12 days off

[Sh4string]

Congrats from one DVM to another.....inspiring to me!

[jbradley]

Nice 2 years there Vadge! 'Cheers'

paging doctor fine, doctor howard, doctor fine.....

oh heck where is the doctor Vadge.....

well done my friend 'clap'

Congrats DR

[SirDerek]

Nice 2 years there Vadge! 'Cheers'

paging doctor fine, doctor howard, doctor fine.....

oh heck where is the doctor Vadge.....

well done my friend 'clap'

[T-Cell]

Nice 2 years there Vadge! 'Cheers'

[Coach Steve]

Dr Vadge's page should be a best seller. Dude can make you laugh, help you quit, and provide the salve for your hurt butt or vag...

'BanDog'

[T-Cell]

Dr Vadge's page should be a best seller. Dude can make you laugh, help you quit, and provide the salve for your hurt butt or vag...

[Dougie]

This Intro is full of WIN Especially the March 18th post. Fucking great.

[golfpro9696]

That's a great post. I had my first experience this season with the tree...in the past, putting up the tree would have been cause for a good dip. My son was always so focused on ornaments he doesn't notice the spitter.

This year, I'm quit

[pbrain04]

Noobs facing the holidays for the first time without nicotine? Fear not. I present Vadge's wisdom.

So...April's all moved in up here on the 3rd story.  I'm proud as fuck for all of you.  No post-HOF cavers (that we know of) since  'chief' and he thankfully made it back.  Actually, no cavers since the Jake Martin Shitstorm 240 or so days ago.
That's pretty badfuckingass in my opinion. 

I see that we got some new cozy furniture and the baby cribs put back together.  Good on whoever was wise enough to leave the plastic in situ on the couches.  Auburn's not here very long anymore, but I did use a black light in the den the other day and saw FUCK YOU CHIZIK fluoresce on the wall. Either it is Auby's pork sword oil or there's a stray tom cat around with incredible aim.

Anyway, before everybody gets all cozy and shit, I would like for us to remember that there are some major "first times w/o nicotine" coming our way.  For Vadge they are:

1.  Christmas Lights.  I vividly remember my wife chastising me last year when she saw me on the roof with a huge horsehoe of nasty loaded in my lower lip. 
What a Fool....


2.  Thanksgiving with Inlaws.  I remember sneaking out to the car for a post-dinner hit of carcinogen (and the drive over, and pre-dinner, and halftime, and between beers, and after 2nd dessert, and for drive home....sigh). 
What a Fool....
What a Liar....

3.  Christmas With My Folks at Our Farm.  I remember Mom telling me and my brother how happy she was that we no longer dipped.  My brother had quit quit cold turkey, by himself, and is still quit.  I, on the other hand, had just quit by buying a box of "keepyouraddictionstronglozenges" instead of a can.  I even poked fun at my brother for gaining weight post quit. 
What a Fool....
What a Liar....
What a Douche....

4.  Christmas Morning.  I remember excited kids in pajamas, the study chalk-full of presents, a fresh cup of coffee, my sleepy wife in her pajamas proudly smiling at her brood, lighting a fire, grabbing the video camera out of the closet...and...some highly addictive poison in my pie hole. Oh, I layered it along my jaw so that kids couldn't tell, and just gutted it with my Christmas coffee.
What a Fool.... 
What a Liar....
What a Douch.... 
What an Addict....

Yeah, even at 310 days, I'm getting my plan(s) ready. 
Checking them twice and all that. 
Gonna go NOLAQ and keep "my shit up and running 24/7".
For I will NOT forget.  NOT Today.

Wow. That has been my exact holiday addict experience for as long as I can remember.

My wife has this great picture framed on our living room wall. Me holding my oldest on his first Christmas. Only I can see it but my jaw is ninja lined with kodiak. Merry Christmas loser! Fucking sad and a constant reminder. I'll never take the pic down.

[Evil_Won]

Noobs facing the holidays for the first time without nicotine? Fear not. I present Vadge's wisdom.

So...April's all moved in up here on the 3rd story.  I'm proud as fuck for all of you.  No post-HOF cavers (that we know of) since  'chief' and he thankfully made it back.  Actually, no cavers since the Jake Martin Shitstorm 240 or so days ago.
That's pretty badfuckingass in my opinion. 

I see that we got some new cozy furniture and the baby cribs put back together.  Good on whoever was wise enough to leave the plastic in situ on the couches.  Auburn's not here very long anymore, but I did use a black light in the den the other day and saw FUCK YOU CHIZIK fluoresce on the wall. Either it is Auby's pork sword oil or there's a stray tom cat around with incredible aim.

Anyway, before everybody gets all cozy and shit, I would like for us to remember that there are some major "first times w/o nicotine" coming our way.  For Vadge they are:

1.  Christmas Lights.  I vividly remember my wife chastising me last year when she saw me on the roof with a huge horsehoe of nasty loaded in my lower lip. 
What a Fool....


