It’s too good to be true. It’s Blog Post #92. Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes following last month’s birthday blog post. I had a great day and a great month of celebrating another spin around the sun. Hopefully, I have many more.

The Fall

The weather has changed. Autumn has arrived. I took this photo in early November at the park near my home.

My wife took this photo nearby that I just had to share.

It may be colder these days but there’s beauty to be found.

More Celebrations

Although sales have slowed, it’s the three year anniversary of the release of Nursing: The Funny Side of the Bedside. It’s the best book I’ve ever written and it’s still the number one selling book at RGM Publishing.

In more good news worth celebrating, I have really gotten into a daily routine of working on my novel. It is progressing nicely and I can finally see the light at the end of this long wrote. A quote from the book:

“I’m going to have a routine that makes The Rock look lazier than Homer Simpson on a Sunday.”

Nurses Wanted

Movie theatres across the country are hiring nurses. Avatar 2 has a runtime over 3 hours and nurses are needed to insert catheters in movie goers who don’t want to miss a moment. The difficulty is that this movie is so long that the nurses they hire will retire by the time the first showing is over.

The Rising Cost of Living

With increasing prices, Michelin star restaurants have had difficulty maintaining a profitable business model. In contrast, Michelin Tires have found inflation to have really helped with theirs.

The Big Event

The World Cup of Soccer begins this month. Yes, in November. Although I would have preferred the tournament be hosted by Drums, Violin, or Saxaphone, it is being hosted by Qatar. Qatar is a dry country which does not allow alcohol. However, they have needed to make compromises to host this worldwide event because the world drinks and there’s money to be made. To accommodate, Qatar will have designated drinking zones and sobering-up zones. The service will rum from 1-9 but they will only let you gin if you don’t wine. Ale be interested to see how it goes. Public drunkenness is a crime in Qatar with stiff penalties. They are compromising on that as well. If you’re highly intoxicated, you may be jailed but at least they won’t want tequilia.

Words Of Wisdom

1. Nursing Tips: From the Bottom of My Chart: “Assess the need for other needs as needed.”

2. If you haven’t yet, buy and read the best book on nursing since Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not.

3. Don’t leave fruit on the counter. My wife arrived home from the store with a whole pineapple. My only question: “Why have you brought fruit fly food into our home?”

Thanks for reading this month’s blog post. It’s great to be writing regularly again. It’s now time for the ending joke. Enjoy.

I asked my wife to read a chapter from my upcoming novel. Halfway through she had to go get a Kleenex and said, “That made me cry.”

I said, “What part?”

“The part with the letter to her son.”

“Yeah, but was it a particular word or phrase?”

“No. Why?”

“I’m wanting to know the Wife-Cry password.”