Monday, April 20, 2009
Oh boy, I have not posted here in a while! There has been some stuff I should have posted, but I've been too busy with the other blog. But, here is something for this blog! This last weekend, I broke my toe. Here's the X-ray of it! My dad recently broke his own finger by slamming it in a car door. I did this by stubbing my toe on an end table. Now I know where I get it. By the way, the hardware is on my leg and is old. You're looking for the toe next to the pinkie toe. :-) (Click on the image to make it larger.)
Thursday, February 26, 2009
A lucky day! In addition to everything taking place on the OTHER blog, I am one of the two second year residents that gets to start moonlighting...in my second year! Yeah! Extra income while I study!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The plan is to induce tonight! (Or rather, early tomorrow morning depending on how you want to look at it.)
Friday, February 20, 2009
I know some people may not fully understand what I do and what the breadth of radiology is about, but I think this is a good all-encompassing example. And, just to pat myself on the back a little more (and the patient too for that matter), I was told that in my career, 99% of my biopsies will be much easier than this one, and I hit the target on the first attempt! I'm still a little high from this one, can you tell? Break out your metric ruler so you'll understand this a little better...So, here's the scenario: First, as a radiologist, you have to be able to interpret the image below. You sterilize the skin surface and then numb the skin with lidocaine. (I'm assuming you have done all of the paperwork already, because that is not interesting to write about.) You have a 1.3 mm diameter 15 cm long needle that you need to place 12 cm's into a patient and try to stay within a single CT slice, which is 3 mm. You want to traverse the back muscle and the psoas muscle to enter a mass that is surrounding patients abdominal aorta. If you go too close to the bone, you may hit a lumbar artery which will bleed significantly. If you go too wide, you will hit bowel that may require surgery to repair. If you go too deep or at the wrong angle, you could hit the abdominal aorta which will cause significant bleeding and could cause death. Oh, and somewhere in there is the ureter and the inferior vena cava, but you really cannot tell where they are exactly. You need to get your needle in the mass so you can get a sample for the pathologist to figure out what it is, so the oncologist knows what kind of chemotherapy to use. Oh, and did I mention that you're wearing two pairs of latex gloves and that you're supposed to stay within one 3mm slice? Right, I did mention that last part. (You may need to click on the image to enlarge it.)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Today, I used a CT to help me take a 15 centimeter spinal needle--> stick it 12 centimeters into a patient's back--> through the back-strap muscles--> through the psoas muscles--> into a mass surrounding the abdominal aorta --> and then suck cells out while moving the needle back and forth without actually hitting the aorta!
If you're not sure, the word you're looking for is YIKES!
I'll try to post a picture of it, if I can get one. In the mean time...Cross Post! (That means go look at the other blog, too.)
If you're not sure, the word you're looking for is YIKES!
I'll try to post a picture of it, if I can get one. In the mean time...Cross Post! (That means go look at the other blog, too.)
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Okay, we've got an interesting up date. We're going to keep this blog here the "private one" and the more general stuff will go in a public blog. We'll see how long both keep going and I'll try to cross-post to let you know to go look at the other one. So, provided you know how to spell my name, go to www.myfirstnamemylastname.com and enjoy!
Sunday, February 08, 2009
As we were leaving the American History Museum yesterday, we saw this...
Before we went into the Museum, We had the nice parking spot on the mall. How often do you look through your car and see the Washington penis...I mean Monument?
And, finally, it's time for a tummy update....(This is from today)
And, if that wasn't enough, here's a movie of Richie moving around...
Before we went into the Museum, We had the nice parking spot on the mall. How often do you look through your car and see the Washington penis...I mean Monument?
And, finally, it's time for a tummy update....(This is from today)
And, if that wasn't enough, here's a movie of Richie moving around...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Looks like I found a reasonable alternative to Comcast internet, so the internet is back in full force. Actually, we never lost connection like I thought we would. But now, when they actually cut our cable line (if they actually get around to doing that), we'll still be connected. Hooray!
