BurnettsAhoy Is Back!

AhoyHeads! It’s Mel again. She just crawled out of a pit!

She won’t turn this upbeat post into a whine, but suffice it to say, the brilliant idea to turn doctors into corporate serfs was a big flop. They should’ve seen that coming. After seven years of intellectually satisfying neurological practice, gratifying teaching, and challenging leadership roles, Mel found her perimenopausal butt on fire one day after a grueling 8-hours of writing notes, patient messages, emails, performance reviews, workflow proposals, and manifestos. After working 11 days in a row. On a Saturday. People, she is way too old for this shit!

So she has hung up her reflex hammer once again. Greg, too, is getting tired of his acoustics and intellectual property consulting. He may be hanging up his headphones. In short, Mel and Greg maxed out their ability to work in offices that are incapable of changing latitudes.

So what do crazy, perimenopausal GenX women who crawl out of a pit and send their two little brilliant birdies off to college in different states do these days? Buy another boat, and plan to cast off with her husband…perhaps even around the world! Yep!

And what do Mel and Greg of BurnettsAhoy do? Take their own advice, buy a used Leopard 48, and rename it…

The Intrepid Jerry

An unusual word is it? Mel will save you from googling. Here is the definition of intrepid: fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect).

And the Jerry, well, he just looks like a Jerry to us. We have good eyes! Plus, we can say, “Dammit, Jerry!” whenever Calamity occurs! (credit: Parks & Recreation)

Now that Mel has finished deconstructing and then rebuilding her old website because WordPress and Bluehost suck and they assume your ability to give a crap about acronyms like PHP and DNS is infinite like theirs, she can concentrate on updating you all about all of the fun boat prep! And trying to write shorter sentences! Woo-hoo!

For those who cling to hope that Mel will return to neurology-ing some day, who knows? There are no criteria right now. Well, there is one criterion. Mel will return to practice only AFTER AI figures out what a reflex hammer is!

Prompt: Draw a female neurologist triumphantly holding a REFLEX HAMMER.

No, A good REFLEX hammer. A Troemner Reflex hammer? A Queen Square Reflex Hammer? OMG. Why all the ball-shaped brains, AI? Why?? Okay, that is an otoscope.

See below for a quick glimpse of our land lives over the last few years. We’ve raised wonderful kids, said goodbye to our dear boat cat Gypsy and both our Dads, got a lot of family time, and enjoyed our beautiful house and airplane in Omaha. But our life plans are like the ocean, with apparently 7-year-long waves. We are at a trough once again. Time to ride it upwards!