grapes are nature's jelly beans.

heard on [3 guesses] npr that some veterans who were patients at the v-a hospital were exposed to [this is gross] bodily fluids of other patients b/c certain endoscopic [that's a scopic in your endo] paraphernalia were not properly sterilized. um... blech. so, these vets were exposed to germs [duh] and some have come down with some serious illnesses, e.g. hiv/aids & hepatitis. the way that the v-a hospital people know these patients have hiv/aids or hepatitis is because they have done tests. but, here's what i want to know - how do they know if these people already had these illnesses before the procedure?

a few days ago, there was a news story about an airplane on which the pilot died and a passenger landed the plane. what most news agencies did not lead with was this little tidbit - the passenger was a trained pilot. that's right. the amazing hero landing by the passenger was a sort of regular landing by a pilot. woopwoop.

tonight we went bowling - and by «we» i mean me, my old man, junior, & speedy. let me tell you this - junior & speedy are the most together broken-up couple you'll ever meet. in less than a month, they will have been broken up for a year. i plan to start prodding for status after this milestone passes. as for the bowling, let's just say there were plenty of interesting people to observe & discuss at the alleys. that's how good the bowling was going - we spent a good portion of the time observing & discussing, observing & discussing.

before hawaii was hawaii it was called the sandwich islands. hawaii was discovered by the same guy that invented the sammich. wow. he kinda got around.