It’s sometimes hard to keep some equanimity while riding the waves of day-to-day life:

Up: We visited with Amanda and David over the weekend in New York, saw The Book of Mormon, which was an outrageous treat, waded through a Brownian mob of people in Times Square, and ordered ourselves huge customized burgers at The Counter.

Down: We were sobered by replicating the long tiring commute that David has every day to his work in NYC, paralleled by Amanda’s equally long drive to RPI.

Up:  We drove home through the beautiful autumn leaves of New York and Massachusetts, skirting the colorful Berkshire hills.

Down:  A new threat to our family’s health.  Bad news at first, then reassurance from the specialist, but still a sense of unrest.

Down? : My small surgicenter is taken over by Tenet Healthcare, a large conglomerate.  Much trepidation and uncertainty about our collective and individual future.

Up:  As a result, we get a new improved wi-fi network, and also a promising new administrator.

This was my week.  Anybody got some Dramamine (or a scope patch)?