StormKnight

A phee sighting at Necto?

*spontaneously combusts*

Oh, in the bedroom proper: All my medical books Foot locker More lab equipement flight controllers in boxes for moving a picture of Neil Gaiman's Death, framed (and cute hotness) All 4 prints of "Seasons of the Witch" by Larry Elmore, signed, 3 of the 4 numbered, and personalized. Also framed.

I just saw this. Sadness.

Reports?

DGN @ City Club, Saturday, April 23rd Come. Join us. Meet us. Hang out. We're not that scary in person, really. Leland City Club 400 Bagley Street Downtown Detroit You enter by going through an unmarked door on the First Street side of The Leland Hotel building just before the gated parking area on the side of the building nearest 1st Street. The club is at the top of the stairwell. (see picture in the link above in the DGN calendar entry) All are welcome. Come meet some of us weirdos. Saturday nights from 10:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Alcoholic drinks until 2:00 a.m., pop and juices served all night. Admission is $4 18 and up, 21 to drink with proper ID (no exceptions). No drugs, weapons, chains or spikes. Zoomable map to City Club. MDOT lane closures (The map isn't quite exact. The Ramada is located within the Bagley, 1st, Cass, Plaza Dr. block.) In case you don't know the "DGN Corner" is to the right of the bar. Currently theres a table, pillar and white couch there, impossible to miss. Come say hello. If no one is there, stay there, they will show up. More info can be found here: http://www.lelandcityclub.net

This BBQ smells good.

Happy Birthday!

Reports?

DGN @ City Club, Saturday, April 16th Come. Join us. Meet us. Hang out. We're not that scary in person, really. Leland City Club 400 Bagley Street Downtown Detroit You enter by going through an unmarked door on the First Street side of The Leland Hotel building just before the gated parking area on the side of the building nearest 1st Street. The club is at the top of the stairwell. (see picture in the link above in the DGN calendar entry) All are welcome. Come meet some of us weirdos. Saturday nights from 10:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Alcoholic drinks until 2:00 a.m., pop and juices served all night. Admission is $4 18 and up, 21 to drink with proper ID (no exceptions). No drugs, weapons, chains or spikes. Zoomable map to City Club. MDOT lane closures (The map isn't quite exact. The Ramada is located within the Bagley, 1st, Cass, Plaza Dr. block.) In case you don't know the "DGN Corner" is to the right of the bar. Currently theres a table, pillar and white couch there, impossible to miss. Come say hello. If no one is there, stay there, they will show up. More info can be found here: http://www.lelandcityclub.net

Here I thought it was Chernobyl trying to sucker me into something... *bolts*

Hello there

I know I am a bit different here. Wanted to be a cop for a while, before the reality that father may or may not come back alive from a patrol. If I have a family, I wouldn't want to burden them with that fear. An extension of this is one of the reasons I wasn't looking for something while I was in the service. I didn't want to leave a family grief-ridden over the fact I could come home in a metal casket. However, I discovered at a young age I wanted to be a doctor. Go with the strengths, which was strong sciences. So much of my life has been dedicated to this end, it is a majority of my pattern. Perhaps it is the last of the childhood optimism that I can do anything that keeps me going. I knew the work was going to be hard, and made an almost monastic life in pursuit of the goal. It wasn't that hard to be that dedicated; nothing/no one interfered with the work for a long time. (Those saying "ignore it and it will happen," about certain parts of my social life, *this* time of my life convinced me more than ever that that saying was trite and patronizing. The time period took up at least a decade of nothing in that aspect.) I had to watch my back, as the undergraduate level had a severe backstab factor among the pre-meds. One friend in the major I trusted, who is now a professor at Vanderbilt. I was set on being a cardiothoracic surgeon, the most soul-crushing, time-killing, merciless specialty of surgery. I didn't care, it was something I loved. Then the condition set in, that made it unsafe for me to work the 120+ hours a week that is required to train in the specialty. I fell in love with the operating room when I was a tech, and had to change to anesthesiology, another love I found along the way. There have been a few hiccups along the way. But I still made it. But I haven't completely grown up. "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." One of the reasons I need something active, and why sitting and talking can irritate me. I need to be doing something. Hence a little more clubbing than someone of my age would (considering most of my peers in high school have had families and a fairly sedentary life.) Simple, unwinding, and relatively safe (compared to doing things like sports car racing, etc.)

Happy Birthday!

What? Sweet, innocent me?

Finally got to meet Onyx. My Pokemod collection is now complete.

Reports?

DGN @ City Club, Saturday, April 9th Come. Join us. Meet us. Hang out. We're not that scary in person, really. Leland City Club 400 Bagley Street Downtown Detroit You enter by going through an unmarked door on the First Street side of The Leland Hotel building just before the gated parking area on the side of the building nearest 1st Street. The club is at the top of the stairwell. (see picture in the link above in the DGN calendar entry) All are welcome. Come meet some of us weirdos. Saturday nights from 10:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Alcoholic drinks until 2:00 a.m., pop and juices served all night. Admission is $4 18 and up, 21 to drink with proper ID (no exceptions). No drugs, weapons, chains or spikes. Zoomable map to City Club. MDOT lane closures (The map isn't quite exact. The Ramada is located within the Bagley, 1st, Cass, Plaza Dr. block.) In case you don't know the "DGN Corner" is to the right of the bar. Currently theres a table, pillar and white couch there, impossible to miss. Come say hello. If no one is there, stay there, they will show up. More info can be found here: http://www.lelandcityclub.net

Hot rod. I have a thing for high powered, highly maneuverable cars. Red or Blue

I have been looking for an excuse not to do it, hoping to find one. However, it has been more than disappointing locally. It's been depressing. I can't even get far enough to show worth, or they would sap me dry without any return of benefit. Guess the choice has been made before me. At least I will be comfortable.

Had a "House moment" on another board: "Are you trained in surgery? No? Then quit your bulls*** consulting and let me see this abdomen." Don't start with the whole IM/medical student presentation of "This is a xx-year-old male with hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, etc..." Cut the to the frakking chase and tell me why the heck you are calling me at 2am. One line presentation, mental masturbators. One line! "We have an old guy with free air under the diaphram," or "We have a woman with a 8cm symptomatic aortic aneurysm on CT scan," is all I need to get moving with a bit of urgency. And I won't be annoyed at you for interrupting my dream of me on a tropical island a load of young, nubile, smart, scantily clad, open-minded women with a thing for me just as they were about ready to suggest some kinky fun on the beach. Save your oratory orgasms until I ask for details when I see you in the ER. Am I being a bit too cynical, or is it the fact I am getting into the "old man" range?

DGN @ City Club, Saturday, April 2nd Come. Join us. Meet us. Hang out. We're not that scary in person, really. Leland City Club 400 Bagley Street Downtown Detroit You enter by going through an unmarked door on the First Street side of The Leland Hotel building just before the gated parking area on the side of the building nearest 1st Street. The club is at the top of the stairwell. (see picture in the link above in the DGN calendar entry) All are welcome. Come meet some of us weirdos. Saturday nights from 10:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Alcoholic drinks until 2:00 a.m., pop and juices served all night. Admission is $4 18 and up, 21 to drink with proper ID (no exceptions). No drugs, weapons, chains or spikes. Zoomable map to City Club. MDOT lane closures (The map isn't quite exact. The Ramada is located within the Bagley, 1st, Cass, Plaza Dr. block.) In case you don't know the "DGN Corner" is to the right of the bar. Currently theres a table, pillar and white couch there, impossible to miss. Come say hello. If no one is there, stay there, they will show up. More info can be found here: http://www.lelandcityclub.net

What happened?

And your point being..?