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[dachshund]

Yeah, that's pretty shocking.

[Nanci]

This is great- on my second to last patient, I cut my thumb pretty badly opening a bottle that didn't open right- so sharp metal shards all over...After I had it bandaged, (bored at work) I spent about 15 minutes with a red marker and an alcohol wipe perfecting my fake blood poisoning. I tried it out on my boss, to no effect, since he is too busy, but when the radiologist who was there when I slashed it open came by, man did I get him! He's like, Oh, that doesn't look good...Let me see it! But I couldn't hold back anymore, I started laughing. He goes "You guys are going to be talking about this for years, now, right?"

[salsabike]

There was an article in one of the Seattle papers some years ago in which they interviewed area sommeliers with a guarantee of anonymity. Several of them said, hey, our restaurant's $30 bottle of wine is exactly what you can get at the local supermarket for $3-4 dollars. Never forgot that article.

[dachshund]

salsabike, thanks for the link to the pandacam! He's adorable!
How's the weather up in Seattle? Are you having the same heat wave that we are?

[snapdragen]

I'm doing the opposite of OT - I'm working 1/2 days for the next week. I can't take a real vacation right now, there is no one to cover for me. So, I'll go in, run all the "must be done daily" things, then leave.

Now, if only this heatwave would break, so I would actually want to go outside!

[salsabike]

salsabike, thanks for the link to the pandacam! He's adorable!
How's the weather up in Seattle? Are you having the same heat wave that we are?

It's coming...it's coming...forecast says lows 90s Friday through Sunday. Ugh. Heat weenie alert here. Thank God it wasn't LAST weekend during the Seattle to Portland ride, or I would've had to ride the Greyhound bus to Portland instead of the bike.

I've been watching the pandacam since a few weeks after he was born. We call him "the bean" because for a long time he looked just like a lima bean. He's saved my sanity on countless occasions. Pandas love to play, and he and his mother have had some hilarious sessions---lots of wrestling, pulling each other off trees, and the funniest of all, rolling down hills together, racing back up and immediately rolling down again, sometimes with him tucked inside her big body. Too funny. I'll take all the antidotes to the headlines that I can get!

[bikerz]

Drift alert!

Since we generally only see pictures of birds, reptiles, and armadillos on this thread, I thought, for variety, I'd post a picture of my plain old dog, Simon. This is pretty much the "how could you?" look I get whenever I leave the house.



(I've been writing code like a maniac all day and I'm taking a short break...)

[maillotpois]

OMG!! I love Simon! What a sweetheart!!! What an expression!!

I can't photograph my dog, because he is completely black and none of his features show at all in a photo. We call him the Black Hole.