I finally got to go to an OB appointment with ML. Actually, I've been to several, but since we've switch OB's (because our first one left the University) she is always running so far behind schedule that I have to leave. What we figured out, instead of having the first appointment of the day, where she is regularly two hours late, we schedule for the last appointment of the day. We figured that she would be so late that I would have already finished work and could wait. However, it appears as though she was on time. I still had to sneak away from work (with permission, of course) but it worked out this time. Most importantly, the baby is growing perfectly and, according to the OB's assessment, his testicles have distended already. His nut-sack (yes, that is the official clinical name) is about 1/3 the size of his head! That's my boy! :-)
I finally got to go to an OB appointment with ML. Actually, I've been to several, but since we've switch OB's (because our first one left the University) she is always running so far behind schedule that I have to leave. What we figured out, instead of having the first appointment of the day, where she is regularly two hours late, we schedule for the last appointment of the day. We figured that she would be so late that I would have already finished work and could wait. However, it appears as though she was on time. I still had to sneak away from work (with permission, of course) but it worked out this time. Most importantly, the baby is growing perfectly and, according to the OB's assessment, his testicles have distended already. His nut-sack (yes, that is the official clinical name) is about 1/3 the size of his head! That's my boy! :-)
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Hey! News update....not that I've been posting a lot lately (busy at work) but we fired the cable company and they're about to disconnect our Internet. And, since we have not figured out what we're doing next, we may not have connection from home. While really means ML will not have e-mail access, but I'll still have it from work. Don't know if you care, just wanted to put it out there.
In the mean time, I've been on an ultrasound rotation and learning how to do the ultrasounds myself. My very first transvaginal ultrasound (use you imagination if you don't know what I'm talking about) I had a patient with an ectopic pregnancy! (That's a fetus that is trying to grow outside of the uterus. It can be a medical emergency and is at least, as in this case, requiring urgent care. But we caught it early enough that she could be managed medically. That's all of the excitement from Lake Wobegone. Well, unless you thing removing 12 liters of free fluid from a patient's abdomen exciting!
In the mean time, I've been on an ultrasound rotation and learning how to do the ultrasounds myself. My very first transvaginal ultrasound (use you imagination if you don't know what I'm talking about) I had a patient with an ectopic pregnancy! (That's a fetus that is trying to grow outside of the uterus. It can be a medical emergency and is at least, as in this case, requiring urgent care. But we caught it early enough that she could be managed medically. That's all of the excitement from Lake Wobegone. Well, unless you thing removing 12 liters of free fluid from a patient's abdomen exciting!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Just wanted to share one of my favorite things from this time of the year:
Here's an image from our holiday give extravaganza! Some of them I have already opened, since we're already 1/2 through Hanuka. For me, the two coolest gifts so far is a night-vision telescope and seasons 2-5 of The Wire! Hooray! The rest of the wire and the ability to follow rats at night.
And, just for the record, that T-shirt on my bike is not normally there. If you look closely, you can see where there is still water in my gym bottle! Yes, it is an old saline bottle from the hospital... :-)
Here's an image from our holiday give extravaganza! Some of them I have already opened, since we're already 1/2 through Hanuka. For me, the two coolest gifts so far is a night-vision telescope and seasons 2-5 of The Wire! Hooray! The rest of the wire and the ability to follow rats at night.
And, just for the record, that T-shirt on my bike is not normally there. If you look closely, you can see where there is still water in my gym bottle! Yes, it is an old saline bottle from the hospital... :-)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Poor ML! She's sick. I'm not! I don't know how she got sick...I probably, somehow, brought it home without infecting myself. Neat trick, no?
And, no one ever told me that hospitals don't close down for the holidays. What's up with that?
And, no one ever told me that hospitals don't close down for the holidays. What's up with that?
Saturday, December 20, 2008
ML has been getting much bigger over the last two weeks and has FINALLY allowed me to take a picture of her tummy! Although, she still does not understand why I want to and why you want to see it, but I know you do, so here it is.....
And, since some people (my father to name just one) have been having difficulty understanding the movie clip that is below, here is the first image labeled, so you understand that Richie is in profile and is yawning in utero in the movie clip. :-)
So once you study this, go look at the clip again! (It's a few posts below...)
And here is just a bonus picture that is not part of the movie:
And, since some people (my father to name just one) have been having difficulty understanding the movie clip that is below, here is the first image labeled, so you understand that Richie is in profile and is yawning in utero in the movie clip. :-)
So once you study this, go look at the clip again! (It's a few posts below...)
And here is just a bonus picture that is not part of the movie:
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Ha! ML and I made blond brownies for a little party tomorrow and I tried to put a dab of dough on her nose, but she jumped and I missed and hit the right side of her face! Not nearly as cute as I had thought. :-)
No mice yet!
No mice yet!
Monday, December 15, 2008
The mouse traps remain clean! Well, except for a little peanut butter. :-)
I suspect we keep the house cold enough that the little bugger when looking for a warmer house, like my neighbor's. Hee hee hee. Good thing he doesn't know about this blog!
I suspect we keep the house cold enough that the little bugger when looking for a warmer house, like my neighbor's. Hee hee hee. Good thing he doesn't know about this blog!
