My friend Mike gave me a bunch of paver stones that he had pulled out of his yard quite a while ago and isn't using. We thought they were a bit lighter than they were and loaded them all into my truck.

Turns out, we were wrong. Each one weighed in around 22 pounds. And after Heidi and I finished unloading them, I counted 101 stones. Yep, that's over 2,200 pounds.

No wonder my truck looked a little weighed down. 1/2 ton trucks are not supposed to carry over 1.2 tons! But it did it like a champ. Not that I would do it often, but way to go Dodge!

So I spent the evening in the E.R. waiting to see what's going on with my hand. Found out I've got some kind of non-contagious, non-blanching dermatitis of undetermined etiology.

Anyway, it was weird walking in there feeling totally fine, so we had a good time being quite jovial with the staff. At one point we were given a very sincere apology for how long the lab was taking to which we thanked them for the date night out without the kid. That made them chuckle a bit.

Best line of the night though? I overheard a nurse in the hall making this remark: "has anyone seen the thermometers ...... all I see are the rectal ones."

My eyes got real wide and I became very attentive waiting for the "oh I see them now," but that never came. I feel sorry for the next patient who doesn't have the luxury of a regular thermometer...