Running on the Sun

Yesterday, I took my son to the "Little Gym". This is a class my wife usually takes him to during the day. Occasionally, we take him to the 6:30pm class, which I can attend. Imagine a huge room with mats, and gymnastic equipment, all padded and 15 2 year olds running around the room, running into each other, bouncing off walls and equipment, screaming, crying, thuds, crashes. The teacher had everyone sit in a circle with their kid. My son doesn't sit for more than 1 second, so fortunately we were first. She goes around and asked my son "What's your name" He answers "My name is Nik"

The teacher goes to the next person. By this time, my son is running circles around this circle. But, each time the teacher asks another child their name, my son comes rushing back in front of the teacher like a laser guided Patriot missile, and says "My name is Nik".. He seemed to think this teacher wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer by having to ask his name 15 times. It was amusing. Yeah, he may need medication some day.

I watched, Running on the Sun. ( 1 hour of it). It chronicles the running of the Badwater Ultramarathon. It gives an inside view of some of what we will be encountering. I don't think that I'll get the full effect, until I get there. But, so far it seems more manageable than my imagination had made it out to be. It's easy for me to say that, since I'm only crewing it.

Another full night of sleep for my son and wife. The leave for Boston tomorrow morning.

Our hospital hired some outside consultants to help "rebuild" cardiology at my institution. I spent from 7-8am with them. They'll probably repackage all the info we gave them into a nice 300 page binder and make it look like they came up with some groundbreaking information that the institution could have gotten by just asking us in the first place.