Monday, December 08, 2008
No mice as last check..huh..
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Oh yea, I forgot to mention that it actually snowed today! It did not really stick to the roads, but about 1/2 inch accumulated on parked, cold, cars.
Lying in bed in the guest room watching something on Friday night TV with my loving, pregnant, spouse by my side. The washing machine stops, there's a moment of silence as the TV falls into another endless set of commercial breaks. ML wrenches herself out of bed to change the load. (I would have done it, but I'm not allowed..long story, but I don't complain about it.) She rounds the corner and I hear a little yelp unlike anything I've heard out of ML's mouth before. I listen as her footsteps continue down the hallway toward. Moments go by as I wait to hear to what the sound was in reference: no report. I spring out of bed to find out what's going on. She mumbles something but all I hear is, "...was black!"
"What was black?" I asked.
"The mouse."
Oh no! There's a mouse in the house! As ML rounded the corner, she saw a little black fur ball scurry across the floor into the HVAC closet. Looking into the closet to see what I could see, there were four small mouse droppings to the left of the blower. Yup, a mouse. So today, we included in our normal shopping, a trip to home depot to see who is building the better mouse trap. Now, sitting in the HVAC closet is a live trap with a little dollop of peanut butter in the corner. The trap holds up to four mice. We have one for each floor of the house, but we've only set up the one so far. We just heard a big creak in the house which, of course, made us wonder if there was a mouse in the trap. Not yet.
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It's Friday, late morning. I'm dictating on a CT of the head in my neuroradiology rotation. I just happen to be sitting in the workstation by the door to the reading room. The MRI fellow is standing over my right shoulder rambling on about weekend plans. Off in the distance, "Code Blue. Interventional Radiology, Second Floor, Geudelsky Building."
As the announcement starts to repeat, I drop my dictation microphone and spring out the door. I round the corner and head up the stairs. As I open the door, I see two nurses down the hall to my left and emptiness to the right.
"Where is it?" I asked.
Room 1. Go right, left, and it's the open room at the end of the hall. Jeff, the IR fellow, is standing at the head of the IR bed. Two nurses are hooking up the bag-valve-mask in the right corner of the room. A nurse to my left announces, "Narcan is in, does anyone have a flush to put it in?"
"IV is running wide open, so you don't need a flush." One of the other nurses reports.
I grab a pair of gloves and check for a pulse in the patient's wrist. The nurses start bagging. Jeff instructs them to make sure it's connected to Oxygen. It was not. I have a good pulse in the arm, but the nurses at the foot of bed start announcing a drop in Oxygen saturation. "75%...70%...60%."
The anesthesia attending arrives and takes over the ventilation. I barrow a stethoscope from another resident that has arrived. (Radiologist don't normally carry them since we need them so rarely, but I am starting to rethink that position.) I announce, "I have heart tones." By this point, the oxygen saturation is back to 100% and the patient is starting to move his arms. The Narcan had started working. The patient had responded a bit aggressively to the sedation prior to the procedure which resulted in a bit of respiratory distress. Just a bit.
"What was black?" I asked.
"The mouse."
Oh no! There's a mouse in the house! As ML rounded the corner, she saw a little black fur ball scurry across the floor into the HVAC closet. Looking into the closet to see what I could see, there were four small mouse droppings to the left of the blower. Yup, a mouse. So today, we included in our normal shopping, a trip to home depot to see who is building the better mouse trap. Now, sitting in the HVAC closet is a live trap with a little dollop of peanut butter in the corner. The trap holds up to four mice. We have one for each floor of the house, but we've only set up the one so far. We just heard a big creak in the house which, of course, made us wonder if there was a mouse in the trap. Not yet.
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It's Friday, late morning. I'm dictating on a CT of the head in my neuroradiology rotation. I just happen to be sitting in the workstation by the door to the reading room. The MRI fellow is standing over my right shoulder rambling on about weekend plans. Off in the distance, "Code Blue. Interventional Radiology, Second Floor, Geudelsky Building."
As the announcement starts to repeat, I drop my dictation microphone and spring out the door. I round the corner and head up the stairs. As I open the door, I see two nurses down the hall to my left and emptiness to the right.
"Where is it?" I asked.
Room 1. Go right, left, and it's the open room at the end of the hall. Jeff, the IR fellow, is standing at the head of the IR bed. Two nurses are hooking up the bag-valve-mask in the right corner of the room. A nurse to my left announces, "Narcan is in, does anyone have a flush to put it in?"
