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weekend and the near future
Mar. 13th, 2016 02:18 pmI was considering going out today but decided that it was too hot. 37^C here at the moment and has been for quite some time. Yours truly and high temperatures/UV don't mesh very well. Did my housework yesterday and some watering, so only thing today was to iron the work gear, while watching Fringe.
Friday was more eventful than I had intended. M (mother) went into hospital for a hip replacement on Wednesday. This was to (finally!) fix up a botched job from two years ago. I called on Friday to see how it had gone. Unfortunately M was still on the good drugs, so communication was a bit uncertain, but she was in a huge flap about the hospital wanting to move her to the rehab ward early and also some changes the health fund wanted to make, essentially removing one level of cover.
So I got work to spring me - actually, despite all the bitching i do about the gulag, they were very decent about this - and they said I could either take it as leave or work it off next week. So I got over to Hollywood Hospital. This took awhile, mostly because of a huge crush of traffic in St Georges Terrace. Somebody on foot could probably have done it faster. Once I got there, I think I managed to calm M down and help her decide to hold out against the hospital if they got pushy again. Seriously, I don't see how somebody who needs two people to haul them up to a sitting position can be ready to start rehabilitation. Turns out the ongoing troubles from the first op were due to a screw working loose and boring into the socket. The joint socket. A bit that's part of the person. Euwwww!
I stayed there for about three hours and then headed home, which also took awhile, because the buses had thinned out by then and I didn't want to go through the city again or to wait half an hour for one that went through Subiaco. Most direct route was to hike to Subi Station and then it was just the usual train home. Well, I made up my steps for the day, definitely, it was over 12,500. I don't know how many kilometres that was, probably four, five?
The rats were very upset about being made to wait two hours for their dinner and I got the full starving rodent performance until I finally got their bowl in front of them, at which time I was allowed to get mine.
Anyway, I've got one more full work week to do, then two days next week and then I'm on leave for Swancon and the week after that. I'm not on any panels on Swancon. I feel less like it every year and since I'm on my own a lot, I'm not really good at talking in front of people. I often get talked over on panels or else there's someone who won't stop talking so that I can get my point in at the relevant time. I decided I'd had enough last year when this happened one too many times. I figure if someone would like to talk to me about something, they can find me and do one on one conversation. I'm okay at that :-)
I have a room for two nights at the Goodearth; the Friday and Saturday, so hopefully will get a chance to go out for meals with folk as well as check out some of the con's evening activities.
Friday was more eventful than I had intended. M (mother) went into hospital for a hip replacement on Wednesday. This was to (finally!) fix up a botched job from two years ago. I called on Friday to see how it had gone. Unfortunately M was still on the good drugs, so communication was a bit uncertain, but she was in a huge flap about the hospital wanting to move her to the rehab ward early and also some changes the health fund wanted to make, essentially removing one level of cover.
So I got work to spring me - actually, despite all the bitching i do about the gulag, they were very decent about this - and they said I could either take it as leave or work it off next week. So I got over to Hollywood Hospital. This took awhile, mostly because of a huge crush of traffic in St Georges Terrace. Somebody on foot could probably have done it faster. Once I got there, I think I managed to calm M down and help her decide to hold out against the hospital if they got pushy again. Seriously, I don't see how somebody who needs two people to haul them up to a sitting position can be ready to start rehabilitation. Turns out the ongoing troubles from the first op were due to a screw working loose and boring into the socket. The joint socket. A bit that's part of the person. Euwwww!
I stayed there for about three hours and then headed home, which also took awhile, because the buses had thinned out by then and I didn't want to go through the city again or to wait half an hour for one that went through Subiaco. Most direct route was to hike to Subi Station and then it was just the usual train home. Well, I made up my steps for the day, definitely, it was over 12,500. I don't know how many kilometres that was, probably four, five?
The rats were very upset about being made to wait two hours for their dinner and I got the full starving rodent performance until I finally got their bowl in front of them, at which time I was allowed to get mine.
Anyway, I've got one more full work week to do, then two days next week and then I'm on leave for Swancon and the week after that. I'm not on any panels on Swancon. I feel less like it every year and since I'm on my own a lot, I'm not really good at talking in front of people. I often get talked over on panels or else there's someone who won't stop talking so that I can get my point in at the relevant time. I decided I'd had enough last year when this happened one too many times. I figure if someone would like to talk to me about something, they can find me and do one on one conversation. I'm okay at that :-)
I have a room for two nights at the Goodearth; the Friday and Saturday, so hopefully will get a chance to go out for meals with folk as well as check out some of the con's evening activities.