Pretty busy Tuesday, too. One of the FT techs is gone on vacation, and another one that fills in is also on vacation. In fact, he and his family are on the Celebration, the Carnival cruise ship that we were on in December. So, the business continues... and relief is short from the work room, 'cause if they aren't busy, they're sending people home. Which means that we get no help. And the evening people are getting hacked, 'cause when they get there, there is a ton of work to do (the daytime people got sent home!) and they're expected to help us when we're short... it just don't work. Sending people home on AL (Administrative Leave) has never worked, mostly because there is no way of determining what the workload is going to be in the next ten minutes. Although there are people who think that they can... these are usually the people who can just walk away from the situation. Karen is taking the next three days off, just generally to do nothing, although tomorrow is Lacee's birthday... and quinkidenkally, the kids are out of school. Patrick is staying over tonight, he doesn't get to do that very often. It's been fun so far, we went out to the chinese place and ate and he seemed to enjoy it, kinda. I did, of course, and so did Karen, no surprise there. I was talking to a guy today about carbs and protiens, and I think that I'm gonna cut way down on carbs. Carbs, for those of you who might not know, are the good things... the cakes, breads, pies, candies... Protiens are good, too... steaks, seafood, nuts, beans.... I kinda figger that a guy who has been able to quit smoking and drinking should be able to get skinny enough to feel good, heh? I don't want to be an Adonis or an Atlas, I just want to be able to be comfortable walking a coupla miles without having to stop and rest every hundred feet or so. Not so hard, I shouldn't think. I just have to be ready, the way I was ready to quit smoking. Which I haven't seen the benefit of, since I'm now fat. I saw a person at the hospital today that I haven't seen in a coupla-three years. She has never been noted for her tact, and I got equal time on getting praised for quitting smoking and damned for getting fat. Luckily, this is not a person who I have to see very often, but she's one that I really like. And, as always, (she pointed out) 100% right. Ah, friends. What would we do without them? Well, it's gonna be an early night for me again, tard. I was doing the patient care all day again today, and it was run, run, run. Additionally, I had really strange dreams last night. To make a long story short, this guy that was trying to kill me with a baseball bat wound up helping me make some sort of an electronic gizmo that would be worth millions of dollars, and I realized that the guy was my uncle Earle at the end of the dream, but he denied it But I knew better, it was him all right. 22:43... had a scare there, thought that I lost everything, but succeeded in recovering it... well, at least this entry. I'm doing better at hitting ALT-S on a more frequent basis!