I hope realizing you are sick helps banish the imposter syndrome, shrift.

Yes, it is. I usually know I'm sick when I lose my ability to cope with stress. I'm working from home today in case I'm contagious.

I may have to go out in search of pie, though.

When you mentioned pork pie, I didn't realize you meant tourtiere.

I always mean tourtiere. (At least, always when I say "pork pie," but a lot of the rest of the time, too!)

Looks like this 9 80 scheduling thing is a go. I just need to figure out when I want those 9 hours to fall in my day. Hm.

My dad is at the ER, and for once it's not a heart attack. He said that Monday night he was in the kitchen getting his bedtime meds and a snack, and the next thing he knew, he was waking up on the kitchen floor because it was Tuesday morning and the phone was ringing. He says he doesn't remember passing out, but he has a bruise on his head. (And, really, he must have passed out, because what else would have happened, he just decided to sleep in the kitchen?)

He went to work Tuesday, and they said he was really unsteady and kind of slurring his speech, so he went to the pharmacy (he works at a grocery store) and they checked his BP and blood sugar, which were both normal (though he said that he ate some chocolate and drank some juice about an hour before they checked his blood sugar, so it could have been too low before that).

So he went home and just chilled out, rather than calling his doctor, because of course he did. He was off work yesterday and still didn't call his doctor, because of course he didn't.

But today he decided to go up to the ER to get checked out. So they did a head/neck CT scan, and they're running blood tests. It's possible he had a TIA (mini-stroke), but his speech is fine now -- he sounded totally normal -- and he's not having weakness on one side of his body. Though with a TIA, the symptoms can be more subtle than with a full stroke.

It's possible his blood sugar or BP dropped too low and that made him pass out. And it's also possible he might have accidentally doubled up on a medication that made him dizzy.

He sounded fine on the phone, though that's no guarantee of anything, but I feel like it at least rules out a major stroke. Hopefully it'll be something easily fixed, like lowering the dose of his BP medication or something.

Parents, man.

So he went home and just chilled out, rather than calling his doctor, because of course he did.

OF COURSE HE DID.

I'm glad it seems like it's nothing too serious.

Ha! I just talked to my brother. He said he called Dad yesterday, and Dad didn't mention anything about passing out in the kitchen. Because of course he didn't. Sheesh.

Hubby apparently had a couple of strokes that neither he nor I noticed, though I remember him sitting outside with some friends and having a bit more trouble than usual getting words correct. In a couple of hours, no sign of anything. We only found out after a bunch of tests a few years later.

Yeah, it's definitely possible that he had a mini-stroke, though I think he's on so much medication for his other heart issues that he shouldn't be able to clot.

Whatever it is (was), it seems minor. I hope.

In addition to my dad being stressful, I have an author who is demanding that I take her original (un-edited) manuscript and "edit" it according to a list of changes that she wants, because she "finds it very difficult to edit what you sent me."

Lady, and I mean this with all sincerity, shut your fucking face and fuck off, you fuckwit.

This is about to get escalated up the chain, because I don't have the authority to tell her to get fucked.

Parents, man.

OMG yes. At least once my folks were at the ER all day and never bothered to tell us. Argh.

I made it into the office for a few hours, basically just to get the right software so I can dial into the network from home. The cold has now moved into my head as well as my chest, so that's fun.

Currently home in front of the tv, not enthusiastic about spending the rest of the day fighting with the agency network. Oy.

OMG, work people. Get it together. I have been asked to take a contract mod and get it in shape for entry into our financial system. Not a big issue, something like this would take an hour. Max. But whoever prepared the mod used the wrong labor rate for one person and then the wrong overhead rate for everyone. And it has already been approved by the client and dude is asking me to "just fix it". Ummmmm, no. You fucked this up, you need to modify the mod and get the client to approve the correct numbers. Even if I could get it set-up to match the screwed up numbers, the accountant isn't going to be able to invoice this with differing overhead rates. This has already taken 3 hours of my time and we don't have a resolution yet.