Nilknarf News

So... today's picture is of me, swivelling in my chair and holding the camera with no flash, so I get nothing but motion for a background. Pretty clever, heh?

Yeah, yeah, I know, it's red. I'm mostly red anyways, so what's the diff?

It was Monday, with a vengeance. All. Day. Long. We were short a person, which was no fun at all. Plus I was the runner, and I did do a lot of running. Tired legs. Sore feet. Generalized fatigue.

There were a lot of tired people at work today, and everyone was blaming it on the switch from daylight savings time. Me, I think that it's been the weather. It's been raining off and on since Saturday, which is really pretty good... nice, gentle rain, no wind and no thunder since Saturday... we've probably gotten about three inches.

Anyway, Karen is getting into this habit of turning my alarm off in the morning. I think, deep down (and maybe not that deep, really) that she wants to get her bathroom time in before I get up. Which leaves me with like fifteen minutes to do everything before I go out the door. I'm onto her now, though, so I'm gonna set *two* alarms.

To make up for turning the alarm off, she lets the cats in the bedroom. That I gotta break her of, and pronto.

So, it was busybusybusy all day, I just barely got out of there at 16:30, there were still two patients left, but there were three tech who could relieve me, so I left. And this is the time of year when the administrator cuts off all OT, so I really can't stay over a few minutes and help without getting written up... so if everyone is busy, I can clock in on call if I'm on call, or tell them to call the call person in.

This is all punishment because we're over budget on hours. This does not take into account that we're also over budget on procedures and over budget on revenue. O'yeah, and we can't order anything other than essentials, 'cause we're over budget on supplies.

All because we did too many patients.

So... we need to continue doing too many patients, only with fewer hours and fewer supplies.

Who is it that thinks that doctors and nurses run hospitals? It's the bean-counters, soul-less bean-counters... (yeah, I know, nobody has a soul to an atheist) always has been, always will be.

Things seem to be simmering down in the middle east... what happened to the suicide bombers, anyway? None for a week or more. Could it be that the Israeli offensive is actually doing some good?

And I'm wondering if any of the Pulitzer Prize winners are former students of brother Dan's, or maybe former co-workers?

Well, damn, I haven't mentioned the catholics and their shenanigans lately, have I? Even when I was a catholic (and I tried really hard to be a *good* catholic) I didn't understand their seemingly worshipful relationship with the clergy. Yep, most of the catholics seemed to think that the priest was right next to god, and talk about your brown-nosing! I couldn't imagine god being happy about that situation.

And I don't know how catholics in general could be happy with the situation right now. But nothing will change... maybe a few priests will get put in jail, and a few bishops will resign, but the church will carry on, shedding those convicted in the courts like a snake shedding its skin....

But it will all be justified by the good catholics and those of the clergy yet untainted publicly. After all, people who actually believe in god can justify anything, right? It was the devil, the devil, I tell ya!

Pah! This is making me tired, I think that it's time to retire.

O'wait, dammit! I can't retire until I'm 70! I think that I'll just go to bed, then.