Kevin's Watch

Good luck with your shots, Sarge.

I am up right now because with my new CGM (continous glucose monitor), I've had a bitch of a time controlling my blood sugar level overnight. Tonight is a good example. I was really high because I decided to have a shake with the kids before I go away for a week, so I took some insulin to bring that down. Well, apparently it did too good a job because I "bottomed out" (went way too low) so my monitor woke me up so I could come down and get some food to counteract the low level (I dropped roughly 200 points in a little over 2 hours) before it really gets too low. Has happened every second or third night since I got this thing, sometimes without the extra shot of insulin, and many times went I was not too high to begin with. Been very difficult to control.

The battle rages on...

thank and good luck with your battle. my brother is type 1 and having a horrible time right now.

off to shower and head to the surgery center.

Good luck at the doc's today, Sarge.

Rob --

rdhopeca wrote:Good luck with your shots, Sarge.

I am up right now because with my new CGM (continous glucose monitor), I've had a bitch of a time controlling my blood sugar level overnight. Tonight is a good example. I was really high because I decided to have a shake with the kids before I go away for a week, so I took some insulin to bring that down. Well, apparently it did too good a job because I "bottomed out" (went way too low) so my monitor woke me up so I could come down and get some food to counteract the low level (I dropped roughly 200 points in a little over 2 hours) before it really gets too low. Has happened every second or third night since I got this thing, sometimes without the extra shot of insulin, and many times went I was not too high to begin with. Been very difficult to control.

The battle rages on...

Wow, that must be a real struggle.

Good luck to all who are in need.

I need a vacation...

everything went well. I am back to post and mod.

Good to hear, Sarge.

Sorus wrote:I need a vacation...

You should take one.

I'm glad there's a three-day weekend at the end of this week. It'll be crazy after that -- I've picked up another partner temporarily and am supposed to start working for someone in New Business next week. That last one makes me a little nervous. I've had some dealings with her in the past, and she tends to treat most things like a fire drill. I suspect I'll be spending a fair amount of time calming her down.

Still no definitive word on additional staffing for the Denver office. Sigh...

aliantha wrote: Still no definitive word on additional staffing for the Denver office. Sigh...

Kick 'em.

Maybe you've made yourself too valuable. Slack.

Cagliostro wrote:

aliantha wrote: Still no definitive word on additional staffing for the Denver office. Sigh...

Kick 'em.

Maybe you've made yourself too valuable. Slack.

That's the next tactic on my list. I knew it was gonna be a mistake to tell the secretarial manager I was bored, but I went and did it anyway. I was hoping maybe it would prompt her to figure out a way to get me to Denver and out of her hair, but instead she's loading me up with other people to work for.

aliantha wrote:

Cagliostro wrote:

aliantha wrote: Still no definitive word on additional staffing for the Denver office. Sigh...

Kick 'em.

Maybe you've made yourself too valuable. Slack.

That's the next tactic on my list. I knew it was gonna be a mistake to tell the secretarial manager I was bored, but I went and did it anyway. I was hoping maybe it would prompt her to figure out a way to get me to Denver and out of her hair, but instead she's loading me up with other people to work for.

Why not just ask to go to denver?

Because the office right now is very small -- just one attorney and his secretary. It's been open for less than a year and we're having to build a practice there from the ground up. I've told Secretarial several times now that I want to be transferred out there when something comes available. And I'm keeping an eye on the internal job postings. But that's all I can do right now.

I keep trying to get back to ramsey (where I spent 10 years)

the captain (kitchen) there just joined me as a sergeant on my unit. and no I do not want to be captain anywhere. '

back still sore from injections.

aliantha wrote:
You should take one.

I'm glad there's a three-day weekend at the end of this week. It'll be crazy after that -- I've picked up another partner temporarily and am supposed to start working for someone in New Business next week. That last one makes me a little nervous. I've had some dealings with her in the past, and she tends to treat most things like a fire drill. I suspect I'll be spending a fair amount of time calming her down.

Still no definitive word on additional staffing for the Denver office. Sigh...

If only I could. Over a month of vacation time gathering dust because they won't let me take it.

Good luck on the Denver thing.

aliantha wrote:

Cagliostro wrote:

aliantha wrote: Still no definitive word on additional staffing for the Denver office. Sigh...

Kick 'em.

Maybe you've made yourself too valuable. Slack.

That's the next tactic on my list. I knew it was gonna be a mistake to tell the secretarial manager I was bored, but I went and did it anyway. I was hoping maybe it would prompt her to figure out a way to get me to Denver and out of her hair, but instead she's loading me up with other people to work for.

You went looking for trouble telling the manager that.

Damelon wrote:

aliantha wrote:

Cagliostro wrote: Kick 'em.

Maybe you've made yourself too valuable. Slack.

That's the next tactic on my list. I knew it was gonna be a mistake to tell the secretarial manager I was bored, but I went and did it anyway. I was hoping maybe it would prompt her to figure out a way to get me to Denver and out of her hair, but instead she's loading me up with other people to work for.

You went looking for trouble telling the manager that.

Yeah, I know. Shoulda kept my mouth shut.

What's annoying is that the partners spend a fair amount of time working with the associate attorneys -- getting them training, making sure their work is challenging, giving them more responsibility as they gain more experience, etc. There's a career path for 'em, in other words. But for secretaries, the only career path is into a different department where there's an actual opportunity for advancement. If you don't want to do that, they just give you more people to work for. Ah well. I pretty much knew that was the case when I took the job. It worked for me when I started because I was raising the kids by myself -- I needed a stable job that paid pretty well. But that was almost 15 years ago. I never figured I'd stay this long.

What I need is a different job, I guess. I've got options, but they're either impractical or unappealing. Bleah. I'll quit whining now...

Whine away. That sort of situation sucks, and I feel better when other people complain about work here. See, you're helping.

Had kind of a strange evening.

I've got a bit of a cold, and today my nose was running like crazy. I took an antihistamine to stop that around 9 or 10am this morning, then spent the afternoon tired and headachy because of the side effects. When I got home I read for a little while but then stopped and decided to have a lie down on the couch for a bit.

When I woke up, I was groggy and disoriented and fully convinced it was tomorrow morning. The clock said 6:30, so I thought I'd luckily woken up at a time I'd still be able to get ready and go to work; I was confused about how I'd managed to sleep for 13 hours, in my clothes, on the couch, and missed dinner. I even started to tweet about how weird it was that I'd slept all through the night like that. It was only when I realised my phone didn't show any sign of my alarm having gone off that I looked at its clock and saw 18:40, and realised I'd only been asleep for about an hour and a half.

I had almost gotten undressed and taken a shower, and had been thinking about my breakfast and sorting out sandwiches for lunch.

It's like waking up on a Saturday and thinking it's a week day.

--A

Back when I was working graveyard shifts I would sometimes look at the time, then have to look out the window to determine AM or PM.

my favorite was working 4pm to 12 mid, getting to bed at 2am, getting up at 5am to move your car for alternate side, staggering back to bed after searching for an hour for parking, and then waking up at 10am without any idea where you parked the car. fun times......I miss it sooooo much.