Apparently, my neurosurgeon called me on Wednesday. I found his message on the answering machine last night (I really gotta check that thing more often). Wonder of all wonders, he wants to see me on Tuesday afternoon. The problem: I already have an appointment with the back pain specialist then. Hopefully one of those appointments can be re-scheduled.

My eldest son brought a couple of his friends over last night for a sleep-over. The rapture of a house full of 14 year old boys is beyond description (as is the smell). They have some weird concept in their minds that I’ll be building them a catapult today. Um… probably not. My son mentioned it to me but hasn’t given me enough details on why exactly he needs it (“it’s for school”). Knowing how deviant he can be, he probably wants it to launch rocks at the interstate. Insert caution here.

Work also made my life easier on Wednesday. They gave me a spiffy new laptop. 1.6 GHz Pentium M processor, a Gig of ram, 40 GB drive, ATI Mobility Fire GL display, and integrated WI-FI. Schweet!! Unfortunately, my Cisco SoftPhone seems to be screwed up, but hey… It sure beats the POS they gave me before.

Well… gotta hit the update button and get this sent up to the site (as I have a conference call in a few minutes… joy!).

Until next time: Shop as usual, avoid panic buying!