Junior's Blog

Yummy

I stopped by The Souper Market today after church. It seemed like a great day for soup given the cold spell Cleveland is currently under. I originally wanted a bowl of the Corn and Bacon Chowder, but they had already sold out for the day. I opted for the Jambalaya, which was extremely delicious and just a tad bit spicy. The big chunk of bread paired nice with the soup and made clean-up of the bowl very easy. I will definitely be back during the upcoming winter months to enjoy some of their other offerings.

Scorecard

- 23 hours at work over the last two days

- 2 hours of sleep last night

- 2 automated cabinets now fixed in our surgery unit

- a full day off tomrrow (ahhhhh! :-) )

Both of our automated cabinets in surgery went belly-up (corrupt hard drives) last night right before I was getting ready to leave. I stayed until on sight support could stop by. The technician was unable to re-image the drive and had already used his spare drives on other calls. He arranged to have two drives there first thing in the morning. I didn’t end up leaving until 2:00am. I was back at 6:00am to help the surgery staff get meds out of the cabinets manually so that they could still completed their cases today. A big thank you tot he surgery staff for being so accommodating with the downtime situation. A tech was there first thing, and by mid afternoon we had both cabinets running again. I took him around to our other stations to apply a patch so that this would not happen on any other station. After cleaning up a few things back in the pharmacy, I called it a day and headed home.

Follow-up - Cody the convenience store dog must go, state warns - St. Petersburg Times

:-(

Grandmas are the Best

I'm Beat

Work kicked my ass today as we stayed busy the entire day. We are starting to run a little short-staffed because of vacations and the holidays, but we are not so thin that we are overwhelmed. By the end of the day it felt good to tie up a few loose ends and realize that we accomplished a lot things today even though things seemed like they were derailing at times. I managed to create a formula in an Excel document of the staff schedule that is exactly what we were looking for. After a lot of trial-and-error and some web searching, I was able to get all of the pieces of the formula just right and functioning correctly. Now I just need to populate it in the remaining cells of the document, and then secure it so it cannot accidentally be deleted. It is now time for a relaxing evening with a beer, a movie, and a lot of relaxation.

Howdy Neighbor

I met the lady that lives across the alley from me as I was getting out of my car after work. She seems very friendly and welcomed me to the neighborhood. She was happy that someone was back in the apartment since it sat empty for the whole summer as my landlord was looking for a tenant. I am sure it will be easier to meet more people in the spring when the weather is warmer and people are outside, but I am sure I will bump into more neighbors over the next couple of weeks.

Work Frustrations

I wanted to turn right around and go back home when I got to work this morning. I was met at the door with horror stories about yesterday (I was off), complaints about having to stock our new cabinets in surgery, and just general crankiness. Come on people. At least let me get my coat off and get caught up on voice mail and email before you sock it to me.

I really didn’t want to deal with this nonsense, so I kept myself busy on a prepping files for storage in the break room for about an hour. I was still a little salty when I finished with that, but managed to avoid any other frustrations by keeping myself busy finishing off little nagging projects at my desk. I finished up the day on a more pleasing note, and then hung up some Christmas decoration after clocking out.

This always seems to happen when I take off a weekday (a product of me having to work weekends). I don;t mind working Saturday’s and Sunday’s because it gives me some time off on weekdays, except it crap like this morning that makes it a pain. It is nice to know that people value me being at work, but I need and would like to have some time away every now and then. You want to be a valuable member of the department that is missed when you are not there, but the place shouldn’t derail just because you took some time off.

There is some interesting stuff coming down the pipe soon, which should alleviate some problems and provide for some new opportunities for the department. Lets just hope things pan out well.

Xmas Lights Fail :-(

I was all ready to hang some Christmas lights outside, but then I realized that my apartment doesn’t have any exterior outlets. Kind of hard to power lights when there is no where to put the plug. I’ve tried thinking of some options, but I have not come up with anything yet. Maybe I will just have to hang them inside.