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wow, i just realized how often i start my posts with 'so,'. sorry if that bugs you but i can't promise i'll stop because i tend to talk that way in real life as well.

so, being in a very expensive place to live, we get quite a few 'low-income' patients at the office. this one patient came in and he'd never had any vision correction in his life and he was well into his 20's. after his exam, we saw that he had a prescription of -6.50. for those of you not familiar with eye talk, a -4.00 can't even see the big E on the eye chart so he's way worse than that. instead of 20/20, he's 20/400-. anyway, we loaned him some free trial contact lenses but they only last a month and then they are supposed to order a box or two. he came back when his contacts expired and he was shaky and sweating and kept rocking back and forth while repeating, 'i need more contacts, how soon can i get more contacts, what can i do to get more contacts? do they make a permanent contact that you don't have to replace?' uh, that's called LASIK. i've never seen anyone going through withdrawl over contacts but i guess once you tast...

so, there's this A&W restaurant in frisco that is apparently owned by christians because they always include a bible verse or inspirational sayings on their reader board. the thing is, they also include some of their menu on that board as well and they don't seem to own any punctuation tiles. my favorite posting so far was at christmastime: "have you any room for jesus chili cheese shrimp ice cream floats" i don't know about you, but a side of jesus sounds great with chili cheese shrimp ice cream floats.

so, some friends and i went to the iron springs chatteau in mantiou springs for our new years celebration. the reason we ended up there? we wanted dinner and dancing for cheap and we got all that and more. we got dinner: family style fried chicken, baked beans, biscuits, coleslaw, and some sort of meat covered in BBQ sauce. then we had entertainment: a short melodramatic skit about canadian mounties and their nemesies and we did the whole boo hiss, ooh ahh, yay, hubba hubba thing throughout. for those who have never experienced a melodrama- go. then we were escorted downstairs for "cold appetizers" and party favors- hats, noisemakers and the like. THEN, they had a d.j. playing some jams for us until 1 a.m.. now, something you should know about manitou springs: it's colorado spring's neighboring hippy town and it's pretty much populated by very eccentric people both young and old. and not necessarily good hippies like haight/ashbury in san fran...these folk are...