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beansideIt's Wednesday! We're halfway through the week! I am a little less sleepy today, which is nice. I've not quite made up my sleep debt yet from the last couple of nights, but it's definitely better.
Work yesterday was quite busy, but I'll admit, I loafed a little bit in my tiredness. A, the head of the call center, was having a bad day, so I was talking to her a good chunk of it. That woman needs a vacation in the worst way. It's just been a bear of a month for her. New health diagnosis, the phones have been psycho, we're switching our telephone systems tomorrow, and then the whole thing with the Bethesda office has been a fucking mess. I'm trying to talk her into taking a week off and go sit somewhere on a beach, or in the mountains and just relax and dissconnect. She's a great boss, so I'd hate to lose her to burnout. I still did some other work, but mostly I was trying to convince her to put her own oxygen mask on first. I will definitely be texting her pictures of vacation in an attempt to help relax her while I'm gone.
After work, I promptly gagged on a pill and felt nauseous the rest of the night. It was not fun. I have soup and plain chicken skewers for breakfast, as I just couldn't take more than a spoonful of soup. Feeling much better today. As with all my new digestive foibles, I'm blaming them on Mounjaro.
Today, I shall do work, and then cook dinner. I've been looking forward to the halibut for days, so I'm definitely going to cook it tonight before it goes off. Then, I shall nap again.
Tomorrow, we get our new telephony system. It's a VOIP, so they're insisting that all our connections are wired. This is going to mean running a ton of ethernet cable from the kitchen to the living room. I guess that'll get done tonight as well, so I'm up and running tomorrow morning. I'm fairly sure that this rollout is going to be a shitshow, but we'll see. We're the 4th rollout, so we'll see if they've learned from their errors. Supposedly they did figure out how to trigger pop ups with patient information, so that's something. The customer puts in their phone # and DOB, and as it works now, the system cross references the two, and will throw up a pop up with their info, that we then will verify. When the pt is new, or mistypes their info, we'll get a blank pop up. Those are the times when you're really praying that the caller doesn't have a thick accent. When they do, I spend a lot of time praying for a name I know how to spell. Shah, Nguyen,Patel, Li, Sanchez please. And if it's not, please let them be pleasant. I know how much it sucks to have to spell your name repeatedly every time, but work with me here. After that, I'm sure I'll be exhausted, so we'll see if I fix anything for dinner.
Tomorrow will be exactly 14 days til vacation. And Saturday, we might get our boarding passes! It's very exciting. It's still surreal. It's been so long since we had a proper vacation that ut feels unreal. There's a great song in the Lost Boys Musical called "skip to the good part," and that's where I am with vacation. I want to skip ahead to the vacation and get to do all the things I've been planning since last April. We have so many adventures to go on, and I want all of them.
I saw a video of some whales returning to Alaska for the season, which made me happy. We may not see hummpbacks, but the killer whales are back, and I'm more excited about them. I have seen Shamu, in his tiny pool, but I want to see one wild and free. And I want to take the White Pass train up into the mountains and see all the amazing scenery. And I want to walk Creek Street and maybe visit a historic brothel. I want to buy ALL the souvenirs. My bag is definitely going to be overweight, though. I might need to invest in a second carry on suitcase to keep it under weight. Or use the one we have. We'll see. I kind of want one of the cool ones that have a fold up cup holder. Then I'd be able to pack one of my coats in there and save me some weight. The limit is 50lbs and I'm already at 43, so there could be more wiggle room.
We have laundry service on the boat, but the bags are very tiny, so I want to bring at least 6-7 days of clothing, plus cold weather gear. I will do some looking and see what I can find. The one we have is an Amazon Basic, and it is indeed very basic.
Might be time to get rid of what we had. I'm sure that one of the thrift shops would take it. They were great when we were driving to Disney, less so when we're flying. We'll see what we end up with. I also could then pack our emergency meds in the carry out. My standard meds will be in my personal item, but I ordered an emergency pack from a company called Jase. For a fee, they'll make up a personalized kit of medication for travel. It's various antibiotics, anti nausea, antifungal and cortisone cream to cover any medical emergency. Since cruise medical care is ridiculously expensive, it's a little peace of mind that I'm covered if my tooth starts acting up again, or if anyone has any problems. I was going to put it in my checked bag, but if I take a roller bag, I'll probably put it in there.
I'll see what the options are for something that will get to me before we leave.
I've downloaded SO many books for the flight. I have the RSS feed of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books on my dreamwidth, so I get a ton of recs for books that are on sale, or even on kindle unlimited. I was trying to wait to read any of them, but I started one called Dreadful that seems pretty good so far. I've got books by both Ursula Vernon and John Scalzi, so that'll be good. And for Jess, I think the new Murderbot book comes out on 5/5. I've already preordered that for them. Something to read on the flights if you can't sleep.
The flights are the part I'm not looking forward to. 3 hours in the BWI terminal, plus another 6 hours in the air, assuming everything is on time. When we land, it'll already be 1pm our time, but only 10am in PST.
The first day is going to be a lot. We'll be getting up by 2:30am and not laying down til nearly midnight our time. We're all going to be falling asleep in our steak dinner.
One of the people from the Facebook group reached out to me about doing dinner the Friday before we get on the cruise, so we might be doing an early dinner with them before going to the movies. We'll see how organized we can get in 2 weeks. He's really nice, so I'd be okay with that. When I mentioned going with my spouse, referring to them as they/them, he reached out to let me know that Holland America does Pride meet ups, usually on the first night of the cruise. He's traveling with people from his softball team.
I'm really looking forward to both Pike Place Market and the Granville Island Public Market. It looks like they have some cool stuff and good food. Mostly good food.
Okay, time to go forth and get ready for work. Everyone have an absolutely outstanding Wednesday!
