Viral Vicissitudes

Swearing in; Peace out… It began... with the "swearing in"...as in simply, innocently "Repeat after me, Mr. Precedent"... Worked its way...  through the halls of Congress and the rest of our House… Ran its way… down to the legislative body…”kiss my…other cheek! “  (the charitable way of putting it, just in case a younger body is listening) We’re talking… through pursed lips, about a leader whose words and language add up to a new low… “Sub par, for the whole #$%& course (I own it)!” 😉 (fluent follow up- “forgive my French, friends…”) Back after some brief pro-nouncements…

Home groan, what the test scores have shown In state tuition, under-stated - Where, despite many grads being “Smarter than a Fifth Grader” other data shows 60% of fourth graders are non-proficient readers. What does this add up to? The knew Math - The finding that an increase dependency on Alexa, Siri, and AI, is creating a serious gap in critical thinking, as well as a gaping whole other story problem… Pop! Quiz - A teaching tool to keep their eyes open, pupils honest…which increasingly incorporate themes from pop culture. Case in point…”What happens when, after she got you to kick in your fare share, after all those billions of friendship bracelets, she upped the ante for her hero, finally got rocked? Falling rates of interest, of course. May as well end this cruel summer and re-engage ourselves ...

An up-date, and the down-low on potted plants Now part of (our legal) pot culture... deserves its own musical... "It's lost its thrill...a total buzz kill"🚬🎵   (to the tune of "Blueberry Hill")  "Tommy, can't you hear me?!" 🎜  WHO's calling...Tommy's toked up, tuned off...totally! "Every Breath you take..."  🎝 Makes my brain swell...oh, well...hear comes, the Police... "No mo' motility..." Total futility! (this is the rapper part) So, they tell me...that I won't be regenerating any time soon. Due to all the weed and feed ("the munchies!!") I've been ingesting...the X and Y won't be meeting or greeting....AKA...my, my, my... Sperm is idle... They say that the best way to get dudes! to quit isn't to preach about better brain health, but to cut to their jeans...it will have them singing the blues..."Oh how I miss, my Cannabliss..." (to the tune of "Thyme after Tyme...") 

The pro- verses anti- Biotics and their gut instincts  “Gutsy move dude!” Yep, it’s become the new pre-occupation of biologists and new tritionists - the whole life in the gutters thing…how best to set things into motion… Riddle of the Phinxter  -  The elusive equation of the exact Ph environment, otherwise termed "Internal climate control" to keep things relaxed, in your upper GI, while just enough tension, or termed natural contractions...talking about intestinal fortitude… Carbon nation - Only natural, inevitable, that after we became preoccupied with counting carbs and even footprints containing it, that a device would come to Marketplace that produces more of this phizzy stuff that, once consumed…who knows, how this might go... Gag reflux - Double trouble, that requires two different doses, to help you relax…in order to ‘scope you out’ in order to discover how you managed to ingest too much, of a good thing…

Details to follow - post summit post  Out, In Front - of the press pre-conference…”You’ll just have to read my body language…if I come out too soon…either way I’m pissed having to come all the way here, to win over…Hillary” Feeling pressed -   quite literally, as they press their collective noses not on the traditional grindstone but up against the glass… Hard pressed - to obtain details as he was, uncharacteristically, keeping the press detail at a distance… News fed, lacking cred - Hard to tell if they were getting the whole story as they peered through a hole, in the fence…”not my first rodeo but never seen anything quite like this…war criminal and felon coming together for a facial…I mean glacial summit…” Baked Alaska - “ From where I sit, things seem to be heating up...melting down, glacier-size..." Also what happens when you piss off the press. Fluent follow-up - “Forgive my French, friends…” 

Kindergarteners Rounded Up - Almost the year round A multi-player perspective post - let's play... From the purse-spective of the prospective primary teacher- “On paper says 21…can’t we just round up to 25…30 would be a rounder number, for count day…all about head count for funding, you know…got kids of my own, counting on me, at home” Peering Parental eyes - From behind a barely cracked open door…finds them cracking up…”we did our job by getting them all wound up…hope they wind down a bit by the time they meet their teacher...” “PSSSST!” - From just an aisle over from where parents are purchasing school supplies…"From one pupil to another...this is not my first rodeo as my parents and teacher elected to give me another go round...I've got all the ingredients in one hand to make the best spit balls around...first rounds on me😜!” Sweeps week - Probably not the kind you were thinking, as in what used to be called in "Ferris Buhler" days, the truant officer, who sw...

