Okay, TONIGHT I can stay up a little later. Anybody want to hang out?

I had to hit it a little earlier than I expected last night. So my thanks to everyone who posted after 11pm or so.

I'm going to have a beer, hang out in the Lounge, and relax.

How is everyone tonight?

My cheeseburger is coming apart like a tissue-paper kite in a rainstorm...

Ecch! What a mess!

I know it's only Wednesday, but anybody want to stay up late and hang out?

Found myself in another cookie-cutter hotel room. Some company would be nice...

to all of my Lounge friends...

For my Lounge friends - "Green Hills Race For California" - Emerson Hart.

Saturday, September 28th. The Weekend Edition of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day.

Talk to me...

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I had a patient today who was opposed to the Affordable Care Act.

Not because he was a right-winger, but the opposite: he is an anarchist.

He's uninsured, and I mentioned the ACA because we will be helping our uninsured patients get registered for it starting the 1st of October.

He says he is opposed to a corporate take-over of medical care. (As if we weren't there already... )

I told him that, ideologically speaking, we were close to being on the same side of the political divide. But I also explained to him the advantages of the ACA, and that it would be a lot easier to treat his various conditions if he has insurance.

I never met someone opposed from the left, but I know they're out there...

Stuck in a hotel room awaiting the start of a medical conference. How is everyone tonight?

Life must have been awful for the intercity traveller before the advent of the Internet. Nothing but the Gideon Bible for company.

My hotel room has TV, like every other hotel room in the world. But how 20th Century is that?

500 channels and nothing's on.

I brought my iPod Home with me, and it's currently pumping out Mozart's Greatest Hits.

Who wants to hang out? I'm going to go for some dinner later, but I could use some company. If you're not ashamed to post in a thread as transparently needy as this one...

Happy Hour! Having some drinks with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything.

Cheers to you all!

"Barking mad."

I don't know why, but of all the varied British euphemisms for insane, i.e. dippy, dotty, daffy, loopy, crackers, balmy, barmy, etc., I think my favorite is 'barking mad'.

That just says it all, I guess. Plus it sounds hilarious...