Amy, yeah. Usually I call and leave a message at 2:00 and I hear back around or before 5:00. So they are especially late today.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:22:07 pm PDT #29834 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:23:34 pm PDT #29835 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I will also say I would HATE the job of scheduler for the OR. It would be horrible and terrifying and just generally no good. How you balance the scheduled surgeries with the emergencies must be a goddamned nightmare. So good on the people who do it, because I couldn't even imagine.
Did anyone hear the NPR story about hospitals having to ration meds due to the large number of med shortages?
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 4:28:28 pm PDT #29836 of 30001
Because books.
Did anyone hear the NPR story about hospitals having to ration meds due to the large number of med shortages?
My mom had a hard time getting her pain meds for months, because the manufacturer was making less, due to ... some federal regulation or something? The pharmacist, who's known her forever, was setting some aside every month to make sure she had them for Mom's refills.
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:29:40 pm PDT #29837 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This is not surprising. It's just sort of depressing. Our health care system is so fucking broken. Rationing happens all the time already but fucking, cripplingly expensive; give me socialized medicine!
dcp - Oct 03, 2011 4:31:09 pm PDT #29838 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
tommyrot wins at weekend.
Mine was a mix of good and bad.
The good: Arranged a three day weekend to get away, visit the old home town, and see an airshow.
The bad: Fender-bender late Saturday afternoon. Left rear light cluster wiped out. Some of the leftrear quarter panel and bumper crumpled.
The good: No one was hurt. The other party was at fault.
The bad: Had to cut short the vacation.
The good: The car is still drivable, and got me home safely on Sunday. I still had Monday off from work, making it easy to get the repairs process started, and get a rental car.
The bad: At least one week, possibly two weeks, to get my car back.
The good: It was an excellent airshow. I got to see and do most of what I had planned for the trip, including my second-favorite barbeque.
And no one was hurt.
Liese S. - Oct 03, 2011 4:33:56 pm PDT #29839 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yikes, dcp! Glad no one was hurt, but yikes!
Kat - Oct 03, 2011 4:43:46 pm PDT #29840 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
glad you're okay, dcp. Fender benders suck.
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 4:52:16 pm PDT #29841 of 30001
Because books.
Yeah, that's more than you need in one weekend, dcp. I'm glad you still got to enjoy yourself, though!
This being up at six and being home alone all day is a) tiring, b) strangely productive, and c) surprisingly lonely. When Stephen was home, it wasn't like we were sitting around canoodling all the time, of course, but I find myself opening my mouth to remark on something and telling the cats instead.
javachik - Oct 03, 2011 5:01:36 pm PDT #29842 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Amy, what is Stephen's new job? I saw you announce that he got it but I missed the details of what it was? Or did you not want to say publically?
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 5:05:00 pm PDT #29843 of 30001
Because books.
It's ad sales with a newspaper, java. In Norristown, so a little farther away than is ideal, but hey. He was looking as far out as Allentown at one point.