Eeeeeeeek!!

Notice anything??

My PC is gone! It took a major dump Thursday and I actually had to go IN to work at the hospital and bring the PC w/me to drop off at IS..

I got a call from IS today.....My computer is fried, dead, kaput, in the scrapheap! My boss said that I had killed it.

Fortunately, they have a few spares, but, this being the end of the week, my new computer won't be ready till at least Monday. Soooo, I get to go IN on Sunday and Monday to work...

It's a good thing I have 2 pair of slacks!!

Oh yeah, Riverside is HUGE and along w/being HUGE it is SMOKE FREE everywhere on the property.You can't even go to your car and smoke. I smoke. I had 2 cigarettes yesterday while I was there. The first one was in the parking garage hiding between SUVs..It took me 7 minutes to get there, 7 minutes to smoke the cig and another 7 minutes getting back to the department. Last one was about an hour and a half later, when a friend rode me around the block in her car before she left for the night.

Now 2 more days to have to go in...this will not be pretty

Working at home

Yep, I work at home! I've been home for 8 yrs sitting here at my desk coding away and becoming a hermit....
I don't get out much....Mike's days off are Mon & Tues. My days off are Fri & Sat. I may go grocery shopping w/him, or to the bank and once in a while, if I get done early enough, we'll take a ride on Mon evenings or go and have a beer and dinner at the local dive here. But, that's about it. I've got my monthly meetings at the hospital and once in a great while, I will take him to work and use the car and go see one of my friends.
That's the worst thing about working from home. I miss my friends. I miss the socializing we did when I worked at the hospital. That's who most of my friends are, the girls at work. First Riverside and now Grant. I used to see them a lot more till we moved out here to the south shores of Buckeye Ocean. But, it's not as easy for them now to just stop by, like they did when we lived in the big city of Columbus. It's a "road trip" now... It's an overnighter, now and has to be planned well in advance......sadly they are few and far between...
Ask me if I would ever go back to working in an office? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!!! We are saving tons of money by me working at home. Gas, wardrobe, lunch and mileage on the car are all moot points w/me working from here. I don't have to get out of my pjs, I can smoke and I can even do some house things while I'm working. If I didn't work from home, there is no way in hell we would have moved soo far from Columbus...there's no way we could afford it! And I LIKE being able to walk from the living room 20, 25 feet and end up at work! I LIKE being able to walk 15 feet or so to get to the front door to sit on the porch and have a cig. I don't miss rush hour traffic!! I don't miss the BS in an office setting, the back stabbing and the oneupmanship of that place! But....I miss my friends..