Ear Plug, on behalf of - Auditory Acuity A Budding Business - "Haven't you heard...you haven't heard the half of it...in one ear and..." Eye Ronic Massage - Noise cancelling that actually brings out every audio nuisance...or did they say nuance...couldn't quite make it out, given all the in-put...   Audio-visual - Picture this…a show without sound…surround… Putting in a plug - for audiologists and, get ready for an earful…otolaryngologists (ok to avoid distortion, ENT’s, the multi-specialists) - both of whom look out for what you hear...(or not, which is more like when you go to see them). From our lips, to... From the Prose at Bose - "Sounds like...however you pronounce it, what goes in... Tinnitus can either mean sensation of noise or, in the most successful out-comes...cessation"😌

An Augustinian in August    100 and counting… Looks like everyone's counting...on you. New pope, elevated hope… Speaking of elevation… So many homilies about the utility of humility…”If you’re not humble, the harder the tumble…” This scene from a room with a view... Papal See… “ City on the Hill…” as in the highest point of Vatican City being about 246 feet above sea level…no wonder, then… Veneration of a new generation… Of   Saints. Begins almost as soon as the new pope lowers himself to join all the masses…and the previous one, who was known for lowering himself to wash the feet of prisoners will, in all likelihood be elevated to Sainthood. Speaking of… “Brother, where art thou?” From the masses of friars and friends who are known in part for their fraternizing. Finding themselves at a loss, as in the minus column when they line up for lunch, while plus one while hanging up, the spare robe… “Well, come to the hood” A Vatican call out for new priestly recruits.."You ain'...

Out smarting AI; so smart of me... So...  being the originator of content of the creative type, and being an all around smarty pants, I decided to pull one over on her/him..."Alexa, re-invent yourself" Without batting an I, the reply came in the form of both a question and an answer..."You can't be Sirius..." Now that smarts.  

Students moving in...our children moving out...   Emancipation Day, is what it's all about...🎜 Student housing…parents browsing… the internet for ideas of how to redecorate their room, convert it to what is finally, a "study" -- for they never used their room for it, despite the desk...cluttering up the kitchen table instead... Complete makeover… parents doing a total takeover, of their own home.  “Well, come back”… we have a spare room that you can take up temporary quarters in, until the next quarter begins…” 😏☹️

"And here come the Washington Pigskins...!"  FKA simply the Washing-tonians, who were tone deaf And not to be con-fused with just plain old, young “W” …   "What's afoot here?!" And up north, closer to the north pole, where things unusually move at a glacial pace..."it will be a cold day in...Alaska..." A slippery slope indeed... Getting traction… With this foreign faction… Making a deal, has the feel... of a really good meal…while our steaks have never been higher and our shrimp scampi has gotten skimpy, our pork barrel politics have never been sweeter…good thing as my stomach’s like a bottomless pit…TG for Diet coke…Your loss is my gain… Like a game… American football, only in the arena, of politics...which finds U.S. back, on our own turf, since 1867 (love to tease Vladdy)...back on offense, after playing defense. after being pressed, by our own team of incompetent meddling media moguls...  It can be a physical game...  A game involving laws of physi...

  I See You… Butt…  even after you’ve regained consciousness, you’re unlikely to even get a glimpse of me…during your stay, in the ICU…given all the get-up we are wearing while we try to infuse you with some ‘get- up and go!’ - sometimes with an infusion assist.  Unseen butt… the gang that works behind the scene, which frequently means a thinly veiled curtain, to create an atmosphere of privacy. to shield the patient, from prying eyes…except those of the I C U staff… We can be an intimidating… I mean intimate bunch, given how we work so closely in close quarters. Made closer with added machinery, IV’s (what would an ICU be without?) - from the looks of it, we are intensifying care in order to get you back among…what’s called the general population impatient floors...  Don’t get used to it… The worst inpatients, according to the nurses at their station, are the ones that got used to be waited on, even before pressing the "call" button...a far cry from those who were a...

