heh, you made me smile!
See ya there! 
For some reason, a few months ago, Instagram decided my husband needed lots of cute bat pictures.
Made me smile as well!
Are there glove rescues, too?
From mini rants to mini bats.
Awwww. Great mosquito eaters!
/bat-talk.
As opposed to bat-rescues, which is what you need when you’re being held captive by the Joker.
The gut has FINALLY settled down. Tuesday night was bad, but then OK until a brief “last hurrah” Friday night.
I had previously scheduled bloodwork on the Wednesday, at my primary care doctor’s office. To recheck my thyroid, as well as a few other things they added later on. I had an order from the gastro to redo the CBC. I was hoping they could do that along with the other blood draw. Nope, “no outside lab orders”, and my doctor didn’t get back to them in time to order it. So I need to get blood drawn AGAIN to get that CBC.
But that’s okay… they FORGOT TO DO THE THYROID CHECK. It had been ordered - they just FORGOT TO TEST THE BLOOD. So I’m looking at another blood draw, at a minimum. On top of an IV on the Sunday, the blood draw on the Wednesday (which left a nasty bruise; the guy didn’t put a pressure wrap on it so I was leaking during the drive home), an IV tomorrow for a cardio CT… just call me the human pincushion.
So I went to a standalone LabCorp location near home today. I asked if they had the order for the thyroid check - and the lady said they did. So, in theory, that got done today along with the CBC. 2 hours after I got home, I got a call from my primary care saying “Doc wants you to have thyroid levels checked”.
WTF?? I’m really hoping there was some kind of delay between his ordering (re-ordering) it and that call, otherwise hell if I know what tests were done today. I told the lady that if it was NOT done today, it was going to have to wait a couple weeks - which is a problem, as my thyroid meds are almost certainly too high.
AHHHHHH.
I looked at LabCorp’s web page on the off hand they had published the results already.
And it showed my thyroid levels from last week. They DID do the test. They just didn’t, apparently, report it to the doctor’s office.
Message from the doctor on 9/21 (Friday) saying so. Yet, I got the call TODAY, the 24th, to redo the test.
Communication issues much???
Speaking of schlepping, I’ve been schlepping food and drink upstairs to my computer room for years, and I’ve lately been starting to fear some horrific accident where something is dropped on the carpeted stairs. This is a reasonable fear inasmuch as I am an Old Fart who really needs to hold one hand to the railing.
Well, today it happened. I was mainly just coming upstairs with my usual glass of Caesar, but these glasses are rather large in diameter and not the easiest things to hold onto, but I manage fine. Only this time I was trying to hold the glass, a USB stick, and a couple of bills I just got in the mail, all in one hand. And tragedy struck!
Oh, well, it could have been worse. I didn’t go flying down the stairs, the Caesar glass didn’t go flying or smash. There was just considerable spillage of a few ounces of the Caesar, which as we all know contains tomato juice, the ideal thing to stain carpets with.
I spent the next hour soaking, sponging, rinsing, etc. I thought I got it all out but then thought to examine the tragic scene with a bright LED flashlight, and there was all sorts of stuff I had missed. So, soaking, sponging, rinsing, etc. once again.
I think it’s now reasonably OK. The moral of the story is this. If you’re an Old Fart, or anywhere even close, do NOT try to save yourself trips up and down the stairs. Take as many trips as necessary. You are NOT a juggler or a magician! Don’t try to be one! And you probably need the exercise anyway.
Went back to central MN for a family reunion in August. Temperature dropped into the low 40s. I had no warm clothes packed, ended up squeezing into one of my wife’s many sweatshirts that she had packed. I still hear about that one.
Most summers growing up, my parents would pack up the six kids into the station wagon, hook up the trailer, and we’d head off to Seattle to see grandma and various other family that had emigrated there.
Mom always had at least one matching top for us to wear to make it easier to spot us if we were going to be in crowded destination. One year, it was heavy gold sweatshirts. These were nice when camping in the mountains. Not so nice when we had to wear them through the South Dakota badlands in a non-air conditioned car because we were stopping at Wall Drug (which, as a pre-teen in the 1960s was a lot of fun, and we really needed the free ice water).
I don’t consider a week complete unless I’d spent fifteen minutes on my hands and knees looking for that last spot of coffee that sloshed on the stairs to my office.
I would really like some sort of pendulum tray, where there’s a handle on the top and the tray hangs beneath it. That way the tray and the drink swing as a unit, which would prevent sloshing.
Fucking hurricane again. I thought we were done for the year.
I’ve been on boats with gimbals for your drink. Never spill a drop in rough seas.
Stay safe. My son is all proud of his plywood “shutters” that he can install in a half hour.
Today it’s still a TS but it’ll be a hurricane making landfall by Thursday! Barely time to prepare. Another hit to the panhandle that’s rough. Hang tight!
or get a mug with a lid so it won’t spill when dropped…& be sure to close the opening while en route…or even better, give up the Ceasers. Yeech!
For an accreditation I’m chasing, I need to take a particular government course.
The government isn’t currently offering the course, and don’t have a timeline for when they will, because they are “revamping it”. They’ve been working on that for over two years.
So, I can’t take the course. But I need to have taken the course, or offer an equivalent course, except it really has to be pretty much identical to they course they aren’t offering.
Help? Anyone got a time machine I can borrow?
Well, that got ugly fast.
What’s needed is a bar setup in the computer room.