The forsythia is blooming, which is how I know it’s spring, despite the drizzly cold weather today.
Lisa
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Partially lapsed knitter, accountant, cat staff, autistic, GNC, she/her I guess, anti facism, SW Connecticut.
Husband stepped on a cat today, which made the cat yelp, run away, collide into the other cat, and set off World War Cat. We had to chase them all over the house trying to break it up. I finally found them under the bed, dragged one out by the back legs, and put a door between them for a long cooling off period.
While this was happening my new hire called me to resign due to a family emergency back home in Bangladesh.
Sooooo I’m not having a great day.
@somcak I had to have a diagnostic for calcifications one year. No fun! More pictures, more angles, tighter squishing. And more money! (Since then they started covering diagnostics better under my plan.) Now they just do the regular one and make sure nothing has changed. Phew. (Just got my results today in fact, okay for another year.)
Went to No Kings for a bit (left after maybe an hour because my stomach was bothering me). Saw Blumenthal and Himes and Lamont speak, I assume they’re all doing the tours today. If Murphy spoke I missed it, although he’d be my favorite of the lot generally. Also saw my parents. It was cold and it was hard to find parking. Maybe next time I’ll get a ride instead.
For your #caturday, please enjoy this brief moment of peaceful coexistence.
Raki has been starting to venture onto Ouzo’s tower, although Ouzo has maintained sole possession of both the enclosed box and the crow’s nest. Ouzo was a little put out that he couldn’t climb the tower since Raki was there, so I lifted him into the crow’s nest and he settled in.
I have a 21 year old Toyota Camry that has not yet quite hit 80k miles. Every so often I’m torn between “I should go electric” and “cars these days have become enshittified with touchscreens and spyware.” Then I remember I don’t even drive 5k miles a year due to my access to a train system, and my Camry has an expected lifespan of probably forever, and I keep on keeping on.
He said that in addition to the needle maybe not being just right in the vein, the machine was not supposed to be doing the flush back that quickly. And it was very quick, like two minutes maybe. I went from waiting to get the needle in to being wrapped up and sent on my way within 15 minutes. And I’m a little bruised now, but I’ll live.
I had a bad experience with that machine once years ago, where the plasma flush back was not properly going into my vein, and just built up as a bubble in my arm. When I yelled for help I was ignored for at least a minute, they were busy and distracted. This time I went “Ow!” and he dropped everything, hit pause on the machine, went back to what he’d been in the middle of, then returned to diagnose. They can’t restart you on another machine or they will take more blood than is recommended.
The other big company in our office building hosted a blood drive today. I missed the one that our company hosted a few weeks ago so I hydrated up and went. I’m a good candidate for apheresis and my iron was good, so they hooked me up. After the initial “this bit is for blood tests” vials the machine started in, but very shortly the BP cuff released and I soon felt a pinch in the arm. Turns out the machine glitched out! They stopped it and sent me away, but still let me have cookies.