I've learned to warn them that it's sometimes hard to get a vein on me and suggest they use the person who's best at it. Usually the lab people and donation people are aces at it, but random nurses can be less so.

I've learned to warn them that it's sometimes hard to get a vein on me and suggest they use the person who's best at it. Usually the lab people and donation people are aces at it, but random nurses can be less so.

Yeah, this guy was not new - he remembered a freckle in the crook of my arm and said, "remember, I said to aim for the freckle?" The fact that the freckle is on my left arm and I prefer that they use my right, which I said but he chose not to do, was one of the many things he said/did that got my dander up that day.

Pfft. He may want to reconsider his career.

On a related note: what have we decided is the appropriate response when someone apologizes, but you're not gonna say "It's OK" because it's not, at least not yet?

What Atropa said or "Thank you for your apology."

ltc sang me an elaborate Halloween song at bedtime tonight about zombies etc. I asked her where she heard it, and she said she made it up. I'm going to have to try to record it tomorrow.

On a related note: what have we decided is the appropriate response when someone apologizes, but you're not gonna say "It's OK" because it's not, at least not yet?

"I appreciate your apology" is what I'm teaching myself to say in response.

Yeah, I'm trying to go with "I appreciate your apology" as well, but sometimes I'm so flustered that I forget and just say "...okay" and then there's an awkward silence.

Twitter won't let me post anything.

I can't view tweets. Something's clearly going on, and it's really interfering with my time-wasting.

TCG is at a meeting, and ltc is in bed. So, I'm watching TV and want to tweet about it. I've been feeling very isolated lately, and tweeting about stupid stuff helps a little bit.

Twitter's back now, at least for me.

Say, did anyone else get an Amazon "holiday wishbook" in the mail? I think they're trying for a Sears Christmas catalog feel. And I think they're kinda hitting it, although I like to think Sears had somewhat fewer labor violations. At least, after the '30s.

Yes, and it made me SO FLIPPING ANGRY. Our mail delivery is so jacked up, my friend who is a mail carrier has been working 7am to past 9pm six days a week for weeks. So is everyone else at his station, and yet they are not able to finish delivering routes consistently. He's certain there's some conspiracy we don't know about yet flooding the system with first class mail, because they volume is insanely high - exclusive of packages. And then Amazon goes and does Prime day DURING ELECTION SEASON topping off all the election-related mail (which you cannot opt out of) with even more packages. It seems very retaliatory and mean, and is hurting kinda everyone since all of mail is seriously backed up. Voter pamphlets were out for delivery week before last, but I still haven't gotten mine because I'm about 60% of the way through a route so it didn't get finished any day last week. I didn't get mail for a week, same for everyone on my block. Not because the carrier wasn't working, he absolutely was, busting his ass, but was so bogged down with parcels (which apparently take priority in delivery over actual mail) that his route just went unfinished. It's a serious issue that kinda receeded in the news cycle even though the republican sabotage of USPS is still very much happening.