2.  Thanksgiving with Inlaws.  I remember sneaking out to the car for a post-dinner hit of carcinogen (and the drive over, and pre-dinner, and halftime, and between beers, and after 2nd dessert, and for drive home....sigh). 
What a Fool....
What a Liar....

3.  Christmas With My Folks at Our Farm.  I remember Mom telling me and my brother how happy she was that we no longer dipped.  My brother had quit quit cold turkey, by himself, and is still quit.  I, on the other hand, had just quit by buying a box of "keepyouraddictionstronglozenges" instead of a can.  I even poked fun at my brother for gaining weight post quit. 
What a Fool....
What a Liar....
What a Douche....

4.  Christmas Morning.  I remember excited kids in pajamas, the study chalk-full of presents, a fresh cup of coffee, my sleepy wife in her pajamas proudly smiling at her brood, lighting a fire, grabbing the video camera out of the closet...and...some highly addictive poison in my pie hole. Oh, I layered it along my jaw so that kids couldn't tell, and just gutted it with my Christmas coffee.
What a Fool.... 
What a Liar....
What a Douch.... 
What an Addict....

Yeah, even at 310 days, I'm getting my plan(s) ready. 
Checking them twice and all that. 
Gonna go NOLAQ and keep "my shit up and running 24/7".
For I will NOT forget.  NOT Today.

[G]

*The following dialog really happened, but, the subject matter was originally implanted into my gray matter by comedian Joe Zimmerman.



So .... Mrs Vadge and I picked up our 6y/o twins yesterday from school.  Baby Vadgling#3 decided to eat his banana from lunch on the way home. He then asked what to do with the peel.

For which, I instructed him "just toss out the window." 

Mrs Vadge : (in rapid lecture voice) "You can't just throw it out the window!  That is littering!"

Me: "Bull-Loney. Banana peels begin disintegrating immediately.  Heck, I can already smell it beginning to decompose. Why would it be littering?"

Mrs Expert-on-just-about-everything: "It's because it could cause an accident."

Me: "What are you smokin Mrs V? How? Is a car going to suddenly spin-out and then possibly slip off the road or something?"

Mrs Ultra-competitive-and-will-never-miss-an-oppurtunity-to-one-up-my-husband: No...As a matter of fact, I heard on the radio that a wild animal could smell the peel, and while eating the peel, could distract a car driver, and then cause an accident.

Me: "Bull-loney again.  Wild animal? Like a chimpanzee or something?  Cause...last I checked, we don't have a lot of wild chimpanzees in Oklahoma City. And anyways, everyone knows that wild chimpanzees don't even eat banana peels."

Mrs-I-will-never-give-in-and-if-I-need-to-I-will-bring-up-past-mistakes-to-save-face: "Well, we'll see when you have flashing blue lights behind you.......again."

Me: "That is ridiculous." (taking peel from Vadgling#3 in back seat) "What's next? They gonna give you a ticket for carrying around red and green turtle shells in your trunk?"

Giggling Vadgling#3: "I see what you did there Dad.  The police would probably make a 'tiny' deal out of storm cloud too"

Giggling Vadgling#4:  (begins making Mario Kart sounds)

Me: (winking at Vadgling#3 and #4, while rolling down Mrs-I-don't-get-it's window and tossing out the blackening peel in front of her face....and expertly fondling her left mammary on the follow through) "There, now the wild chimpanzees won't have to eat in the middle of the road."

shocker

Great story one question do you still have your front teeth and how was the couch last PM?

awesome.

i'm wario and i'ma gonna win.

[traumagnet]

*The following dialog really happened, but, the subject matter was originally implanted into my gray matter by comedian Joe Zimmerman.



So .... Mrs Vadge and I picked up our 6y/o twins yesterday from school. Baby Vadgling#3 decided to eat his banana from lunch on the way home. He then asked what to do with the peel.

For which, I instructed him "just toss out the window."

Mrs Vadge : (in rapid lecture voice) "You can't just throw it out the window! That is littering!"

Me: "Bull-Loney. Banana peels begin disintegrating immediately. Heck, I can already smell it beginning to decompose. Why would it be littering?"

Mrs Expert-on-just-about-everything: "It's because it could cause an accident."

Me: "What are you smokin Mrs V? How? Is a car going to suddenly spin-out and then possibly slip off the road or something?"

Mrs Ultra-competitive-and-will-never-miss-an-oppurtunity-to-one-up-my-husband: No...As a matter of fact, I heard on the radio that a wild animal could smell the peel, and while eating the peel, could distract a car driver, and then cause an accident.

Me: "Bull-loney again. Wild animal? Like a chimpanzee or something? Cause...last I checked, we don't have a lot of wild chimpanzees in Oklahoma City. And anyways, everyone knows that wild chimpanzees don't even eat banana peels."

Mrs-I-will-never-give-in-and-if-I-need-to-I-will-bring-up-past-mistakes-to-save-face: "Well, we'll see when you have flashing blue lights behind you.......again."