"IV is running wide open, so you don't need a flush." One of the other nurses reports.
I grab a pair of gloves and check for a pulse in the patient's wrist. The nurses start bagging. Jeff instructs them to make sure it's connected to Oxygen. It was not. I have a good pulse in the arm, but the nurses at the foot of bed start announcing a drop in Oxygen saturation. "75%...70%...60%."
The anesthesia attending arrives and takes over the ventilation. I barrow a stethoscope from another resident that has arrived. (Radiologist don't normally carry them since we need them so rarely, but I am starting to rethink that position.) I announce, "I have heart tones." By this point, the oxygen saturation is back to 100% and the patient is starting to move his arms. The Narcan had started working. The patient had responded a bit aggressively to the sedation prior to the procedure which resulted in a bit of respiratory distress. Just a bit.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Richie is already running off at the mouth!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
ML is finally starting to show a bit. But she won't let me take a picture, but I'm still trying to convince her...or just take it when she's not looking! And, more importantly, I was able to feel the baby moving last night!!
I moved my office into the basement this weekend. Which means I actually got the basement under control enough to do that. Once it's back under control, I'll take some pics. That also means we (I mean I) got all of the boxes out of the guest room. Which is a good thing because we started looking for cribs yesterday!
I moved my office into the basement this weekend. Which means I actually got the basement under control enough to do that. Once it's back under control, I'll take some pics. That also means we (I mean I) got all of the boxes out of the guest room. Which is a good thing because we started looking for cribs yesterday!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
I just love what they call snow around here!
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
In line at 6:40 A.M., Voted and out the door by 7:24 A.M.
Not too bad! I think I'm a fiscally conservative democrat...is there such a thing?! Oh, and electronic voting ROCKS! Now we just need to start voting by the web. It cannot be that hard, when you are a shareholder in a company, you can vote your shares on-line.
ML decided to work at the polls today. We'll see what time she makes it home tonight! ;-)
Not too bad! I think I'm a fiscally conservative democrat...is there such a thing?! Oh, and electronic voting ROCKS! Now we just need to start voting by the web. It cannot be that hard, when you are a shareholder in a company, you can vote your shares on-line.
ML decided to work at the polls today. We'll see what time she makes it home tonight! ;-)
Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween! This was our first Halloween in our new place and I really was not sure how it was going to work out since we don't have a yard and the initial reports was that there were not many trick-or-treaters.
I took the day off, initially, because I wanted time to get ready but as the day drew closer, I took the day off because I also because I was exhausted. We spent much of the first part of the day doing chores like getting the car emission inspection (which took much longer to find than I expected, but significantly shorter to inspect that I ever thought.
By the time we got home, there was only about 2 hours before the first trick-or-treater arrived. I had just enough time to set the house up and carve the pumpkin head. Well, actually, I was about 15 minutes behind. But, not too bad. I kinda' pulled Halloween out of my butt, so to speak. The neighbors seem to like the set up (we got to meet a bunch of whom we had not met) and we talked about having a block-party next year. Most of the trick-or-treating took place between 5:30p and was done around 8:30p.
Oh, just one more thing, I made about seven children cry this year. About the same as last year, however, nobody brought their crying kids back for more suffering. With out anymore adieu, here are the photos (for those of you who are a little computer challenged, you can click on the photos to make them much bigger).
Part of the problem was I did not know if there were going to be a lot of older "kids" causing problems, so I tried to keep stuff out of reach and I thought the pumpkin jumping out of the window would be cool. It looked really good at night! The spiders, which used to be animated, were just hung off of the roof. There's a skeleton illuminated with a flashing light in the window, but no good pictures of it.
A couple of rats sitting in the basement windows. As I type this, I realize that the lights are still on! I better turn it off when I'm done here.
Our coach survived the trip. It took a while to inflate because the exhaust zippers were still open from last year and I could not remember where they were located. :-) Also, I successfully blocked my neighbor's front door. Fortunately, he did not mind. In fact, he lent me a smoke-machine! That was great fun!
You can see a little smoke at my feet. I didn't get any hay to have sticking out of my wrists and ankles, but I got scared a bunch of little kids and some adults, so it was all good! The pumpkins was a little small this year, but not much lighter. Oh well, that's why ibuprofen was invented.
A friend of ours from Ann Arbor sent a picture of the decoration of our old Northwood house. I guess no one told them of their community responsibility. Poor, poor, children of Northwood. Below is the picture:
I took the day off, initially, because I wanted time to get ready but as the day drew closer, I took the day off because I also because I was exhausted. We spent much of the first part of the day doing chores like getting the car emission inspection (which took much longer to find than I expected, but significantly shorter to inspect that I ever thought.
