Is it Baxter? Noooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Category: Meaningful Labor
Smithville?
Is it Smithville? McMinnville throughthat very dirty windshield? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Carthage?
Is it Carthage? Nooooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Lebanon?
Is it Lebanon? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Gallatin?
Is it Gallatin? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Surprise Road Trip
Us? On a road trip? On a Saturday morning?! Now what's up with this? <Shhhhhh! It's a surprise! His Majesty The Roux monitors my Instagram stream while we're gone.> Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Rainy Hermitage
It's a gloomy, rainy Saturday afternoon in Hermitage; but more trees are blooming, so the long, dark winter is almost done. Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 12, 2016
Springing Spring
Spring is springing upon Hermitage. Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Blooming Jeep
The tree in the driveway is in full bloom on this nice late winter evening in Hermitage. I'll take a better pic tomorrow. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, March 6, 2016
Piranha Club, Bang On
From longtime favorite strip, "Piranha Club," (still known as "Ernie" in Scandinavia), a 'toon from October 1999 that I… Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, March 3, 2016
Thank God THAT Thing is Gone
[Gross picture alert. You've been warned! Unfazed? Well, I warned ya. Besides, you got two of these inside you,… Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, March 1, 2016
ENMMC, Early 60s
What ENMMC in Roswell looked like when I made my debut in the world. So spiffy and clean and it had shiny floors and a… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 29, 2016
Me Homer
Today's Facebook Quiz:Which MRI image is Homer Simpson and which is me? Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, February 25, 2016
More Ugly Hospital Cactus Booties
Guess what came back with me from Minnesota? Yup, the ugly green hospital cactus booties. But for some reason, His… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 15, 2016
I Have a Brain!
The whole Minnesota experience was mostly Minnesota Nice, always efficient and highly effective. It was also at times… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 15, 2016
That Was Rick
[An anemic attempt to define Rick, who was undefinable.]Rick Stewart, Feb. 2, 1966 – Feb. 11, 2016.Three months or… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, February 13, 2016
Hello Nashville!
Hello Nashville! It's so very good to see you again! After a DQ bacon cheeseburger, it was lights out in my own bed by 7:30. Amazing what being free from a monster adrenal can do for you! Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 8, 2016
Party Like It's 1999
Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 8, 2016
Ugly Cactus Green Hospital Booties. Yes, Again.
[Posting all this here for everyone, 'cause my phone is temporarily misplaced. Thanks for understanding.]Guess what's… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, February 6, 2016
Ugly Cactus Green Hospital Booties. Part Deux.
Again with the teal booties; at least this time, they match the chair! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
Huggy Bear
I WANT this thing. It has a hose that hooks to your gown and it blows cold or hot air up your jumper. Called "Bear Paws," it's pretty awesome. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
Pokey Pokey!
Pokey pokey!!! Here we go! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
Et Sanavit Omnes
"Et Sanavit Omnes." Lobby of St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, while waiting on my escort to the spot I've been trying to get to for 12 years."Et sanavit omnes" translated: "And he healed them all" Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, February 5, 2016
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
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…
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 &…
Remembering Braniff Flight 250, 47 Years Ago Today
Taking time today to remember a tragic moment: 47 years ago today: Braniff International flight 250 crashed on Tony and Vernell Schawang’s soybean farm northeast of Falls City, NE, taking 42 lives. The crash had widespread consequences, both personally and in the industry. We fly safely today without any thought thanks in large part to…
WN345 Nose Gear Collapse at KLGA
“WN737-700 N753SW, operating as Southwest 345 from Nashville (KBNA) experiences nose gear collapse on arrival at KLGA.” …
Sorry We Destroyed Your Life After You Saved Our Country
“Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker who took his own life after being convicted of gross indecency under anti-homosexuality legislation, is to be given a posthumous pardon.” …