Sorry, a short intermission in posting there.
Quick update:
1) The HR guy did not call from the interview. Shrug. I guess they found someone they liked better. It's a shame. I'm thinking of calling the interview guy tomorrow, just to ask him what's up.
2) Half a dozen more resumes sent out, no responses yet.
3) Went up to the mountains on Sunday, to do a little light gambling at the casinos and enjoy the weather, which finally turned nice. I won $66 on one machine, which makes me the Big Winner in the ongoing competition the R.C. and I run. (When you play penny and nickel machines, $66 counts as a huge win.)
4) After a week-long silence, She called with an emergency today. Sadly, I was unavailable until 3:00, by which time She'd already solved the problem Herself.
5) Why unavailable? Well, the pain started at 6:00 this morning and progressively got worse for the next three hours. Eventually even I can be taught, so I dragged my butt into the living room to tell the R.C. that I needed to go to the emergency room.
My fear was appendicitis, which seems to run in my Mom's family. I had all of the symptoms--pain in lower right quadrant of abdomen, upchucking, etc.
Anyhow, a few hours in the ER, some anti-nausea drugs and some pain-killers in an IV, and a CAT scan of my stomach later--I was diagnosed wtih a kidney stone. You know, I'd heard those are painful, but I had no idea what "pain" really meant before today.
This would probably have been a more entertaining entry if I wasn't currently doped up on narcotics, but I can't say I'm sorry.
Hope your day was better?
posted by AnneZook on 04.17.07 at 04:37 PMAlmost any day without a kidney stone beats one with; even paying taxes wasn't terribly traumatic this year (not only did we come out almost even, balancing federal and state returns, but the amounts owed in both directions were in the low three figures).
I did have a boss once who had migraines that were so bad he failed to realize he had a kidney stone until quite late in the process, because he'd been told the pain of the stones would be unprecedentedly excruciating....
Gearing up for the end of semester rush, and thinking about Virginia Tech.... oh, and trying to teach chess to a five-year-old. That's my life these days.
Hang in there!
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 04.17.07 at 05:30 PM [permalink]So, is the kidney stone gone? Or is it sitting back waiting for round two??
posted by: Dail on 04.17.07 at 06:38 PM [permalink]I haven't had a migraine since the mid-70s, Jonathan and I do remember the pain being devastating. But the more recent pain takes precedence in my brain. :)
Paying taxes sounds like a breeze in comparision. Especially since it sounds like you planned really well for this year!
(Chess? A five year-old? After he learns, can he teach me?)
posted by: Anne on 04.17.07 at 06:44 PM [permalink]I don't know, Dail. They said I was in for a rough couple of days but that the pain meds would help a lot. Right now, I'm so tanked up on percocet, I don't feel like there's anything wrong with me at all. :)
Tomorrow, I need to call that job place back and see why their HR guy never called. I can live with the usual, "we'll be in touch" from an interviewer who has a lot of prospects, but a "this guy will call you Friday" that doesn't materialize seems to me to leave me an opening to follow up. Right?
posted by: Anne on 04.17.07 at 06:46 PM [permalink]Yep, I'd sure follow up and see what happened with HR guy.
Hey, I've got good meds, too! *g* Lortabs so I can feel no pain in the arm...
Better living through chemistry....*bg*
posted by: Dail on 04.19.07 at 11:58 PM [permalink]Got a letter from the company yesterday saying they'd hired someone else. Shrug.
Oh, well. The way things are going, I guess it's good I didn't get a job yet. It's looking like I'm going to need to have time to go spend with my Mom.
posted by: Anne on 04.20.07 at 10:18 AM [permalink]Strategy is still a problem. But after a week of almost-daily playing, he's got the pieces' moves down, mostly. We're still playing for fun: I can only take one of his pieces if I ask first...
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 04.20.07 at 12:42 PM [permalink]Oh, and the taxes thing isn't so much a matter of planning as of having a very consistent set of revenues and deductions.... Dumb luck, really.
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 04.21.07 at 12:47 AM [permalink]