I say kinda, 'cause I didn't really *get* to sleep until around midnihgt, but when I slept, I slept well and soundly.

But I still managed to get up on time, heh. Go me.

Ate breakfast and made it to work on time too, and that's when the problems started.

Firstly, one of the other techs called in sick.

And the printer was down, so I had to reprint all of the orders from the night on the inpatients... and that was more than just a few.

And I had an ER trauma patient to do at 07:00, leaving me no time to do all of the other 07:00 stuff.

So I started off an hour behind, and not only did I never catch up, I never even got close.

And there were three biopsies, taking one of the remaining techs out of the department

I went up and got a sandwich and ate it on the run.

Everything that I did today I did on the run, and I'm about run out, I am.

And I was on the console today, but it wasn't like that's where I was mostly, it just meant that I had to get up and down several hundred times.

And then I bashed my right knee on a cart while trying to lock the wheels. Did you know that you have a crazy bone in your knee? I hadn't had that fact brought home to me for a number of years. I stood really still while tears poured out of my eyes... for about a minute, that's all the time that I had to give that pain. But it lingers on, it does, it lingers on.

21:07.

Well, sh!t.

I just got a call from the hospital. The main machine is down, and... I'm the sucker on call.

Apparently we've lost yet another x-ray tube. And again, on one of my on-call nights.

And the night tech doesn't know how to use the back-up scanner.

And now I'm really sure that my string of good nights will end right here.

The tech that's there now is having a problem sending the images to the PACS system, so that's something else to worry about. I'm waiting for a call-back on that problem, I gave him a coupla solutions over the phone and hopefully one of them worked.

Anyway, I was going to spend a coupla paragraphs writing about how tard I am, but I think that I'll save that for tomorrow, when it will be even *more* appropriate.