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Been reading books of old, the legends and the myths.
It's Thursday at 4am, must be time to get up. I probably should get used to it, since I will probably move my alarm back when I start school so I have time in the morning to study or do my classwork.
Yesterday was payday, so always a good day. Mostly, I took calls, as we were crazy busy. Like 20 calls holding in the queue busy. I'm looking forward to that being done in a couple of weeks. Not that I mind the calls that much, but it'll be nice to only make outbound calls. I love when patients call you back hours after I call them for a same/next day appt. I cannot hold it that long, my good bitch. That's why my message says "if you get this by _____, please call back, I can hold the appointment until then." Some days I love patients. I was perky as hell yesterday, and I have no idea why. I think I had a somewhat rude patient, and so I perked at them, and then I couldn't turn it off.
I asked J. a follow up question. Apparently, I can still do OT, which is lovely. That'll be $45/hr Every couple of weekends, which should be lovely. IT'll probably damn near pay for Hawaii next year, especially if they want us to work any holidays this year. I am 100% here to work Memorial, Fourth of July, Labor and MLK again if they need me. I love those extra 8 hours of PTO.
After work, we threw in some potatoes to bake, and I cooked up some steaks in the cast iron pan. I used another of my "hype" presents, some Aloha Smoke Spice from Kailua Seasoning Company. OMG, it was SO good. Lightly smoky, a little bit of chili, but not enough to bother even my whitest of palates. But overall, it was salty and delicious and brought out the flavor of the steak even more. I loved it. So far, Hawaii has not disappointed. I've got the macadamia nuts, which are excellent. I got the macadamia butter shortbread and the white chocolate coconut shortbread, and those have been amazing.
After dinner, we had game scheduled, but the electric had other intentions. It went out with an almighty bang right around 6:30pm, and came back on after 1am. No game for us. And another one to reschedule *bangs head*. I stayed up for a while, hoping it would come back on, but eventually the early morning caught up with me and I fell asleep with my phone on my chest.
We did have some storms, though not severe like the weather said they might be. And at one point a tornado warning that was cancelled almost as quickly as it occurred, so that was fun.
Thanks to the weather dropping from 80 degrees to 40 degrees today, Jess had a particularly bad migraine, and my head and neck were twinging too. I would have been fine to play, but Jess had already dropped out of the game for the night.
Today, we're having tomato soup and grilled cheese. The BIL brought over his homemade tomato soup, so we've gotta use that up.
I'm sure work will be busy again, as it has all week. We'll see what I end up doing most of the day. Maybe there will be another Cardiac slot that opens so I get a little bit of time off the phones.
I don't know when they're going to set up everything for me. I think there are a few things to download on my computer before I start the new job. I need access to the queue as well as the main inbox, and I'm sure a few other things. I, of course, am ready to go. Get me set up and let's light this thing.
They pushed the rollout for the new phone system back a little further. Our team is too big, so they're putting us in two groups. Whoo. They say that everything has to be wired for it. Wired headset, ethernet connection. That is going to be an enormous pain in the ass. I am litterally paralell with the box, but there's a 15 foot kitchen wall between it. So, I'm going to have to tack the cord up over the cabinets, or under them. It's really freaking annoying. I got myself a 50' cord, so it should make it easily, but ugh. It's switching from an actual system to VOIP, so I expect problems. Massive problems. They don't know if we're still going to get screen pop ups in Epic, which is a lifesaver when you have a patient with a heavy accent. If they put in their phone number and date of birth, we will get a pop up with their chart. Then all we have to do is verify name and address. It has saved my ass many times, and I'm cranky that we may lose it. They want us to cut down on our talk time, but they're taking away one of our time savers. It's just corporate bullshit. Someone had a meeting, and they decided it looked good and was cheaper, and so they're switching it.
Tonight, after I make dinner, I suppose I will relax, and maybe watch a little videos. I'm flip flopping between Alaska and Hawaii videos. First I'll do one on excursions in Alaska, or boat tours, and then I'll pop back to Hawaiian food trucks. (They have some tasty looking food trucks. I'm especially looking forward to having garlic shrimp.) I think at this point, I can pretty much figure out my way around the ship. I know what floor all the important stuff is on. Our suite and the Neptune lounge is on 7, the food is on 2, 3 and 9 and the pool is deck 9. Oh, and the thermal spa is also on deck 9. Those are the important things.
We have a weekend of games, one tomorrow, one Sat and one Sunday. I'm looking forward to all of them. Tomorrow is my goth disasters in Vecna: Eve of Ruin. Saturday is the game in the style of epic Greek myths in Odyssey of the Dragonlords. And Sunday, I'm a player for Prophecy of the Nine Omens. I'm looking forward to all of them, but I'll admit, I'm especially fond of playing my Bladesinging wizard, Irsu. We're finally getting to the levels that wizards do some serious damage, which is always fun. Also, he's just a lot of fun to play. Very impetuous, always can be counted on to do the stupid, brave thing, even though he has wizard hit points.
