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bonus mid-week post ;)
Jun. 27th, 2012 10:28 pmToday our data entry system at work went down. Hardware issues, they said. Won't get fixed in a few hours. So they let us go home at 2 p.m. If only that happened more often... LOL. But seriously, it was a blessing, since I needed to make some phone calls, and I hate doing that from work. The thing is, I've been trying to find a dentist. That may seem like a piece of cake with so many medical/dental offices all over town - but I have at least three vital factors to consider, which limit my choices to a significant degree. Namely, said dentist has to be in the network for my insurance plan; the office location has to be somewhere I can get by public transport; and they must have late afternoon/evening and/or Saturday appointments available (due to my bus schedule, anything earlier than 4:30 p.m. would pretty much force me to take an entire day off work; and at that rate I would run out of personal/vacation time in a blink). I had almost given up on the possibility of having all these conditions fulfilled at the same time; but it looks like I got lucky today. ( Read more... )
I other news, there is a heat advisory in effect until tomorrow night. Which means high risk of heatstroke if you spend too much time outside. I don't know how much is too much, but I'm afraid I don't really need to go outside at all to run the risk of heatstroke these days.:/ Unless I sit right next to my a/c unit.:D Oh well... hopefully I'll survive, and they're promising thunderstorms this weekend, which should cool the air a little bit (won't help the humidity, though :|).
Oh, and I have a nice five-day break coming up, since next Wednesday is 4th of July, and our office is closing early on Tuesday - so I took both Monday & Tuesday off. Getting five consecutive days off for the price of 12 vacation hours, as it were. Smart, innit?...;) Of course, most of that time will be eaten up by mundane tasks like cleaning (unless it's too hot for that), laundry and visiting the parents ("regular" weekends are always somehow too short for any of the above). But I should be able to fit in 2/3 movies and some LJ-time as well.:)
Damn... how did it get so late again?... Btw, we are supposed to call in tomorrow morning before we leave for work, to make sure they fixed our data entry system. If they haven't, we might get a late start, or possibly - dare I say it? - a "free" day off. Keep your fingers crossed.:P
I other news, there is a heat advisory in effect until tomorrow night. Which means high risk of heatstroke if you spend too much time outside. I don't know how much is too much, but I'm afraid I don't really need to go outside at all to run the risk of heatstroke these days.:/ Unless I sit right next to my a/c unit.:D Oh well... hopefully I'll survive, and they're promising thunderstorms this weekend, which should cool the air a little bit (won't help the humidity, though :|).
Oh, and I have a nice five-day break coming up, since next Wednesday is 4th of July, and our office is closing early on Tuesday - so I took both Monday & Tuesday off. Getting five consecutive days off for the price of 12 vacation hours, as it were. Smart, innit?...;) Of course, most of that time will be eaten up by mundane tasks like cleaning (unless it's too hot for that), laundry and visiting the parents ("regular" weekends are always somehow too short for any of the above). But I should be able to fit in 2/3 movies and some LJ-time as well.:)
Damn... how did it get so late again?... Btw, we are supposed to call in tomorrow morning before we leave for work, to make sure they fixed our data entry system. If they haven't, we might get a late start, or possibly - dare I say it? - a "free" day off. Keep your fingers crossed.:P
