Back from a trip to Yankee Stadium.
The new ballpark seems to lack the mystique/aura/history that the old park had…so it’s not as good. The new park is just that…a new park.
It’s also exorbitantly overpriced. Things like a bag of peanuts for $5, a soda for $6 and a beer for $9?!?!?!?!
Rip-off!
Oh, did I mention how much I dislike the Yankees? So it’s always fun sitting in the stands of a team you can’t stand. Ugh. It made my little brother happy though…
Now here’s the kicker:
Nearly all the known cases were in children who were not vaccinated.
I blame Jenny McCarthy (and her crew)
GM Plans ‘Garage Sale’ for Toxic Plants, Golf Course
No, that wasn’t an NY Post headline either!
The Parents and Brother are coming for the weekend tomorrow.
This includes taking The Brother to Yankee Stadium for tomorrow’s game (yuck)–I hate the Yankees
Posting to be very light
Today’s workout left my quads sore….and they haven’t felt this good in a while.
Started out with some squatting. Did a large volume to warm-up and then did 4×8@185 (narrow stance). I could have done more reps, but I felt like my arch was beginning to slip and I also wanted to play things conservatively. Then I did a set of 225×4 onto a low box (narrow stance). The reps went flawlessly, it was just the weight felt heavier on the upper body than usual.
These were super-set with neutral grip chins (I only did 5×5 @ bw) but I just flew up with ease.
Needless to say, I was extremely happy with this workout.
(Yeah, I did 3 other lifts but they’re of secondary importance)
Going to try to get under the bar tomorrow and rep out some back squats.
Here goes nothing!
Patient calls the office today with a question about a claim being resubmitted to her insurance provider.
The patient wants to know how long it will take for the insurer to process the claim.
We respond that she should ask her insurer what the claim processing turn-around time is (especially since patients often find out about claims before the providers do).
After dealing with same versions of this same question (for a good 5-10 minutes), the patient finally spits up the fact that she has the answer from her insurer already.
If you’ve already got the answer from the primary source–why bother a secondary party who doesn’t have a solid response?
Blood Samples Raise Questions of Privacy
I’m surprised that consent wasn’t required for the States to hold onto these samples. In every sort of trial and/or experiment, informed consent is a must!
Even though the blood was likely stored anynomously, it sorts of seems “unethical” to be doing something like this sans permission.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables rich in the antioxidant quercetin may boost endurance, according to a small study with healthy college students.
….
Quercetin, a compound abundant in red apples, red onions, berries, cabbages and broccoli, and green and black teas, is believed to have multiple antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, and cell-energy activation properties that benefit health.
Let’s see how many of these categories did I eat today?
Apple, broccoli, berries and green tea. I like this plan.
Fruits and veggies…nom nom nom
High Court Rules for White Firefighters in Discrimination Suit
IMHO–I don’t think that a city should be allowed to simply jettison the results of a civil-service exam on the basis of racial performance.
I like to attempt to go into a day of work with a basic “plan of attack.” That is to say, for the things that I know await me, there’s a specific order in which I’d like to tackle each task.
That said, I’m very well aware that no plan goes as it’s drawn up. (Something I know all to well)
At least it’s worth a shot…
I’ve swung form the full of energy side of the pendulum to the “feeling flat” side…sigh.
This is occasionally a sign to me to bump up my caloric intake more (though I have no appetite to do so)–the conundrum I face.
At least the weekend is here so I can rest and at a minimum attempt to recharge my batteries so to speak.
Shaq + Lebron…could be interesting…
USA defeats Spain in the Confederations cup 2-0
The same US team that barely made it out of pool play…scored twice on the number #1 team in the world?!?!?
Who would’ve imagined?
Nothing too exciting to report from the gym this week. It’s been a pre-planned deload, just to play it safe.
I’m seriously contemplating resuming some ‘overhead” work (e.g. pull-ups/chin-ups) next week, as I’d previously dropped those secondary to my injury).
During my next training cycle, I’m also strongly considering re-introducing some chest-dominant dumbbell work (also had been dropped). Also thinking about bringing the back squat into play.
A little anecdote from working with physicians.
One thing I’ve developed a knack for is finding charts in our chart room. Perhaps it’s from having spent too much time in there filing,
However, many of the physicians seem to struggle when it comes to locating charts. Or as one of the senior physicians puts it, they seem to suffer from “chart blindness”.
The cause of this disorder is still unkown, but it is an interesitng phenomenon.
Just today I had a Fellow come looking for a specific chart. After telling the Fellow that it was most likely filed in the chart room, he claimed to have checked, and proceeded to go back to his desk to look around again. Upon strolling in a few moments later, I located the chart…filed away where it was supposed to be. Go figure…
Thankfully (I suppose) my furlough is over. So it’s back to a five-day work week.
On the one hand, i’ll miss not getting to sleep in.
On the other hand, I won’t miss the boredom, construction workers, school noise that I used to have to endure while on furlough.
And actually, being at work for 5 days will give me time to get through the busy work that I need to get through (a lot of it is paper pushing but there are a few projects on my plate too).
Powered by WordPress