calvin and Hobbes really helps bring back fond memories of old times. Today was unique because it brought back fond memories, but only mixed emotions. Eh.
I remember one warm afternoon when I was in elementary school day care. There was Debra (I think) who was the boss/leader, Pauline the assistant, and Darren and Jennifer who I think were studying to be teachers or something. I miss them. More on Jennifer at a later time.
I know the preview is tremendously small, so click to enlarge.
Bill Watterson, Oct. 30, 1995.
Anyway, I was telling some other kid, “uckfay ouyay.” LOL, I thought I was such a genius just like Calvin. But then the day care lady, Pauline, heard me and was like, “Young man! I know what you just said! I’m going to tell your mother.” Needless to say, my mom just laughed. Happy Birthday Mom.
So now that Angeline is gone, I get to eat the crappy food I did before. This time I mixed it up with a bottle of sparkling wine we had sitting in the fridge to celebrate my cheap/free gas.
I have some more updates but I think I’ll save them for later because I don’t want to use them all up in one day!
Courtesy of CPK and their kids menu and crayons. I’m so proud. :king:
WTF is happening to my leg! It’s spreading. But it looks like it’s healing. Must’ve been one big ass Michigan mosquito.
Dang, it reached triple digits here in Detroit. Nasty sweltering heat and moisture. :puke: I know, all you peeps in Cali are like that’s nothing. But for MI, it’s something.
Also, something bit my leg. Crazy MI mosquitoes probably. Hope I haven’t contracted West Nile.
Yay, finally done with Step 2 of USMLE. Actually, only half of it since there’s a clinical skills exam too. But that’s for later.
On a side note, I was browsing the net when I came across this interesting article on CNN:
>> CNN.com – Study: More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans
It’s funny especially since I’m rotating through Radiology this month. Definitely true.
;)
