Ouch

I am trying to get back into shape, but man I'm getting old. There was a day that I could play basketball all day, go to bed and play again the next. Now, I played on Thursday and today (Monday) is the first time that I can walk comfortably.

A friend a work told me that basketball is a jealous sport it won't allow you to play other sports. I laughed because he's an idiot, but in this particular case he was right. I have been trying to play basketball and jog. I got up to jogging 20 miles/week. Last week I could only go 4.5 miles because basketball knew I was cheating on it. This week, I've gone 5 miles, but I play on Thursday again. That might ruin me for the rest of the week.

I was really pleased with my performance on the court. I was able to score 27 pts. in a losing effort. (our team scored 39)

Rants:
How is it in this economy any business can afford to make their customers mad? I can think of one industry that has no concerns for their customers. Doctors! The last time I went to the doctor for me, I had to wait 1.5 hours to see the guy. Then, when he walked in, I unloaded on him at how unprofessional he was for not keeping a schedule. All doctors have the same excuse, "there was an emergency with another patient." This is genius because you can't argue. If there was truly an emergency, wouldn't they tell you when you checked in that the doctor is running behind due to an emergency. They won't because they don't care about you!

This brings me to the baby doctor this week. Carrie and I were supposed to find out the sex of the baby on Thursday. We set the appointment six weeks ago. The doctors office called yesterday to tell us that the lady that does the sonograms doesn't work on Thursdays. Do you think that this is something that they could have figured out in five weeks. Better yet, maybe they could keep a collection days and dates separated out into little boxes. I have a couple of these, I call them a calendar. They are good for tracking off days and dates. Now I'm fairly smart, but not doctor smart, and I already figured this out. Wonder if they will figure this out. Nobody tell them to see how long it takes.

Fact is, we are powerless versus the doctors. There are only a few that accept our insurance and are close and are seeing patients this week. They don't need you and they don't need me, and they act like it! I wish we shopped for doctor's like we shop for cars or houses, but we don't. Work gives us a list of approved doctors and we find the closest one to the house and never change. They know we will just take it where they shove it...now I got to check my list for a proctologist.