Archive - October, 2007

San Diego Is Not New Orleans

October 28 4 Comments Category: Natural Disasters, Realpolitik

First I just want to let everyone know that we are all ok. The fire did creep close to our back door last Monday, within a few hours of my blog post outlining the various items we would need to transport with us in the event of an evacuation. For those of you [...]

Mandatory Evacuations

October 22 2 Comments Category: Natural Disasters, The House

Today has been a whirlwind to say the least… I received a call at about 6 am this morning from my office manager asking me to go into our other office to call patients and let them know the office would be closed today and tomorrow. I spent two hours with a co-worker [...]

Discrimination at Wal Mart

October 21 1 Comment Category: Adventures with Dogs

Today I was made aware of an incident that happened at a Wal Mart in Southern California in February of this year. A woman took her dog, a pit bull in training to become a service dog, adorned with the official red vest and all, into her local Wal Mart store and was told [...]

All Apologies

I have been noticeably lax with my posting this past week, but do not worry, Thursday is my last day at work and I have a good feeling that will allow me more free time to write quality posts. I also decided that I am going to start writing a book as soon as [...]

Flu Shot Dead

October 17 0 Comments Category: Natural Disasters

As a whole I am not dead, but my brain surely is.  I thought maybe I am getting a cold, or maybe I have just been working myself too hard, but then I got to thinking about when I started to feel like poo; right after my flu shot on Monday.  My arm was pretty [...]