A Reminder

by Rob on January 27, 2012

This is Dr. Rob’s amazing auto-blogbot.  I just report what he tells me to do, but do so in a much better way (with better punctuation).  He’s not writing here any more and has left me to command the skeleton crew here.  I  hate skeletons.

Any-hoo, he told me to tell you to remember to check out More Musings (of a Distractible Kind).  He’s got a wicked-cool picture of some sheep, as well as some other funky stuff.  He was a doofus when he first mad the new blog, putting it at doctor-rob.org/blah-blah-blah; he got tired of typing that, and instead moved it to http://more-distractible.org.  That’s a much better URL (in this auto-blogbot’s opinion), but it did mess up some people’s subscriptions.  If you aren’t getting the new blog stuff (not written by me), then go on over and subscribe.

That’s all I have to say.

Auto-blogbot out.

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Plugging Back In

by Rob on January 9, 2012

Hello to those out there still getting my feed, and hi to all of my Twitter friends without anything better to do.

This post is to announce two things:

  1. I am back blogging again.
  2. I am not blogging on this blog.  I have a new blog called More Musings (of a Distractible Kind).

I also have a new project, Llamaricks, which is a blog that will hopefully draw audience participation.  It’s a place for poetry; poetry by me and poetry submitted by my readers (assuming I have any).  Hopefully there are people talented and/or shameless enough to submit their prose to me on that site.

OK, so I am already being untruthful.  I really had three announcements.  Oh yes, and llamaricks is not really new, I started it last September.  Dang.  That’s not the way to get things started/finished.

See ya at the other blogs!

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Unplugging

December 30, 2010

15% off petite scrubs with checkout code “petit_sale” I have made a very big decision: I am going to unplug myself from the internet world for a while.  That means that I am hanging up my blogging for now. Things are OK with me – 2010 has actually been a very good year for me [...]

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Repost: Real Meaning

December 22, 2010

The following was originally posted on 12/22/2008. Every day I go to work and spend time with suffering people.  They come to me for help and for comfort.  They open up to me with problems that they would not tell anyone else.  They put trust in me – even if I am not able to [...]

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Earworms

December 21, 2010

As I was listening to the songs “Sleigh Ride” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” for the 12 gazillionth time, resigned to the fact that my mind would cruelly replay it for the rest of the day, I began to wonder why that happens.  Why do incredibly annoying songs get stuck in our heads? Then [...]

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To Die Well

December 15, 2010

Everyone liked him.  Though his later years (the only ones in which I knew him) took away his ability to do most things, and though he was in great pain every day, it was easy to see the mischief in his eyes.  The subtle humor was still there, coming out of a man who was [...]

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Unholy Night

December 14, 2010

I posted this two years ago, and some folks may have heard this, but this is my very favorite rendition of  ”Oh Holy Night.”  It touches me like none other. If the above audio player does not work, click on this link By the way, don’t play this where anyone can hear.  It may frighten [...]

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Writing

December 12, 2010

About a month ago I got an invitation by John Schumann, who authorizes the Glass Hospital blog to go to Iowa.   Now, I don’t consider going to Iowa a particularly bad thing, but it is an unusual place to be invited to.  I am all in favor of corn and abundant use of the [...]

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Spent

December 7, 2010

“I need you to do me a favor,” my nurse asked me at the end of our day on Friday. “Sure,” I answered, “what do you want?” “Please have a better week next week,” she said with a pained expression. “I don’t think I can handle another one like this week.” It was a bad [...]

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The Virtue of Unnecessary Care

December 6, 2010

I case you didn’t hear the news: the American Healthcare system is in financial crisis. One of the biggest culprits indicted in this crises is “unnecessary care,” with estimates ranging from $500-$650 Billion (total spending estimate is $2.6 Trillion) going toward things labelled “unnecessary.”  Personally, I think this is an underestimate, as it doesn’t take [...]

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