Not Exactly
This weekend hasn't turned out exactly as Meg and I hoped it would. Things started out pretty well as we had a good time at first birthday party one Meg's friends was having for her daughter. Henry had a great time playing with his buddy Griffin who walks as he does, a bit like Frankenstein at times. They both enjoyed looking at the family cat, but didn't chase after it too much. I guess they're dog people! Like other parties we've been too recently we spent a good amount of time keeping Henry out of the appetizers. Considering Henry's 4½ year old cousin is still tough to restrain around appetizers I think this is our future. Someday Henry will get older and although he might still have a tough time resisting appetizers like me or his grandpa it won't be his parent's problem.
On Sunday things went sour. After church we took Henry's temperature and noticed he had another slight fever. His doctor recommended we take him to the ER. That's were we spent the rest of the day or at least that's what it seemed like. When your problem isn't serious they take forever to help you out, even to let you go once the doctor gives you the OK. Meg, Henry and I left the place after four hours, feeling tired, cranky and hungry.
Today we had planned on a family trip to the arboretum, but Henry's still a bit under the weather. Perhaps we'll visit his grandmother at her workplace?
On Friday and Saturday I searched some coin.
Forty-two small dollars didn't produce anything.
8,101 half dollars turned up ten 90% silver halves (1944, 19XX, 7 x 1964, 1964D), twenty-six 40% silver halves (1965, 3 x 1966, 10 x 1967, 8 x 1968D, 4 x 1969D), three proofs (1982S, 2004S, 2006S) and four mint set halves (2 x 2004P, 2006D, 2008D). That's the best silver haul I've had so far in 2009. One of the 90% silver halves is a beat up Franklin with the year and mint mark purposely scratched out ... very strange.
1,000 dimes and 400 nickels yielded two Canadian nickels.
3,000 pennies produced twenty-six Wheats, twenty-nine Canadians and three US dimes. Just in times for Valentine's Day I also found one penny with a small rose printed on the front of it. The Wheats were:
1916, 1934, 1939, 1942(2), 1944(4), 1946, 1947D, 1948, 1949, 1950S(2), 1952, 1952D, 1952S, 1953, 1955, 1956D
Found: 5 pennies (1 outside Papa Gino's, 3 at Stop & Shop, 1 in the Hospital), 1 dime (on the street), 3 quarters (1 on 128/95S, 2 at Stop & Shop)
2 comments:
That's the problem with emergency room "queues"... I can understand how they need to treat what they deem "urgent" cases in priority, but we've all sat there watching person after person coming in, thinking "Is he worse than me? Is a broken nose "higher" than a broken thumb? Does a fish hook through the forehead "jump over" a badly brusied and painful arm?"
I don't know how you could change this, except perhaps for having two sets of staff; one to deal with the serious, and one to deal with the not-so-serious...
Yup. I kept telling myself, be thankful they're not helping us right away because that would mean there was a big problem.
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