Edmund Charles Davis-Quinn
I just want to give love to all the nurses I work with helping to give people answers to their medical questions.
All the nurses that help answer questions from patients and families.
All the nurses who help give excellent care.
All the nurses and support staff who keep people clean and comfortable.
All the nurses who work in schools.
All the nurses who give service in large and small ways. And remembering those small things can mean huge care and comfort for others.
So with my psychiatrist’s advice, I am drinking less.
I was drinking about 10 drinks or equivalents a week and drinking almost every day. Now maybe a beer or two a week.
But, I have way too much booze.
I’m the kind of person who likes to try things so I have a bunch of bottles of bourbon and scotch and white whiskey and …
Also enough beer to drink for a while at this rate. 3 cases or so.
I would give some away if I didn’t use to drink directly from the bottles.
And I am surprised how much I craved a drink when my drinking decreased.
But the GABA receptors with alcohol go against the ones that work with my Tegretol for a mood stabilizer for my bipolar disorder. My psychiatrist loves to go into the science of this.
But, it’s a change. And I don’t want to throw away the alcohol yet because I do enjoy it.
It’s an odd thing to think about but the bottles are filling the top of the refrigerator and other places.
I guess, drink my booze, please!
We haven’t had a guest in a while, I think it’s been months.
It’s good to have them, one because we like being hosts and seeing friends.
Another big one is it forces us to clean.
Unfortunately, when no one visits things tend to accumulate in the guest bedroom. And we don’t change the shower curtain, or clean the tub or big stuff like that.
So still a bunch of stuff to do tomorrow and figuring out where things go.
But at least we got some laundry done, doing some dishes, vacuumed the living room floor, and cleaned the sink, toilet and tub in the bathroom.
It’s definitely a start.
And since we both procrastinate, it takes until the guest is almost here (arriving tomorrow night) until we actually get stuff done.
But we do have a spare bedroom so please come visit. And if we get more visitors things will be kept nicer!
I was just watching PTI tonight and heard the story of John Urschel, former center of the Baltimore Raven who retired today to study for a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT.
This makes me very happy.
As does this wonderful piece about the work John Urschel does in the MIT Technolgoy Review.
Although the reason he is leaving the NFL at 26 is very sad.
He’s an incredibly smart man who loves “reading math, doing research, and playing chess”. None of which are expensive. But he’s worried about CTE, a chronic brain disease that affected 110 of 111 brains studied from NFL players in a recent New York Times article.
He loves his brain and his family more than football.
And it makes you wonder about the future of American football.
It can seriously impact the brain to have so many collisions.
I hope for great things for John Urschel.
And I hope we learn more about concussions and how to prevent them. Also the many small injuries that football players and I am sure players in other sports get.
Here is a nice video about him from NFL Films, “The NFL’s Smartest Man.”
And here is a great Real Sports piece about him. I really like this guy. And I am happy he is leaving the head injury dangers of the NFL and going to get his Ph.D. and be a wonderful professor and researcher somewhere.
I just realized a bit ago it was a lovely night and good to open the window.
The kitties definitely approve.
Although not as big a fan of me closing them.
Getting a chance to read outside and people watch at the same time
Hey look it’s a porcupine!
Nope that’s a groundhog.
Read and repeat.
Hanging out with the raven in the farmyard.
Got to talk with the zookeeper last time. She even had a raven tattoo.
Nice Day One story on Kindle, a vacation before the next story happens. Although I wished Kindle archived better.
Just a beautiful day, watching the kids with some great books.
Although I only read some Shel Silverstein, the Day One story and poem and a tiny bit of “A Man Called Ove” that was also on the Kindle. I read some of Mary Oliver’s “Dog Songs” too but I am not sure that was at the zoo.
The zoo makes me very happy. I’m glad I’m a member.
Our left rear blinker went out a couple weeks ago.
It’s amazing how much they are not used.
I really miss it and planning to fix it with an oil change tomorrow.
I wish I knew more about cars.
I have been mostly watching NASCAR since I got out of work including watching a lot of the nearly two hour rain delay.
I will say that NBC did a good job during the delay. Including Rutledge Wood who is far, far better as a sideline reporter for NASCAR than he was on the Top Gear USA failure.
Although Fox is better overall I think. Darrell Watrip and Jeff Gordon along with the other Fox reporter are better than the NBC reporters. They also seem more excited. I also think the Fox directors and cameramen do a better job replaying accidents and incidents.
And it seems like the low downforce package for Indianapolis isn’t working with all of these accidents. Including the two best cars Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch wrecking with around 50 laps to go.
It was a destruction derby late but Kasey Kahne won in a second overtime. I kind of think NASCAR waited until Kahne went past the overtime line to call the caution because they wanted the race over. Sunset was approaching and every restart seem to bring a new crash.
Still fun to watch though, including NBC stretching time with the rain delay.
I have a lot of short Saturdays where I sleep in and then have to go to bed early for early hours on Sunday.
I think I need the rest.
And some like today involve naps too.
Literally got up at 11am and getting ready for bed at 9pm.
So it goes, I actually like the quieter, earlier hours at work.
Super fun little game with artwork from the Oatmeal.
Way more interesting than Exploding Kittens.
The NSFW expansion loves dildos.
Fun mechanic, although after three games we wanted to play something else.
I would be curious how it plays with more people than 2.
Very clever and great packaging.
We are definitely going to play it more.
***1/2
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