![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Oof, what a day
I got caught at work this morning by a series of bomb threats leveled at six Class A airports across the country. I'm allowed to talk about it a bit because it hit the news pretty early on today. Luckily it was all false alarms, but I ended up staying an hour past the end of my shift. To say things were busy would be putting it mildly: the phone was ringing off the hook with calls from airports, from various internal departments, from our Director General, basically everyone and their cousin. It was a rather intense hour of overtime, I must say.
I had originally planned to stop by the vet to pick up more flea and tick medication for the dogs, and I also needed to pick up a couple of things from a local store, and I didn't want to put any of it off longer than I had to, especially the flea and tick meds. We live in the country now, and KK already found a stray tick in the house (not on any of the pets, luckily, and it didn't look like it had fed before it got terminated with extreme prejudice), so I want to make sure all the beasties are as well protected as I can manage.
So, long story short, by the time I got home it was 10:30, and I only got to sleep by about 11:30. Then I forced myself to get up at 16:00 so KK (with a bit of assistance from yours truly) could finish up the Murphy bed build. And finish we did! We put the doors on the desk/shelving part of the unit, and it is DONE. I didn't get a chance to set up my computer, so that is a problem for tomorrow!me, but I did manage to zip out to the slightly larger town for groceries. We live closer to a smaller town, but there is no grocery store there, which kind of defeats the purpose of going there to get groceries.
As a result, I am running on relatively little sleep, and I just realized that tomorrow morning at 9:00 I have a Ministry & Counsel meeting, so there won't be much sleep then either. At least I'll be able to "sleep in" during the evening if I want, until 8:00 or 9:00 pm even, if it's really necessary. Since I'm working 12 hour shifts all weekend, I will probably do that. Now that the bedroom is "ready" for sleep, I'll be able to cuddle up with the dogs to sleep, too, which is pretty great. The Brittanies are champion cuddlers, and as long as they are with me they are pretty happy to sleep quietly until I'm ready to get up. They may be hooligans, but they are also very sweet. To quote the internet of old: "They're good dogs, Brent."
In political news, it looks like the USA has voted to drastically cut its already pretty terrible medical system (Medicare and Medicaid) in favour of tax cuts, supposedly in the name of reducing fraud or waste, but in reality it's just... I don't know. It's definitely tax cuts for the wealthy, but I think there's a side order of "the cruelty is the point" and probably a lot of eugenics in there as well. The most vulnerable people use Medicare/Medicaid: the elderly, the very young, and the chronically disabled. So I assume the plan is to have a bunch of vulnerable people just... die, I guess. *sigh*
I had originally planned to stop by the vet to pick up more flea and tick medication for the dogs, and I also needed to pick up a couple of things from a local store, and I didn't want to put any of it off longer than I had to, especially the flea and tick meds. We live in the country now, and KK already found a stray tick in the house (not on any of the pets, luckily, and it didn't look like it had fed before it got terminated with extreme prejudice), so I want to make sure all the beasties are as well protected as I can manage.
So, long story short, by the time I got home it was 10:30, and I only got to sleep by about 11:30. Then I forced myself to get up at 16:00 so KK (with a bit of assistance from yours truly) could finish up the Murphy bed build. And finish we did! We put the doors on the desk/shelving part of the unit, and it is DONE. I didn't get a chance to set up my computer, so that is a problem for tomorrow!me, but I did manage to zip out to the slightly larger town for groceries. We live closer to a smaller town, but there is no grocery store there, which kind of defeats the purpose of going there to get groceries.
As a result, I am running on relatively little sleep, and I just realized that tomorrow morning at 9:00 I have a Ministry & Counsel meeting, so there won't be much sleep then either. At least I'll be able to "sleep in" during the evening if I want, until 8:00 or 9:00 pm even, if it's really necessary. Since I'm working 12 hour shifts all weekend, I will probably do that. Now that the bedroom is "ready" for sleep, I'll be able to cuddle up with the dogs to sleep, too, which is pretty great. The Brittanies are champion cuddlers, and as long as they are with me they are pretty happy to sleep quietly until I'm ready to get up. They may be hooligans, but they are also very sweet. To quote the internet of old: "They're good dogs, Brent."
In political news, it looks like the USA has voted to drastically cut its already pretty terrible medical system (Medicare and Medicaid) in favour of tax cuts, supposedly in the name of reducing fraud or waste, but in reality it's just... I don't know. It's definitely tax cuts for the wealthy, but I think there's a side order of "the cruelty is the point" and probably a lot of eugenics in there as well. The most vulnerable people use Medicare/Medicaid: the elderly, the very young, and the chronically disabled. So I assume the plan is to have a bunch of vulnerable people just... die, I guess. *sigh*