Okay, TONIGHT I can stay up a little later. Anybody want to hang out?

[Aristus]

I had to hit it a little earlier than I expected last night. So my thanks to everyone who posted after 11pm or so.

I'm going to have a beer, hang out in the Lounge, and relax.

How is everyone tonight?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Aristus!

I am good tonight, after a hectic day running around, getting things done...

I have to get up early (for me) tomorrow for my last workshop session. It has been fun, I've learned stuff, but now I need to think about the rest of the year...

Christmas, my birthday, and my surgery are coming, and I need to be ready.

It's good to see you tonight!

[Aristus]

2. You too, as always, CalPeg.

Be sure to keep all of the Loungers up to date on your surgery stuff...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Yeah, I will...

It's not till January, so we have some time...

It's on my mind since I just got the pre-op paperwork from the surgery coordinator at my orthopod's office.

[Aristus]

8. Do you have any questions regarding the procedure?

I did an orthopedic surgery rotation, so I may be able to answer them for you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Well, I did have one...

It's called a left biceps tenodesis. I did Google it, and did some reading, so I have a fairly vague idea...

Do you know about it? It's pretty specialized. I don't think my doc did it with the right shoulder.

[Aristus]

16. I didn't assist in that procedure, so I don't know it as well.

The procedures I assisted in were mostly cervical and lumbar spinal cases...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Ah, no worries!

Thank goodness I haven't needed any of those...........yet!

[Aristus]

20. I hate the fact that there are some questions I can't answer.

Although the smartest, most gifted clinician I know once told me that you can't know everything there is to know, medically. You just can't...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. That clinicial is very smart!

There's too much to know, and there's always more stuff that they're discovering.

I respect your knowledge hugely, and I always have.

[fizzgig]

4. whatcha drinking?

sunshine in a can for me tonight and i'm just waiting for the pizza to get here.

[Aristus]

5. FIZZ!

Heya, sexy!

A bottle of Sophie, a Belgian Ale. Light, crisp, citrusy...wonderful...

[fizzgig]

6. heya back

i really enjoy belgians, haven't splurged on one in awhile

how've you been?

[Aristus]

7. Very well. Taking time off from the grind of clinic

in order to get some continuing medical education in...

The Belgian monks make some (appropriately) Heavenly ales. Not Heavenly enough to make me want to take a vow of celibacy, or wear one of those brown robes; but Heavenly enough...

[Brigid]

10. But the haircut is da bomb.

[Aristus]

12. I'm already bald on top, so no problem there.

[fizzgig]

11. it's good to take a break

i need to take a mental health day soon.

[Aristus]

13. Going crazy, a little?

[fizzgig]

17. just a little

taking mental health days is one of the best lessons my mother ever taught me.

[Aristus]

19. Smart woman.

What's your idea of sunshine in a can?

[fizzgig]

26. it's new belgium's sunshine wheat

and it comes in cans. it really is sunshine in a can

[Aristus]

27. So we're both doing Belgian tonight...

Cool!

[Brigid]

9. Just hanging around.

Watching a really old "Law and Order" episode. Chris Noth was really cute back then.

[Aristus]

15. Chris Noth?

That is an old episode!

I always thought he and Jerry Orbach were the best detective team on the show.

The revolving door of detectives got old after a while...

[Brigid]

22. Paul Sorvino is his partner.

And Michael Moriarty is the assistant DA.

[Aristus]

23. That is early!

I think Paul Sorvino came in after George Dzundza, and before Jerry Orbach.

Michael Moriarty was a good character. Complex, frosty, not always sympathetic. But a good character.

That was before I found out what a nutbag he is...

[Brigid]

24. Actually, I was wrong.

It was Dzundza. He and Sorvino look a lot alike to me, for some reason.

[Aristus]

25. Okay: First Season for sure.

Good stuff.

I stopped watching it after it became a 'franchise', but for a while there, it was some of the best television around.

At least until 'The West Wing' aired...

[Brigid]

28. The earliest episodes were the best.

The show became too formulaic later on. But I liked that the stories were not always tidy. Sometimes , even then. Usually the lawyers acted ethically, but not always. Same for the cops. Sometimes the bad guys got convicted; sometimes they went free. Sometimes the lawyers and the cops were left feeling that they would never know what really happened. Pretty much like life.

[Aristus]

29. I agree.

I think the "sometimes-the-good-guys-don't-win" premise was very realistic. Although sometimes it could be disconcerting, especially when the prevailing TV ethic is that the good guys always win.

I remember an episode when Moriarty's character tried a rape case where the victim lost. And even Moriarty was so shocked he was at a loss for words.