Stupid, stupid, stupid! Anthrax scares. Table salt, flour... people continue to amaze me with their stupidity. This, of course, is nothing new, since I have studied religion extensively, the only amazing thing is that I'm still amazed at how stupid people are. And yes, before you bring it up, I'm a people too. I may be allowed moments of stupidity, as long as those moments are kept secret. 'nuff said. Speaking of stupid... I mentioned yesterday that today is Tyler's birthday, and that I actually got to talk to him on the phone. I also said, retrospectively, that I was afraid that I'd accidentally snubbed Annette, JD's wonderful girl friend. Well, it was worse than that... much, much worse. 'Cause today is Annette's birthday too! Well, either I never knew that, or I knew it and I forgot it, although I have a memory like a steel magnet. Or a nickel-cadmium maggot, or something similar to what an elephant weighs. Anyhoo. Happy Birthday, Annette! And Thanx for being! And happy birthday again, Tyler! So, back to what this is all about... me. I had a really crummy day. I got called in at 01:30 last night, from a dead sleep. I hadn't gone to bed until 22:30, forcing myself to stay awake, trying to break this habit of sleeping twelve hours a night.. And it was an interesting case, but... I couldn't get back to sleep until about 05:00, I think that it was. And I couldn't get up this morning, kept hitting the damned snooze until I was late. Then, the morning wasn't busy at all, but everyone had to get everything done before the weekend this afternoon... pretty typical for a Friday. I did get out of there by 18:00, though. Today we actually had more add-on patients than we had scheduled patients, not counting the ER patients. Busy busy busy. Unfortunately, my mind was dragging and I felt like I was slowing down every operation that I was involved in... Karen was sick today, stayed home with a migraine headache that got ahead of her... usually she feels them coming on and can get a pill down in time to abort it, but she was probably sleeping too well and woke with the thing already full-blown. Then, even though she gets rid of the headache, she's really zonked out from the aftermath, so she needs some time for recovery. I think that I'll get to bed around 22:00 tonight... nilknarf.net is down for maintenance, so I won't be able to post this until tomorrow morning. But wait! I have mail! http://nilknarf.net is up! I can post this tonight, *then* go to bed and the world will be a happier place! Speaking of making the world a happier place, I do think that I've got it figgered out. Instead of each country fighting it's own wars, either with its neighbors or internal factions, we could have some neutral peace-keeping force come along and kill the bad guys and then leave, since once the bad guys were gone, there would be no reason to stay. The peacekeepers would have no emotional attachments with either side, their only interest would be peace. Kinda like the UN, only for real. Who do I go to talk to about this fantastic idea? O'well, I suppose that I could look up a psychiatrist in the yellow pages, heh. Think about it... it might work, y'know.