A Stu Update In Case You Wondered
Since I suspect that ninetyandnine.com may be getting estimates of some 50,000 hits this week, I better provide some real news concerning my life, my blog, and my outlook on House Calls. I am at The House today, in Macon Georgia, temps expected to reach 84° today, and the wife, alas, has gone back to work after seven glorious weeks at home. One week was in San Francisco, the other six recuping from surgery. All is well.

The wife is still a bit glum about the shooting at her beloved alma mater, Virginia Tech, in case you missed it. She majored in Human Foods and Nutrition, graduated the same day as I from Mercer/Macon, and was somehow persuaded to leave those gorgeous Appalachian Hills to come to Middle Georgia, not much like Tolkien's Middle Earth, but charming nonetheless. We went on our first date in Blacksburg, strolling around VT campus after eating Chinese food. Last week's events took a toll on her, as it did on us all.

Nurses at my ER continue to fall out, leaving for better opportunities, so they say. I completed my first year at ER this month, and started tossing around the idea of more degrees, travel nursing, and other places to work. A transient bunch, we nurses are, I guess because we know that opportunity is everywhere, and we are mobile. I remember one nurse who worked a temp agency telling me while I was an extern, that if "They start cutting up wit' me, I turn 'em loose." That attitude prevails at ER as well: Too many changes, and I'm outa here. But Stu does not feel that way, and understands that there is much to be said for the two L's, loyalty and longevity.

SO, my faithful readers of House Calls, thanks for sticking with me through these lean weeks of writing, and for putting up with a picture (worth 1000 words) and a scant epithet, that it won't be long before I figure out how to post short films aka youtubes so that soon you can thank me for waaaaaaa-iiiiiiiiiiiii-tiiiing for the little red buffering line to lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ad so you can watch. Feel the rush.