I was, for a change, not working my ass off.

It's really nice to not have to run all night. Right now, there are only two patients in the ED, and they're being dismissed as I'm typing this...

I realize that this is, most likely, a temporary situation. I have managed to get all of my paperwork done, in anticipation of an onslaught... this is Sunday night, after a long weekend, and there are people out there who don't want to go to work tomorrow, and they'll come in here looking for an excuse not to.

A little irony... there was an eight-year old kid here in Topeka who got a chow puppy for xmas. He (The child, not the dog) is disabled, the paper didn't state how... anyway, he was left unattended with this puppy, and the puppy chewed off one of his fingers and ate it. I can imagine how his parents felt...

Much later...
So, I was sitting in the cafeteria just finishing lunch, gabbing with a coupla people from the lab; the phlebotomist's pager went off:"Code red trauma coming into traumex, we'll need several units of blood typed and crossed..."

And I had just finished mentioning that this was the first night I'd had a chance for a relaxed lunch period. I have to learn to keep my mouth shut.

Still, the night has not been that bad... yet, anyway.

I'm looking forward to being off and maybe getting something accomplished this time around. I'm feeling a lot better, anyway, and if they don't work me to death the next two nights I'll be raring to go.

Home again... this was a really nice night, comparitively speaking. The code red was an overstatement, which is always nice. Serious case, right, but nothing really big. Did an x-ray, a CT and I was done with him.

Joe from Respiratory is borrowing my telescope for a few weeks... he's planning on getting a really good one, but he's never had one before, so I thought that he should get an idea of what he's getting into before he spends a bunch of money. So anyway, I finally remembered to bring it in tonight.

I've had the telescope for years, it's a Jason two-incher... but once I got on the 'net with all of the cool Hubble pics and stuff I gave up on it. After all, it's the same thing... well, no, it's not really the same thing. There is something about actually looking through a telescope with your bare eyes that is such a thrill. Even if the resolution isn't nearly as good and the weather conditions are crappy it's still pretty cool.

So anyway, hopefully Joe will get even more excited and buy a big expensive scope and invite me to look through it...

I was thinking about coming home and working on the sewer line... but I think I'll just go to bed instead. It'll wait until Wednesday...