Rude Monday

Isn’t it always the way, that when you have a particularly good weekend – restful, lazy and as relaxed as can be had with two kids – that the following Monday is going to be particularly wretched? I had a customer at work that had made it his mission for the day to vent his frustrations at his own ineptitude on me. He called three times: the first time he got me at random, the last two he asked for me personally…

I picked up Clara from daycare, and was met with the news that she had been running a fever and that they would not have her back until she had seen the doctor. Great. The only thing that’s going to be able to take us at that time is going to be the after-hours clinic. DeAnn decided to get a quick pizza from Little Caesar’s, and after a quick supper we sat in the clinic waiting room. After about an hour and a half of waiting, we were called back to have her vitals taken and were shown to an examination room. She was running a fever of 103.3, worse than the 101.8 she had when I picked her up.

Another half hour or so waiting in the exam room and we finally saw the doctor. After looking in her ears, nose and throat, and after much poking and prodding to ensure she was sufficiently squishy, he sent for a nurse to have a strep and influenza test run. That was a trick: she did not want to open her mouth to get swabbed. I had to trick her with the Tylenol syrup to open up and she quickly got the swab in. All tests came back negative, and to the doctor’s amazement, he couldn’t tell us why she was running a fever when everything else looked so healthy. Summary: 3+ hours waiting, pocketbook punch, take 2 teaspoons of Tylenol syrup and call in the morning. -.-

So, needless to say, we neither went to sky, nor did we go after any AF stuff. What little time we did spend in game, Keri checked her chocobo and got a rank up for all the campaign shenanigans (I had gotten mine several days prior), I bought out all the Moat Carp on the AH and turned in nearly 30 stacks of fish. That put me over the 6k/10k mark. Finished off the evening with a 15 minute campaign battle for 1k limit points.

Static is tomorrow, hoping I can ding 50 so I can learn Freeze. Also hoping my supervisor doesn’t fire me or my coworkers won’t kill me for skipping work yet again this month. On the bright side, I did hear back from the seller of the Cisco equipment I purchased earlier this month. Apparently, the check had gotten stuck in a newspaper in his mail and he found it after I replied to his non-payment complaint. I'm just glad it's on the way.