Another *very* busy day, and I felt guilty about leaving at 17:45... but I left anyway. When I got there this morning about 08:45, one of the techs was going home sick, she'd been sounding worse and worse with her cough, and I was surprised that they didn't call me to come in early, I figgered that she would call in sick to start with... she probably should have. The other FT tech is sounding pretty bad, too, and I don't really expect him to survive the week without calling in. Working with such sickies, I'm really surprised that I haven't come up with something, but so far, so good. The other tech have been pretty good about covering their mouths when they cough, but I just know that those germs are everywhere anyway, in spite of their best efforts. Anyways, somehow we got double-booked today, so most of the day was spent running... or rather, sitting, for me. Everyone else got to run, but I had to do the computer stuff today... on the other hand, that's probably a good thing for me, my legs woulda been killing me tonight if I hadn't been on the console. Cold, cold this morning. I think that it was 11F, but the wind was from the north and the wind chill must've been way below zero. 'Course, the only time that it really affected me was when I walked from and to my truck... I really feel sorry for the people who have to work outside on days like today. I'm sure that they feel sorry for me when they get to work outside on the beautiful days, though. No they don't. They don't even think about me at all. Selfish bastards. I don't feel sorry for them then if that's the way they feel about it. I should know better than to waste my sympathy on those low-lifes. Anyway, I got off at 17:45 and I went over to Kims and fixed her computer again... I'd installed a driver for the sound card that evidently didn't work right and it would suck all of the MIPS out of the processor and waste them. And that processor doesn't have the MIPS to spare, so the mouse wouldn't move hardly. Lacee is visiting, Karen and I got her a computer game all about N'SYNC and she loves it. A pretty good buy for $10... it's got a little "cell" phone that she can talk to the band members on... really cute. So cute it makes me want to throw up.... I'm not a boy band fan, obviously. In fact, I'm not much of a fan of anything. I'm just too damned cynical for that. Most of the time I think that's OK, but there are other times when I wish I could lose myself in... whatever. I can't suspend my disbelief for much more than a few minutes, though. In some ways, I'm more patient that I was when I was younger, but in many more ways I'm impatient. I don't have a long life stretching out in front of my any more... I have to make the most of my minutes/hours/days. Don't have time to answer stupid questions, although I still find the time to ask them. Time, time, time... Time for me to go to sleep, I have to get up early in the morning and go see the hospital financial planner-guy. I was supposed to see him at 14:00 today, but he had someone else in his office when I went up there, I hung around guiltily (remember, we were busy) for about five minutes and then scuttled the idea. As of the first of this year, the hospital is matching a portion of our 401 plans, of whatever they call them, and I have to get started on that. Which reminds me, I have to take an hour out of my busy schedule and do my taxes... I keep not being in the mood to do them, even though I think that we'll get money back. A comment on today's picture... I realized that I was starting to look too serious again, so I did a little alteration before Susan started nagging me about it again! :-)