1. Thursday We had tested the logic. We made some changes and tested again. And when we deployed into production, we tested again, pushing a few small datasets thru the route to make sure that everything worked as expected, which it did. “Let me give you a complete data dump now,” Vyas said. And we […]
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Oblivion
Thu, 12 May 2016, 08:57 PM (-06:00)
1. We were sitting at the dinner table talking about politics and journalism. (Now isn’t that just the stuff of dinner table talk?) Trudy had an observation, and I had a meta-observation about her observation. “Well, that’ll be a jumpingfish,” she said, smiling sincerely. I chuckled. It was a tiny thing, not particularly profound. An […]
Are You Tired?
Wed, 11 May 2016, 08:35 PM (-06:00)
Are you tired? I am. My legs are aching with it. And my feet. And the palms of my hands. And my eyelids. My eyelids are tired, but they will not close. I lie in bed with chapter 12 of Natalie Goldberg open above my head and a tower of books beside me on the […]
HOV Lanes
Mon, 9 May 2016, 08:57 PM (-06:00)
“Do you want to try the HOV lane this time?” Trudy asked. She was behind the wheel. I was navigating. We were high-tailing it as fast as we could out of Houston, trying to beat rush hour. We’ve been thru this before. To HOV or not to HOV? Even though we’ve been two or three […]
Mother’s Day #2
Sun, 8 May 2016, 05:56 PM (-06:00)
This year the dogs didn’t get cards for the mommy. They had a different suggestion, leaving the execution to the man, of course.
Barium Swallow Test #3
Sat, 7 May 2016, 09:22 PM (-06:00)
Last time I was here, I had a little trouble with the final swallow. The first one was ok — watery barium liquid. The second one was ok — something more like milk. The third one was, too — barium pudding with a spoon — although it did take a little work. But I couldn’t […]
Manhood
Sat, 7 May 2016, 08:51 PM (-06:00)
Gary is a spectacular nurse. His jocular, slap-the-back manner is comforting for patients who have a lot of things to worry about. “My memory isn’t as good as it should be, Mr. Hasan,” Gary said as he was getting the room prepared, “but as I recall, you did well.” He put a clean scope on […]
There Were Raisins In It
Fri, 6 May 2016, 09:10 PM (-06:00)
1. Oh, was this a messed up set of appointments. We’ll have a follow-up appointment in three months, they had told me. And sure enough there were appointments that popped into my calendar on precisely that date almost the day after I walked out of the radiation center. But those were minor appointments. The actual […]
Mixed Up Identity
Fri, 6 May 2016, 08:34 PM (-06:00)
Karl and his wife were having some kind of trouble. It wasn’t clear at first what the difficulty was, but they were walking in and out of the waiting room talking to the clerical staff and eventually to the Director of Imaging. It was hard not to hear their conversation. Karl had a white band around […]