Boredom at Work

Yes, kids it's that slow time of the year to be an eye doctor. I saw only three patients yesterday. I have only three patients on the schedule today (and all three of them are charity cases --- meaning they're not paying for anything)

There are things going on behind the scenes in my life right now. After work I'm doing many things and none of them I can blog about. Maybe in the next two weeks or so I can write about things in great detail. For now, things are on the horizon. A few of you reading probably even know what I'm referring to.

My Christmas shopping for G is officially done. I still need my brother, sister in law, nephew, and G's family. Lots of work to do this weekend, then.

The tree was put up on Sunday. We went to the same little Greek Orthodox church we went to last year. They're only two blocks away so we can carry the tree home and spare the car. We got a small 5' tree. Anything larger looks ridiculous in our condo. Sunday afternoon was spent decorating the tree and the house.

G watched football to make sure he was still in the lead in Fantasy Football. I'm starting to agree with Erik's assessment that it's the new D&D. G watches football now with the laptop in his lap to get score/point updates and track his players vs his opponent's players. I was having much more fun putting ornaments on the tree.

Meme-age

Stolen from Chelle. Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand

1984
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
Beloved
The Blind Assassin
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Canterbury Tales
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
David Copperfield
Don Quixote (in Spanish even)
Dracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : A Novel
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Iliad
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
The Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : A Novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
The Mists of Avalon
Moby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
The Name of the Rose (LOVE this book!)
Neverwhere
Northanger Abbey
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
On the Road
The Once and Future King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Oryx and Crake : A Novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir of Books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
The Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D'Ubervilles (hated it!)
The Three Musketeers
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values

Almost all of these came from high school English classes.

Wii Overload !!

Two weeks ago, at a conference he was remiss he had to go to, G won a Wii. He came home Friday night with it proudly tucked under one arm.

Apparently, he had to run around this museum in Atlanta trying to find answers to questions about an exhibit they had on loan from the Louvre. Well, G got all the answers and was the big wiener.

Note: How do you get an entire Atlanta office of consultants to hate a guy they just met? Win a Wii. People started claiming G cheated and everything. Sore losers.

G was offered 600 dollars for the Wii in the Atlanta airport. The guy wanted to write him a check. (no way) G even offered to walk with the guy to an ATM for cash.

So, long story short (Too late) we have a Wii now. Since we won the Wii, we deemed it necessary to go to Best Buy and buy it games. I think we ended up spending more than the Wii would have cost on games and accessories.

Todays crack: Guitar Hero 3. Seriously, this game is crack in a box. If you like getting your Slash on pretending to be a guitar god singing merrily along to 80s hair bands... this is your game. Smashing Pumpkins, Poison, Slayer, Pat Benetar, G n R. G and I played until 2am the first night we had it.

I also started working on Zelda, but I have to get G off it long enough to let me play!