Odds & Ends

For the past few weeks, or maybe months, who knows, I cannot remember how long, really, I have been running a little group of stories each day called “Odds & Ends.” Stuff that is a little bit out of the ordinary. Funny, usually, or quirky.

I don’t really have any funny, quirky things to write about, though. Not tonight. Just some bits & pieces; perhaps that is what I should have titled the thread. Or maybe I already did that on an earlier post.

Maybe I should just start numbering them. No, wait: Too late. And I am not ABOUT to go back and re-title my posts ... though I could see me going through and correcting all the quotation marks and apostrophes, simply so they curve the correct way. (Get ahold of yourself, Di.)

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Spent a few minutes in the ER tonight. With a boy who has swollen tonsils. Turns out all he needed was some amoxycillin ... which, if I remember correctly, tastes pretty good. The pink stuff ... and NOT Pepto-Bismol.

“It’s almost always better if you are NOT bleeding when you enter the emergency room,” I told the boy as we were heading in.

He smiled. He was in remarkably good humor, considering his tonsils were nearly swollen shut. (That has always made me rather grumpy.)

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I activated the comments thingie. Mostly for Matt, but also because whenever I am reading a blog ... er, online journal ... I sometimes am compelled to make a comment. And I will sometimes take the initiative to e-mail the writer, but usually that is just a little more effort than I want to make. Though there is something very cool, still, about receiving e-mail. However, if I can leave a comment and I am so inclined, I will do it ... so I am thinking, if anything I write prompts any kind of reaction from anyone who stumbles upon this place, why not provide a place for it?

(And then there is the bitter truth of the matter: I realized that I do not have my e-mail address listed anywhere on my template like I did previously. And given the choice between editing my template/figuring out where to put it and how to do the coding, or activating the comments thingie, the latter seemed like the obviously easier option.)

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Speaking of e-mail, though: I received a note from a ticket broker who wants to advertise on my site.

For a second or two, I was interested ... and then I went to the Web site. And while it certainly appears to be a legitimate site, I was reminded of why I really am not all that fond of ticket brokers: All those times I attempted to dial-in or log-in to purchase tickets for any kind of event, I was greeted by a busy signal or sent to a “virtual waiting room” (that was my fate last year whilst attempting to purchase Cubs playoffs tickets). Only to be denied tickets because they were all sold out once I FINALLY got through or in.

I have to think ticket brokers were directly responsible for my failure.

And while I can appreciate the fact that if you are willing to pay the price, you can get a ticket to anything, I still detest the fact that a supposedly fair process does not always seem to be. And maybe I am wrong, but I do place some of the blame on ticket brokers.

On the other hand, if this place could get me some primo tickets to a Cubs game or the Sarah McLachlan concert, I just *might* consider it.

(Hey, I am definitely not cheap ... but sometimes, I can be very, very easy.)

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