I have a couple of Important traditions that I do every New Year's day. The first is to hang the Calendar! I don't know if you guys every get the calendar from @messydesk , but it is an exceptionally high quality calendar with amazing shots of amazing coins. I look forward each month to seeing what the next coin will be (This month - an 1836 1/2 cent restrike, PR-66RB, ex Pogue). That calendar hangs right next to Ole George, right above my workspace. The second tradition, I always archive my collection database. It is really fun to go back to previous years and see how my collection has changed. I simply just make a copy of my spreadsheets and save it in a separate folder, but it is cool to look back at my 2008 spreadsheet and see how drastically my collection has changed. So, do you have any important New Year's traditions? Numismatic or non-numismatic, either is cool!
Since it's Tuesday, and it's an odd-numbered year, today is a workday for me. The Legislature is required to meet at noon on the First Tuesday for swearing-in. So here we all are - about 40 minutes to go. Then, receive visitors and well wishers.
Wow, I wish I could be there participating -- oh, wait, you said swearing-in, not at. Oh, well, 364 more days for that...
I wake up a few minutes before 8am, stumble out into my driveway, watch the stealth bomber fly over the house, stumble back into bed. A hard day's work complete. (not my picture)
I'm pretty sure they come out of Edwards AFB up north of here a short ways (out in the middle of the Mohave Desert). They fly over the parade then they fly over the Rose Bowl for the game 6 hours later. I assume they go back to Edwards to wait. Afterwards they'll go home to Missouri. One year though it was too cold up at Edwards and the bomber couldn't take off for some reason (leaky gaskets?). They used to have a gaggle of those smaller stealth fighters flying in formation with the bomber - that was way cool.
Today I am undergoing the prep for a colonoscopy that I dearly hope WILL NOT become a New Years tradition!
I've never had one Randy. Every year my doctor reminds me but I politely refuse. Best wishes and hopefully this will not be the yearly case for you.
If you have a family history of colon cancer, and you have insurance that will cover the procedure I would recommend you stop refusing. The prep really isn't as bad as everyone makes it out ot be, the procedure itself is really nothing. And if caught early colon cancer is one of the few cancers that is 100% preventable. In my case my great grandfather died of it, my grandfather had it, my father gets a colonoscopy regularly and they remove polyps pretty much each time, my brother died from it and so far I've had one poylp removed and I'm scheduled for my fourth colonoscopy later this year. (Nothing like having your YOUNGER brother die from it to get you having them done.)
Like Conder stated above, it's a good tool for prevention of a totally curable form of cancer. Colon cancer runs in my wife's family and she gets regular checkups.
The only New Years Day tradition I have is to 'wake up' on that morning..........Yes! Another year gone by and the future year to behold........
Thanks I appreciate that. No history whatsoever in my family. The only cancer we have is from the ones that died from smoking and women only on my moms side from breast cancer. Please accept my profound sorrows on the history and problems with this in your family. With your family history I'm glad you and your dad are taking the necessary precautions.
Not to drag in TMI, but... I've got a clean family history for cancer, too. They found (and removed) several polyps during my first one, and recommended I come back in three years instead of ten. I kind of rolled my eyes, and figured that those were probably leftovers from my dietary indiscretions in my younger days; I'm all aboard the high-fiber, low-grilling, moderate-alcohol bandwagon now, so I shouldn't have any more problems. I didn't get my second one until four years after the first. In that one, they found (and removed) more polyps than they did the first time. Now, there's no guarantee that any of those polyps would have turned cancerous. But I'll be at the doorstep of the GI shop three years and one day after the date of my last exam, never mind that the deductibles will cost me thousands. If there's a near-100%-reliable way to head off growths before they can become cancerous, SIGN ME UP.
I ended up being up for 60 hours straight when I did my prep, and my colonoscopy was cancelled due to the November 15 snowstorm. I'm NOT doing it again. We're doing ColoGuard instead. I can't DO that much consecutive waking time again.
And as an aside to those following this thread, there are much better preps available now than the one Kurt's doctors inflicted on him. Insist on a Miralax prep, and refuse a magnesium-citrate prep, especially if you have electrolyte issues already. It's only one day (plus the next morning) of fasting, with little or no cramping, and near-instant recovery post-procedure.
