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I was just loading my car to go to the airport, we are going to visit my wifes family in Cleavland of all places. My sister-in-law is medical resident. I was going through my self prescribed therapy that has me putting all my differences with medicine aside for the week. (to keep the peace) I started thinking when did I become so jaded toward medicine and capitalism and “the man” anyway. Then I was caught up in a vision.
When I was in the 11th grade I worked at a furniture store in Murray Utah. I delivered the furniture. Horrible job actually, we delivered marble tables at times up several flights of stairs. I got the job because one of my church leaders was the store owner. He must of thought it a very cleaver way to exploit children by paying them 5 bucks an hour to ruin their backs for life. Anyway one day were to deliver a black table to a woman in park city. After searching for the item in the warehouse we came back to the store owner and told him we could not find the table. He told us “oh its in the back here I am almost done with it”. We went to the back office and found a half white half spray painted black table. As he finished spray painting the rest of the table he gave us a can of spray paint so we could touch it up in the truck when we got the womans house.
Thats they day I learned what business was about. Selling widgets, no matter the moral cost. I have translated that to what goes on in our health care system and I must view medicine as the store owners.
It led to one of my two great rules that I live by and challenge anyone to dissprove. rule #1 is “nothing is real”

hey… its a bitterbarn.

Cupon addict.

The other foot.

My wife; bless her saintly heart is always trying to make me better. I don’t know if it is for her sake or mine. I assume the later but who knows really. I suppose; or hope you wife is the same. Can you think of something she wants you to be “better” at. Its nice to have someone trying to make you better
I think she is addicted to coupons. between you and me I think we get like 10 news papers every week, so we have a plethora of cupons. She goes out to these stores and robs them blind. For example; a few weeks ago she went to albertsons and bought 5 boxes of cereal and at the end of the transaction THEY owed HER 5 bucks. We have more food storage than we have ever had. I am certain fruit loops will make through a nuclear winter. She says she can feel it getting out of hand though. We have cupons tacked to the wall with yarn running from one to another and maps of stores. LIke on a beautiful mind, or something you might see in a serial murderers apartment. I think its time for a twelve step program honney.

Golds Gym goes on notice.

     A Golds Gym was built here in Tooele. It opened this past summer. Since Tooele people are so starved for civilization, Golds signed up enough people to keep it in business for the next three years even if they got no new contracts in the next three years. (does that make sense?)
The first day I walked in there where at least 3 diff rent machines with “out of order” signs on them. Many machines where old and scuffed up; like they bought them on Ebay or something. we payed a 1000 smakers for our family membership. That averages out to be about 300 hundred dollars per time I will even use the gym. Included in our 1000 dollars was the use of the “kids gym” or you know day care area where they watch your kids while you “work out”. 2 weeks after the place opened they decided to start demanding reservations to bring you kids in. So when we go to the gym they ask us if we have a reservation. How tacky can this place get? Apparently, if you do not have a reservation they can refuse to watch your kids while you work out. Later I figured out that this is a staffing issue, Golds wants to make sure it doesn’t over staff the kids gym area and the way to do that is to take reservations. Starting to smell like capitalism? Your right it is. Golds has been so successful here in Tooele that it no longer feels like it has any obligation to its members. Our product is becoming worse and worse ever time I go to the gym. Two days ago my buddie and I made reservations for the raquette ball court. When my buddy got there; he realized he did not have his gym card, nor his personal ID. They looked up his name, Which brought his picture up on screen. Then demanded he go home and get his gym card eventhoug they had a picture of him on their computer. wasting 30 minutes of our precious work out time which was cut short by an emergency at the hospital.
Don’t go to Golds. don’t sighn up with Gold’s. They are hosing my family and will hose you too.

Hanna Montana

     What I should say is, freak that girls is driving me nuts.

    Yesterday we took everyone to see Hana Montana the Movie.  I see a lot of kids shows.  Beverly hills chewawa (horrible), Wal-E  (worse, slept through it), Bolt ( meh), Monsters VS. Aliens (at least I stayed awake).

   Hana Montana I had such low expectations for.  I had planned on watching tv on my new samsung enternity.  Honestly though It was a pretty good show.  Predictable feel good Disney esque???  yeah.  But it was punchy and just punchy enough to keep me watching.  Was I dancing when she sang songs I’ve heard on radio Disney a million times?   um… yeah.  Worst of all though; There comes a point in the movie where being Hanna and Miley is just ruining hers and every-ones life and she decides to come clean and tell everyone who she really is.  My wife busted me crying.  I am not proud  but I may be just that stressed. 

      Net effect;

     I liked it. It was a good clean show. I started feeling bad for stars and all the attention they get.  I think I am gonna learn the Ho-down Throw-down.