What A Weekend!
Before I get fairly into my work today, I need to review the weekend. It was an 'experience' and one I hope not to repeat anytime soon.
Thursday night/Friday morning I went to the East Side Sleep Clinic to have my pressure checked. I have sleep apnea, and I've been waking up nightly of late. So I thought I would get it checked and see if a pressure change was needed.
Because 'sleeping' in a sleep clinic is difficult, I arranged to work from home Friday so I could go back to sleep after I got home. Unfortunately, when I went to start up my computer I was met with Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death." My hard drive had crashed, and it is only 7 months old! A telephone call to the support people confirmed that it is well and truly dead. They'll have a new one out today or tomorrow and installed. Then I get to rebuild the software. Oh, joy!
Also, my wife has been incapacitated for several days, the worst being Thursday through Sunday. She can barely walk. Some muscle in her hip or buttocks has been strained in some way, and she is in excruciating pain. So I had to fill in for her and care for her. I don't mind it; she's a wife I adore. Still, it kept the weekend busy.
Saturday the phone was out. Oh, we have cell phones, but our landlines were all out. Don't know why. Interestingly, we have DSL, and that was working fine throughout the outage. Still, there were calls I wanted to make, people I wanted to catch up with or touch base with, especially long distance, but that didn't happen.
One of my two dogs--Cora, the older one who is just ten--developed an aural hematoma; that's a swelling in her ear flap caused by a ruptured blood vessel and a filling of the area with blood. She doesn't seem to be in any pain. Still, I took her to the Vet on Saturday. He said she needs surgery; so I took her back this morning, and I'll pick her up tonight if all goes well.
Okay, it's not the most devastating weekend one could imagine. Still, it was quite hectic for me, and I have to admit that I'm glad to be back at work where things are calmer. We still need to get the hard drive fixed and do that work. We still don't know why the phone went out, though it came back to life yesterday, and I still have three or four calls to make to catch up with people and take care of some business.
So, those were the highlights of my weekend.
On a general note, I want to say to anyone out there reading this blog that I intend to be much more faithful in posting, even if it's only a few lines, for awhile. Writing is a kind of therapy that I've gotten away from of late, and I need the therapy right now. So I'm gonna write whatever is up for me at the moment.
As always, your comments are welcome.
Thursday night/Friday morning I went to the East Side Sleep Clinic to have my pressure checked. I have sleep apnea, and I've been waking up nightly of late. So I thought I would get it checked and see if a pressure change was needed.
Because 'sleeping' in a sleep clinic is difficult, I arranged to work from home Friday so I could go back to sleep after I got home. Unfortunately, when I went to start up my computer I was met with Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death." My hard drive had crashed, and it is only 7 months old! A telephone call to the support people confirmed that it is well and truly dead. They'll have a new one out today or tomorrow and installed. Then I get to rebuild the software. Oh, joy!
Also, my wife has been incapacitated for several days, the worst being Thursday through Sunday. She can barely walk. Some muscle in her hip or buttocks has been strained in some way, and she is in excruciating pain. So I had to fill in for her and care for her. I don't mind it; she's a wife I adore. Still, it kept the weekend busy.
Saturday the phone was out. Oh, we have cell phones, but our landlines were all out. Don't know why. Interestingly, we have DSL, and that was working fine throughout the outage. Still, there were calls I wanted to make, people I wanted to catch up with or touch base with, especially long distance, but that didn't happen.
One of my two dogs--Cora, the older one who is just ten--developed an aural hematoma; that's a swelling in her ear flap caused by a ruptured blood vessel and a filling of the area with blood. She doesn't seem to be in any pain. Still, I took her to the Vet on Saturday. He said she needs surgery; so I took her back this morning, and I'll pick her up tonight if all goes well.
Okay, it's not the most devastating weekend one could imagine. Still, it was quite hectic for me, and I have to admit that I'm glad to be back at work where things are calmer. We still need to get the hard drive fixed and do that work. We still don't know why the phone went out, though it came back to life yesterday, and I still have three or four calls to make to catch up with people and take care of some business.
So, those were the highlights of my weekend.
On a general note, I want to say to anyone out there reading this blog that I intend to be much more faithful in posting, even if it's only a few lines, for awhile. Writing is a kind of therapy that I've gotten away from of late, and I need the therapy right now. So I'm gonna write whatever is up for me at the moment.
As always, your comments are welcome.
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