You know that Internet meme, “nom nom nom” generally reserved for something so good that you can’t help but eat it quickly and with much enthusiasm…think Cookie Monster from “Sesame Street” and his cookies.
There are two beers that you must try. Both from my favorite breweries.
First is Victory’s Whirlwind Wit beer. Light, crisp, citrusy, clean but very flavorful, it’s like a smoother, tastier version of Wiehenstephaner’s Kristallwiess beer. Victory’s brew is so good that yes, you can have it for breakfast. I thought that the Germans were nuts, drinking beer with their eggs, but this stuff is perfect after a rough night shift in the ED….beer and eggs!
Second is Anderson Valley’s Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema beer. I wasn’t too enthused by the description…how could a “copper colored ale” possibly be a good summer beer? And cream soda? Eurgh. But the label also mentioned that it was “lighter in body than its cousin” the Winter Solstice beer. Which is one of my favoritist beers ever. The summer version is now one of my other favoritist beers ever. It’s got, for lack of a better description, a silky feel and the Anderson Valley seasonal taste that’s unique to them. And the after taste has strong notes of vanilla and cream. It’s too bad that I have to work tomorrow. Otherwise I’d love to try another, and make sure that it’s really good….
I’m going out to buy a case of this stuff tomorrow. Cheers.
“Frak,” Battlestar Galactica’s version of the f-bomb. It’s been around forever, but I just discovered it. And like a kid with a new word, I’m using it all the time. It’s very expressive, and like its more familiar counterpart, you can use it for just about anything. For example, “That’s really frakked up,” or “This house is a frakking mess,” or even simply, “frak,” when something just isn’t working. It’s quite satisfying to say, more so than other substitutes, such as Hitchhiker’s Guide’s “fark,” or my grandmother’s version, “fudge.” With “frak,” people know what you mean. Actually it’s more fun to say than the original epithet. Try it. Frak. Frak! FRAK! See? That was fun.
My friend Clare just spent a week with her husband, Drew, and a bunch of other people who are also into Battlestar. Apparently everyone was using “frak” gratuitously (because it is such fun to say.) She said, “there was a whole lotta frakking at the beach house,” meaning that people were saying it way too often. Sure, right. We know what ya’ll were really doing at that beach house.
Four years ago I went through a huge series of changes…a wedding that almost was, finding a place to live, hiring movers, packing, moving to Virginia, and starting medical school. Now imagine doing that in about a month.
Fortunately I learned some lessons that time, because I’m doing pretty much the same thing. On May 16-17, I graduated from medical school, surrounded by a wonderful group of family and friends (thank you!), went up to NJ on the 18th, found a place to live, came home on the 23rd, started looking for movers on the 24th. We’ve got some reputable movers and are moving up to Montclair, NJ on Tuesday, June 3. Residency starts Friday June 13. That’s one month exactly. It’s a little easier because Tim’s healthy and is able to help this time, and we know some people in Montclair. It’s not a totally new place. We’re sad to leave Virginia, though…I’ll always be a Southerner at heart and we plan to return in 3 years.
So right now we’re surrounded by boxes and chaos and it all has to be done by tomorrow night. We’ll be moving into Rydal Place on the 5th. It’s so big that Tim gets his own “Man Room.” Phone and email will stay the same. We’d love to have friends stay with us!
Movingscam.com is an amazing website that walked me through on how to research and find a reputable mover. It was extremely educational and if you’re moving, read this site. It has a list of movers by state with people’s reviews and very active message board.
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Mr. Smith is a patient that I took care of during my third year. This is his story.
Mr. Smith was a tall, grandfatherly seventy-two year old with a genteel Southern drawl. He was a former Navy man who worked in the shipyards for twenty-five years, building submarines. He also loved gardening, his fluffy Pomeranian dog named Bobo, and telling tall tales. During his hospitalization, I discovered that he possessed a stoicism and quiet courage that I have rarely seen.
He came in with a five-week history of progressively worsening shortness of breath and dyspnea on exertion. He could no longer bend over to tie his shoes nor walk Bobo to the mailbox. On radiography, he was found to have a massive pleural effusion; so he was admitted and had a chest tube put in.
We drained over two liters of bloody fluid from his chest. Continue reading ‘Mr. Smith’
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Spring has arrived in Richmond. Yay!
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I was trying to read for tomorrow’s ortho cases and Tim showed me this:The Electromagnetic Spectrum.
This is good stuff. I dare ya to read the rest of this guy’s work.
XKCD
I found this thing called “Bikely’ that blends Google maps and allows people to share routes. I recognize some of them and hope to try others soon. Here’s my cheat route when I’m feeling lazy.
Dammit. Here ya go until I can figure out to get the code to display properly on this site.
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/79147
So who’s responsible for keeping AshleyMortenson.com up and running?
(Tim)
There’s nothing to say. Hell, my last web post was in June 2004. I’m just finishing 3rd year of medical school and spend the majority of my time working , studying, or thinking of ways to get out of work early so that I can go ride or go to yoga. However, Tim and Jonathan are usually right, and maybe I’ll find a use for this someday. After all, I thought Tim was a complete idiot when he gave my my first iPod 5 years ago-but he was right- it was a really cool and useful thing. Maybe this will be someday as well.
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So, Tim came up with this great idea to get me my own domain and set up Wordpress. Jon helped get the domain and Tim took the time to find a theme that might be to my liking. Now, he just needs to show me how to use it!
