Dr Copa

My wife is constantly amazed at how many pictures I take.  It seems that every time she turns around I am trying to show her pictures I’ve taken.  From time to time I borrow our son’s digital camera to take pictures if I’m in a big hurry to get a picture printed off of the computer, but I usually use the old 35mm camera that my wife gave me about ten years ago.  My wife is always commenting that we need to take a few minutes and shop for a new digital camera for me because she is tired of me running to the store so many times a week just to get my film developed from my 35mm camera. 

My wife suggested that I buy a digital camera from 42photo.com.  She said it is a good store in New York, but that we can order online.  She found out about the store through a link she found at 42nd Street Stumbles.

Of course, she’s absolutely right, I should buy a new digital camera.  Digital cameras are great!  I love how you can immediately see how the picture “took” so that you can snap a second picture if you need to.  And I love how you can instantly download the pictures into the computer and store the pictures, put them on the screen as part of the screen saver slideshow, email them to folks as attachments, tweak them to get rid of red eye or crop them,  and print off the ones you want to have hard copies of.  Digital cameras are a great new technology that I think is really great!

I got up this morning and had breakfast, then started to do some lawn work.  I started working on some weeds that had been growing since April.  They were long overdue for picking!  But as I started walking around the house I found several patches of poison ivy, too.  So I went out to the storage shed to get some herbicide.  I discovered I had run out, so I went to Home Depot and bought a couple of gallons of weed killer, and some degreaser solution to use to clean off the back of my house when I power wash it.  While I was at Home Depot I found a really good chemical called Deep Purple that is supposed to work great on vinyl siding, so I bought several gallons and brought it home.  I’m going to give it a try this next week on the house.

Yesterday I rode my Harley to a big name social club event in a nearby city.  I was invited to attend by my brother-in-law, who is a member of the club.  I rode my bike to his house, and he hopped on his Harley and we rode to another friend’s house where he hopped on his Harley and then we went off together.  The event was a big club “family picnic”.  There was a wide range of ages there, from really young kids to really old senior citizens.  I met a lot of nice people, and had a lot of good food.  Today my brother-in-law emailed me photos he had taken of the event, and I showed them to my wife.  One of the photos was of me sitting at a table eating, surrounded by my new friends.  She was surprised to see how obese all of my new friends were and commented that they were probably all candidates for LAP-BAND surgery.

The American Society for Bariatric Surgery has designated Hadar Spivak, MD, FACS surgery practice a “center of excellence.”  Dr. Spivak has performed thousands of laparoscopic bariatric procedures, and his office focuses on the most advanced weight loss procedures like the LAP-BAND System, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and the REALIZE Band.  Dr. Spivak was the first surgeon in Texas to perform LAP-BAND surgery. 

He also performs gastric bypass revision surgeries in those rare instances when the gastric bypass surgery did not result in significant weight loss, or in the rare event of complications.  Dr, Spivak performs his surgeries using minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures.  

I went out today to fill one of my prescriptions and I went up to the counter and dropped off my prescription.  The girl asked me if I wanted to wait for my prescription.  I asked “how long” because there is usually a time limit – sometimes up to a couple of hours.  She said today would only be 15 minutes, so I said “great”, and asked her where the sugar free candy was.

As I started to walk around the store I saw a big display of M&Ms.  In bright big letters, there were the words “wild cherry”  So I walked over and looked at them, and of course they had the big smiley face on the M&M display.   ”Try this wild cherry, you’ll be wild about it!” so I bought a package.  I’ve had cherry flavored chocolate before but these were extremely good.  I thought I’d eat two or three of them on the way home, but by the time I got home I found the bag was empty.  It will probably be a while before I buy any more because I’m afraid that I’ll eat the whole bag again!  But it was a good chocolate experience!

As you know, I’ve got an old truck that I’m fixing up to take to car shows. It’s my baby and I love it. I’ve been looking around here for some parts and accessories that I want to use to make it unique.  I haven’t taken it to any car shows yet since we’ve moved here, and that is something I really want to do.  My friends have been telling me to enter it as a “work in progress” because they think that I could take some prizes.  I just haven’t done it yet because I haven’t felt recovered enough from my car accident last fall to take on an endeavor such as taking it to a car show yet. 

I recently bought a new hood for it that I need to paint; I spent most of last weekend getting the shed ready for me to paint in there, sealing it all up with plastic and making sure that my air hose will reach out there. 

My wife suggested that I check out the website by the Truck and Quad Company.  They specialize in Truck and ATV Accessories and parts.  I’ve bookmarked it to spend some time checking it out over the weekend; I’ve briefly looked at it just now and it looks like I could spend hours on that site ordering parts that I want for my truck!