New Way to Blog

So my office instated a bunch of new rules and conducts for the internet at work. I now will have to blog from my phone while at work. So bare with me with the bad spelling that may occur. But i will be doing entries mainly on my lunch break. So i need a good patient for PotD today!

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Could My Kid(s) See the New Night at the Museum?

Parents of younger children often wonder if a movie is alright for their little ones to see. Well at Wired Online they have a section just for those parents. Check it out, it gives some good insight as to weather or not the new Night at the Museum is a film your children might enjoy and be able to watch.

Here's their review

A Nice Long Weekend

So no posts this weekend. . why? Because I spent the last 3 1/2 days in Goochland Virginia. That's right, Goochland. We visited my wife's mom and brother and hung out all weekend and just enjoyed ourselves. We saw Angels and Demons(which even though I read the book, I actually enjoyed the movie as well), BBQ'd up some steak kabobs, watched my son play with the dogs, and even got a rocking chair that belonged to my wife's great great grandmother.

All in all, it was an awesome trip. Able to sleep in, not have to worry about our son waking up at 7, and if he did someone else took him for us, had a great time with her family, listened to a good book on tape on the way up and down, just a great weekend with family.

Just enough time to get well rested and then jump back into the swing of life and work. Here's to hoping I have a great Patient of the Day for you all.

Half the Day's Down

Alright, first half of the day is done, and was able to keep the doctor on time! Last appointment was set for 12:15 and he was done with her at 12:30. All in all, I'd say that's a point for me. Considering the morning had 15 appointments in 3 hours.

The afternoon will be a joke, only 5 patients from 1:45 to 4:45. I think I can handle that. And the doctor hasn't told me I suck or should go back to the front yet. So again, I think that's a point for me.

Hope the 5 are easy to room.

No Recent Video Game Posts?

So I have not had a video game post in a while and I felt it my responsibility to explain why that changed. When I first started writing this blog, I was able to read all of the great sites for gaming at any time. But with my office having a computer that was infected and destroyed causing us to have to shell out the $1500 in attempted repairs and then another $500 on the new computer. . . things changed.

All of my favorite sites(ign, escapist magazine, and team xbox to name a few) were added to the block list for the reason:Games.

That's all fine and dandy if by games, they meant they are sites about games. But as anyone who reads those sites knows, they are not "gaming sites" themselves. They are the gateway to learn about what games are coming out and what might be or not be worth your time to spend the money on. I love reading about games and giving my thoughts, I love to have the demos downloaded so I can test them out and then get back to you all with how it really plays out.

Now I could do all this from home, couldn't I? Yes, of course I can but that means at the same time of trying to read a review or start the download of a demo I most likely will have some form of a screaming child who either wants my attention, or wants the attention back from his mother. So instead when I get home, I spend that time with the wife, the boy who cries wolves, and the fun of Rock Band 2/Fallout 3.

So I'm thinking I should start swapping every other night between just playing games, and writing about games. Any thoughts?

The Difference Between a Job and a Career

There is always the talk about the difference between having a job and having a career. For a long time I never understood what the difference might be. For me, I would always see both as the very same thing. But as I gain more life experience and work in different places, some things have become clear for me.

A Job:
A job is merely a place you work to gain money. You work there, do your job, are respectful and courteous to those you work with, and that's about it. Maybe you meet a few good people during your time and become friends, but really that's not what you're there for. In any work place you will have drama, you will have people you don't get along with, and you will have arguments with people. That's part of life and part of being human. But at least for me, when drama and fights happen, you are less affected by the outcome of them on a personal level since at a job you tend to not have that personal bonding. HUGE difference for me to see the lines between the two.

A Career:
A career is what you went to school for. You not only learned about it, but gained experience, took tests, made projects, and pretty much sweat blood to be able to be good enough to have that career. I feel that for me when those same fights and drama happen at your career, you will go to much further lengths to ensure the balance and common well being of those around you. . . but why?

