bonus mid-week post ;)

[floatingleaf]

Today 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. I still need to reasign the new dentist as my primary dental care provider with the insurance company before I can make an appointment, since my plan is an HMO (if that sounds like mumbo-jumbo to my non-American readers, all I can say is be glad you don't have to deal with this sort of crap... LOL) - but hopefully that can be done through their website. *knocks on wood* If all goes well, I MIGHT be able to finally see a dentist sometime in July - which is a big success, considering I've been thinking about needing to do that since last November (when I first enrolled in the current insurance plan). Yeah, that would be my normal speed of dealing with that sort of stuff (in case you're wondering). I do "get there", eventually. *snort*

And before you ask - I'm not in pain or anything. I just have some really old crowns/fillings that don't look so good anymore, and I might just as well take care of that while I'm on this insurance plan, since it covers most of the basic stuff. It's still going to cost me hundreds, no doubt, since crowns are ridiculously expensive; but at least cleanings and x-rays and possibly extractions should be covered (I think I may have a huge cavity in one of my back teeth, and while it doesn't hurt - yet - I'd much rather just have the tooth removed than go through the whole process of getting a filling). And it makes sense not to wait till it gets worse (I haven't seen a dentist since, hmmm... let me think... 2008?...). Still, I'm not looking forward to what will most likely be a long string of dental visits over the next few months... *sigh*

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

Comments

[goddessofchaos.livejournal.com]

Ah, getting to go home because of a system failure is awesome! Sadly, when our computers go down, we just have to hang around and wait for them to be sorted out =/

Hope it works out with the new dentist. It's never exactly fun to know you have to get a heap of dental work done, but it's better than your teeth getting into a bad state and needing even more work down the line, right?

[floatingleaf.livejournal.com]

YES. System failures rule!!! :D

And my teeth always need work.:/ I'm actually kind of amazed they've lasted this long without pain. But, as it turns out, due to bureaucratic hurdles with the insurance company I might not be able to make an actual appointment with the new dentist until the second half of July - so who knows if I won't be in pain by then... *knocks on wood*