Stab that spot, grab cells; I got to do a biopsy today, and I really love doing those, as I've mentioned before. They are technically challenging and immensely helpful in the diagnosis of a patient's disease. I am fonder still, of course, of the pus-draining expeditions, the aspiration/drainage procedures, because they do grant most patients immediate relief. I was the runner today at work, but the missing tech was supposed to be the Z guy, and it falls then to me. The missing tech was supposed to be in the scan room on Monday and Friday, and I am the Z guy on those days, and the Z guy fills in wherever someone is missing, and Tuesday I was actually supposed to be in the scan room, so I get three days in the scan room, one on the console (yesterday) and one running and being the Z guy. Probably the best that I could hope for with a person missing. Long ago, there was a hierarchy established to determine who goes where in the case of a missing tech, and it's pretty rigid. What happens when *two* tech are gone, however, is that one tech mans the console and answers the phone and preps patients while the other covers the scan room and answers the phone and preps patients. And when there's only one guy there, of course, they do it all. I did get off on time, well, not really, I left about a half- hour early, but I'd clocked in at 06:45 to do an ER patient and had a no-lunch again, so I got my eight hours in. After work, I went by the parts store and bought a master clutch cylinder. Bought the whole thing this time, not just the kit. Got a life- time guarantee with it, even, free of charge. Now all I have to do is put the damned thing in. And today would have been perfect, of course, but I was too tard to even think about it when I got home. I can limp along for a while more, waiting for better weather, before it becomes an absolute necessity to get it in. My fingers are crossed as I type this... and it's hard to type with crossed fingers, heh. And yeah, it was a pretty day today. High was 65°F, kinda like spring. Howsomever, there's a front blowing in from Nebraska and Colorado which will bring some bluster to us, rain and light snow, which will melt as it hits our above-freezing roads, heh. Fooled ya, snow! On the political front, it looks like Kerry has a lock on it now. *Sigh*. Business as usual, dammit. So I'm back to my old philosophy, "Anybody but Bush". No computer progress yet. Maybe this weekend.
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Extent of your life.