WS, I usually answer that type of question "N/A," since there is no available safety equipment.

In a Freecycle e-mail: "Preference goes to the earliest pickup who does not use chat speak in his or her message."

I second n/a

If there's no safety equipment used when restraining someone, then the answer is N/A. If you normally wear gloves and face shield during restraints, then the explanation is that the situation was such that you couldn't put the equipment on without putting other patients in danger.

Sleep possible on the plane, Maria?

It may be. Due to the requirement of purchasing the lowest-cost ticket, I'm going from BWI to Detroit and Detroit to Chicago. Each flight is about an hour and a half.

In the case of an incident where a member of home X is upset, in is important to restrain them quickly in order to keep them from doing serious harm to them selves are in order. The extreme amount of protective gear needed in order to protect personnel from a few bumps and scrapes would cause a delay that could cause major harm to the patient and or personnel

or something like that

so I've tried 5 Hour Energy. The verdict: not good for work (although the first two hours were excellent, now I'm full of fidget and thirst) but possibly fun in combination with recreational drugs and activity (mini golf comes to mind).

A note for those who have read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Tonight I was at a store and the paged "Adam Selene" to go somewhere in the store.

I was amused.

Thanks for the help!

Happy... er... ok flying, Maria.

They've brought in firetrucks from the next town over and everytime I think they're just about done - new flames appear over the crest of the roof.

I was tired before - not so much now.

Wow. I am a cheap, thoughtless, ignorant bastard, who needs to start handing hundreds to hotel cleaning staff everywhere he goes, to make up for a previous lifetime of cheapskatery.

Several of my classmates had their kids with them at the office today. I got to cuddle a newborn and have a chat about The Golden Compass with an 11-year-old. Fun. (The 11-year-old's family is Catholic and fairly religious, and her mother had talked to me a bit about the book before letting her read it.)

Also, had a frustrating conversation with of the professors. He said, "One of your students has come to me and has this problem." I said, "Yeah, she came to me about that a few weeks ago, and I asked you about it." He said, "You did? What did I say?" I told him what he said. Then he thought about it and told the student the opposite of what he'd originally told me to tell her. (I actually think this new decision is the better one. It's just frustrating to have been enforcing the other decision for the past few weeks, and then to be overruled by the person who made the decision in the first place.)