more hope for the future, more rice

MORE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

when i was in practice i had a family practice that included a lot 

of pediatrics

when i was in training for family practice i did so many rotations 

in pediatrics that the head of the pediatric department approached me 

once about switching over to pediatrics

but i loved family practice as i wanted to take care of the child

his parents his grandparents etc

as my pediatric patients aged i had more and more teenagers and 

young adults and college students

this mixture of young patients was just the right mixture for my practice

i tried to interact with them as much as possible finding out what they 

liked at school and what they wanted to do in the future

i realized despite what you hear in the media we may be in good hands

in the future

this weekend i worked with this group of kids from the key club

at leander high school

they helped my wife she and our friend and the new homeowner lance

do most of the landscape at his new house

they had to dig out 2 inches of soil in a large strip between the curb

and the sidewalk

then after this was dug out we placed black plastic and large rocks so 

that lance wont have to care for this difficult spot in his yard

we also added 4 larger boulders for a more natural look

pictures of the completed landscape will be posted later this week

these kids worked real hard on this area digging and talking all done in 

a misty rain and while being covered with mud and dirt

our version of a mud run

between my wife and i we knew each ones name and what they 

planned to do in life and what college they might be interested in 

what a great group of kids

we also scrapped off the dead grass from the front beds

these workers worked hard but also i think they had a good time

working and visiting with each other

at the end of the day we completed 90% of the landscape but 

ive decided to hold off on planting the shrubs since there is more

outside painting to do this week

when thats completed ill come back and plant them 

when i got home that day i thought about those kids who got all wet

and muddy since we had that misty rain

thought about how hard they worked real hard

it was an all female group i thought at first i wished i had some guys

to help me but this group proved me wrong on that one

thought about all the negative press we see on kids of their generation 

but when you get to work with them like we did this weekend and get 

to actually talk with them about the future

you realize there is much more hope for our future 

than what fox news cnn msnbc cbs nbc abc etc portrays

yes we will be left in good hands

MORE RICE

this weekend after working at the habitat house getting all dirty and 

sweaty and getting real sore i climbed into our hot tub to see if the 

heat and water would help my aching back and sciatica

actually aching all over

as i was catching up on my messages 

i was writing a reply to my sisterinlaw who had a question about 

my younger brothers-who has alzheimers disease-medication

he is not doing well and my thoughts are with him and his family 

in these difficult moments 

as i was typing i noticed i couldnt use the space bar

e ery few- days was all i could write

i looked down and dang if i hadnt dipped my cell phone 1/3 down into

my hot tub

heres your sign

i jumped out of the tub ran to my rice jar

wiped off the phone well after i removed my otter box

the phone was doing crazy things and wouldnt let me 

do anything to it

into the jar in went until the next day

then i charged it up and its working fine again 

i must have a cat iphone and i have used 2 of its 9 lives

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rice is nice

RICE IS NICE
since my cell phone took a high dive off the window ledge
into our swirling hot tub
it was a 9.5 score on that dive
it was a single somersault with the bottom of the phone going
in first

luckily i didnt allow it to hit the bottom of the hot tub
but instead caught it within a foot of hitting the water

i instantly jumped out of the tub and took in into the kitchen
instantly wiped it off
removed the otter cover
wiped it off again
then plunged into a jar of rice so that no parts of the
phone were visible
it did ring once that i heard
since i couldnt turn the phone off

(turns out it was my surfer brotherinlaw letting us know
he got stuck in houston over night but was on his way
back to nicaragua)

then i had to wait
that was the hardest to do was wait
and had to use an old flip phone
how did i ever use that thing before

phonededcallhomephne

was my message since i coulnt figure out how to do the space
bar on that old flipper

so after 24 hours
well it was 11 hours 45 minutes i took the phone out of the rice
wiped it off of rice dust
mashed the on button
there it was working
put in my password
everything seemed to be working well
except
i cant turn it off
ive decided i could deal with that since ive never turned it off
anyway
just set the timer to 1 min so it turns its self off if not used

saw a funny commercial where the guy dropped his phone
in the toilet then immersed it in rice
when he removed it from the rice his phone was working ok
so
he called his mom
his friend reminded him while he was talking to his mom
you know you dropped that in the toilet
dont you

tough choice on what to do then

at least my phone was dropped in cleaner water

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