Me: "That is ridiculous." (taking peel from Vadgling#3 in back seat) "What's next? They gonna give you a ticket for carrying around red and green turtle shells in your trunk?"

Giggling Vadgling#3: "I see what you did there Dad. The police would probably make a 'tiny' deal out of storm cloud too"

Giggling Vadgling#4: (begins making Mario Kart sounds)

Me: (winking at Vadgling#3 and #4, while rolling down Mrs-I-don't-get-it's window and tossing out the blackening peel in front of her face....and expertly fondling her left mammary on the follow through) "There, now the wild chimpanzees won't have to eat in the middle of the road."

shocker

Great story one question do you still have your front teeth and how was the couch last PM?

[ERDVM]

*The following dialog really happened, but, the subject matter was originally implanted into my gray matter by comedian Joe Zimmerman.



So .... Mrs Vadge and I picked up our 6y/o twins yesterday from school. Baby Vadgling#3 decided to eat his banana from lunch on the way home. He then asked what to do with the peel.

For which, I instructed him "just toss out the window."

Mrs Vadge : (in rapid lecture voice) "You can't just throw it out the window! That is littering!"

Me: "Bull-Loney. Banana peels begin disintegrating immediately. Heck, I can already smell it beginning to decompose. Why would it be littering?"

Mrs Expert-on-just-about-everything: "It's because it could cause an accident."

Me: "What are you smokin Mrs V? How? Is a car going to suddenly spin-out and then possibly slip off the road or something?"

Mrs Ultra-competitive-and-will-never-miss-an-oppurtunity-to-one-up-my-husband: No...As a matter of fact, I heard on the radio that a wild animal could smell the peel, and while eating the peel, could distract a car driver, and then cause an accident.

Me: "Bull-loney again. Wild animal? Like a chimpanzee or something? Cause...last I checked, we don't have a lot of wild chimpanzees in Oklahoma City. And anyways, everyone knows that wild chimpanzees don't even eat banana peels."

Mrs-I-will-never-give-in-and-if-I-need-to-I-will-bring-up-past-mistakes-to-save-face: "Well, we'll see when you have flashing blue lights behind you.......again."

Me: "That is ridiculous." (taking peel from Vadgling#3 in back seat) "What's next? They gonna give you a ticket for carrying around red and green turtle shells in your trunk?"

Giggling Vadgling#3: "I see what you did there Dad. The police would probably make a 'tiny' deal out of storm cloud too"

Giggling Vadgling#4: (begins making Mario Kart sounds)

Me: (winking at Vadgling#3 and #4, while rolling down Mrs-I-don't-get-it's window and tossing out the blackening peel in front of her face....and expertly fondling her left mammary on the follow through) "There, now the wild chimpanzees won't have to eat in the middle of the road."

shocker

[ERDVM]

Thanks for all the well wishes. My phone has been haywire this am. The Vadge family has now avoided 3 tornadoes in the last 2 weeks. All the baby vadgies were ready to head underground when it started turning north. "Thankfully" it stayed south. We did, however, get over 7 inches of rain and continual lightning/thunder for 12 hours. Were used to weather in Oklahoma, but that was the loudest shit I remember ever hearing. Things finally cleared up around 4 this morning.

Work is a different story. No power since last night. I literally jumped over a downed power line to get in the back door. The gas stations that are open have zero gas/grocery. Most have closed already.

Finally got our generators up and running. This afternoon and tomorrow will get interesting - we are the only Hosp open in the area. Time to go Old School (no bloodwork, X-ray, or Iv pumps; using crayon to copy people's credit card info, hand written records/invoices etc). I'm up for the challenge. My staff would rather not.

Had a fleeting craving last night and this morning. Didn't even really surprise me or piss me off. Wasnt even a whispering, just a vestigial memory from another point in time. QLF.

Side Note: As an emergency referral hospital we see catastrophes. And, we lose/euthanize a large percentage of our patients. It is what it is. It also means we have 2 industrial sized freezers to hold dead bodies until the cremation company picks them up. Needless to say, hearing movement in the freezers is a little disconcerting....
I'm sure its just the dead dogs and cats thawing some ....
and I'm pretty sure that wasn't a paw scratching ....

'zombie' :huh:

[omahaflyer]

In recognition of some badassery of quit and Day 500

'clap'

Hell yeah re-animator!

Keep up the great work man.

nice 500 vadge

Nice 5 :ph43r: :ph43r:

Not sure where the other straight guys are in this thread, but I still wanted to stop by and say congrats.

'Other' straight guys?

Congrats Vadge!!
'party' :P

Word hurt, 2much. Words hurt. ��

PS- BITCHES.

butt hurt


(No pun intended) 'crackup'

We need a hijack emoticon.

Vadge's intro always gets hijacked... Just waiting for a narrative from Coach Steve now.

'Popcorn'

Sweetness.

HIJACK LIKE FUCK (HLF for the acronym crew).

Nice Job on thr Indy mark