:: Captain's Personal Blog ::

Stardate: Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Rockin' the house

I meant to have this post up on Monday, but unfortunately, I had a medical condition prevent me from blogging. More on that later, but here's what I wanted to say:

Kudos to Chris Rock! Last week I made a post (see below) about the terms LIBERAL and CONSERVATIVE as they relate to DEMOCRAT and REPUBLICAN. I felt I made some fair points (who wouldn't feel they made fair points, really....I mean, who says, "man, did my points just suck!"?)

Well, earlier this week I watched Chris Rock's recent HBO special. Guess what he decides to bring up, right in the middle? The same thing. Kinda cool, huh? Now, it would have been decidedly cooler if he had read my blog, gotten the inspiration from it and then said so, but that never happens in real life. Odds are the man is just an intelligent individual who knows just how asinine the whole situation is.

That said, why couldn't I post this information when it was more relevant? That would be because on Sunday night I went into labor. Not in the traditional sense, of course, that would be biologically impossible (or something out of a bad Arnold Schwarzennegger/Danny Devito film.) No, I found out on Sunday night/Monday morning that I had a kidney stone!

WOO HOO!!!! Kidney stone! Hip hip....Hooray!!!........................................No, wait. That's not right. Kidney stones suck! They REALLY DO! It was once described in the medical profession by giving birth to twins at the same time. Luckily for me the pain wasn't quite THAT bad, as that I had a smaller stone. Also, lucky for me, I passed it withing 48 hours. My dad, who has had 11 stones in his lifetime, has been considerably less fortunate. So now, I'm on the high water diet, with no dairy for awhile.

But, of course, this led me to a bit of an oddity. Here we are.....The 21st century........ I can deal with the fact that we don't have flying cars, that we don't have robots and even that we haven't made it to Jupiter where a maniacal, yet talented, singing computer will kill all the inhabitants on the ship, save the man cunning enough to shut it down who then discovers the infinite. However, (BTW, I don't know if even I can follow that last sentence,) what I don't understand is, if you pass a stone, save it, bring it to the doctor, and he sends it to the lab, WHY DOES IT TAKE 3 WEEKS TO EXAMINE THE BLOODY THING? I mean, this isn't Stonehenge we're talking about! It's roughly the size of a tomato seed! We're also not asking for the atomic structure of it! Just what the thing is made of! You would think it would be easier than that, or at least be less than 3 weeks. 3 days, I can understand. Hell, I'd even settle for 1 week. But 3? How in the hell did that happen?

OK, venting complete. I now return you to your regularly scheduled web surfing.
:: J 10:56 AM [+] ::
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