I really hate these summer nights at work. Once again, I ran my ass off. Better than Thursday night, though. Last night I did patients one after another all night. Thursday I was expected to do two or three patients all at once, STAT! I don't mind working hard, but I hate working confused. Or with other people who are confused.
That reminds me of my favorite one-liner. I was standing at the Emergency Department desk, waiting for the next atrocious thing to happen. One of the nurse looked up at me and said, "What's the matter, Doug? You look confused." I replied, "I'm just tryin' to fit in...."
Those of you with sharp eyes will have noticed that I get the dates on the headings mixed up frequently. That's just part of being a night person; I try to catch things like that, but I don't always do it in a timely fashion. Even after four years, I still really have difficulty with dates, even though I keep plenty of navigational aids (calenders) around.
I keep thinking that I will jazz up these pages with some graphics, but I keep deciding against it because it will load slower. Sometimes I don't mind waiting for graphics, but after you've seen the same graphic a dozen times, it gets kinda old, so it's probably not appropriate for a journal page. Of course, you can always turn the graphics off, but I hate to do that, I might miss something.
It's really interesting that the people who keep journals are so interested in other people's journals. It's like a community... we all miss Jessa being on vacation, we worry about other people who miss a day, etc. I get a real feeling that I've said all of this before. Or maybe I've just been thinking about it for a while, and I can't remember if I said it here, or in a conversation with someone in the real world or what. I just hate it when that happens. Often, I will want to tell Karen something, and I will go over it in my mind so frequently so I won't forget it, and it seems like I must've told her already, and of course I've forgotten that I didn't really tell her. Sometimes that happens, and sometimes I just think that it happened, so I tell her, and she says why are you telling me that again?
Sometimes, a mind is a terrible thing...
I got a good six hours of sleep today. Tried to get more, but once I got up to go pee, that was it. I've always tried to avoid drinking anything the last couple of hours at work so I can sleep longer, and sometimes that works but mostly it doesn't. Getting up to sunlight just wakes me up too much. Gloomy days are much better. Then, it's like getting up in the middle of the night. You know what you're doing but you don't get entirely awake and go right back to sleep. I wish we had a bathroom opening into the bedroom. Or maybe I should just keep a urinal by the bed...that's a joke, folks...
Really rambling today, aren't I?
I'm really looking forward to seeing Tyler. I sent him a one-way ticket, thinking that I'll probably drive him back. I'm not sure that it'll work out that way, though. I haven't talked to him since I sent the ticket, I hope that it got there all right, and that his mother lets him come. I've left messages on her answering machine, but he hasn't called back. I don't know if that means OK or that she just doesn't want to talk to me. I guess I'll find out soon...
I'm still toying with the concept of a mailing list to notify people that a new entry is up, email me if you're interested. I generally (with very few exceptions) get one up every day, so it's probably kinda redundant, but I do so like to make people happy! And if I can just make one person happy, it'll be all worth it. *smile*
Since I'm rambling anyway... I'm going to start doing these pages using MS Word instead of wordpad. My spelling is getting worse and I'm missing things even after several reviews. I normally keep my computer on, so once I load it, it should be just as fast coming up as wordpad. Actually, it's notepad that I use. Wordpad quit working, missing some .dll file, and I haven't fixed it yet.
Enough for today!
I really like the "frames" concept, but I get practically no hits at all on the frames journal or poetry pages, so it's not very popular here at least. The main problem that I see is that you lose a lot of real estate... the active page is only about 1/3 of the page, so you have to do a lot more paging.