By the time we got home, there was only about 2 hours before the first trick-or-treater arrived. I had just enough time to set the house up and carve the pumpkin head. Well, actually, I was about 15 minutes behind. But, not too bad. I kinda' pulled Halloween out of my butt, so to speak. The neighbors seem to like the set up (we got to meet a bunch of whom we had not met) and we talked about having a block-party next year. Most of the trick-or-treating took place between 5:30p and was done around 8:30p.
Oh, just one more thing, I made about seven children cry this year. About the same as last year, however, nobody brought their crying kids back for more suffering. With out anymore adieu, here are the photos (for those of you who are a little computer challenged, you can click on the photos to make them much bigger).
Part of the problem was I did not know if there were going to be a lot of older "kids" causing problems, so I tried to keep stuff out of reach and I thought the pumpkin jumping out of the window would be cool. It looked really good at night! The spiders, which used to be animated, were just hung off of the roof. There's a skeleton illuminated with a flashing light in the window, but no good pictures of it.
A couple of rats sitting in the basement windows. As I type this, I realize that the lights are still on! I better turn it off when I'm done here.
Our coach survived the trip. It took a while to inflate because the exhaust zippers were still open from last year and I could not remember where they were located. :-) Also, I successfully blocked my neighbor's front door. Fortunately, he did not mind. In fact, he lent me a smoke-machine! That was great fun!
You can see a little smoke at my feet. I didn't get any hay to have sticking out of my wrists and ankles, but I got scared a bunch of little kids and some adults, so it was all good! The pumpkins was a little small this year, but not much lighter. Oh well, that's why ibuprofen was invented.
A friend of ours from Ann Arbor sent a picture of the decoration of our old Northwood house. I guess no one told them of their community responsibility. Poor, poor, children of Northwood. Below is the picture:
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Two important things:
1) You can click on the pictures below to make them larger! That's very important for the panorama.
2) We're having a baby boy!
1) You can click on the pictures below to make them larger! That's very important for the panorama.
2) We're having a baby boy!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Yeah! Finally, pictures of the house all moved in!!! Oh, and I remembered the deck this time. :-)
This is the living room pointed toward the front of the house. Our two Poangs from Ikea, which we discovered last weekend when my dad came into town, that we don't have any place for ME to sit when someone visits.
This is from the other side of the living room. We still have some boxes to deal with.
This space will become the dining room but, at the moment, it is my office and my computer is stilling just to the left. I'm sitting there NOW!
Out lovely kitchen into which we actually unloaded ALL of our cooking equipment!
The other side of the kitchen. I little blurry, sorry.
Here's our master bedroom. It's still evolving, too. That's our Ikea bed frame that we got on Craig's list. Love the list!
Stepping out of the master bedroom now and looking down the hall and the steps down.
Here's the guest bathroom, AKA my bathroom. I mean the kid's bathroom!
Here's the guest room! I have carefully left out all of the boxes against the wall to the left. :-)
Yippy! The deck! This is the back of the deck.
This is from the back, pointed toward the front of the deck. In the little house is a full size refrigerator, sink and a full microwave...cool, huh?
Here's the front of the deck with my "new" grill!
Here's the panoramic view from the front of the house/deck! It's tough to see, but we've got a great view of the Domino's Sugar neon sign! Which, for some reason that we don't entirely understand, it important to people in the area. :-) Maybe some day I'll take a picture of it at night. :-)
Oh, did I mention that ML is like 17 week pregnant? Did I forget to post that?
This is the living room pointed toward the front of the house. Our two Poangs from Ikea, which we discovered last weekend when my dad came into town, that we don't have any place for ME to sit when someone visits.
This is from the other side of the living room. We still have some boxes to deal with.
This space will become the dining room but, at the moment, it is my office and my computer is stilling just to the left. I'm sitting there NOW!
Out lovely kitchen into which we actually unloaded ALL of our cooking equipment!
The other side of the kitchen. I little blurry, sorry.
Here's our master bedroom. It's still evolving, too. That's our Ikea bed frame that we got on Craig's list. Love the list!
Stepping out of the master bedroom now and looking down the hall and the steps down.
Here's the guest bathroom, AKA my bathroom. I mean the kid's bathroom!
Here's the guest room! I have carefully left out all of the boxes against the wall to the left. :-)
Yippy! The deck! This is the back of the deck.
This is from the back, pointed toward the front of the deck. In the little house is a full size refrigerator, sink and a full microwave...cool, huh?
