Yawn.

Another night done, one to go. Some little excitement last night, but not too much. And nothing that I can talk about, damn.

There are many things that happen in my life at the hospital that I can't talk about. Ever wonder why?

A little thing called patient confidentiality. It's part of the medical ethics thing. It's an integral part of my job, and an integral part of my life.

If I had never named my hospital, or where I live, it wouldn't be a problem. I could simple change the names and put all kinds of neat stuff up here. Who would ever know? However...

That's not my style. That's not the way I am. Yeah, someday, when I'm out of the field (retired, I hope) I will write all this shit down and have a best-seller. Or maybe sooner. You ever look for an anonymous medical story site on the web? Hmmmm....

At any rate, my second twelve wasn't bad. I got to bed kinda late, but I got up late, and got seven hours of sack time in. I feel pretty good, I'm gonna stay up just a little later today and get up earlier, so I can sleep tomorrow afternoon before I go to work at MedAssist. I'm hoping that Tyler and I can go fishing in the morning, I want another big bass!

I know, I'm getting greedy, ain't I? I'll admit it. And I know that there are bigger fish than eight pounds in there, too... and I want one, really really bad. And I plan to get one, too. Tomorrow.

I'm going to work on the site design now....

I woke up at 17:00, made some coffee and sat down at the computer, thinking to check my mail. My start menu was changed, though... and so was my desktop. Hmmmm... strange. Something happened, I don't know what... Tyler is not here, somewhere out roving the streets of Topeka or Lawrence, probably...

So I proceed to check my mail. About 30 messages. I look at the inbox, thinking that I will reply to an email that my brother had written, and Jan Yarnot... and they're not there!

Nothing is there from 22 July until the messages that I just downloaded.

This is a helluva fucking way to run a computer! Where did they all go? My mailing list is gone again! My address book is EMPTY!

This time, though... this time I fooled them. I have a backup of my mailing list! Wha ha ha ha! Can't screw me up more than... well, this is the fourth time, I guess, in really recent history. At least all of my journal entries are still here, and the work that I have done on the new site... and most of the crit list stuff except for the last two days, I had the foresight to put that in an ASCII file.

So... what is it that keeps screwing me up? Is it WIN95? I kinda doubt it. Is it MSIE Pre-release 2? Is it Outlook Express? It has to be one or the other or a combination of the two. This makes me sad, because there are things that I love about both programs. Do I love them enough to keep running them, even though they screw me up so fucking frequently? I don't know. What happened?

I just noticed that my Office95 sidebar is back. Gives me an idea.... it has reverted back to a previous configuration... one that I saved on 22 July, evidently. This means that there is a chance that everything is still here, somewhere...