Okay, on that note, it's probably time to take my shower. I just didn't have the energy yesterday, so I put it off an extra day and now I feel grungy. Everyone have an amazing Thursday!
Yesterday was payday, so always a good day. Mostly, I took calls, as we were crazy busy. Like 20 calls holding in the queue busy. I'm looking forward to that being done in a couple of weeks. Not that I mind the calls that much, but it'll be nice to only make outbound calls. I love when patients call you back hours after I call them for a same/next day appt. I cannot hold it that long, my good bitch. That's why my message says "if you get this by _____, please call back, I can hold the appointment until then." Some days I love patients. I was perky as hell yesterday, and I have no idea why. I think I had a somewhat rude patient, and so I perked at them, and then I couldn't turn it off.
I asked J. a follow up question. Apparently, I can still do OT, which is lovely. That'll be $45/hr Every couple of weekends, which should be lovely. IT'll probably damn near pay for Hawaii next year, especially if they want us to work any holidays this year. I am 100% here to work Memorial, Fourth of July, Labor and MLK again if they need me. I love those extra 8 hours of PTO.
After work, we threw in some potatoes to bake, and I cooked up some steaks in the cast iron pan. I used another of my "hype" presents, some Aloha Smoke Spice from Kailua Seasoning Company. OMG, it was SO good. Lightly smoky, a little bit of chili, but not enough to bother even my whitest of palates. But overall, it was salty and delicious and brought out the flavor of the steak even more. I loved it. So far, Hawaii has not disappointed. I've got the macadamia nuts, which are excellent. I got the macadamia butter shortbread and the white chocolate coconut shortbread, and those have been amazing.
After dinner, we had game scheduled, but the electric had other intentions. It went out with an almighty bang right around 6:30pm, and came back on after 1am. No game for us. And another one to reschedule *bangs head*. I stayed up for a while, hoping it would come back on, but eventually the early morning caught up with me and I fell asleep with my phone on my chest.
We did have some storms, though not severe like the weather said they might be. And at one point a tornado warning that was cancelled almost as quickly as it occurred, so that was fun.
Thanks to the weather dropping from 80 degrees to 40 degrees today, Jess had a particularly bad migraine, and my head and neck were twinging too. I would have been fine to play, but Jess had already dropped out of the game for the night.
Today, we're having tomato soup and grilled cheese. The BIL brought over his homemade tomato soup, so we've gotta use that up.
I'm sure work will be busy again, as it has all week. We'll see what I end up doing most of the day. Maybe there will be another Cardiac slot that opens so I get a little bit of time off the phones.
I don't know when they're going to set up everything for me. I think there are a few things to download on my computer before I start the new job. I need access to the queue as well as the main inbox, and I'm sure a few other things. I, of course, am ready to go. Get me set up and let's light this thing.
They pushed the rollout for the new phone system back a little further. Our team is too big, so they're putting us in two groups. Whoo. They say that everything has to be wired for it. Wired headset, ethernet connection. That is going to be an enormous pain in the ass. I am litterally paralell with the box, but there's a 15 foot kitchen wall between it. So, I'm going to have to tack the cord up over the cabinets, or under them. It's really freaking annoying. I got myself a 50' cord, so it should make it easily, but ugh. It's switching from an actual system to VOIP, so I expect problems. Massive problems. They don't know if we're still going to get screen pop ups in Epic, which is a lifesaver when you have a patient with a heavy accent. If they put in their phone number and date of birth, we will get a pop up with their chart. Then all we have to do is verify name and address. It has saved my ass many times, and I'm cranky that we may lose it. They want us to cut down on our talk time, but they're taking away one of our time savers. It's just corporate bullshit. Someone had a meeting, and they decided it looked good and was cheaper, and so they're switching it.
Tonight, after I make dinner, I suppose I will relax, and maybe watch a little videos. I'm flip flopping between Alaska and Hawaii videos. First I'll do one on excursions in Alaska, or boat tours, and then I'll pop back to Hawaiian food trucks. (They have some tasty looking food trucks. I'm especially looking forward to having garlic shrimp.) I think at this point, I can pretty much figure out my way around the ship. I know what floor all the important stuff is on. Our suite and the Neptune lounge is on 7, the food is on 2, 3 and 9 and the pool is deck 9. Oh, and the thermal spa is also on deck 9. Those are the important things.
We have a weekend of games, one tomorrow, one Sat and one Sunday. I'm looking forward to all of them. Tomorrow is my goth disasters in Vecna: Eve of Ruin. Saturday is the game in the style of epic Greek myths in Odyssey of the Dragonlords. And Sunday, I'm a player for Prophecy of the Nine Omens. I'm looking forward to all of them, but I'll admit, I'm especially fond of playing my Bladesinging wizard, Irsu. We're finally getting to the levels that wizards do some serious damage, which is always fun. Also, he's just a lot of fun to play. Very impetuous, always can be counted on to do the stupid, brave thing, even though he has wizard hit points.
Okay, on that note, it's probably time to take my shower. I just didn't have the energy yesterday, so I put it off an extra day and now I feel grungy. Everyone have an amazing Thursday!