Monday, Monday…Tuesday, Tuesday

Today has been full of irate people. I just shake my head. I don’t want to think about anger or problems today. Really can’t wait until my two days off are here.

Come Monday I’m going to be sunbathing on a sandy beach with sea-green waves gently making love to the shore as seagulls sing a romantic tune. Crisp white-sailed boats will scuttle by on the horizon, people on the move no doubt. What a gloriously relaxing day.

Tuesday means the dentist but it will be so great to have it done and over with. I’ll putz around the house and get a few things done. I love days off. Maybe I’ll write as well. I’ve got to get that manuscript done sometime…or move on to a different project. What is that old saying? “It’s time to piss or get off the pot.”

TiVo vs TVR

Have been talking to some folks here at work about TiVo and something called TVR…I think. The conversation came up because I realized that I forgot to set my dvd recorder for a program tonight and they wouldn’t let me go home to do so.

I said technology needed to come up with something that a person could program via their laptop from work or where ever they happen to be. A supervisor told me they already did – she recommended TiVo. One of the other supervisors recommended the TVR but it can’t be programmed from a computer so don’t want that. I’m very excited about this. I can’t wait to check on getting this service.

Ok, I don’t have a laptop but work has several computers with internet capabilities so I’d be able to use one of them until I get a laptop. I’ll have to see about TiVo too.

Sci-Fi channel is also playing a Peter Benchley movie “creature” which I would like to record but can’t get home to do. I love made for TV Sci-Fi flicks and “b” movies. Ones that come to mind are “Boa”, “Cobra” and various crocodile movies.

I am slightly miffed that I haven’t kept up on electronic gadgets. I use to stay on top of that stuff. Makes me wonder what else is out there that I’m missing.

Phrase Poll – Pls Let me know!

Alright folks – please see if you can guess what the following phrase means:

“My sister’s done fall out”.

I’m anxiously awaiting your insights.

New Car

Am at work – a 12 hr shift – that just started. It makes me tired just thinking about it…or maybe I’m just tired. Tomorrow is 8 hrs of overtime – maybe I’ll get lucky and they won’t need me. One can dream.

I’m going to see about buying a car on Monday or Tuesday. My inclination is to go to the car dealership downtown – it was recommended to me – but I wonder if it will be more expensive?

I’ve given up on the idea of a convertible right now – I’d settle for one with air, 5 speeds and reliable on the road. I’m thinking under $6000…maybe my payments won’t be that much that way. One can hope.

Friday the 13th

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I still can do something.” – Edward Everett Hale

Whew, Friday the 13th. What a crappy day! You should have seen the phones tonight – it would only be a Friday the 13th that such calls could even be conceivable. My best one though, I’ll share with you.

I received a call from a woman – she told me her husband and gone into cardiac arrest. He wasn’t conscious and was breathing. I start asking questions and she is talking to someone else – when I asked who she was talking to she said her husband. I said, so he is conscious and not in cardiac arrest? She said “Oh, I brought him back with CPR.” I asked her if he was breathing normally – she said “he isn’t breathing” and then he said something so I asked her again – is he breathing normally? She said “he’s conscious but he isn’t breathing.”

So I asked her if he was choking. She said “no, he’s breathing normally.” I said “So he is conscious and breathing normally?” She said “No, he isn’t conscious but he is breathing.” By now, you can imagine, I was getting very irritated.

I told her that we needed to get him flat on his back – she said “he’s going to the restroom, I’ll tell him to lay down when he is done.” to which I said “So, he is conscious and in the restroom?” She said “He isn’t conscious, he is on the toilet.” Then she said to him “Hurry up and get done so you can lay down.” He mumbled something back to her.

She said “I revived him again – he was dead.” and I said “Just now? While he was on the toilet?” she said “Yes, but he is ok now again thanks to me.” I wanted to scream, I wanted to pull my hair out, instead I sent law to the call. I figured she had to be mental and that the guy was probably just fine. I asked her to make sure the door was unlocked. She started yelling at him “Fred, go unlock the damn door!”

I had several more calls like that – believe me, the night was full of them. We had a domestic “shooting” that turned into a “stabbing” that turned into a “Oh, he hit me.” We had half the world going and it ended up being nothing.

We did have a bank robbery though – that was about the only “real” call we had today.