Do you have gas?

First things first. Stacey is doing much better. Pneumonia is gone, the inflammation is getting better. She had the week off in between her two rotations which worked out really well. I mandated her to the couch for the whole week, playing nurse. I believe that helped her recovery a good bit. She is still on pain medication but weaning herself off of it. Its been a trying week for her and me though. I've spent the week running errands for her on top of doing the things I needed to do anyway. I'll be glad when she is back to her normal self. Her birthday this week was rather pathetic considering she celebrated while sitting on the couch for the entire day. Her surprise was a new Jade necklace from China. I bought that while I was over in Beijing and had kept it a secret until her birthday. It even came with an authenticity certificate. She loved it. The hardest thing about picking it out was that the Chinese jewelers make most of the jade into little buddha shapes. I was pretty confident Stacey wouldn't want a little green buddha around her neck, so it took a while to convince the sales people that I wanted something that was smaller and more discreet.

This week in Atlanta we have no gas. Literally, you can't find gas at 90 percent of the gas stations. You have to go online and check the news websites to find where gas stations actually have a supply. Let's just say our Costco membership paid for itself this week. Instead of waiting in line for over an hour like most, I was able to fill both cars up this weekend at the Costco right around the corner. I waited in line for minutes and paid the cheapest amount in the city. This just goes to show how much Atlanta needs to cut down on cars and improve public transportation. If I wanted to get to work without a car, it would take me over 2 and a half hours. Atlanta is a big enough city that it needs to have a much better system in place.

Next Saturday Stacey and I will be attending a big time college football game. Our good friend Johnny Myers was at a charity event this week and got us two tickets to the Georgia Tech vs. Duke game. That's right big time football. Duke is 3-1 and Georgia Tech is 3-1. Its a clash of titans in the ACC. Its a noon kickoff, so we'll do it up right, by going for a pre-game meal at the world famous Varsity and then head over for the game.

We got a Wii when I got back from China. We added a Wii Fit a week ago. Talk about entertainment. The Fit doesn't pull any punches in telling you what it thinks from the measurements it takes. The first time I stepped on it, I was in Durham at my parents house. By the way my parents have a Wii and a Fit to got with it as well, so make sure you ask them about how they like it. So when I got on it and it did its initial measurements it gave me a Wii Fit Age of 40. Not good. The first time I used it, I had some major balance issues. In fact it called me unbalanced for most of the evening. I was considered a bodybuilder by the strength programs, and a calorie roaster by the aerobic. I was impressed by the technology. It has enough variety and incentive programs to keep you coming back and trying to challenge yourself. On Friday night with Stacey as my audience I tried it again, setting up ours for the first time. My Fit Age: 23. Yeah, much better. I still am trying to get the hang of the balance games though. They are tough. And after going through all the strength activities I had been on it for an hour and had gotten a pretty good workout. I was impressed. However, the funniest story of the Fit is my dad. He attempted to use my aunt's this summer, except that she set it up backwards. No matter what he did it was wrong. His Fit age was 70. Apparently, everybody in the room had a pretty good time at his expense. I couldn't convince him to get on it when I was visiting. I think he was hiding behind the backwards setup excuse. My mom tried it. She got the hang of the aerobics after a couple of tries. Thanksgiving will be a Wii kind of Holiday in Durham.

Hope everybody has a good week.