This doesn't get a number because it's a lazy post.

[doctor_mccoy]

[Hi ! it's your favorite cranky doctor in this brief public service announcement:]

 Don't forget to get your damn flu-vaccinations. 

[At least he's attached a file detailing out the location of clinics and their 'business' hours.

He doesn't look forward to volunteering, but it's better than spending all winter wiping your noses because you all neglected preparing for flu-season.]

Comments

[hulkbusted]

How do you come up with an effective flu shot for a place like this?

[doctor_mccoy]

Not as hard as it sounds, everything here is mostly human. We just dug up the current strain; the one that's infected the locals first and hope that no one has a fucked up enough physiology to mutate it past our control.

[hulkbusted]

Mostly human is like mostly harmless.

On the bright side, I don't have to worry about vaccinations.

[doctor_mccoy]

Thank god for that, I wasn't going to be the poor s.o.b that had to stick you with a needle.

[hulkbusted]

I don't actually have a hair trigger, you know.

[doctor_mccoy]

And I'm not actually good with a syringe.

[hulkbusted]

You forget that I've seen you working.

You should drop by my new place sometime. Have you met Jesse?

[doctor_mccoy]

You moved? That was quick.

And I doubt it, though I'm not exactly the best with names. Go figure most of the folks that pass through the clinic want to do so anonymously.

[hulkbusted]

I started packing up a couple of weeks ago and moved in last weekend.

11 year old kid, not a big one for smiling. I'm... working on becoming his legal guardian while we're here.

[doctor_mccoy]

Adopting another one? [Okay well, Kevin adopted Bruce, lets be honest]

Hey I'm all for it, this place is shit for dragging kids here in the first place. Besides, no one's going to pick on him when 'dad' has a temper like yours.

So, where'd you end up?

[hulkbusted]

You mean Kevin? [Bruce completely agrees.] He's the one who took me in.

[The whole issue of Jesse being the one behind the animated toy-fest can be saved for offline discussion. Bruce doesn't trust the network, even with encryptions.]

I got Jesse set up in the HoA a while ago and he likes it, so I moved in there.

[doctor_mccoy]

I've heard about it once or twice, place for folks from the same world with legit powers?

[hulkbusted]

I don't know about the same world. Eli took in Jesse without any problem and I'm pretty sure he's not from the same world, and neither am I. Maybe it used to be different.

The main strike against it is that Loki lives here too.

[doctor_mccoy]

[snorts] You mean he doesn't just pop out of a tree or bowl of lucky charms to do his mischief?

[hulkbusted]

No, but I'm pretty sure people feed him after midnight. Maybe that explains it.

[doctor_mccoy]

[Sorry bro, he doesn't get that reference, even with as much pop culture as he's taken in lately. So you get that sort of 'huh' squint. Probably used to it by now.]

[hulkbusted]

[He recognizes the squint, but Leonard catches so many pop culture references sometimes he forgets the guy's from another century.] I'll see if I can find a bootleg of the movie I'm talking about sometime. It boils down to cute things that turn evil when fed after midnight.

[doctor_mccoy]

Oh yeah? Sounds like tribbles. [Don't get him started]

[hulkbusted]

[why not?] Do they have a cute side and an evil side?

[doctor_mccoy]

They have a cute side that is also deceiving evil. Like cats really, only with the reproduction rate of bacteria and the appetite of shrews.

[hulkbusted]

That does sound a lot like the movie creatures, except they stop being cute after you feed them after midnight. I always got hung up on details like "midnight where" and "what about daylight saving time" and "when is it safe to feed them again, because technically it's always after midnight."

[doctor_mccoy]

Don't get me started, by the time it's over we'd have to sit down and try to figure out how it's physiologically possible for a creature to evolve due to a time + diet formula.

[hulkbusted]

I'm up for it. You'll need alcohol to do it right. Maybe ribs too.

[doctor_mccoy]

Am I being bribed?

[hulkbusted]

It has been my observation, Dr. Kettle, that you sometimes need to be forcibly pulled from your work and reminded that you're part of the mostly-human race. If that means beer and barbecue, I can work with that.