It's because you're invested in a career. Maybe not at that exact office that you're at, but as a whole. Because you not only had to prove that you're good enough to have it, but you pour out your money, time, and life into being able to do that trade/career. I am also more likely to invest myself into those I work with due to the fact that our well being directly contributes to my ability to succeed in the field. You want to be at your career, because you chose it, you looked at your options in school and chose to do this one. Yes there is still the same factor that a job has of making money, but that becomes second to the fact that you are there because you LOVE what you're doing.

Alright, now that I've shared that. . .Have a guess at what I'm working at right now.

A Job or a Career?
(Oh yeah, got a fellow co-worker in some trouble today. . and don't give a damn since I felt and saw they we're putting themselves before the well being of the patient)

Swimming Lessons

So I think he's ready to have a go at the pool

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Undercover Cop?

So apparently all of the doctors and a few of the staff were having a discussion about what male employee in the office would make a good undercover cop. Now there may only be a total of 6(7 if you include the guy who helps sometimes) possible choices, but they all chose me. I found that interesting, and funny. I found it even more interesting when it was the doctor I'm working for this week who said he really thought I could and should do it.

Half Way Through. . .

I'm half way through my Monday and things are going alright. No dismembering of patient arms, only 1 failed BP taking attempt(forgot to face the cuff the right way), and only made the doctor run about 10 minutes behind then he would have been with his regular staff. So I'm doing ok I think.

Here's to hoping the afternoon goes faster now that I know what I'm doing a bit more.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I get to do this ALL WEEK! So there should be a new/interesting style to Patient of the Day

Starting the week off right

Alright, so I didn't get around to making any posts about anything this weekend like I wanted to. Which i guess is a good and bad thing. I plan on updating myself on what's going on in the world of video games, maybe throw a review up or something when I get home from work today.

Work should be interesting for me today. Normally I am in charge of the front of the office and checking in patients and the like, but today I get to actually live up to my offical title and room patients for a doctor. Should be good, unless I put the BP cuff on too tight and force someone to have an arm removed. But I've been testing the cuff out on the arm of a chair, so as long as everyone's arms are about 3 inches wide. . .I'll be great.

I will for sure have some updates throughout the day of patients who say crazy crap and end up doing stupid things. Should be a good and fun filled day for all of us.

I gotta say, I'm impressed with myself

So my wife and I started what I am calling our "Year of Improvements". There are projects around the house that I want to have done within a year. Here's what I've got so far:

1. Get a ceiling fan and hang it downstairs.
(See my success here)
2. Sod the upper half of the back yard.
3. Build a fence with a gate for the upper half of the back yard.
4. Build a patio for the lower half of the back yard.
5. Re-seed the front yard and if need be sod it.
6. Get some nice flowers/plants and replant the front yard.

So overall, not a horrible list, but definately some work and money involved. And I just say I am super proud of my work with the fan considering when it comes to doing electrical work. . .I know about as much as a janitor knows about brain surgery.

So wish me luck on all the projects to come. . .it's weird that I'm actually looking forward to doing manual labor.

Hooray Canes!

Lets just get this out there, damn good job Canes. I am not a hockey follower myself, but my ENTIRE office has been talking about it non-stop since I walked in at 7:45 this morning. Now I will say this: Scott Walker proved to be the biggest winner out of anyone. Being able to not only punch a guy in the face and break some bones(in a previous game), but then to deliver the winning goal in OT of game 7. . . That's like a huge F-You to Boston's face.

Great job Canes, you just made my Friday better than I could ever imagine.(Thanks to having a boss who is a hardcore Canes fan)

Bioshock 2 Video

Holy crap! The 9 minute video showing you some gameplay looks freaking amazing!

*Graphics=Great
*Sound/Soundtrack=Still scares the daylights out of you when splicers are around, so Great!
*Gameplay Design=Looks good, everything he said about making it more challanging than Bioshock 1 makes this one a "reserve it" on my list.

