Dear Diary, What a day. Things are crazy at work. I have so much to do. It seems that Al’s high blood pressure, his decades of eating poorly, not exercising, being stressed out, and smoking like a chimney, is soon going to catch up with him. The fact that both his mom and his dad died prematurely due to massive myocardial infarctions, not to mention that Al has diabetes and the metabolic syndrome, only make matters worse. He has ALL the major risk factors for atherosclerotic disease. I spent the last few days just floating around in Al’s blood, surveying…