Good Thursday morning…or for me, Saturday … time traveling dragon at your service.

Wet and rainy here today. Got woke up 4 times last night with tornado watches. Not warnings, watches. Like, come on people, if it’s not a warning, leave me alone. I have to have my phone by my bedside because of my job. I have been called out in the middle of the night before and I have been called in the middle of the night from one of my grief group members and I’ll ALWAYS take a call. The military taught me years ago the ability to awaken in the middle of a sleep, function coherently for whatever length of time I need to, and go immediately back to sleep. But, that doesn’t mean that my phone beeping at me with nonsense text messages about tornado watches at 2, 3, 4 am aren’t annoying. 

And here I am, it is now 1130, I have taken Izzy to work, got gas for the mower, even though I won’t be able to mow today, come home and did all my Bible study, went back and picked Izzy up after two short hours of work because they had nothing to do, went grocery shopping. Between all of that I started the dishwasher and did a load of laundry. 

We dragons get more done before 11 am then most people do all day. 

Anyway, enough about me. Hope all of you are doing well, whaddaya say we jump into the fun stuff and we’ll bang around this lair together for a while.

I heard something just the other day about the group of people who are running this device and how they claim they want to open a gateway to another world. They have a statue of Shiva the destroyer in their lobby … or somewhere on their premises and, from what I heard, they are run by some very bad people. The site itself sits on what was biblically called the gates of hell. Quite an interesting story. 

Last night my wife wore a police uniform to bed and said, “You’re being charged with being good in bed.” 90 seconds later the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.

Well, if that’s the ONLY reason…

I used to mix my metaphors, but that ship has flown.

I suppose I’m in the minority but I always lick the knife when I’m done.

None of the other surgeons seem to do it.

Well, today my neighbors spoke to me. So I did what I had to do. I strapped a monitor on my ankle, went outside with my shirt on inside out, and argued with a pine tree. That should hold them off for a while.

When I said I wanted to be mysterious and fascinating, I didn’t mean medically.

This is so true. Having the faith to give things over to God is not easy. And it takes practice, if that makes sense. But then there’s people that make it look like it’s the simplest thing in the world. And I suppose, once you “get it” it really is. Once you understand that when you give your life over to God, because God gave His Son up for you and you accept that propitiatory sacrifice that Jesus made and everything that goes along with it, then nothing else matters. And when nothing else matters and you understand that you are now part of God’s plan and you are an adopted son (legally, see Galatians 4:5) with all the rights thereof, what in the world do you have to be worried about? I have the FAITH to know that all that is true, so I know that God will see me through the storm, the pain, or whatever else He has in mind for me OR He will take me home to be with Him. I know that so long as He still has work for me to do here on earth, then He will see me through the storm and help me deal with the pain and the darkness. But, either way it’s a win-win for me.

Whoever decided to put a “p” in “receipt” was an “idiopt”.

They’re hiring at the comb factory…

It’s part time.

Hey! That sounds just like MY favorite book. I reread it all the time.

Tell me straight, Doc, How long do I have left?

10.

10? 10 What? Years? Weeks?

9 … 8 … 7 …

“Mom? Don’t freak out, but I’m in the hospital…”

“Jeremy, you’ve been a doctor for over eight years now, please stop starting every phone conversation we have with that.”

Heck, I can’t say it once!

And that, my dear friends, is that. I am all done in for now. Believe it or not, I just got a frost and a freeze advisory for the next two days … Sunday and Monday. Gotta love Indiana weather, it’s like they say, if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.  I just turned the A/C on for the first time this season the other day and now I’m gonna have to switch back to heat.

Okay, until next time my friends…