Here's the front of the deck with my "new" grill!
Here's the panoramic view from the front of the house/deck! It's tough to see, but we've got a great view of the Domino's Sugar neon sign! Which, for some reason that we don't entirely understand, it important to people in the area. :-) Maybe some day I'll take a picture of it at night. :-)
Oh, did I mention that ML is like 17 week pregnant? Did I forget to post that?
Monday, September 08, 2008
Boy, and here I thought this weekend was going to be my weekend to actually post something new. There's interesting stuff to tell, but, oddly, not enough time to tell it. Maybe this week will be different?
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Getting Poked in the rear...who is that at the end?
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Look at that, exactly 1 month since the last time I posted! I'm pathetic, I know. In the mean time, we've moved to Baltimore and are about 75% unpacked. Actually, we've been here about a month and we're still trying to find everything a new home. I've decided, after having to move ourselves, that much of the "crap" has to go. Not all of it is crap, but considering we're likely to move one or two more times before even thinking about settling down, we've just got too much stuff. But you've heard all of this before. :-)
Prior to vomiting all of our garbage into our beautiful house, I took some pictures of it. Sort of a before-and-after kind of thing except I waiting to do the after shots until we've really unpacked all of the boxes that are on the main floor. Of note, we have complete unpacked all of our kitchenware which was taking up a large amount of storage space at our old place. And, we can really do some good cookin' in the big kitchen!
So, here's the official on-line tour! If you walk into the front door, you'll enter into the living room.
You can see the stairs leading up to the second floor and, if you look carefully, you'll see the stairs leading to the basement. There is a little media center built into the wall on the left and down the hall is a closet followed by a 1/2 bath. The next deeper space is a dining area, which is currently my office (odd), followed by the breakfast bar separating the kitchen. The breakfast bar is holding much of our glass and crystal, with which we have not found a home.
If you were standing in the same place as the prior picture and turned a little to the left, you'd see our gas fireplace.
This is a picture of the rest of the living room taken from the stairwell. In the previous pictures, you would have been standing right were the light from the front door is hitting the floor.
This is a similar picture of the front of the house, but taken from the dining area.
This is a peek inside the 1/2 bath on the first floor. Fancy, no? See that little white think that looks like an outlet towards the floor to the right of the sink? It's a motion sensor that turns the light on when you enter the room! Unfortunately, it all turned the light on when you were walking in the hall, so I had to cover some of its field of vision. And, if you in there for the long haul, you better wiggle a lot or turn on the other light because the sensored light will turn out on you. Oh, and it only took me two days to figure out where the sensor was located!
Now you're standing inside the dining room and looking at the kitchen. Yes! That is a granite archway into the kitchen. The builder/landlord was told that it was not possible to build a granite archway because it was too heavy. Thus, he had to do it!
A picture looking to the right of the kitchen. I'm SO happy that we have a gas stove and that we can actually turn it to low without it actually turning off! It's the simple things, I guess.
This is the other side of the kitchen. My only real complaint with the kitchen is the faucet. When you put it on spray function, it's so hard (and difficult to adjust) that mist goes everywhere! Especially on my shirt! I'm getting ML used to having a good dishwasher and not having to pre-rinse. She was doing really good for a while and then we had one load with a few dishes that needed rewashing and the whole "thing" started again. I mentioned that have a few dishes after dozens of washings on quick-wash without any pro
Above are a couple of shots of the basement. Yes, that is my new official radiology chair! There's a pillow that goes on the head that is still hiding in a box some where. It's the chair I'm sitting in right now! But, I think I like my old one better. It is currently trapped in the basement. I would not say that the basement is completely full now, but about 50% of the space is now occupied. I do have my bowflex set up as well as my new computer desk. The office will be shifting down there soon. Probably after I finish Step 3 in a month or two.
Okay, back to the main house. As you walk up the stairs, you'd be facing the master bedroom which is in the back of the house. Here's an aggregate picture:
There is more space than this would suggest. Our king size bed fits comfortable with plenty of room for dressers and nightstands. The double doors are there for a future back deck. My only problems is the room is really bright in the mornings when I'm trying to sleep in. It's great for work days! Oddly, I did not take a picture of the master bathroom, which is a shame. But it's really nice, too.
This is the hallway after exiting the master bed room. Down the stairs is the living room. Around the corner in the hall is a closet with full sized washer and dryer, followed by the HVAC closet, followed by the guest full bathroom, and the guest room is at the far end of the picture. The stairs leading up go to the roof-top deck. Of which, I also did not take pictures. Oops!
