06-May-98
In the early, early morning...
And I'm dragging ass, too. This is gonna be a long night, I have a feeling. The evening techs were fighting when I came in, and one of them left at 21:00... but it was the one who was supposed to stay until 22:30. And when the girl that was supposed to leave at 21:00 heard about this (he just told me when he left, didn't tell anyone else...) she blew a gasket.
There was also a new girl here, in training to be a PRN person. She certainly got to see the worst of the evening crew tonight! She took it all in stride, though. I think that she'll work out real well. She followed me around until her shift was over, hoping to avoid the unpleasantness. It worked out pretty well, we isolated ourselves. I sure am glad that I work nights... I miss all of that sh*t, and I'm damned glad of it. The new girl, Jennifer, was very pleasant and fun to work with, and very very easy on the eyes. And pretty smart, too... she listened to every word that I said. That was a joke...)
I think that I'm ready to work on the Arizona vacation pictures now... frankly, I was pretty disappointed with them when we got them back... I was too close to seeing the real thing. Now, I want to look at them again, I should have a little better perspective on the pictures, not comparing them so unfavorably with the real thing. The Grand Canyon, after all, is pretty fu*king awesome, and the feeling that it gives you doesn't translate well photographically.
And I'm sure that some of the pictures will be great once I've photoshopped them... which reminds me... does anyone know how to add filters to photoshop? I've looked at every PS site on the web, and everyone seems to think that it's too basic, everyone knows that, why waste the words... but I sure as hell can't figger it out, and I've wracked my little brain trying.
We had thunderstorms rumble through a few times today, maybe the disturbed weather had something to do with me not being able to sleep. I bought some Melatonin a year or so ago, I think that I'm gonna try it tomorrow.
I re-discovered something about the Apache server today... all of the file names have to be lower-case. I guess that's maybe because it's running on a UNIX machine... I don't think that the one at Kspress was that way, but it was running on an Apple. Anyway, it caused me no end of trouble before I figgered it out. Then, after I got it figgered out, it still wouldn't work... because i"d FTPed the files to the networx+ account instead of the new one. And that was really frustrating. I was looking at the nilknarf.net page and wondering why it wouldn't change, heh, while I was changing the source and FTPing to to the wrong place... no wonder. I felt really stupid when I figgered that one out!
03:44...
This has been, so far, a very boring night. I've got all of the paperwork done, and a lot of the clerks work, and all of the busy-work that I could find... anything to stay awake. And it worked... for a while. And now there's nothing to do but go around and chat with people... but I've made my rounds once already, it seems that everyone else is still kinda busy.
And I'll be busy in about 45 minutes, too... I've got a whole bunch of morning portables in the unit, plus a couple on the floors. So that'll use up about an hour or so. Maybe I'll still get some patients in through the ED... y' never can tell about these things.
And speaking of thing... I haven't had a code red trauma for quite a while. Weird... it's like they're just staying away when I'm here, the other night guy has been getting way more than his share, and the day and evening people have too.
I'll probably get mine three at a time... that's how it usually works out. Why does it work that way? Y' got me on that 
one... I haven't got a clue.
10:22... I went over to Joes again after work, to set up his computer... and again failed to get the dial-up networking working. I don't know what the fu*k I'm doing wrong, but there is definitely something...
So... besides being very very tired, I'm very very frustrated. I cannot figger out why I can't get MS PPP to show up in the list... but I'm going to go to sleep anyway.