Holiday Pics

Elissa & Christy

Lauren

Joel

Abigail

Andrew

If you click on each picture, you'll get a full PRINT SIZE photo (you don't have to, I'm just sayin'...)

Snow Day

Snow Day ... this is NOT Southern California.

Growing up in Southern California, in grade school we'd had a phenomenon called Heat Days. Conditions in which it was so hot that the school's airconditioning couldn't keep up with the sweltering, and we were all sent home early. Well, something similar happened today, AND I'm on-call tonight, so I have to sit around the apartment waiting for someone to walk in to ER or head to the OR for some kind of crash c-section. While my friends get together for Sushi, and fun, and photography, and potentially new video footage.

While at work

 While at work, the snow continued to come down. They had to dig some of the 2 wheel drive cars out of the parking lot. But fortunately for my, my Jeep is tried and true, and at no other time (other than the trip to Sacramento from Mammoth through Tahoe without snow-tires, chains or a snow-plow), have I been more happy for this vehicle.

The View from my Apartment parking spot.

It's not even that cold outside, just windy and snowing A LOT! But the snow is nice and relatively dry, not as squeaky as Colorado, but still pretty dry. But relatively safe here, and warm, with books. Interestingly enough, I left my camera at the Lombards (so that their cousins could mess around with it), and I had to shoot these with my sidekick: the S90.

Conviction

Conviction, it seems, doesn't come from someone else telling us what we're doing wrong per se, but more strongly from someone we admire telling us what they want to change in their own life.

It snowed today

Wise or Otherwise at the Gerrans

David is home for Christmas Break, and Lauren hasn't left yet. We're seeing if it's worth it to make a career to change to fortune cookie or motivational calendar writers.

Getting more efficient at this editing business.

In case you were wondering

Back in the days, when the earth was drying after the global flood, we used to write prescriptions by hand. And if you've ever happened upon a handwritten one (maybe at the Smithsonian or at a local garage sale), you might be wondering what all the mumbo-jumbo was about. If that was the case, here's a little primer on what criptic words we use. It's helpful because since Latin is a dead language, there really isn't any variation in it. There is very little risk that you'll hear its way seeping through the vernacular in a local Hip Hop song. That also means that if I write a scrip (preSCRIPtion) for you, and let's say you want to fill it in ... I don't know ... Argentina, you should be able to without too much ado. And without further of that (the ado), here's a small primer on Medical Prescription lingo:

Prescription Abbreviations: Common Latin Rx Terms
ac (ante cibum) means "before meals"
bid (bis in die) means "twice a day"
gt (gutta) means "drop"
hs (hora somni) means "at bedtime"
od (oculus dexter) means "right eye"
os (oculus sinister) means "left eye"
po (per os) means "by mouth"
pc (post cibum) means "after meals"
prn (pro re nata) means "as needed"
q 3 h (quaque 3 hora) means "every 3 hours"
qd (quaque die) means "every day"
qid (quater in die) means "4 times a day"
Sig (signa) means "write"
tid (ter in die) means "3 times a day"

Now you can take your secret decoder table and find out what we're really saying!

Hot Night in Maine

Almost T-shirt weather!
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Plug for Game Night

First attempt at video edit and upload. Thanks to the Lombards, Newharts, Josh, Jonathan, and Steven for being such good sports.