Two things I have learned in the past week

This past week has been one for the books. There's been a number of very interesting things going on in the background that could prove to be very good for us (myself and my wife), but I'm not going to comment on them until they actually happen. Don't want to jinx it! I've also applied to get my status changed with the regulatory college from being an intern to being a practicing pharmacist. It's taking them a while to get to it but I can't blame them given that everyone that just passed the exams must be applying all at the same time.

Ok. Now to the column topic.
This week has been an educational one in some more human ways than I would care to admit. I like Soundgarden. A lot. Their new album's pretty good too. Anyways, I was listening to some of their old stuff, really getting into it and started "rocking out" in a door frame and smacked my head into it. Still wearing the mark almost 5 days later but at least it's almost gone. When you do something like that and the wife's commenting on the size of the hockey puck on your head you can't really say much to regain your pride - just that it happened and that you're sucking it up. Lesson learned: don't head bang in a doorway!

Next lesson: Barbecues. I wanted one really badly, especially since buying a house - now we're able to actually have one! We have a couple of friends that had a spare that they weren't using and we thought we could fit it into my car. What a mistake that was. We had to disassemble the entire thing practically and it didn't fit into the car even then. We had to use my friend's car to take it over. Because the barbecue was already used there was a bunch of crap in the bottom of it and the briquettes... it was leaving a mess. Even with the car liner it was leaving a mess. Also some of the screws and nuts were rusted so they weren't coming apart easily which prevented us from disassembling some crucial pieces that would have let us fit it into my car. Anyways I guess the short version of the lesson is if you're moving a barbecue don't bother disassembling it and just wait until you can get access to a vehicle that'll let you move it in one piece (or as close to it as possible). I think we spent 3 hours out on the street in cold weather with tools trying to take that thing apart - it didn't win but it almost did!