Hospital im-patients

"Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun / If the sun don't come you get your tan by standing in the English rain" —The Beatles, "I Am the Walrus"

Well, my parents and I are sitting in a hospital waiting room, waiting for our appointment. If our appointment don't come, we get…hungry and impatient.

The trip started out all right. I went to bed at about 11 last night, trusting in a double dose of melatonin to kick my sleeping schedule three or four hours earlier in one go. By and large it worked; I woke up at 5:45, beating the alarm I had set by 15 minutes, and went about the business of getting ready to head up to Columbia for my final doctor's appointment. I removed some video files from my iPod Touch and loaded Jonathan Coulton and the Beatles on; I packed my laptop and my cell phone adapter, and so on and so forth.

( Fire alarm leads to Chinese fire drill )

Hospital im-patients

"Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun / If the sun don't come you get your tan by standing in the English rain" —The Beatles, "I Am the Walrus"

Well, my parents and I are sitting in a hospital waiting room, waiting for our appointment. If our appointment don't come, we get…hungry and impatient.

The trip started out all right. I went to bed at about 11 last night, trusting in a double dose of melatonin to kick my sleeping schedule three or four hours earlier in one go. By and large it worked; I woke up at 5:45, beating the alarm I had set by 15 minutes, and went about the business of getting ready to head up to Columbia for my final doctor's appointment. I removed some video files from my iPod Touch and loaded Jonathan Coulton and the Beatles on; I packed my laptop and my cell phone adapter, and so on and so forth.

( Fire alarm leads to Chinese fire drill )

The Return Trip

We finally got in to see the doctor, at about 1:15. At least, that's when we got into the examination room. It took another half an hour for the doctor to get in to see us. What he had to say was basically about what we expected: "You're doing great. Keep on doing that."

At about 2:00 we got on the road to the Chinese restaurant where we met my Mom's sister Robbie for lunch. We split two entrees between the four of us, plus soup and crab rangoon or egg roll. We didn't leave hungry.

It was about 3:00 before we got on the road out of town. Mom & Dad decided to take a different route back than our usual, heading west (where I got some great photos of ice floes in the Missouri River at Booneville) and then south, passing through Sedalia where, Dad told me, he and Mom spent their first married night at a Holiday Inn, paying just under $6 for the stay. They talked about various places that they remembered from driving through there in the past. "That house didn't have any trees by it last time we were here, remember? We thought it looked funny?" (The house in question now had several rather large trees next to it.)

( Shunpiking for fun and scenery )

Anyway, here I am, relaxing and listening to music on my computer while I sit on the couch with my laptop finishing this up. Boy am I tired. Time to add the pics and post it.

The Return Trip

We finally got in to see the doctor, at about 1:15. At least, that's when we got into the examination room. It took another half an hour for the doctor to get in to see us. What he had to say was basically about what we expected: "You're doing great. Keep on doing that."

At about 2:00 we got on the road to the Chinese restaurant where we met my Mom's sister Robbie for lunch. We split two entrees between the four of us, plus soup and crab rangoon or egg roll. We didn't leave hungry.

It was about 3:00 before we got on the road out of town. Mom & Dad decided to take a different route back than our usual, heading west (where I got some great photos of ice floes in the Missouri River at Booneville) and then south, passing through Sedalia where, Dad told me, he and Mom spent their first married night at a Holiday Inn, paying just under $6 for the stay. They talked about various places that they remembered from driving through there in the past. "That house didn't have any trees by it last time we were here, remember? We thought it looked funny?" (The house in question now had several rather large trees next to it.)

( Shunpiking for fun and scenery )

Anyway, here I am, relaxing and listening to music on my computer while I sit on the couch with my laptop finishing this up. Boy am I tired. Time to add the pics and post it.