A trip to Starbucks for an overpriced latte and free web surfing could get you stabbed.
Once again San Francisco tests the cusp of social change. For thirty seconds of work a laptop bandit can clear 300 bucks.
Think I’ll write with the door locked going forward and stick to a desktop.
Nothing like continuous bed rest for a few days to reframe a busted perspective. Before breaking down, I was starting to hate everything around me out of fatigue. Even the cats wore on the nerves.
On the plus side, I read more books in the last 72 hours than in the past two weeks. Finally got around to Christopher Moore’s Practical Demonkeeping. Moore blends comedy and suspense in a unique — probably unparalleled — way. The neat part is that he’s funny in the most unexpected junctures, which makes the jokes all the more hilarious. He started out as a cult author, but no more. A Dirty Job, his latest, debuted at number 9 on the NY Times Bestseller list. Yet for all the success, he eludes the standard genre classifcation; his works are neither squarely suspense nor drama. And neither are they just comedies. Moore is more than that. He’s a special blend of all three, and a quick read, too.
‘Tis the season for illness and I caught a good one. At 10:40 AM, I’m ready for bed. I try and stay positive, but I really hate taking days off work. The horror of the backlog…the horror.
In more interesting news, the Wife resigned from one of her jobs — she’s down to two now — and walked out with a referral for a literary agent. That’s what I love about her. She’s always there when lightning strikes.
“Each year, more than 2 million people in the United States acquire an infection during a hospital stay, and an estimated 90,000 people die from them — more than from AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.”
Source: Abcnews.com
Imagine if the auto industry had the same lobby doctors do watching their backs. I wonder how many less class action lawsuits against car manufacturers there might be. As it stands now, people get seriously sick; people go to the hospital. Risk of secondary infection because the janitor refuses to wash his hands? Never really considered that angle.
Well, where’s there’s blood, there’s money, and somewhere a lawyer is pondering a motion.