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-## family
+## home
-boy howdy how time do fly
+6 humans, 1 dog, an ever-changing number of chickens.
-me: hi there!
-
-love of my life: building, always building - but she's also the one who is teaching me true rest
-
-oldest: 10, youngest: 3. I don't usually put kid stuff online; they'll write their own stories when they're ready.
-
-one dog died (the Welsh Terrier - Forrest - intestinal torsion, fairly quick and very bloody)
-
-the other, Goldendoodle Archie, is now recovered from multiple surgeries and doing great - hobbles a bit but can sprint when he feels like it
-
-such chicken, many clucks
-
-plants, plants, everywhere -
-come have dinner some time,
-smoked pork belly with groundcherry + pepper medley is on the menu
+Just took out the summer garden, winter plants are in.
+Hendersonville, TN.
## work
-I'm a second-year oncology fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
-It's the best gig I've had so far.
+Second year of oncology fellowship (out of four).
-The past four years were intense
-(see this classic [1-minute Glauckomflecken video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopdA7ZccmQ)
-on the truly insane and unhealthy mental model of time that residency imparts),
-but I learned how to be a doctor (ongoing task, but the foundation is there, and I'm grateful for it).
+I have a half-day of my own clinic, the remainder is research
+(other than the odd week or weekend on call).
-Now I see patients in VA oncology clinic for a half-day a week,
-have roughly one weekend a month of hospital rounding and home call,
-plus one week every 1-2 months of "jeopardy"
-(true call, i.e. work coverage for any fellow who needs it),
-and do research with the rest of my work time.
+It feels strange and wonderful to get paid more to do less.
-The past four years also paid modestly.
Trainee salaries are public - here's the [VUMC trainee salary page](https://www.vumc.org/gme/stipends).
I'm a PGY4 now,
and this year, per plan,
we started receiving extra Harrison Society salary support on top of the PGY4 pay.
-This adds up to about 30% more pay, for less work.
-This combination is good for the family, and for my sanity.
+This adds up to about 30% more pay overall compared to last year,
+for a fraction of the in-hospital working hours
+(I can destroy myself to my heart's content with research hours -
+I'm trying to find a balance).
+Overall, this combination is good for the family, and for my sanity.
God bless the Harrison Society (this is, in every way, a sincere statement).
-The research is data science stuff.
-Bibliometrics got me all jazzed.
-I'll put links here as they become available.
-
-In another three years I'll finish fellowship,
-ideally with a faculty job and research funding (or the makings of it) well in place.
-
## other
-The JGL movie [50-50](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1306980/)
-came up when I was chatting with one of my young patients who has cancer.
-
-I love this movie, and wanted to know what he thought -
-he's about halfway through a very intense regimen,
-and similar in age to the protagonist.
-
-It earned a rave review. I worried it would be too raw,
-but the patient told me it was cathartic.
-
-Check it out, if you're in the mood.
-
-Or, if you'd like to read something instead,
-try on [Deep River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_River_(novel)) by Shūsaku Endō.
-
-Possibly my favorite book.
-Written near the end of Endō's life.
-Ensemble cast.
-A Japanese tourist group goes to India,
-each member carrying a complex backstory.
-
-Pain, humor, sex, celibacy, violence, ultraviolence, kindness, ultrakindness - it's all here.
-
-Endō, as he aged, did not mellow,
-but rather became more fiercely open,
-yet condemned none save the pretentious
-(there was a fellow born in the Near East
-a little over two thousand years ago
-who had a similar viewpoint).
-
+I've got my home server working about how I like it.
+
+One of the things I'm using daily is a pipeline
+for downloading audiobooks and podcasts,
+arranging them just so (automatically),
+and making them available to any of my devices,
+synchronized.
+
+It is so, so great. It's nice and easy to share too -
+every family member has an account and can use it from anywhere in the world.
+
+It goes something like: [readarr](https://readarr.com/) ->
+[audiobookshelf server](https://www.audiobookshelf.org/) ->
+[tailscale](https://tailscale.com/) mesh network ->
+audiobookshelf [apps](https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app#audiobookshelf-mobile-app).
+
+I took a break from the more heavy medical and philosophy stuff I was listening to
+to revisit [The Wheel of Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time).
+I read these, most of them more than once, when I was a kid,
+but the publication of the last two books coincided with becoming much more busy
+(and, probably, regrettably, starting to prefer a smart phone to a paperback),
+so I never finished the story.
+It's time, and the audiobooks are a boon,
+hundreds of hours of wonderfully read prose.
+After this I'll probably go back to [The Fellow on Call](https://www.thefellowoncall.com/) and
+[Two Onc Docs](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-onc-docs/id1616541733)
+as a board refresher. And I won't have to switch apps!
- - -
-This [now page](https://nownownow.com/about) was last updated 2023-09-19.
+This [now page](https://nownownow.com/about) was last updated 2023-11-09.