A listening post… As I was (not) saying...when I was practicing good-ish listening skills... Overheard, while understated - Whilst whiling away, exercising early morning, hearing about listening exercises... Inspire to inquire -  First time I formally heard about the value of listening, from Dr. A, about why we should B "a good listener...as anyone can give advice, but watch what happens when you give someone your undivided attention, and listen to what they have to say...you'll stay busy all day..." Good advice, career move, as in turns out... Listening, devices - Excessive talking, other vices...that interfere with "shutting your mouth, open your ears..." AKA... "Zip, lock it!" Another device designed to keep things fresh..."zip lock bags" might be the only way, to keep us focused on the speaker (i.e., "no phone zone")... “Listen up…we didn’t come all the way to Alexa to arrive an agreement…just to understand each other better…” C...

Your Bladder madders..."Where shall I go...?"  ¿Donde Esta El Bano? The first, time sensitive, even urgent question, I mastered...even prior to "¿Como se dices...? Both of which start, as well end with a question...mark, due to its origin. We're speaking, however it translates, of... Matters of the bladder... and their medical specialists... "Hold it, just one minute longer..." Easy for the young-ish female manning the front desk to say...so casually to this "Go Pro". I mean, who knows mine better than me...it gets me up, at least a few times per night...and otherwise, nudges me even prior to the intermission..."better get going"... "⸮Quien es....?" By the time I get there, I probably don't even care whether I mispronounce their name… “ All Depends…” Assuming you come with more generic questions, you can call your-ologist whereas if you need them to impart advice on more than one part (assuming you have them), they're r...

Vans, their inhabitants - along with tailgators  🐊  A Whole family - of new vehicles, the van re-imagined, as one that while referred to as “mini” can max out tons of utility…not just for carting kids to soccer…but also vans filled with band…gear… A hint of tint - now allowed as a compliment to the bumper ‘snicker’ - “If this van’s a rocking, don’t come a knocking”😳 Add-ons - only inevitable that once these minis became popular some ‘hangers on’ would follow…in the form of skateboarders who hung on…as bumper slickers…many of whom are now sporting “Vans” (👞😎) - all comes together during Dream Cruise week 😀

Garages, their bands of resistance* AKA "Resistance Bands!"  Which came first...? A question that has been bandied about ever since parents began imploring the youth to "take that racket outside!" Many of whom, due to the rites of passage, banded together...to resist.  Name of the game... "What are we going to call ourselves...?"  Setting the band into motion... As in overcoming the natural inertia of youth (fancy physics for "L-A-Z-Y"), it only makes sense that so many great musical movements have come out of such a crucible as, speaking generically, "The Cars" and more categorically, "The Fabulous Thunderbirds", "REO (Speedwagon)" and the girl band that muscled their way in, namely, "The GTO's" (which, of course, became a major focus of the Beach Boys)...to name but a few that might be found in a large garage called a musical museum. Along with, or following, the ones that attempted to catch up with t...

Collective Consciousness on InstantaneoUS Us - being YOU and ME… So you want a "for instance...?" Just when… did “wait a minute” give way to not even getting “a moment’s notice”?  And how… did “steady wins the race…” give it up to “those that eat the fastest can now reach for GasX?" Which voice to listen to... A snail’s pace… this is not a race…"slow down, you move too fast, you got to make the morning last…”🎵 Hurry, to save face...  "...looking up, noticed I was late..." 🎜🎝!! (get the upbeat tempo?)  The former bridge builders (59th Street) as in S & G, "Feeling Groovy" - whereas the latter, but not later...Beatlemania! "Don't get me going" As I already came and went, left your package yesterday, knowing you were going to order it, based on your own algo-rhythm..."Anticipation...is making me late...keeping me waiting...𝅘𝅥𝅯😠" "What will they think of..." For all of Us, who want things, like "Yesterday...

Dormitories and their stories, will floor you…a moratorium on Dormitorium* Let's start with the first floor, where the cafe-teria is frequently found, along with what's sold to your folks as a meal plan..."sold out...should have gotten up when Alexa called you the first time..." On to where the "House Parents" are often found, lost..."I'm totally out...of patience, as it's been a trying move-in day around here..."  Room with a view - In my case, it was an overlook, what we should have looked closer at in the "virtual" as the view of the southern exposure...what's exposed when the retaining wall is removed from the garbage area..."talk about a facade!"  Shared spaces - No, not the parking area, as we freshmen are not allowed access, but one area that has AC, WIFI, HBO, given that our rooms are W/O.  Over-sold: What you have in store, if (your parents) bought in.  Schools out, tuition hikes are in..."going to need...

