Misc Stuff

[bjarvis]

C2 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.

Comments

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

didn't you say that you could spend your medical savings fund on a bleach-bottle sized vat-O-lube too? such a quaint system.

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]

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

'Wheel the Ocean' and 'Wheel the Sea' are perfect examples of a reason to workshop or use regularly Wheel Around from out-facing lines at Advanced and C1, if not Plus and Mainstream.

Ummmmm.... you've forgotten some things.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

Thursday, December 18, DCDC meeting BEFORE calling DCLS
Friday, December 19, Working 1/2 day, dropping car off at BWI BEFORE driving to Columbus, OH (in miserable weather)
Sunday, December 21, Drive 2 hours From Columbus to Cleveland to catch the plane to fly to BWI and then drive home.
Wednesday, December 24, drive to BWI to fly to Cleveland. Have Christmas Eve dinner with Anna and Brandon.
Thursday, December 25, TWO Family gatherings for Christmas - #1 one hour drive east of Cleveland with my siblings and their families; #2 one and a half hour drive back west from party #1 with my son's girlfriend's family that we've never met.
Friday, December 26, drunken stupor
Saturday, December 27, DRIVE from Cleveland back to Silver Spring, hopefully in unseasonably sunny and warm weather.
Sunday, December 28, drunken stupor.