Wind Blows Deeply

An article on Michael Rachlis’ book Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada’s Health Care System. I heard about this book on Vicki Gabereau‘s show many weeks ago. It looks like an interesting read.

Tonight was great. Jon Buller lead worship at the Walker (aka Burton Cummings) Theatre … and there were about 1100 people in attendance. They even had to open up the 2nd balcony! It was incredible.
For pictures of the Walker Theatre, click here and here and here and here and here. Unfortunately I forgot my camera tonight, but we’re back there in January, so perhaps I’ll snap a few then.

I’m getting frustrated by comment spam.
James Seng has written both a downloadable CAPTCHA and a Bayesian program to stop spammers. (You really gotta love Bayesian programming; just think back to Chaos theory. I know a pharmacist who is using the same principles for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling. Endless possibilities. See an old post about it all here.) I guess I’ll just keep on with blocking IP addresses for now.

I’ve had an okey dokey week. Work is crazy busy and I don’t really want to talk much about it.
Last Friday I went out for dinner with a couple of friends. I was also informed about the denistry social.
I worked the weekend.
Monday I got a beautiful card from one of my friends who got married and moved away this summer.
Tuesday I did kinetics. For those of you who know what I’m talking about – I know you feel my pain. For those who don’t, I promise not to bore you with it all.
Wednesday I got to talk to a guy who was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when he came to the hospital because he felt dizzy. So I told him all sorts of stuff – like how this automatically put him at the same risk of having a heart attack as someone who has already had a heart attack, that he’s now at a much higher risk of vision, kidney and nerve problems. I told him about all the monitoring sorts of things he’d need to know. I told him about the medicines he’d likely be started on. I told him what it might feel like to have high or low blood sugar. I talked about exercise and diet. Later that afternoon, his nurse called to say that when the dietician had said that I did a superb job, that the guy had a really good understanding of everything, and that she had an easy time doing what she needed to do. Horray for me! (If only I could do more of that sort of thing.)
Thursday evening I was captured by a small moth on my wall. It inspired me to such a degree that I took 23 pictures of it with my digital camera (along with 2 sort of abstract ones). If I can get my ‘puter to work, I’ll put some up here for you to look at.
Today it was sooooo humid outside. Hot and humid. I’ve had this headache for about a week now (I first noticed it last Friday at dinner). The headache is always there, but sometimes, in the middle of everything, I’ll get these wierd dizzy/woosy feelings. I’m sleeping ok, I’m eating fine, it isn’t caffeine (no more or less than usual). Drugs don’t seem to touch it. Anyway, the humidity seems to have made it worse.
And yes it is autumn here in Windy-peg. Leaves everywhere have begun to fade into yellow and fall softly to the sidewalk I tread daily. So much for summer.
That’s it. I work the early shift tomorrow, so pillow – here I come.