Not a bad day for a Friday; the usual before-the-weekend glut of orders didn't materialize for a change, and I left on time. Of course, I'm on call, but so far, so good. Actually, I need to get called some. It's OT, after all, and we could use the bucks. Karen called me this afternoon, she'd read in the paper about some jazz stuff happening in KC and she thought that we'd go down and catch some of it. She sounded so excited about it and I really hated to bust her bubble by reminding her that I was on call all weekend. It kinda took the wind out of her sails. I really hate to do that. Anyway, I came home to an empty house... Karen had made plans to go out with Kim and an old friend that she used to work with. She got home about 19:30, and I was deep into a movie, Levanthian, so she watched that with me. Good movie, I guess, if you like that kind of thing, which I generally don't. Way too predictable, but the acting was pretty good. Anyway, back to the call thing... there was a tech who works days and does CTs who was supposed to be working tomorrow, but her son had an emergency appendectomy this afternoon. So I will for sure get some time in this weekend. I don't really mind call, and I really do like the money. Most of my co-workers hate it, in spite of the money. I don't really understand my co-workers, and they really don't understand me. They hate the work, I love the work. Well, they might not hate it, but they feel a lot differently than I do about it, from the evidence that I've seen. And let me say this about that: Homeland Security still frightens me. This repiglican government in general frightens me. Baby Bush still makes me laugh, though. Just for the helluvit, I googled repiglican. 34 hits. Amazingly, none of them from nilknarf.net, although I'm sure that I've used the term before here, being a proper bleeding-heart liberal pinko pig. O'yeah, google also asked me politely if maybe I meant Republican? Well, nope, I did a search here (Search Site) and got no hits whatsoever. So, I've never used that word before. I shall be better about that, sincerely. I can't remember what the demeaning term for democrats is, dammit. I know that there is one, and it's every bit as clever as repiglicans. No, it ain't democrap. That ain't clever, it's vulgar. Yes, repiglican is clever, not vulgar. Well, OK, it's both. Just got a call from the hospital, two, really, on computer problems. I think that they're solved without me having to get dressed and go in. Unfortunately, that means that I don't get paid for solving them, since I did it on the phone. Phooey. On the other hand, that means that I can go to bed now, which I'll do forthwith.