Work yesterday was quite busy, but I'll admit, I loafed a little bit in my tiredness. A, the head of the call center, was having a bad day, so I was talking to her a good chunk of it. That woman needs a vacation in the worst way. It's just been a bear of a month for her. New health diagnosis, the phones have been psycho, we're switching our telephone systems tomorrow, and then the whole thing with the Bethesda office has been a fucking mess. I'm trying to talk her into taking a week off and go sit somewhere on a beach, or in the mountains and just relax and dissconnect. She's a great boss, so I'd hate to lose her to burnout. I still did some other work, but mostly I was trying to convince her to put her own oxygen mask on first. I will definitely be texting her pictures of vacation in an attempt to help relax her while I'm gone.
After work, I promptly gagged on a pill and felt nauseous the rest of the night. It was not fun. I have soup and plain chicken skewers for breakfast, as I just couldn't take more than a spoonful of soup. Feeling much better today. As with all my new digestive foibles, I'm blaming them on Mounjaro.
Today, I shall do work, and then cook dinner. I've been looking forward to the halibut for days, so I'm definitely going to cook it tonight before it goes off. Then, I shall nap again.
Tomorrow, we get our new telephony system. It's a VOIP, so they're insisting that all our connections are wired. This is going to mean running a ton of ethernet cable from the kitchen to the living room. I guess that'll get done tonight as well, so I'm up and running tomorrow morning. I'm fairly sure that this rollout is going to be a shitshow, but we'll see. We're the 4th rollout, so we'll see if they've learned from their errors. Supposedly they did figure out how to trigger pop ups with patient information, so that's something. The customer puts in their phone # and DOB, and as it works now, the system cross references the two, and will throw up a pop up with their info, that we then will verify. When the pt is new, or mistypes their info, we'll get a blank pop up. Those are the times when you're really praying that the caller doesn't have a thick accent. When they do, I spend a lot of time praying for a name I know how to spell. Shah, Nguyen,Patel, Li, Sanchez please. And if it's not, please let them be pleasant. I know how much it sucks to have to spell your name repeatedly every time, but work with me here. After that, I'm sure I'll be exhausted, so we'll see if I fix anything for dinner.
Tomorrow will be exactly 14 days til vacation. And Saturday, we might get our boarding passes! It's very exciting. It's still surreal. It's been so long since we had a proper vacation that ut feels unreal. There's a great song in the Lost Boys Musical called "skip to the good part," and that's where I am with vacation. I want to skip ahead to the vacation and get to do all the things I've been planning since last April. We have so many adventures to go on, and I want all of them.
I saw a video of some whales returning to Alaska for the season, which made me happy. We may not see hummpbacks, but the killer whales are back, and I'm more excited about them. I have seen Shamu, in his tiny pool, but I want to see one wild and free. And I want to take the White Pass train up into the mountains and see all the amazing scenery. And I want to walk Creek Street and maybe visit a historic brothel. I want to buy ALL the souvenirs. My bag is definitely going to be overweight, though. I might need to invest in a second carry on suitcase to keep it under weight. Or use the one we have. We'll see. I kind of want one of the cool ones that have a fold up cup holder. Then I'd be able to pack one of my coats in there and save me some weight. The limit is 50lbs and I'm already at 43, so there could be more wiggle room.
We have laundry service on the boat, but the bags are very tiny, so I want to bring at least 6-7 days of clothing, plus cold weather gear. I will do some looking and see what I can find. The one we have is an Amazon Basic, and it is indeed very basic.
Might be time to get rid of what we had. I'm sure that one of the thrift shops would take it. They were great when we were driving to Disney, less so when we're flying. We'll see what we end up with. I also could then pack our emergency meds in the carry out. My standard meds will be in my personal item, but I ordered an emergency pack from a company called Jase. For a fee, they'll make up a personalized kit of medication for travel. It's various antibiotics, anti nausea, antifungal and cortisone cream to cover any medical emergency. Since cruise medical care is ridiculously expensive, it's a little peace of mind that I'm covered if my tooth starts acting up again, or if anyone has any problems. I was going to put it in my checked bag, but if I take a roller bag, I'll probably put it in there.
I'll see what the options are for something that will get to me before we leave.
I've downloaded SO many books for the flight. I have the RSS feed of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books on my dreamwidth, so I get a ton of recs for books that are on sale, or even on kindle unlimited. I was trying to wait to read any of them, but I started one called Dreadful that seems pretty good so far. I've got books by both Ursula Vernon and John Scalzi, so that'll be good. And for Jess, I think the new Murderbot book comes out on 5/5. I've already preordered that for them. Something to read on the flights if you can't sleep.
The flights are the part I'm not looking forward to. 3 hours in the BWI terminal, plus another 6 hours in the air, assuming everything is on time. When we land, it'll already be 1pm our time, but only 10am in PST.
The first day is going to be a lot. We'll be getting up by 2:30am and not laying down til nearly midnight our time. We're all going to be falling asleep in our steak dinner.
One of the people from the Facebook group reached out to me about doing dinner the Friday before we get on the cruise, so we might be doing an early dinner with them before going to the movies. We'll see how organized we can get in 2 weeks. He's really nice, so I'd be okay with that. When I mentioned going with my spouse, referring to them as they/them, he reached out to let me know that Holland America does Pride meet ups, usually on the first night of the cruise. He's traveling with people from his softball team.
I'm really looking forward to both Pike Place Market and the Granville Island Public Market. It looks like they have some cool stuff and good food. Mostly good food.
Okay, time to go forth and get ready for work. Everyone have an absolutely outstanding Wednesday!
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Date: 2026-04-22 05:07 pm (UTC)it's been a number of years, but I always had a good time visiting Pike Place Market, and hope you do too