Aren’t you glad people have started putting tests behind LJ-cut tags? Don’t you wish everyone did? {snicker}
So it seems that all of the plans I made for this week, which depended on some raw materials arriving here Monday or Tuesday, are pretty much shot since they haven’t arrived yet. Oh well. Yesterday was spent in the back (“back” meaning the manufacturing area in the back of the building) showing some folks how to use our PD-10 mixer and then how to tear it down and clean it. I hate doing that – it involves a few gallons of solvent, lots and lots of shop rags, some sandblasting, and not a little heavy lifting to get to all the parts to be cleaned. We wrapped that up just in time for me to go home. I skipped the gym and instead got my workout mowing the lawn, which I figure works out to roughly the same amount of cardiovascular exercise.
Today I started off with a meeting with my boss, as a follow up to my job review two months ago. Good news this time – he’s hapopy with my progress, and so am I. I think the biggest factor is that I’ve been swamped with this new project, and it’s kept me quite busy. I’m terrible at making myself look busy – I’d rather be busy. It doesn’t hurt that I now know how to read him better (for instance, when he makes a “suggestion” on how to do something with the project, if I don’t do it I’ll hear about it later). Anyway, it’s all good.
I plan to take a short lunch today so I can leave early for the gym. After I get in my workout there it’s straight home, just in time for people to start arriving for another Gang gathering – Pizza and Gaming this time around. The featured games are Outburst and UpWords, though games of Fluxx or Chez Geek may break out as well.
Today is a Friday of sorts for me, though maybe not the best way to accomplish it. Tomorrow I take Dan in for his surgery. Atthis point, it’ll be a Good Thing just to get it over with – the anticipation is awful. I’m hoping that having folks over tonight will take his mind off things. While he’s in their care (from 10:30 AM until 4 or 5 PM, I can’t leave the building, per their policy. I sure hope they have a cafeteria, but if not I can cope. Guess I’ll load up with my laptop and stuff to read. Anyway, on Friday we go to the doctor at 8 AM and have his packing removed and then it’s back to the house where he can relax. Theoretically I’m supposed to do everything I can to get back into work on Friuday, but that is absolutely NOT HAPPENING. My place is at my partner’s side, helping where I can, and work can go get stuffed.
Well, off to make more phone calls, yay…
*hugs*
Take care, and I hope the surgery goes well. I can hardly blame you for taking the attitude that work can get stuffed, as if I was in your situation, I’d be the same way.
STAND up for your rights, sistah! 🙂 Frankly, I think you’d every right to put up a major fuss if they even considered harassing you for taking the day off.
I can fully understand the pre-surgery anticipation, having been through a similar experience with a loved one last summer. It got me thinking, though…if I were facing fairly serious surgery, I don’t know if I’d be more comfortable with a run-up of well-wishers and special events, or by trying to think of it as just another event on the calendar. I often get a vibe from others that if they worry about the event, I’ll worry about it even more in turn. But it’s not easy for anyone involved to prepare or to show concern, not to mention the patient.
Hope things go well!
Dan had a good idea last night. What should happen is that the doctor tells you that you’re going to need surgery and that it will have to be sometime soon. Than, at some random time in the next few days, they send the ninja-orderlies out and they take you down with tranquelizer darts when you’re not expecting it. Next thing you know, you wake up, and the surgery’s over!
Hey, sounds like a great idea to me. Plus it will provide work for all the unemployed ninjas out there.
Gee, can I be one of the Ninja’s? Of course, I’d be too likely to spoil the surprise by giving him a massive foxy hug first.
By now, the operation should be well underway or done. I’m hoping the best for Dan and you.
*big-hugs*
*The Werellama Prays…*
I will say lots of prayers for Dan…so that he isn’t nervous…and so the doctor(s) will have steady hands.
I’m glad to hear that Dan’s getting his packing out on Friday. My surgery was on a Friday and I didn’t have the packing out until the following Monday. That got old really fast… Anyway, have fun tonight, and warm thoughts for tomorrow.