George,

 GP> No worries; happy you go through it okay & they seem to have fixed you
 GP> up okay. . .

  At least for now. They didn't do any surgery on me...I think if blockage
would've been detected on the echocardiogram, they would've done surgery.
The cardiologist also noted that "I don't need to worry about a pacemaker
right now".

 GP> Take your meds regularly, as indicated, on time, exact dose.

  As directed, once or twice a day, sir. :) I've got a great prescription
drug plan. My cost for each of those was $6.45 -- my aunt in Tennessee
has to pay well over $125 for each.

 GP> I learned in my current job to never say no -- they are paying for
 GP> anything they ask for & their request is enough for us to bill them.

  Yep. We had one smart-aleck who came through the drive-thru, who wanted
"a fur burger, and a side order of thighs". :P I told him, you'll find that
in the red light district toward downtown...and that's not the one with all
the traffic signals. Another one (who wasn't the brightest light in the
drawer), wanted a Big Mac. I said "Sir, this is Burger King...McDonald's
is down the street". 

 GP> If they just say "Move patient X safely & as quickly as possible from
 GP> Brazil to Canada," we do it & then just give them the bill for $4M &
 GP> change (itemized, of course -- we're not monsters!)

  The devil is in the details. :P

 GP> Maybe 10-20% of that finds it way to supporting our company, most of it
 GP> is just cashflow right to the providers we used.

  Efficiency is the key.

 GP> A guy I did moving jobs with had a Ford pickup that might cost that
 GP> much (it was an F-350, with dual gas tanks;. he could pop another
 GP> 100gal tank into the bed to load up when he finds cheap gas (there's
 GP> one station in between a couple municipalities that is the cheapest
 GP> gas in 1,000 miles all around!); he'd fill up all 3 tanks on the
 GP> January trip down to see his dad, & the difference in price paid for
 GP> 3 20-hour roundtrips of driving, including paying ferry 8 times!

  Not bad. BTW, I "corrected" your typos. :)

 >   I wish more parents would take heed to the song that country-western
 > star Rodney Atkins did, "Watching You".

 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uzK3VwzraM

 GP> Very nice! I've saved that one into my favorites!

  He has several others including:

The Farmers Daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5nE4cPFAQ

If You're Going Through Hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l50L4GYhpLc

Cleaning This Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nIJxveOgmc

 GP> Google up:
 GP> Dorothy Law Nolte Poem "Children Learn What They Live"

 GP> For the one I picture when considering the concept.

  That's true.

 GP> For a more modern one, just as funny & clean, but now, sadly, RIP, look
 GP> up John Pinette on YouTube -- he's a great story teller who takes you
 GP> with him on his hilarious adventures

  Jeff Foxworthy gets a bit PG at times, but he doesn't get as bad as
Jeff Dunham.

 GP> If you have to get it yourself on their page, it's your own fault if
 GP> it's late, eh? :D

  I had to save some money, so I terminated the subscription. It was $50
a year; but right now, finances are tighter than a frog's butt underwater.

 > ... Newspaper Headline: "Local Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide."

 GP> I've actually seen some just as dumb.

  In reading some of those, I think of one of my late wife's favorite
sayings: "What was your first clue??". 

 GP> I'm still trying to figure out how they ruled a death as homicide when
 GP> cause of death wAs "Unknown".

  Really. 

 GP> If killing a man is homicide, is killing a friend homiecide?

  Could be.

 GP> The police department made all homicide detectives stay under
 GP> quarantine for two weeks.
 GP> They had coroner-virus.

  Business had been pretty dead at times. 

 GP> Ive never understood school shooting jokes
 GP> Guess they are aimed at a younger audience.

  I saw a sign at this place where one could practice with their firearms:

  "North Little Rock Public Shooting Range".

  I guess I know where they line up all the tax scofflaws, and blow them
away!! 

 GP> My Roomba accidentally went out the front door, and the neighborhood
 GP> animals immediately started attacking it.
 GP> Nature abhors a vacuum.

  A hair dryer and a vacuum were cursing each other. The hair dryer tells
the vacuum "You Suck"...and the vacuum replies "Blow Me". 

 GP> So if a group of crows killed another group of crows...
 GP> Would that be double homicide?

  Sounds like a bunch of caw-caw to me.

 GP> At a soccer match with Julius Caesar, Brutus asked, "What's the score,
 GP> O Caesar?" Caesar replied...
 GP> "8-2, Brutus."

  Caesar asked "Et, Tu, Brutus??", and was told "Hell, No!! I ain't et 
Nuthin' Yet"!! 

 GP> Apparently, a man recently destroyed his own house.
 GP> He was convicted of homicide.

  He must've needed the insurance money.

Daryl

... "Most of our future lies ahead." -Denny Crum, Louisville coach
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