I really like the architectural space of the guest room better than the master, but it just isn't quite big enough. The queen bed, however, fits in there very nicely and the closet is holding all of my dress clothes, which I am not wearing because I'm biking the 2.5 miles to work and it's too hot. Under the two windows to the right is a cedar chest and the space above those windows extends all the way to the left side of the house, making it great for blanket storage!
This is the guest bathroom. Yes, all of the bathrooms have bowl sinks! This one is brushed steel and the one in the mast bath is green glass.
This is a picture of the hallway while exiting the guest room.
And, finally, the door leading to the deck!
Hopefully, I'll be able to take the "moved in" pictures in a month or two! :-)
Prior to vomiting all of our garbage into our beautiful house, I took some pictures of it. Sort of a before-and-after kind of thing except I waiting to do the after shots until we've really unpacked all of the boxes that are on the main floor. Of note, we have complete unpacked all of our kitchenware which was taking up a large amount of storage space at our old place. And, we can really do some good cookin' in the big kitchen!
So, here's the official on-line tour! If you walk into the front door, you'll enter into the living room.
You can see the stairs leading up to the second floor and, if you look carefully, you'll see the stairs leading to the basement. There is a little media center built into the wall on the left and down the hall is a closet followed by a 1/2 bath. The next deeper space is a dining area, which is currently my office (odd), followed by the breakfast bar separating the kitchen. The breakfast bar is holding much of our glass and crystal, with which we have not found a home.
If you were standing in the same place as the prior picture and turned a little to the left, you'd see our gas fireplace.
This is a picture of the rest of the living room taken from the stairwell. In the previous pictures, you would have been standing right were the light from the front door is hitting the floor.
This is a similar picture of the front of the house, but taken from the dining area.
This is a peek inside the 1/2 bath on the first floor. Fancy, no? See that little white think that looks like an outlet towards the floor to the right of the sink? It's a motion sensor that turns the light on when you enter the room! Unfortunately, it all turned the light on when you were walking in the hall, so I had to cover some of its field of vision. And, if you in there for the long haul, you better wiggle a lot or turn on the other light because the sensored light will turn out on you. Oh, and it only took me two days to figure out where the sensor was located!
Now you're standing inside the dining room and looking at the kitchen. Yes! That is a granite archway into the kitchen. The builder/landlord was told that it was not possible to build a granite archway because it was too heavy. Thus, he had to do it!
A picture looking to the right of the kitchen. I'm SO happy that we have a gas stove and that we can actually turn it to low without it actually turning off! It's the simple things, I guess.
This is the other side of the kitchen. My only real complaint with the kitchen is the faucet. When you put it on spray function, it's so hard (and difficult to adjust) that mist goes everywhere! Especially on my shirt! I'm getting ML used to having a good dishwasher and not having to pre-rinse. She was doing really good for a while and then we had one load with a few dishes that needed rewashing and the whole "thing" started again. I mentioned that have a few dishes after dozens of washings on quick-wash without any pro
Above are a couple of shots of the basement. Yes, that is my new official radiology chair! There's a pillow that goes on the head that is still hiding in a box some where. It's the chair I'm sitting in right now! But, I think I like my old one better. It is currently trapped in the basement. I would not say that the basement is completely full now, but about 50% of the space is now occupied. I do have my bowflex set up as well as my new computer desk. The office will be shifting down there soon. Probably after I finish Step 3 in a month or two.
Okay, back to the main house. As you walk up the stairs, you'd be facing the master bedroom which is in the back of the house. Here's an aggregate picture:
There is more space than this would suggest. Our king size bed fits comfortable with plenty of room for dressers and nightstands. The double doors are there for a future back deck. My only problems is the room is really bright in the mornings when I'm trying to sleep in. It's great for work days! Oddly, I did not take a picture of the master bathroom, which is a shame. But it's really nice, too.
This is the hallway after exiting the master bed room. Down the stairs is the living room. Around the corner in the hall is a closet with full sized washer and dryer, followed by the HVAC closet, followed by the guest full bathroom, and the guest room is at the far end of the picture. The stairs leading up go to the roof-top deck. Of which, I also did not take pictures. Oops!
I really like the architectural space of the guest room better than the master, but it just isn't quite big enough. The queen bed, however, fits in there very nicely and the closet is holding all of my dress clothes, which I am not wearing because I'm biking the 2.5 miles to work and it's too hot. Under the two windows to the right is a cedar chest and the space above those windows extends all the way to the left side of the house, making it great for blanket storage!
This is the guest bathroom. Yes, all of the bathrooms have bowl sinks! This one is brushed steel and the one in the mast bath is green glass.
