Good Morning St. Mary's!
Good morning, St. Mary's and Mayo! Two degrees, huh? Beautiful day for yank/slice/dice! Let's get it on! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
AirBeagle
Bye Bye Alien
Remember that movie from 1979, "Alien" ? THIS is how I've felt for 12 years. It's time to take out the trash, you alien adrenal. Hope Dr. McKenzie and his team can handle this thing! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
A Fun Little Video While We Wait
Hey! Wanna see what the excellent Mayo endocrinological surgical team will be doing to me at 10 this morning? No? Then… Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
Farewell Doc!
As Sinatra would say, "So make it one for my baby and one more for the road."Farewell Dr. Pepper! I'll see you in recovery around noon! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
Farewell to My Little Friends
A few hours ago, I took the final dose of the drug that has kept my adrenal glands in check dor over six years. Why… Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
We Are Minnesota.
Coats? Coats?! 20 degrees outside and snowing, eh? We don't need no stinkin' coats. We. Are. MINNESOTA!!(Two movie references there, sorry.) Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, February 4, 2016
Mayo History Room: 1880s Beagle Reading Chair
I knew this place and I would get along when I saw the history museum and found out the Mayo brothers had a reading… Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, February 4, 2016
Uh Oh.
In the clinic's history museum. Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, February 4, 2016
Closed For a Little Snow?!
Closed. Closed? Closed?!!!!!!! <Shakes ice-cream-starved fist at snowy sky> NOW you've gone too far, snowy Minnesota… Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
My Home for the Next Eight Hours
My home for the next eight hours. Spiffy. Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Ugly Cactus Green Hospital Booties
Booties. Not my color. Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
It's What Time??!!
Mayo's St. Mary's Hospital admitting area is like an airport at 5:30 in the morning. Now boarding: Passengers carrying small, screaming adrenal glands in need of chastisement, gate 2. Board! Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Good Morning Rochester!
Good morning, Rochester! Blizzard coming, ready? Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Good Morning Adrenal Glands!
Good morning, adrenal glamds. We have a surprise for you! (5 am…SUCH an ugly time to get outta bed!) Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Snow's A-Comin'!
The sun is gone, swallowed by white fog. Flag is limp on the mast. Blizzard warning begins at 6. The sun is not hidden;… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 1, 2016
Ignorant and Doomed
Among savages incapable of retaining collectively learned experience, a perpetual infancy results. I can no longer figure out these days whether I’m reading history or current events. [Note to self: If it’s on the Kindle, it’s a history book. If it’s on the web browser on my laptop, it’s currently happening.] Berlin, 4-May-27: “Goebbels spoke…
70 Years On
[Fair warning: Not a happy or basset-y post. (Didn’t help my, shall we say, outlook on life, that our water heater failed and flooded the den and we’re down to weak cold water in the bathroom and heating water in pots on the stove like we did in 1975.) And it contains opinion at the…
I Am The Roux!
I Am The Roux. I am a loud basset. A proud basset. A messy basset. A hungry basset. A loving basset. A force of nature. As a puppy, I got lost and couldn’t find my way home. I was very, very hungry. And scared. I ended up in a sad place. The concrete was very…
Bad Beginnings
I’m sitting in a chair in an airport. Waiting on yet another flight. Taking a drag on a cigarette, trying to read the States-Item. Hard to concentrate since it’s been such a long day. The best routing at the best price the travel agency could give me home to Minneapolis is a Braniff hop via…
Space is Tedious, But Fascinating
Love this and have needed to blog it for awhile. «If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel: A Tediously Accurate Scale Model of the Solar System» is a brilliantly creative work that represents graphically the massive amount of space in space. On the page, 1 screen pixel corresponds to 3,474.8 km, “which is the diameter…
Happy 20th Bayley Murphey!
Hard to believe today is Bayley Murphey Beagle’s 20th birthday. Such a wonderful part of our lives for over 12 years, he left us in March 2007 and we do miss him. But the wild thing is that it’s been 20 years. Where did that go?
Anniversary of Bittersweet Proportions
Aug. 20 is always bittersweet now; not only is it Bayley’s birthday, but we also lost Fred on this day two years ago. Time always plays with my head; Bayley’s 20 years seems a very long time, but so does the last two years. An aggressive, fast-moving cancer robbed us of Fred-Fred, who was just…
Sassoon and Gaza: A Hundred Years, An Unchanged Mankind
In Palestine “On the rock-strewn hills I heard The anger of guns that shook Echoes along the glen. In my heart was the song of a bird, And the sorrowless tale of the brook, And scorn for the deeds of men.” —Siegfried Sassoon, 30-Mar-1918 An interesting story of the month Siegfried Sassoon spent in Palestine…
Deadly Turbulence
It’s release day!
The Old Lie
On Remembrance Day … remember. War and the military should never be “celebrated.” Remembered with solemnity and an understanding of the brutality and savagery and destruction. But never “honored” or “celebrated” or as an opportunity for “sales.” Died of Wounds His wet, white face & miserable eyes Brought nurses to him more than groans &…
The Old Lie (2018 Memorial Day)
On Remembrance Day … remember. War and the military should never be “celebrated.” Remembered with solemnity and an understanding of the brutality and savagery and destruction. But never “honored” or “celebrated” or as an opportunity for “sales.” Died of Wounds His wet, white face & miserable eyes Brought nurses to him more than groans &…
Our Last Retro Post (For Now): 10 Years Ago Today, 30-Aug
For the last few weeks, we’ve been observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ve reposted articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they were, bittersweet. We’ll be back to our regular irregular posting after this last…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 29-Aug, Part 3
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 29-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 29-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 28-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 27-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 27-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 26-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 25-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 24-Aug, Part 3
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 24-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 24-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 23-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 22-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 21-Aug, Part 3
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 21-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 21-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 20-Aug, Part 3
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 20-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 20-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 20-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 19-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 19-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 18-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…