In what I call my first career I became a paramedic (PJ) and later an EMT and was one step from becoming a medical doctor when a state age law to enter medical school prevented me from completing this goal. As the result I was forced to change career direction and became a Mechanical Engineer instead. Then later on in my life my BS and MS in Computer Science. So After working in the medical field in various roles for over 10 years, I fully understand all the propaganda people are lead to believe around hospitals. How clean they are, safe, competent, caring, etc. Yea right!

Let me tell you that hospitals are not as clean as you might think. Although in most situations they do attempt to provide safe and sanitized surroundings. But you have to understand the nature of the best.

I was surfing the news stories yesterday and I stumbled across an article on the Washingtonpost.com. Its a story that many have fascinated about probably since man started walking on this planet. That is one of immortality. Living to be 1000 years old.

Well I have been around now for just 56 years, not even a blink of eye in cosmic time or a millisecond. And yes I am in some ways feeling the age in my bones. I am not as chipper as I once was, nor do I have the burning desire to conquer Mount Everest. But my brain is young. Yes, yes I know its aging too, but in a positive way. Its filled with way more knowledge than my body that supports it.