As of today I am a fully board-certified physician of family medicine.
As of today I am a fully board-certified physician of family medicine.
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So there were lots of things to be thankful for in 2008, here they are in no specific order:
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Every year Christmas takes on a slightly different flavor. This year was spent with Julie's family and was a low-key affair, which was nice for me considering all the activity and changes that have gone on in 2008 for Julie and I. There was always something new coming around the corner, and it definetely presented us with a lot of oppertunities to grow (whether we did or not is a whole other thing). I hope all of you still reading enjoyed your holidays and had a chance to reflect on all the blessings in your life both big and small.
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Yep, I'm out! Izzy keeps asking gently if my new blog means that I will stop posting on Undisclosed Location. Don't worry, he's not kicking me out... of our apartment (or our marriage for that matter). But I do get the impression he wants his man cave, I mean his blog, back.
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Working from home with my new business has created all sorts of wonderful new experiences for me. Working in pajamas can be great some days, and it's also been interesting to see what goes on around here when I'm usually away. For instance, I have no idea what that man across the street is creating, but he spends all day working on something noisily in his garage behind his beater car. Interesting.
Anyway, today, someone rang our doorbell. Last week, it was the UPS man, so I got up and threw on something more presentable than a night gown (not much) and answered the door. As soon as I saw these people, I knew that they were not the UPS man, but for a moment I still thought they might be someone else I wanted to talk to - until I heard "Buenos Dias Senora."
Buenos Dias? So I said "um, hello?" The woman was like, "oh you don't speak spanish! I'm sorry." I foolishly responded, "si, pues, no mucho." She said "Oh, well, we thought that there were multiple spanish speaking individuals living here." (as in illegal immigrants?) I said, "nope, just me and my husband." Then I made the mistake of saying, "well, my husband is hispanic." She brightened up and tried to hand me a Jehova's Witness packet in spanish. I smiled and explained that while he is hispanic, English is his first language. I also threw in that he was a local physician.
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Really? You're a PC? Is that what you're telling me?
Microsoft's newest ad campaign is a response from a someone who just doesn't get the argument. Interestingly enough, just like the John Hodgeman character in the competing commercials.
The "Mac vs. PC" ads that Apple has been running do not insinuate that PC users are boring and clueless, it insinuates that the platform is boring and clueless. Coming back with a commercial that shows "exciting and hip" people of all ages in all different fields of work all over the world does nothing to combat against this. So many people use PC's that this is an obvious observation. Of course there are rappers and wrestlers and astronauts and businessmen and designers and divers who use Windows. Most of them probably have to because their workplaces don't give them the option to switch or the opportunity to compare against the Mac has never been presented. That's not the issue that Apple is taking up.
Make a commercial where you outline either directly or indirectly (through jest, like Apple) why users would want to use Windows over a Mac. Then you'd be comparing Apples to, well you get the idea.
Apple's not saying that each person using Windows PC's is a boring hapless dolt who wears an ugly and dated tweed-colored suit. It's saying that the operating system/platform that each of these people use is a boring hapless dolt who wears an ugly and dated tweed-colored suit. Microsoft should be happy that at least Apple humanized and made the PC character funny and loveable, because in my world he'd a been a cranky and confused tyrant.
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..and who you know becomes who you knew, you begin to realize what "living" really is - what it means to be a human, on the planet Earth. When you're young, you might have held the notion that you would always know the people you knew and always be who you thought you were. Then one day you lost someone, and then someone else. The relationships you considered to be the center of your existence become little more than memories. And you change, from the inside out - new people become part of your story. Then one day, you realize that life is all about ebb and flow. Everything is in flux.
You'll see the people you loved fall in love with others, get married, grow up and you never see them again. On the other hand, you'll meet the person you love and make a life with them. And one day, you'll wake up and marvel at where you are. Things could have turned out so differently, there could have been endless variations - but there aren't. They turned out just the way it was meant to. But don't get too comfortable because life is never done changing, twisting and turning.
Knowing the way life works changes a few things. It ruins the movies, keeps you desperate for happy endings and makes you just a little too cynical. It also makes you feel alive and helps you remember to savor the sweetness of each moment.
It also sets you up for a mouthful of bittersweet when thinking back, but that's another beautiful part of life - remembering who, what, where, when and why you were.
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