beanside | You didn't know that when I tried this all before, my dreams were too hard to defend

Happy Saturday! It's early, but we're still awake! Why? No fucking clue. And that's somewhat annoying. Today shall be a dog-less day, as Yoda is going to be going to the doggie boarding place. He's doing a "play your way" day, which means he won't have other dogs in his enclosure, but will have someone who will offer to take him out. and walk him, and play with him. I am anxious as balls about this. Hopefully he's a reasonably good puppy.

I have a potential game, though one player's cats is not well, so that'll depend on how the kitty's night goes as to wether we can play. I am 100% sympathetic, and am perfectly willing to wait and see if she's up to playing. If so, it'll be around 11am. After that, maybe we'll go out to lunch. No clue where. Jess' anxiety and my ADHD rub against each other on the decision of food, because I do the thing where we'll have it figured out, and then I start offering other choices on the day of, and drive them insane. So this time I just didn't mention food and we'll just decide and go. I don't know where I want to go, but I want somewhere tasty.

Oh, I also have to run to the Punjab market for more meats for Yoda. I'd like to make a couple of batches of different meals for him this weekend. I also need to take our old phones back to t-mobile so that we get to keep our discount.

We got a thing the other day from the apartments that they're coming in to replace our balcony railing somewhere between now and May 19th, so we put the Christmas tree in storage finally. The room looks weird without it. I'm going to try to spend a little time this weekend cleaning up some. The apartment has gotten very messy. It's not like filthy, just stuff on the floor and clutter. We've been getting a lot of delivery boxes and Jess hasn't been able to keep up with getting them to the dumpster.

Here's a much better view of my tattoo without the saniderm. I took that off yesterday to wash and lotion it.

I love it so much. You can really see the patterns of her fur in this shot. It's rewrapped uner another saniderm patch, which will stay for a few days. After that, it'll be just lotion and gentle washing.

I think I timed it so that it should be healed by vacation, but I'll have plenty of lotion just in case.

Yesterday was a good day. Morning was fairly slow, nothing to report there, but then I had the lunchtime meeting where we had some excitement. We were doing our normal bitchfest, and then the head of outpatient Rad pinged J & A with a "Are you available for a quick chat?"

They ditched and went into the other meeting with P. When they came back, they were fuming. I've noticed that we're getting a lot of requests for tests to be read in our one site. Apparently the radiologists are overwhelmed, so they've contracted a team of radiologists to read our films. (Not sure how much I like that.) But things are still not being read quickly. So, instead of hiring someone else, or hiring more radiologists, they have made the executive decision that we will no longer do most STAT appointments at that site, because we can't guarantee that things will be read in time. It's our busiest site, and they can't do STAT appointments. This is going to go over so well. Also it's near DC, and the closest other radiology site we have is half an hour+ away from this one. The site has a lot of older clientele, and most of them will not go anywhere else.

After that, I grabbed a short lunch, and then was on the help chat for 2 hours, providing my wisdom and guidance. I had one that stumped me, but I feel better because it also stumped J and the techs. They're sending the question to the radiologist.

I don't mind doing the chat. It was fairly slow yesterday, so I only had about 7 questions to answer, which is not bad.

After that, I took my break, and came back with less than 20 minutes til it was time to leave.

Then, we took Yoda to the vet for his second flu shot and his Cytopoint allergy shot. That'll hold him until we get back from Alaska, since they're usually good for about 6 weeks.

Then we had Blades in the Dark, which went well. We were down one

poisontaster owing to an eye dilation induced headache, but her character was an integral part of the game anyway. I was able to spotlight some players that don't always get a ton to do, and fun was had by all, I think.

It did mean that now they have two heists running concurrently. The one has kind of fallen by the wayside, as a dastardly underworld group has released a plaugue on the land of Doskvol. The team is racing for the antidote/cure, but it's complicated that the shady underworld mafia is comprised of one of the character's family, who he works with part time. I told them that if they finished either heist, they'd get to use the downtime mechanic, where they can clear some stress and regain health.

It went really well and I enjoyed myself (and my game snack Peking duck and dumplings) very much. I can't do it for early afternoon or morning games, because the dumpling place doesn't open til 11:30, meaning the food doesn't arrive unitl 12:30-12:45 when we're already playing. But they're amazing for night games though.

Tomorrow, we have an early game at 9am. I'm looking forward to it. It's chaos personified, but I think we're going to win this battle today. It was an enormous fight between us, who are a party of 9 players, plus about 100 enemies. The turn order was ridiculously large, and it took most of a game to get through one round, but it's been so fun. Stressful for me as the cleric, but I've kept everyone alive and upright so far.

It'll be Greek Easter, so my sister will be heading off for that, hopefully to bring me some dolmades home. I fucking love my BIL's dolmades. I may see if Jess is okay staying with Yoda while I run over to the flear market in Eastpoint. They're opening this week and are open til 2, unlike the one downtown which is open to 12, and I will not be able to get to, unless I get myself together and go super early, which is also always a possibility, since they open at 7 and game is at 9.

It would give me a good hour to shop, which I really don't need. I doubt there'll be a ton of produce, mostly just other stuff. I might be able to find some good game snacks, especially if the Empanada truck is there.

And of course, at some point, I need to get some studying done. Whoohoo.

I might make us one of the pork tenderloins, since Yoda is getting the same, just cooked differently, and without one of the good Hawaiian spice mixes we've gotten. We're supposed to get more today, so it might be a challenge to decide which one to use. I also ordered some more of what they call potions, but are really syrups for your drink. We had the vanilla one which was amazing. This time I ordered vanilla, coconut, salted caramel and honey ginger. I'm looking forward to trying them when they come. They were excellent in coffee.

Okay, I suppose it's time for me to hop off and maybe study. Maybe. Might save it for this afternoon. We shall see. Or, I could start Yoda's pork stew with sweet potatoes and oats. We'll see. First I need to get off the couch. Everyone have a superb Saturday!