Tuesday, May 30, 2006

  Mouse songs

Thursday, May 25, 2006

My fkn doctor wouldn't refill my fkn Imitrex prescription.  It turns out I hadn't been there in 5 years.  So what?  I've been healthy.  Anyway, I had an appointment today to check in and say "Hi, I'm still alive."  Thirty minutes later they hadn't even acknowledged my presence.  Sigh.  Meanwhile, I see the drug reps start to pile in.  Grrrr.  They finally take me back and check my vital signs.  The nurse goofed on me cuz she said I weighed what her kids weigh.  I didn't ask how old.  She kept remarking that I hadn't been in for years.  I kept answering back, but I'm healthy.  They hate that apparently. 

She moved me into a room across from some guy with gout.  Ewwww.  I don't really know what that is.  Hello Google.  So you don't have to Google (since no one alive knows what gout is), here it is: Gout is a systemic disease (i.e., condition that occurs throughout the body) caused by the buildup of uric acid in the joints.  He was a 38 yr old man who hurt his arm at a retreat in NY.  Yes, I heard his whole story.  I think there may be a HIPAA violation or three going on there.  Anyway, now he has some weird staph infection.  Ewwww.  By the way, I tried to hold my breath the whole time I was there but 55 minutes is a looong time.  And, apparently there's a new antibiotic-resistant staph infection out called MRSA.  I was informed of this as a needle was being stuck in my arm.  Gah, I hope she washed her hands with soap.

I had assumed I would say hi to the doc and get rushed out, but he was very thorough (listened to my lungs and everything).  Laugh, he shut my exam room door so my history was private.  He reviewed where I was 5 years ago health-wise.  Again, I had to explain I've been healthy.  Because I'm a woman of a certain age, it's mammogram time.  I refused that on x-ray grounds, so I acquiesced to the blood work so as not to be perceived as difficult.  Yeah, yeah, I know I have rights, but I've been fired from doctors before so it's just easier to play along and get my refills for another 5 years.  Plus, he gave me samples of other ones.  I had to take back some of my unkind thoughts about the pharmaceutical reps for the 2 minutes he was handing me those (Maxalt, Imitrex, and Frova).  Overall, he's a good guy, and I have my refill.  He did say I needed to get annual checkups.  We'll see.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

I saw my first curly-tail lizard in our yard.  Sigh.  I tried to run out and drown it in the pool, but the fkr was too fast for me.  Normally, I adore lizards in my yard.  In fact it pains me when we kitty-sit, and kitty kills one.  But these guys are the linebackers of exotic, invasive lizards.  They aren't delicate and beautiful, and they drive out the cute ones. 

Thursday, May 18, 2006

This is gonna sound silly, but I'm all proud of myself.  First of all, I finally stopped procrastinating and bought a new office chair.  My old one squeaked pretty badly.  Anyway, it was delivered today, and I assembled it all by myself!!  Yay!!  My fingers are numb and cut (well some of that is from cleaning the pool for hours yesterday & today), but my chair is solid and comfy.  I almost gave up a few times, but I kept telling myself I could do it.  I had to get creative because it's too heavy for me to maneuver exactly according to the instructions. 

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

It turns out that one email to the President of Comcast gets much quicker and painless results than 5 phone calls to Comcast Support.  The cable guy is here now with all kinds of tools fixing it (shovels, spools, etc.).  He looks cranky, although I don't blame him.  He was late to get here because his previous job turned out to be much worse than expected.  I did offer him a tasty beverage and then stayed out of his way (instead of hovering).  I think this job is turning out to be much worse than expected also.  I will follow up my bitchy email with a complimentary one.  That is, if my cable TV ever works again.  =P

Laugh, my email to the Pres of course went into the 4 month delay to properly fix my cable after Hurricane Wilma. 

Sunday, May 14, 2006

I feel very fortunate that I was able to celebrate Mother's Day with Galahad's mom.  We bought her a laptop and set it up wirelessly for her.  Man, I hate fkn wireless.  It all works fine until you try to add in security.  It randomly disconnects her and finds her neighbor's network, which wouldn't be so bad except it's a weak signal and doesn't have Internet.  She's a new user, so it's quite the challenge trying to walk her through repairing a wireless connection.  Meanwhile she has a NETGEAR card and a NETGEAR router (saved as the default connection) but it keeps going to that Linksys network.

And mine is awful.  My laptop fought so much between wired & wireless if I switched back & forth that I finally stopped switching and just left it wireless (after spending hours & rebooting into safe mode to fix it).  However, that causes random weird lag so I've gone back to wired for the time being.  Gah I hate this shit.

Anyway, I had a very lovely time there, although it saddens me to see his dad falling further into the decline of Alzheimer's.  I was able to tell him I loved him and that it was good to visit with him.  He got teary-eyed and said he loved me, too.  =)
 

Saturday, May 6, 2006

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