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Well back to the grind
Sitting at work, trying to catch up with life. You can’t imagine how far behind you fall in your daily stuff, just by dropping out and doing a mission.
Of course during the mission you are very busy, so its not just dropping out doing the slack thing, its dropping out of one life and popping up in another. So it really can be quite confusing and tiring to do it, but I think in the end its well worth it.
Yesterday we ran
up to KOP (King of Prussia, for those not of the Philly area) to buy a Snowball for Shannon to do some voice over work. Had a quick bite at California Pizza Kitchen, and spent a little time in Borders, where they do not have Objective C for Dummies, and in fact no Objective C or Cocoa books at all. After we got home we spent the next 3 ho
urs trying to get the Snowball to work with Vista. It turns out Blue Mic has yet to make a Vista driver for the Snowball, luckily I found a site that has a hack (http://macrogeek.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-get-your-blue-snowball-mic.html). So I did not get to sleep to after midnight. I really can’t do that anymore, but with B/C on the way I guess I will have to get used to no sleep. Anyway thats all for now.
Home Again
Well the mission is over and I am home. Didn’t get a real chance to go online the last two days so here is my latest entry and a couple bonus pictures. Enjoy!
We ended up doing about 65 cases, which is great for a mission that we went in thinking about 40 would be done. The OR clean up was rather fast as we only really had 2 tables and the PACU to pack. The final afternoon was spent touring the town of Hinche, although about half of the team went to the Partners In Health’s hospital in Conch. Two days on the bumpy roads wasn’t in my plan so I did the town tour.
The ride back to PAP only took 3 hours, they seemed to have paved about 5 more miles of the road while we were in Hinche. Amazing! and a real time saver. The flight was delayed almost 2 hours because they loaded some pets in the unpressurized cargo hold, luckily for the pets they realized before take off, bad for us. Had to fly thru Miami international, as we ended up only having about 1.5 hours to go thru customs and recheck our luggage, and then thru security again. Finally got home around midnight, oh and they lost my luggage. Martines was the first on the carosel and mine never showed.
UPDATE: The luggage guy from US Air called and demanded I call him back immediately. I did, so my luggage should be at my house in about an hour.
Still in Miami…
Well it seems that our flight out of Miami was cancelled last night, of course no one called us (Ken my Photog roommate, my photos are courtesy of me, and thus far my iPhone, sorry Chet), so we were in the lobby checked out at 4:30AM. Well now we are to leave at 7:30, maybe, the 10:30 flight is overbooked already and only a few of us, and I am not sure which, are on it, the next is 2PM and then there is no bus to get to Hinche so if we are on that we will be stuck in PAP, I for one would perfer to be stuck here in MIA.
On another note, if you are every traveling thru MIA, and stay at the Airport Comfort Inn, in room 316, on the window side, someone has place some glow in the dark stars on the ceiling.
Just thinking…
So I am walking to work this AM, and listening to Nikonians podcast, trying to ignore my runny nose (if there is one thing I hate about cold, its runny noses), whom are talking about one of their recent trips to the Galapagos. And all I could really think about it how great its going to be to explore the world thru B/C’s eyes. I really can’t wait, and really have to start saving, because I want to go to Beijing, Masa Mara, London, the Galapagos with B/C and Shannon. Not to mention the Cabin. I want to see minds explode with fascination. I really hope that B/C shares that want. I never really wanted to travel when I was growing, then I took a trip to see my cousin Wendy in London, and all I could think about is travel for a while, although never really got into actually doing it until OpSmile, another blessing it has bestowed on me.
On another note, yesterday some ignoramus decided to publish that Prince Henry was actually serving in Afghanistan. They thought, well this is news we need to tell the world, didn’t think twice about how it actually effects people. Now the Prince, along with is platoon have targets on their heads, more so than they did before. The media gave the enemy, effectively, a high powered night vision scope, in the name of free press. I do not believe in censorship, but I highly believe in self-censorship. Think before you print. Does this story have to go out now? Today’s media is much more concerned in the profit instead of the story. That, my friend, is not journalism, it is selfishness. Journalist, do not care about reporting anymore, its solely about lining there pockets and editorializing the story. News is supposed to be unbiased, and today it ALL very biased, and really very little should be covered under freedom of the press. Those laws were written to protect reporters not editorialists. When I started writing today, I was thinking of how great the main stream media was about keeping their promise to the UK, knowing that he was there, but keeping the secret. But then I thought the second the story broke they all jumped on it, they still should have waited until they could say that he was safely away. If not for his safety, for the safety of his platoon.
