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Dec. 17th, 2008 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisC2 class on Monday night was... interesting. I missed the prior Monday's review because of work commitments so I was stumbling on some calls for the first 90 minutes: it felt like everything was brand new again. Fortunately, I didn't shame my ancestors too much in the second half of the class and there was only one new call to fret over ('wheel the sea').
I've had a flurry of minor medical procedures lately. It's not that I've been sick or such, it's just that I wanted to (a) milk my current employer's health benefit for all I can in case there's issues or delay starting with the new employer's health plan, and (b) I needed to empty my medical savings account before Dec 31 or forfeit the balance. I believe I have only $20 left in my MSA which I can easily wipe out with some contact lens solution or such. [insert standardized rant about the silliness of employer-based health care here.]
At yesterday's medical, the doc suggested a pneumonia vaccine. I had no idea such things existed, and agreed to it since it costs me nothing directly. No problem at the time but my left upper arm where I received the shot hurts like hell right now. If anyone even thinks of touching my left arm, I promise I will beat them senseless with the heaviest piece of furniture I can with my right.
I didn't exactly have a relaxing night at home last night as I had to do an emergency work-related service call to Sterling, VA, but there's no rest for the wicked apparently:
- Wednesday, Dec 17: we're dancing C1 tonight
- Thursday, Dec 18: calling Mainstream/Plus for DC Lambda Squares;
- Friday, Dec 19: driving to to Columbus, OH;
- Saturday, Dec 20: co-trailer trash David's 40th birthday;
- Sunday, Dec 21: fly back to DC;
- Monday, Dec 22: skipping C2 to attend the DC Lambda Squares' Plus class graduation;
- Tuesday, Dec 23: calling for an open house with the Chesapeake Squares;
- Wednesday, Dec 24: fly to Cleveland;
- Thursday, Dec 25: family in Cleveland;
- Friday, Dec 26: family in Cleveland;
- Saturday, Dec 27: returning to DC.
- Sunday, Dec 28: collapsing from exhausion.
I've had a flurry of minor medical procedures lately. It's not that I've been sick or such, it's just that I wanted to (a) milk my current employer's health benefit for all I can in case there's issues or delay starting with the new employer's health plan, and (b) I needed to empty my medical savings account before Dec 31 or forfeit the balance. I believe I have only $20 left in my MSA which I can easily wipe out with some contact lens solution or such. [insert standardized rant about the silliness of employer-based health care here.]
At yesterday's medical, the doc suggested a pneumonia vaccine. I had no idea such things existed, and agreed to it since it costs me nothing directly. No problem at the time but my left upper arm where I received the shot hurts like hell right now. If anyone even thinks of touching my left arm, I promise I will beat them senseless with the heaviest piece of furniture I can with my right.
I didn't exactly have a relaxing night at home last night as I had to do an emergency work-related service call to Sterling, VA, but there's no rest for the wicked apparently:
- Wednesday, Dec 17: we're dancing C1 tonight
- Thursday, Dec 18: calling Mainstream/Plus for DC Lambda Squares;
- Friday, Dec 19: driving to to Columbus, OH;
- Saturday, Dec 20: co-trailer trash David's 40th birthday;
- Sunday, Dec 21: fly back to DC;
- Monday, Dec 22: skipping C2 to attend the DC Lambda Squares' Plus class graduation;
- Tuesday, Dec 23: calling for an open house with the Chesapeake Squares;
- Wednesday, Dec 24: fly to Cleveland;
- Thursday, Dec 25: family in Cleveland;
- Friday, Dec 26: family in Cleveland;
- Saturday, Dec 27: returning to DC.
- Sunday, Dec 28: collapsing from exhausion.
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Date: 2008-12-17 03:52 pm (UTC)I started getting pneumonia vaccine ages ago - pre 1987 anyway. apparently losing my spleen [motor vehicle accident 1975] makes me vulnerable to various things like pneumonia and malaria. So I don't go to tropical places, and got Pneumovax and its successors as time marches on.
you do know about angle-brackets being treated as special characters in html, no? insert your standard rant between [brackets] and I'll agree with you [he said, just having had a mole excised at the Women's College Hospital dermatology clinic last week, all on my OHIP card]