After another day of pain, this time accompanied by a lengthy navigation through a medical bureaucracy and a CAT scan, it has been confirmed that I have another kidney stone in me. This week’s pain is localized in a somewhat… Continue Reading
This afternoon, after some exceptionally dull depositions, I came back to the office, ate some take-out lunch, and sat down to do some other work. At about 2:30, my back started to really ache. I wondered if it was bad… Continue Reading
1. I do not like ketchup. For some people, not liking ketchup would be like not liking sex. But I really dislike the stuff. Oh, it’s nasty, I gag just thinking about it. On or in anything. If I am… Continue Reading
I have no idea what this chart means. It was offered, in another forum, to prove that poor people smoke more than rich people do (and therefore that a tax on cigarettes is regressive). But as far as I can… Continue Reading
It’s felt like I’ve been running in high gear for a solid week now. I’ve managed to oppose I don’t even know how many motions, write responses to quite a bit of discovery, served as a pro tem judge, wrote… Continue Reading
So I’m in my office yesterday, returned from my trip to Stinking Bakersfield which turned out to be a huge waste of time. I’ve got a twelve-pack of diet grapefruit-flavored soda* in the office’s refrigerator and I’ve taken one out… Continue Reading
Round about 2:00 this afternoon, the heater kicked on in the office. Perhaps not coincidentally, ever since then I have been yawning absolutely uncontrollably, to the point where my jaw is cracking and tears are flowing freely from my eyes. … Continue Reading
Insomnia, that is. I couldn’t fall asleep until about 3:00 in the morning. Then I had to get up at 6:00 to be at an early-morning conference about the local economy. I feel like a zombie right now from lack… Continue Reading
I don’t normally mind a trip to the dentist and I like having clean teeth. And after The Wife’s bad experience recently, I wasn’t going to use the dentist she went to (she won’t, either) so I went to a… Continue Reading
This article confirms something I have long strongly suspected — doctors are discouraged from using phrases like “I’m sorry” by their malpractice insurance carriers (and the lawyers they employ). This is intended to avoid having the doctor make an admission… Continue Reading