This is a picture of the hallway while exiting the guest room.
And, finally, the door leading to the deck!
Hopefully, I'll be able to take the "moved in" pictures in a month or two! :-)
Friday, June 20, 2008
Fit for a King!
After a long hard day, preceded by several longer and harder days, I return to my new abode after running to the post office to mail a bill that had to be mailed today. We locate the old portable grill and the little propane bottle and enjoy lime flavored tortilla chips with salsa while we BBQ some chicken for dinner out on our new roof deck.
After cleaning up and some other shuffling around the house, it’s finally time: warm to the touch, but not too hot. First, the left great toe; then the foot; followed by the other. As my body slips into the warmth of my new tube, my feet are longing. Longing for me to hit this little white button next to my right hand. With a roar and rumble, the tub springs to life with jets of massaging pleasure relieving the aches and pains of moving TONS of crap in addition to advancing years. Now, it’s time to drift to sleep, only to face another day of unpacking.
After a long hard day, preceded by several longer and harder days, I return to my new abode after running to the post office to mail a bill that had to be mailed today. We locate the old portable grill and the little propane bottle and enjoy lime flavored tortilla chips with salsa while we BBQ some chicken for dinner out on our new roof deck.
After cleaning up and some other shuffling around the house, it’s finally time: warm to the touch, but not too hot. First, the left great toe; then the foot; followed by the other. As my body slips into the warmth of my new tube, my feet are longing. Longing for me to hit this little white button next to my right hand. With a roar and rumble, the tub springs to life with jets of massaging pleasure relieving the aches and pains of moving TONS of crap in addition to advancing years. Now, it’s time to drift to sleep, only to face another day of unpacking.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Ugh, I cannot sleep. Too wound up with all of the crap going on in my life. It's going to SUCK later today because I've still got to go to work, pay attention, and then come home a pack and deal with all of the of moving stuff. NOT FUN! Oh well. On the brighter side, the packing is progressing pretty well. We'll probably be on target for next week. Probably.
Make sure you update your URL, because the main page is going to go bye-bye on Thursday or Friday! Which signifies ML's last day as being gainfully employed.
Set your bookmark to: http://umms2007.blogspot.com/
Make sure you update your URL, because the main page is going to go bye-bye on Thursday or Friday! Which signifies ML's last day as being gainfully employed.
Set your bookmark to: http://umms2007.blogspot.com/
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Packing break! We're getting ready to move to B'more, week after next and I'd say that I have about 80% of my office packed...after three days of working! Yikes!
Okay, most importantly, is all of my "regular" readers need to know that the main web page is going to go away now that we're leaving UoM, but the blog will continue. So, re-bookmark the link to: http://umms2007.blogspot.com/
I'll have to just start posting all of the pictures within the blog, which I've been doing anyway. And, it's time for some more! I have been telling my family (at least some of them) about the trucks with which I share the road and how they have 42-wheelers as opposed to the normal 18 wheels. I finally got a picture of one! There are 10 axles of 4 wheels plus the front axel!
Also, the other day on the way to work, there was a truck flipped on the other side of the highway. (No, it's not the same truck pictured here, fortunately!)
Of course, I probably should have been paying better attention to the road immediately around me, but by this time, everyone else was rubbernecking down to about 5 MPH, so I had no problems snapping a couple of pics.
Finally, I've been getting ready to depart from my intern year. It's been a good year and I'm still happy that I matched, even if I have had a hellish commute. I was taking a few pictures of my program director and this was the best one. A man after my own heart.
Okay, most importantly, is all of my "regular" readers need to know that the main web page is going to go away now that we're leaving UoM, but the blog will continue. So, re-bookmark the link to: http://umms2007.blogspot.com/
I'll have to just start posting all of the pictures within the blog, which I've been doing anyway. And, it's time for some more! I have been telling my family (at least some of them) about the trucks with which I share the road and how they have 42-wheelers as opposed to the normal 18 wheels. I finally got a picture of one! There are 10 axles of 4 wheels plus the front axel!
Also, the other day on the way to work, there was a truck flipped on the other side of the highway. (No, it's not the same truck pictured here, fortunately!)
Of course, I probably should have been paying better attention to the road immediately around me, but by this time, everyone else was rubbernecking down to about 5 MPH, so I had no problems snapping a couple of pics.
Finally, I've been getting ready to depart from my intern year. It's been a good year and I'm still happy that I matched, even if I have had a hellish commute. I was taking a few pictures of my program director and this was the best one. A man after my own heart.
