An interesting day, altogether.
I started off by... getting out of bed. Well, maybe not, but this is a family-oriented journal, after all. I had left the alarm set for 05:30, just because. I finally got up about 07:00, enjoying hitting the snoozebar, knowing that I didn't really have to be anywhere until 08:10. Unfortunately, that somewhere was the dentists' office, where I had a good, if not exactly pleasant, experience. I got a cavity filled in one of my real teeth, and it wasn't bad, except that the left side of my face was numb, from my lower eyelid to my bottom lip. The first thing that I said to my coworkers when I got there at 09:00 was, "Please tell me if I've got snot dripping out of my left nostril, 'cause I can't tell..." I was in the room taking care of patients today, and as usual, it was fun. There was one patient who was nothing but talk, talk, talk, she was very nervous, but it was very un-nerving, she couldn't listen to a word that I would say. When I got back to the control room, I asked if there was a setting for "Shut up, and don't breathe". The normal setting is, of course, "Don't breathe". Of course, she couldn't hear it, since she was constantly talking... Another patient today with a lesion that we discovered, nervous as hell. Sometimes I think that I shouldn't even look at the scans when I'm in the room... when I go back to prepare the patient for dismissal, I try to act like I don't know anything, but I do, and I know that they know that I know, and man, I really hate that. 'Cause we can't say anything, anything at all, just refer them to their physician. Anyway, we had a lot better day than yesterday, not nearly so busy. And we were sitting around talking about places to eat, and someone mentioned Boss Hawg's, and I suddenly wanted BBQ ribs, so I called Karen and told her where I wanted to go for supper. And a little later, one of my coworkers (also named Doug) mentioned that he was hankering for Boss Hawg's too, and we decided to meet up there for supper. Doug and his pretty wife Marlis were there when we got there, and we had a nice supper and enjoyed each other's company... it was very pleasant. After we got home, I called JD just for the helluvit, and after we'd talked for a while, he mentioned a jazz show in Houston on the Thursday night that I would be there, so I said Hell Yeah! and now I have something *else* to look forward to on that trip! First, I get to see Mom, then JD, then jazz and Annette, then all the people at the meeting, and then Tyler! All in six days! Hawg Heaven, heh. I just talked to my ol' high school buddy Duane Luthi, we're going to get together this weekend and watch the Chiefs and do some socializing with him and his wife, that'll be fun. I hate to neglect old friends, and I've been doing that a lot... he and I'd made plans to do some fishing this summer, and that didn't happen. I'm in a weird mood tonight, really sociable, quite unlike my usual self. I like me better when I'm sociable, but it's really an infrequent occurrence, dammit. I gotta get over that. One of my many goal in life... On the other hand, though, I really like my alone time. And Karen doesn't seem to mind, when I want to be mostly alone, she lets me be mostly alone. That's a very rare thing to find in a friend and a lover. That's only one of the reasons that I love her so much....