Archive for September, 2009

When is the last time you challenged yourself?

I mean really challenged yourself – physically.  I remember when I was a kid we moved into a new house and we were so delighted to have our very own house. It was brand new and it had so much room.  My whole family was delirious with joy to have this wonderful house.  But the [...]

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We Have 2 Brains! Why Not Use Both?

Most people think of them as the left brain and the right brain. The left brain is the logical one, the one that deals with linear thinking, like solving math problems or planning a road trip. The left brain thinks analytically, it’s responsible for understanding languages, numbers, words and writing. The right [...]

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Careful Where You are Putting That Spider!

Here’s some cheery news. Not surprising, but not much fun either. Being overweight puts you at greatly increased risk of cancer. And of course death.
This latest piece of good cheer about weight comes from a study released at ECCO 15 – ESMO 34 (sounds like a football score doesn’t it!), the largest cancer congress meeting [...]

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Health Care Reform Joke of the Day

How many managed care reviewers does it take to change a light bulb?
Five.
One to receive the authorization forms and put them at the bottom of a pile.
One to put the pile in a storage closet
One to refuse to authorize the light bulb change because the proper authorization forms were never received.
One to process the resubmitted [...]

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How About A Fantasy Fitness League

We’re funny creatures. We can get ourselves to believe lots of things, except those that really matter.
The other day I was in the gym listening to a trio of young men, in their mid to late 20’s, talking about their Fantasy League football teams. They were completely engrossed in their conversation and got quite animated [...]

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Beer Drinking Joke of the Day

The leaders of the big beer companies meet for a drink. The president of Budweiser orders a Bud, the CEO of Miller gets a Miller, the head of Coors orders a Coors, and so on. Until it’s Arthur Guinness’s turn. He orders a soda.
“Why didn’t you order a Guinness?” everyone asks.
Guinness replies, “if you guys [...]

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Workout Wednesday – Pull-Ups

As a kid I really used to hate pull-ups. Well, it’s not too surprising. I was really skinny and had stick-like arms that had no strength, so I couldn’t do more than a couple of pull-ups at a time. Even today I struggle to do more than ten at a time. And I’m in reasonably [...]

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Health Care Reform Joke of the Day

A young lawyer was attending the funeral of his former boss, the director of a hospital billing service. Another lawyer who worked for the same company arrived late at the funeral. He slid into the pew behind the first lawyer and asked the first lawyer where they were in the service. The young lawyer nodded [...]

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How Do You Want To Die?

I am a sucker for those cartoons that show a man, up against a wall, in front of a firing squad, being asked if he has a final word or final request. They always seem to take place in some rundown ramshackle prison with the condemned man, unshaven and usually in rags, facing a firing [...]

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Health Care Reform Joke of the Day

A managed care reviewer died and went to hell and found himself in a room with the Devil and hundreds of clocks. Each clock had the name of a profession written on it and all of them were turning at different speeds. The reviewer asked the Devil why they all  moved at different speeds, the [...]

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