We drive down to Hershey PA weekend before last. Helen had an interview at the teaching hospital there: A small town of 12,000, about 15 miles from 3 mile island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg. Formed when M Hershey sold his caramel company in 1903 and built the worlds largest milk chocolate factory in the…
Last month we hit perfect weather on our 2nd visit to Salt Lake. It was still beautiful green from spring rains and not nasty summer hot yet. Helen did a grand rounds presentation and I hiked around the streets and hills. This is looking up to the school and hospital campus: And this is…
We are into the travel season. Last month we visited the Carillion clinic in Roanoke VA. It is a pretty town nestled in the Appalachia ‘mountains’, next to the Blue Ridge Parkway: A few years ago the area physicians and hospital merged into a Mayo clinic like model, and are now looking for an epileptologist. …
As a classic tech-geek early adapter, I felt pretty proud I was able to restrain myself from buying an iPhone for 2 years. I rewarded myself for that restraint by ordering an iPad 5 minutes after it became available online. This is Helen demoing it at a dinner party: I took it with me on…
In snowfall. And I hear the Syracuse basketball team is hoping to work its way to Number 1 also. We started slow in snow this year, but have caught up to average snowfall, about 100 inches. Not as much as last year (180 inches!), but it is enough to put Syracuse back in its normal…
The green eyed monster made another appearance, on his way back from the M* states (MT, MN, MI) to NJ. This is Zach making sure his nose is not too close to the monster. For fear of it passing gas, you want to keep the offending orifice at least an arms length away: Unfortunately,…