Invest heavily, in heavy vests   Vest-meants- what they were originally meant for, including those I already covered that covered the bishops, cardinals, and one who stood out from the rest, wearing a slightly different colored vest.  So many that it called for an additional vestibule, in the Vatican... Child care wear - Where so many have given up a back pack and replaced it with a child up front…‘close to their vest’ which have eventually given weigh to… Perilous Apparel - the increasing numbers I have witnessed that are placing their knee, ankle joints in peril by adding an additional weight via donning the latest in sports gear…not sure it’s going to get them anywhere faster besides a chiropractor… Back, following a few minor adjustments…

The ins and ouch! of phlebotomy - shot, on location Vocationally speaking - a good place to start...locating the right spot, to needle me, as in getting under my skin. My phlebotomist is a pro at it...  "Put it (in) there!" - a friendly greeting, usually a show and shaking, of hands. But no, not with the one who draws blood for a living. It's as if I have to show her each and every time, the best place to start, the flow...of blood...  At the end of the day - each one as well as at the culmination of a career taking blood samples...being reassured, and relieved to find out, they were, pretty much in vein (given they are closer to the surface than arteries).  Got blood? If you need any you know who has an ample supply but not sure where to look, given she took them to “who knows where" …which was the closest she came to giving up, where the blood I gave, went... Phlebotomist's creed - to make me bleed...as little as possible (so little that a handheld medical devi...

Where chickens feed… See weed? It’s what’s showing, or being shown, as being offered as the main menu item…to cows, as in… Asparago… the main ingredient, makes them not want to…pass, the gas- the genus that, just 1% gets you 97…percent reduction of methane production …all fine and good… Butt…what about… the other cause for all the skunk smell, all the other weed that is taking up the landscape as far as the eye can see…?! Certainly not an amount that amounts to chicken feed... Skunk in the barnyard, PU... butt that other stink🚬, brand new😷 "This bud's no longer for you, bud" According to 'grass roots' sources, the weed industry has finally reached its saturation point which may, in turn, signal a downturn in "Roundup"  

Inter-germinational Warfare - Modern Medicine Movie 101 🎥 " Please Don't Feed the Children"...crap. "Don't sit down..." The first thing, after "you finally got yourself (with a parent assist😠) up, out of bed" was to, go down...to the barn (guess it was always downhill, whereas school was always uphill, both ways) ...in order, at least the rumor was..."we used to have to feed the chickens, milk the cows..." prior to feeding ourselves...breakfast. The rumor mill, is with us still. "Are you sitting down?" Usually a fore-runner to news or rumors that, if you didn't posture yourselves accordingly, might be "blown off your feet!" But what's new here?  This intergenerational blame game has been going on since we started learning how to generate..."themes of survival, the piercing of innocence, and societal blame on the younger gens for badly behaving adults" Simply put, children being "potential carr...

Categorical conflicts, dumbed down dilemmas - Update on "Man verses..."  Capacity for Men-dacity... a whole nation of them, according to Mr. Kerry, who has been caught in a few himself (in mid-flight, in a private jet, no less...in search of a change in climate...)  Man eating plants… a new cause for concern…vegetarians on the rise, disappearing greenery, ruining scenery, limited menus, venues..."eat what's in front of you! 😖"  Counter-manding... put my order in over an hour ago...must be sitting on a counter somewhere, getting over-exposed. Speaking of... Man heating up... a drama with an ironic twist, as getting "Cold played 😓"  Man up... so long ago, can't remember, when an actual "manned" spacecraft included one (don't ask me Y) Man, over bored! speaks for itself...as in bored stiff, to tears...versus those who seek it... Mundane -  these guys (and a few gals now, 2) love to live out their daze in "Dullsville" (predisp...

Health and Well-ness...and the latest trends.  Med, Health, Well checks... the whole range of wishing you, well...during and after your check-up... "Health care delivery!" AKA - "Sorry to barge in this way, but we're here as part of your PCMH (Patient Centered-Medical Home, to be all in-clusive) ...the newest, transformative, comprehensive, accessible, coordinated, designed to improve health outcomes, even patient satisfaction...encompasses five essential functions..." And you don't even have to have the 'get-up-and go' to leave the comforts of your own home. Speaking of essentials... "Don't leave home without it..." Just a reminder to keep your check book handy, given the other healthcare trends...  