The concept with the Little Sisters looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. And lets face it, a Big Daddy with plasmids. . .YES PLEASE!

Here's the video if anyone has not seen it yet:

What happens when...

you spin a 1-year- old in an office chair?

Think he's dizzy yet?

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Invention

Now if i could only make a baby gate for this

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Freaking Iphone Email

So I've been trying to check my email on my iphone all morning, and so far every time I try it keeps telling me that no connection with the stmp.gmail server is possible. That's great, but if I can get onto gmail using safari why can't I just have my lazy way of hitting the mail button!!!

/rant

No good games coming out

So I know there are some "blockbuster" titles coming out this summer for consoles, but really when you look past the glame of movies-to-games there really are not any big titles coming that send me to my local shop to reserve them.

There are a couple that look interesting to me, but again, I have yet to really been thrown aback with amazement over them.

Prototype seems like it could be pretty fun, the concept is there, from what I've seen the graphics are there, most hands-on reviews claim the gameplay is there, but I'm just not as drawn to the story as I hoped I would be. I thought it was an amazing concept at first glance, but then as I delved deeper I found it to be a little more cliche than I had hoped. I feel like they took something from other titles that worked and added it to the mix.
--"Do we have mysterious main character? Check. He doesn't seem mysterious enough, lets give him memory loss like Wolverine and make him have to figure out everything. OH OH OH and we can let the designers have some fun and throw in a few of those crazy flash back type things that were in Halo 3 that pissed everyone off. . .a few of those would be good too."
--"Do we have zombies? Check. What's a video game these days without zombies"
--"Should we do stages or open world? Open world seems to be working the best, lets do that. Oh lets also make it a 'post-apocalyptic world of death and mayhem'. . . done."

All in all, I think it could be fun, but I'll wait until someone returns it at gamestop before I go out and buy it.

And to top it all off, most of the titles I am interested in are all due to come out in September or later. . .freaking jerks making me wait for a game worth playing.

Posted via Pixelpipe.

Here is the video I tried to make for my wife for V-Day. For some reason Photo Booth didn't want to ever record more than 45 seconds. . . out of 10 attempts. To say the least, playing the song through 10 times each time to find that only the first 45 were saved. . . kinda sucked. But oh well, it was worth it.

In The Beginning. . .

There comes a moment when you realize you are no longer a kid anymore. It comes in many shapes and forms. It can be something as small as making your first car payment, or something as huge has the birth of your first child.

Some people think that once this happens, everything "fun" you've been doing has to stop. . .not true.

Now in some respects and aspects of life, things do need to cease to exsist. But things like playing that game you've loved, collecting those cards you've had since you were 8, or those silly stuffed bears are all perfectaly acceptable to continue as an adult. . . in moderation.

I myself am constantly under the preverbial microscope when it comes to my previous statement. I play a video game called World of Warcraft, where in this game I and my trusted companions(Guild) take on the evils that plague the virtual world. Sometimes I fall victum to enthralling myself into the virtual world more so than the real one. Now we all have something that we will tend to put before more important matters. So how do you actually moderate yourself when you happen to fall a little too deep?

I am thankful that I have a wife and son who want attention on a consistant basis(not needy, just love me so want to spend time with me). They are able to keep me in decent check, but there are still times that I will spend more time then I need to playing games. A few good things to do for any other guys/gals who tend to do this are:
- Be sure to save some time before you to go bed to talk with your significant other. Shows them you do actually care
- Play less or cut out days that you don't play at all(or very little with easy stopping points)
- Surprise them every now and then on a day they are used to you playing, and just dont, it's great to see the reaction.
- Bring something special home, or cook something special(unless you can cook, then allow them to cook the special something but you get it all from the store)

Most of my posts will be fun and funny, but felt like starting off with a little deeper content. I'll have a new post in a few minutes of an amazing incident that just happened in the office