Tweets for Today

[robotech_master]

Here are the things I am willing to confess to having done today:

• 06:44 Hurry hurry hurry to get ready for irascible parent to arrive, probably earlier than he said he was going to. #
• 06:49 Well, I see the cast of the Airbender movie just got a little less white. tinyurl.com/b68ggb #
• 07:01 Dad's here. Heading out. Further twitters to be by phone and (when there's wifi) iPod. #
• 07:52 twitpic.com/1ar9n - Dad on the phone, 10 miles from Lebanon #
• 07:59 In Lebanon, stopping at a convenience store for coffee. #
• 09:08 twitpic.com/1ashm - Lake of the Ozarks #
• 09:12 twitpic.com/1asjp - Big construction place #
• 09:48 twitpic.com/1at6d - Across the wide Missouri... #
• 09:52 twitpic.com/1at8u - Only bluffing #
• 10:25 Locatrd: Buck's ice cream shop. bit.ly/12DSH #
• 10:32 twitpic.com/1atyn - Buck's entrance #
• 10:42 @shivaestudios Just open your mouth and... oh, okay. On crackers or mixed into ramen is how I always do it. #
• 10:44 @unknownfilms Camdenten, near Bagnall Dam. #
• 10:51 Waiting and relaxing in the parking lot outside China Kitchen. Will go in and eat soon. #
• 11:24 My verdict: the China Kitchen is a very worthy eatery. I'll Yelp it when I'm home this evening. #
• 11:44 Arrived at the hospital. Waiting in the lobby while Dad finds somewhere to park. #
• 11:46 @justex07 did you install the new firmware? I've heard it can cause that to happen. #
• 11:49 Why newspapers can't stop the presses tinyurl.com/de3m97 (via @MizzouBentley) <- reminder to me to blog this for TeleRead #
• 11:50 Can podcasts replace Professors? tinyurl.com/c7j9xl (via @theideaworks) <- reminder to me to blog this for TeleRead #
• 11:53 That's kinda neat: a "nearby" Tweetie search turned up two useful links for TeleRead. Now if only I had a full-fledged computer to blog them #
• 11:53 Dad sure is taking a while. #
• 12:02 Dad got mixed up and came in at the wrong floor. So as I sat on the bench and waited for him, he was sitting one floor lower waiting for me! #
• 12:04 Magisterial Siracusa rant about the state of the e-book: bit.ly/12ds4 (via @pnh) <- reminder, blog TeleRead, yatta yatta. #
• 12:24 twitpic.com/1avvs - Noisy helicopter landing. #
• 12:26 Finished with registration paperwork. Ostensibly 20 minutes to my appointment. #
• 12:44 Still waiting. Appointment is supposed to be any time now. #
• 12:58 Relocated to an examnation room. They're now trying to find the xrays that were sent up last month. #
• 12:59 @ThisIsTrue You ought to be using Chrome anyway. I never thought I'd find a better browser than Firefox...but Chrome kicks Firefox's ass. #
• 13:10 Waiting for xrays to be taken. #
• 13:20 twitpic.com/1awub - Xray time! #
• 13:29 Xrays taken, consulted by resident physician. Real doctor coming soon. #
• 13:51 There is very little quite so disturbing as hearing your doctor say, "What worries me about this is..." #
• 14:09 Signed releases. Waiting to find out when I can be CT scanned. They want blood samples too. #
• 14:28 As the Talking Heads put it, "I'm still waiting." #
• 14:34 Waiting to get my blood drawn. I think they're looking for their tiny pencils... #
• 14:48 twitpic.com/1ayco - @masonk how's your vision? #
• 15:07 After being sent to the wrong floor, now there's some kind of mix up with the paperwork. #
• 15:10 So now the radiology clinic sends us to registration. Where it says sign a paper and wait to be called. #
• 15:16 Just one person in line ahead of me now. #
• 15:17 Wish they'd hurry up. #
• 15:19 Dad is grumbling about how poorly run the hospital is. Can't say as I blame him. #
• 15:20 The registration person has taken the ct scan paperwork and gone somewhere with it. #
• 15:24 @gwenix Perhaps what you should be asking, then, is "relative to what?" #
• 15:26 Now registration says they're trying to make sure my insurer has ok'd the CT scan...when we were already kept waiting while ortho did that! #
• 15:30 I'm starting to feel less than hopeful about my odds of making it to Buck's Ice Cream before we leave town. #
• 15:32 Still waiting for someone from registration to come back and tell me what's going on. This is aggravating. #
• 15:36 What can be taking them so long??? #
• 15:44 Finally properly registered and in the waiting room at Outpatient Radiology. Hurry up and wait again. #
• 15:48 @spam @killeradds is a spammer. #
• 16:00 twitpic.com/1azg5 - Scanning cats #
• 16:08 twitpic.com/1azkl - "CAT" scan. Get it? #
• 16:08 twitpic.com/1azko - Me and the doughnut and the nurse #
• 16:12 Finally free of the hospital. En route to Buck's. #
• 16:38 We're on our way. Buck's = pure frozen crack in a cone. My Mom and Dad used to go there 43 years ago when they went to Mizzou. #
• 16:40 twitpic.com/1azzr - My double dip cone soon became a bowl. #
• 16:59 Stopping in Jeff City for gas. #
• 17:00 twitpic.com/1b0ar - The capital building in Jeff City. #
• 17:08 twitpic.com/1b0ei - Dad at the gas pump #
• 17:14 On the road again. #
• 17:40 twitpic.com/1b0u4 - Missouri sunset #
• 17:44 twitpic.com/1b0w9 - Missouri sunset part 2 #
• 18:00 twitpic.com/1b13u - Dad. Lake of the Ozarks in bg. #
• 18:20 twitpic.com/1b1cp - Supper: Dad's, mine. #
• 19:06 Just passed through Lebanon. An hour from home. #
• 20:03 @aboyandhispiano After a day like this, it's more like where didn'T I go? #
• 20:35 Got home about half an hour ago, been writing Yelp reviews of the places we ate today. #