Rhein-Gold...and thoughts of old Halycon Daze... "The good old days..." When King of Draft, and Blue Ribbons...actually meant something... "Put a good head on..." Didn't even have to be said, when ordering another "suds" sans dogs...That is, when ordering another round of "whatever you have on draft...you know best, that's why you're tending bar..." Dazed and Con-fused... Not sure what to order, with all those crafty craft beers. A place that was sanctified as a place we could go before a game, place what was called "gentleman's bets" (wink wink, take a drink) has been tainted, as well as the sports themselves... Three jeers... For what's touted as the "King of Beers" - a super commercial which landed it on the Super Bowl, featuring an official tuning out, while his spouse, imitating a sideline coach, "don't try this at home...could get you sidelined...😠" What's on tap...? Or, the opposit...

College...binding with joy!   Early admission... assuming submission, as in signing what in the business world, is a "no compete" clause…put other colleges on pause… Welcomed as a scholar... complete with a collar...as in restraints (on what in other settings is called "free speech") …whole laundry list of things we can no longer say (“bunch of stuffed shirts won’t even allow us to have panty raids anymore…!”😫) Not athletic? How pathetic, as you'll have to make it on merit, and without options to go through a transfer portal, otherwise decommit... A brand knew e-quation... for branding our alma mater...one that allows for early admittance and with the new in-tuition, leaving you with what in money terms, a pittance...(AKA a small amount...as in a weakly allowance😞) In short form: Come grats!💰  (“a bunch of brats…this batch is the wurst !” 😝) 

Standing up, for Lemons… Startups - the materials and their costs, to keep them standing…paper, plastic, cardboard and a truckload of staples - speaking of… Pitcher perfect - The ones that seem to be bottomless and have the unique capability of keeping lemons a float... Recipe for sweet, sour… Forget about the "This is what victory feels like" mantra from JD Vance and company…"Here comes the sweet taste of success!” When our parents paid us in ad-vance (to have some money in the till to make it look good to potential customers...highly advanced marketing for us kids, eh?)  Street corners cornered, summer slow-downs -   Turns out it’s not the orange cones that were the cause of all the backups in our neighborhood - "won't you sit a spell, while you're waiting, have another 1/2 paper cup full, enjoy some lemonade, while kids we remain standing ?" 

Trade deadlines looming... Ticket sales booming... despite our team not having what's considered a five-star season, prior to the annual All-star  break..."just wait till you see the new rookies we've recruited, to join the BULL, pen..." Falls advertising... "while this team, coming apart at the seams, there's always another reason, another season...just around the corner..." 🏈 🏀 🏒 It's in the cards... along with other sports memorabilia shows, that seem to pop-up. out of nowhere... "Wanna trade?" As in "Up Yours" 

Great Uncle Ed, his lasting leg-acy. They called him steady Eddy... despite his one wooden leg... A standup comedian, was he... "busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest..." And then came munching Marshall… ”fear inciting with his biting…” mostly beneath the surface, of the water… A day at the pool to remember… when my uncle stuck out his wooden member…after Marshall bit down, he surfaced with a frown…”I guess there’s no such thing as a free munch…”  Among other stories that re-surface, in these lazy  daze of summer... like when Uncle Eddy and I were accused of having the upper hand, when we entered the annual three-legged race😏   

A case of the Case Manager - in House specialty Posted: "The position remains open...after the requisite amount of time has expired, while your patients have lapsed...into a comatose state...." Grate-full, but thankless: Right in the middle, the epi-center of patient care, where you can't tell if they're coming or going...as in the nurses and docs...hardly get to know their names. given all the 'shifting' you are responsible for... Manage-meant: Caught in between the so-called upper and lower floors...and finding yourself in both internal and external conflicts..."you'll coordinate patient care, ensure effective outcomes, on the way to discharge planning, as part of a larger team to manage effective use of health care resources..."  In any case: Not a very patient population...."but a position that you could look back with satisfaction ...having groan from it"😒😄        

You're such an...idio-path! Since you haven't chosen one... origins unknown...as well as which pathway you'll pursue... Lacking specificity... but not spontaneity...it's like you just showed up, lacking a cause... Degree of equivocation... after this tenth rotation... Other conditions ruled out... is what I'm all about... Educated guess... I finally confess... In conclusion... to clear up the confusion... I defaulted... went into medical management - the dark side of WebMD