08:50 20/02/97
I'm pissed because I have to live in a world filled with ignorant, self-righteous, illogical and superstitious savages.
There. I just had to say that.
But dammit, the headline says logic!
Another thing, since I'm ranting.... The Kansas legislature is considering a bill to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons. Brady (of the Brady Bill, not the Brady Bunch) is here in town to fight against it. The logic is, according to opponents against the bill, that more guns=more people getting shot. What they're overlooking, however, is the type of interactions that people with guns have with other people. Let me point them out. We are going to leave the police and other law enforcement people out of this equation. OK. Here we go.
I do like logic, and I want the fucking world to be logical. It ain't working.... most of the time I can live with that. Sometimes it's just real, real hard.
And I'm not even going to start about the xians and their tax-free entertainment today either. I'll save that for later.
It was a fairly busy night at Medassist. I didn't get but four hours of sleep yesterday anyway after staying up all night; I feel like I'm getting illogical and goofy about now. I will press on with the story anyway.
I wound up getting out of there at about 20:45, fifteen minutes before I had to be at work at the hospital. And I left the nurse by herself with three patients left to be seen. I feel guilty as hell about that, and it's happened too often lately.
We're going to a new time-keeping system at work, a computerized telephone system. And the way things are going at work... well, let's just say that you can get fired for being late three times. Late is clocking in two minutes past the time you're scheduled for. Generally not a problem for me... except for the Medassist nights. And I'm a prime guy for getting fired... old, top-of-the-scale. I don't want to take the chance.
So I'm gonna give up my Wednesday nights at Medassist, and hopefully pick up some hours on my weeks off. I really enjoy working there, as I have stated before, and I will miss it a lot if I can't work there at least occasionally.
I'm going back to see my doc about increasing the Prozac. Maybe that'll help some. Or maybe the world just needs to get to be a better place for us gentle souls....
I'm Really Pissed!
This little filler appeared in a local newsletter; I am offended that something under the headline of logic would contain... not logic. Maybe I'm wrong, but when something is reduced by one-third, you have two-thirds left. From 585 to 195. Hmmm, lets do a little simple math here... 195 is about 200; 585 is about 600. 600 divided by 200 is ...3. That means it's been reduced by, ummmm.... that's two-thirds. OK, it's a simple typo. Sure, and it happens to all of us.
Let's put the cops back in now.
OK, I think that covers it all. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not an NRA-type guy. I don't like guns. I've owned a .38 for fifteen years and I've never fired it. I don't like criminals, either.