16 year-old single malt. Nice and peaty.

Those who know what I'm talking about smelled the peat just now, didn't you?

Those who don't know what I'm talking about, you're really missing out...

someone took a member to task for introducing himself to his patients as a Physician Assistant.

This person stated: "My PA has never introduced himself as a PA. He just gives his name. I can read his name badge for myself. This is evidently supposed to be a way of calling out PA's for......something; I don't know. I don't understand the motive behind this kind of snarking.

I mention it because just recently, someone said the exact same thing to me here on DU. I suspect it was a way of saying "I'll be you're not a real medical provider".

But, as with Elliott Ness introducing himself in The Untouchables as a Treasury officer, with a Physician Assistant: "Who would claim to be that who was not?"

I think I'm getting burned out. I haven't had a proper vacation in close to four years...

Can't wait to open it on Christmas Day...

Taking my Secret Santa gift (a bottle of whiskey) for a test drive...

I got one for Christmas, 1977; Whew! Forty years ago, now. It was the gotta-have toy that year. In retrospect, it seems to have prefigured the smart phone. Except you couldn't call anyone with it...

I don't know why anyone would think that of us. When I tell my patients to quit smoking, and they don't, and I'm unable to smite them with lightning in retaliation, that pretty much disproves the allegation, wouldn't you say?

Mrs. Aristus is knitting a blanket for a friend, who picked out the colors of the yarns to be used. The colors are so ugly that my wife threw the blanket aside in disgust, calling it “Pińata Vomit”.

Might make a good name for a punk band...