Doctor's hours?

An acquaintance of mine is scheduled to have knee surgery in a few weeks, time of day: 6am. I've had a few surgeries myself along the road and they've all been scheduled at similarly god-awful hours. That means Dr. EverythingsGonnaBeAlright has to be up at the crack of 4am to scrub up and drive through for his Egg McMuffin. If I had scratched and clawed my way through medical school and a surgical residency I can tell you, I would not be getting up at 4am to go to work. In fact, the entire time I was pulling my 72 hour on-call shifts, I'd be saying to myself "I won't have to get up at 4am, I won't have to get up at 4am, there's no place like...", well, you get the idea. And frankly, I'm not real sure I want someone cutting me open who got up three hours before dawn. The last time I was cut open, the doctor came over to, you know, do his little bedside manor skit and ask if I had any questions. I told him "just one, doc,... did you get enough sleep last night?" He laughed, which is more than I could do at 6am, so I figured we were good to go.

Got cold feet?

On the floor you may find the power supply to your laptop. It may seem like just another thing to trip over, but I've just discovered that it can be used very effectively as a foot warmer. Try it.