Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am grateful for...

• Having a figure-eight power cord in my backpack that I didn't need, to use with the CPAP whose(???) cord I forgot. Was not, unfortunately, able to pull the same trick with chopsticks.
• Thanks to ChargeASAP for a reasonably compact USB-C charger.
• Purrfect Cat Boarding.
• Lyft.
• Moldex N95 masks -- reasonably comfortable and one can actually breathe in them. It is claimed that one can sing in them -- I expect to find out this weekend whether that's really true.
• Being able to find amusing rabbit holes starting from modern medical diagnostic technology. (Case in point: a PET/CAT scan, which I have on my schedule for next week. (The current terminology is CT, not CAT, but it's a better pun the other way.))

Comments

[acelightning73]

There's a variation on the Monty Python "parrot" skit, in which a man brings his parrot to the vet, and the vet says, "YOur parrot is dead, sir!" "Oh, can't you do anything?"
the vet goes out of the exam room and comes back leading a beautiful labrador retreiver. The dog sniffs at the parrot, and shakes his head no. The vet takes the dog out, and comes back with a beautiful Siamese cat. The cat sniffs at the parrot and meows "Noooo". Well, says the vet, that's that. Your parrot is absolutely dead. That will be 700 dollars?

"Isnt that a lot of money just to tell me my parrot is dead?"

"Well, sir, it was $400 for the lab test, and $250 for the cat scan."