Here we go again
Monday, April 4th, 2011 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI was in the office late this morning after going for a blood test. I hate blood tests, but if you accede to let the quack do one every 18 months or so, they just shut up and leave you alone for the rest of the time, which is fine by me. I wouldn’t mind the 12 hour fast before hand – I’m asleep for most of it anyway, but not being able to drink tea is a pain. Still.
Of course, while the quack is after various bodily fluids, they like to get you to pee in something, too. I was expecting a jar or something similar as in the past, but it appears in today’s health service, that you get some sort of syringe-like contraption that frankly, gives me the fear. On the plus side, it stops a person fretting over the blood test.
I haven’t used it yet. Despite making sure I had a good drink of water before I went out, there was no way I could manage anything in the doctor’s surgery and even if that hadn’t been the case I think I should need time to prepare mentally for this torture device.
Yesterday we spent an abnormal amount of the afternoon shifting stuff around the spare bedroom/study. This started innocently enough with Furtle saying “let’s move the filing cabinet” and went down hill from there.
It goes like this: on Wednesday we are taking delivery of a new sofa. This means that we need to put the futon somewhere else. After some measuring we agreed that it would be a tight fit, but it would go in the study if we shifted things around a bit. So we dismantle some freestanding shelving, redistribute the items on it around the room and then move the two-drawer filing cabinet. So far, so good. Then we moved a couple of boxes and turned our attention to the small fridge we keep up there for cold drinks. Just too wide. So we move Furtle’s desk a little. Then we move the filing cabinet over.
Fantastic.
But now there is nowhere to put the router and the cable is not long enough to stretch across to the top of the filing cabinet or fridge and anyway, there is no spare power socket around there.
So the only option is to detach all the router cable from the skirting board and wind it around the room in the other direction, meaning that there is now enough cable, but we need to move my desk and computer to gain access.
All the time we are doing this, the door has to be shut to keep the cat out and we can’t reach the window to open it and let air in.
It took all afternoon. Bear this in mind if anyone says to you, “let’s just move the filing cabinet.”
Of course, while the quack is after various bodily fluids, they like to get you to pee in something, too. I was expecting a jar or something similar as in the past, but it appears in today’s health service, that you get some sort of syringe-like contraption that frankly, gives me the fear. On the plus side, it stops a person fretting over the blood test.
I haven’t used it yet. Despite making sure I had a good drink of water before I went out, there was no way I could manage anything in the doctor’s surgery and even if that hadn’t been the case I think I should need time to prepare mentally for this torture device.
Yesterday we spent an abnormal amount of the afternoon shifting stuff around the spare bedroom/study. This started innocently enough with Furtle saying “let’s move the filing cabinet” and went down hill from there.
It goes like this: on Wednesday we are taking delivery of a new sofa. This means that we need to put the futon somewhere else. After some measuring we agreed that it would be a tight fit, but it would go in the study if we shifted things around a bit. So we dismantle some freestanding shelving, redistribute the items on it around the room and then move the two-drawer filing cabinet. So far, so good. Then we moved a couple of boxes and turned our attention to the small fridge we keep up there for cold drinks. Just too wide. So we move Furtle’s desk a little. Then we move the filing cabinet over.
Fantastic.
But now there is nowhere to put the router and the cable is not long enough to stretch across to the top of the filing cabinet or fridge and anyway, there is no spare power socket around there.
So the only option is to detach all the router cable from the skirting board and wind it around the room in the other direction, meaning that there is now enough cable, but we need to move my desk and computer to gain access.
All the time we are doing this, the door has to be shut to keep the cat out and we can’t reach the window to open it and let air in.
It took all afternoon. Bear this in mind if anyone says to you, “let’s just move the filing cabinet.”
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Date: 2011-04-04 01:03 pm (UTC)(shudder)
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Date: 2011-04-04 01:22 pm (UTC)I mean there's no needle, but even so...
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Date: 2011-04-04 02:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-04 06:49 pm (UTC)