Nowhere Near the Edge

UCLA Medical Center, 7th Floor, 10 am -- Oh happy day ... Cheryl was a good little patient and gave the doctors two more seizures, at 2 and ...

Glendale, California, 9:15 am -- The phone rang at 5:30 this morning. All I could do is say hello to Cheryl before our phone line went dead...

UCLA Medical Center, 7th Floor, 12 pm -- No seizures overnight or this morning. Cheryl's roommate has been discharged. I was lucky eno...

Glendale, California, 3:45 pm -- I haven't been to the hospital yet today, but I've spoken twice to Cheryl, who is in very good spir...

UCLA Medical Center, 7th Floor, 2:30 pm -- Bad news can be good news sometimes; this screening process depends on it. By the time I returne...

UCLA Hospital Admissions Office, 10:50 am PDT -- Everything has gone according to plan and ahead of schedule so far. Cheryl and I arrived ...

We heard today from UCLA to go over preadmission details. Amidst the ordinary procedural issues, we found out that our insurance company ha...

I think all of you few, you happy few, who patronize this site know that Cheryl has epilepsy. She has been on medication for it ever since ...

Silly me, thinking my post about buying an iPod would generate a flurry of comments. No, it wasn't Andy posting a series of reasons why...

Yep, it is now that season: fantasy football time. As my fantasy baseball team continues to humble the rest of its league, I turn now to ...

I think we have finally joined the now. After years of indifference, we finally bought an MP3 player yesterday. Not just any MP3 player, b...

I may be the only person in recorded history to have lost a cell phone in a taxi and get it back. While in San Francisco on business last w...

Beware, all ye you are consumed by computer gaming. It can kill you : A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-s...

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In addition to its thoroughly depressing "news" account of the landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery (headline: "Safe Landi...

NASA geek that I am, I’ve worn myself out trying to follow the journey of Discovery. Any time there is a hint that the Shuttle may come to C...

If you grew up, as I did, glued to Loonie Toons cartoons on Saturday morning, your subconcious is full of the many characters Mel Blanc brou...

Or at least in low earth orbit. Listening in on NASA TV a moment ago, I heard an astronaut reporting on some troubleshooting procedures he ...

The space shuttle Discovery launched flawlessly this morning. With the increased emphasis on diagnostic care of the orbiter, NASA mounted a...

" Health Officials Puzzle Over Abortion Pill Deaths in California ." Not to be crass about it or anything, but that's precisel...