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Saturday, August 05, 2000 09:07

"One should not attribute to malice that which may be explained by simple stupidity."

And speaking of stupidity... no, I have neither the time or the energy to get into that right now.

Weather. Yeah, talk about the weather. I went out at about 01:00 this morning to smoke and I immediately started sweating... the temp was still in the high eighties and the RH was close to 100%. It's a lot like August in Kansas... it could be worse, southern Texas is like this four or five months out of the year...

Work. Nothing really interesting at our place, but the other place got three gunshot victims all at the same time... a North Topeka shoot-out, I guess it was, with at least one of them going to die probably.

Our hospital supplies the radiopharmaceuticals for the other hospital, so when they called for a brain death kit I figgered at least one could be considered a fatality.

Other than that, it was a pretty uneventful night... steady and boring. It was the last night for our two evening fileroom people, and there were leftover cookies, which was a really good thing because...

I went up to the cafe at about 00:15 just to see what was on the hot line, as I usually do when I have time. There is a relatively new lady there running the night cafe and she does things a little differently than the others...

I noticed that there were a number of flies flying around (and landing on) the food, and she was leaning on the cash register staring off into space.

"Lot of flies in here!" I said, rather loudly.

She turned her head and looked at me, never said anything, didn't move anything but her head. I stood there for ten seconds, turned and got a cup of coffee and left.

Needless to say, I've decided to boycott the cafe when she's on.

The regular night cafe people are generally really good, interested in feeding us employees to the best of their abilities. This lady doesn't want to be there, and she definitely doesn't want to be bothered to lift a finger. Not even to cover the food to keep the flies off of it.

There are very few people that I dislike, and she is one of them, and so I will not deal with her.

And it's time for sleep now.


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