My next article is on macular degeneration. No pictures. I feel a little cheated.

Think how cheated the people with macular degeneration feel.

Timelies all!

I don't tend to make sandwiches on buns at home, but usually toasted (or grilled) is a good idea for them.

If billytea, for one, can't come up with some completely amazing and elegant haiku based on an obscure anatomical feature the rest of us have completely overlooked or never knew existed, I shall eat my hat.

Heh. I'm supposed to be working, you know. I doubt these will help your friend, but perhaps it will spare your hat:

Indication of
Manual strangulation:
Fractured hyoid bone.

Malleus, incus
Triassic innovation
In mammals alone.

Twelve-foot recurrent
Laryngeal nerve; giraffes
Evolved a kill-switch.

Since I worked a twelve hour day yesterday, I informed the boss that I wouldn't be in until 11. Set my alarm, but for pm, oops, so I was late anyway. Then left at 4:15 for PT, but apparently the appointment was for 6, not 5. Luckily there was a cancellation and they fit me anyway (same thing on Monday, except nobody told me I showed up an hour early).

ION, thankfully, at staff meeting the ED explicitly mentioned how it was my department's job to remove snow, and I clarified that even if certain paths would be marked "closed" during inclement weather, we still needed to clear them, to protect against the Stupid.

I'm still waiting for boss lady to come up with inclement weather policy, but my own new personal policy is to let her make her own mistakes, and not suggest anything lest I usurp her authority. And I mean this in regards to when I'm on vacation or the weekends. It has been made clear that outlining her job for her is offensive (by the ED, bless that asshole)(even though she's from California and has no common sense when it comes to snow). It's a whole new ballgame.

Oh, Julie... I think you need a new job. Or a new boss. Or to be the boss?

This baby gibbon is the cutest thing ever [link]

My next article is on macular degeneration. No pictures. I feel a little cheated.

Think how cheated the people with macular degeneration feel.

Zing!

No pictures. I feel a little cheated.

My optometrist now does retinal exams digitally instead of manually. One major benefit is that there is no need for dilating eye-drops. Another benefit is that a little later I get to see the pictures on the exam room's computer monitor.

I asked him if he could e-mail copies to me. He looked startled, then said he didn't know how to export them from the system. I suspect he just didn't want to do it.

So I got an email from my mom, picture of my brother's basement (of their rental.) Where I usually stay when visiting. Ceiling is collapsed (right under where the bathrooms are.) Told me to book a room at the hotel they (parents) are staying at.

Purchase of new house is still on, will just take longer.

Go to take out recycling, find huge puddle by the door. Shopvac it up, as I'm dumping it into the utility sink, (unused) toilet is gurgling madly, and starts to overflow.

I start dumping water into the alley.

Pretty sure sewage line is clogged, which... a lot of my neighbors have this issue. I have not in the 4 years I've been here. Guess I'm lucky. Call neighbors for recs and cost estimate. ACK. Call home warrantee. Turns out I AM covered. Also turns out that since I cannot (should not) use the facilities, I get upgraded to emergency service. Waiting for a call back.

Worst case scenario, nothing happens until tomorrow, I pee next door and shower at the until a plumber can get out here.

I want to shower in bleach. The amount of water and uh, condition, suggests it was mostly dishwater from this evening. There would have been a helluva lot more if from my shower and uh, bathroom use earlier today. But still.

I think I'm just going to drink the rest of the night. Pretty sure emergency plumbers on night calls see a lot of inebriated people, right?

Yikes! Yeah, drinking seems like an appropriate response and I bet the emergency plumber will agree.

I would just make sure you have a place to pee if you start drinking. Because yikes.

My optometrist now does retinal exams digitally instead of manually.

Maybe it was because we were already talking body parts, but it took me a long time to realize you didn't mean fingers instead of hands....