ARCHIVES - 1996 to FOREVER

In almost every case, however, thinking that *you* are better than *I* am is a falsity.

Yeah, you wish.

Weird dreams... partially remembered, meaningless, as all dreams are, but disturbing nonetheless.

The trees are almost fully leaved now, and at times, it looks like a snowstorm, what with all of the cottonwoods in the area... and those damned little maple helicopters...

There are drifts of cottonwood sperm in the streets... prolification is the name of their game, heh.

Hell day again at work... we're still a tech short, and, even though I was on the console today, I spent a lot of time getting up and down.

I stayed over a half-hour, until they were only four patients behind.

Unhappy patients... ones who have to wait... are not as fun as happy patients.

And there were a lot of emergency add-ons today... one kid came in, emergency basis... *severe* abdominal pain. No. I've seen severe abdominal pain, and this kid wasn't it. But we shoved him into a slot anyway, did his exam, and emergency calls from that particular doc will not get priority treatment again.

And our scheduled patients had to wait.

I went over to see Mom on the way home... her foot is now swollen and very painful. I got her a pan to soak her foot in epsom salts and brought the epsom salts with me. That doesn't work, but if she thinks that it will, it might help.

Then I went over to see Jody, fixed some stuff on his computer. It was fun hangin' with him... he's a really complex guy, half redneck, half sophisticate... interesting person, I'm glad that he's a friend of mine.

Then I came home and fixed a problem on my music machine... I hadn't changed it over since I got the new router with a different IP... got that going now.

Damn! Tomorrow... tomorrow is FRIDAY! And I am so happy about that!

"The definition of emergency: Is the patient likely to die in the next 24 hours? If the answer is no, it's not an emergency."

-- Me, 2005