Sleepless Nights
Yesterday was a good day with good news. Today is a bad day with bad news.
It all started at 3am this morning. I am on call and they were making a big change to the lab system at the hospital. Well at 3 am I get a page about the lab needing some of my network services. So I call back and hear that it's two problems and not just one. I fix the first problem easy enough and ask if the second is a priority and needs to be fixed that night or could it wait till morning. They said they would call me back. So it's by this time 3:30. I stay awake with much difficulty till about 4:30 am. At which point I decided that if it did need to be fixed in the same day they would have called me by then. But unfortunately for me I'm now fully awake and had a very difficult time falling back asleep.
My sleep was then hounded by dreams of not hearing my pager and getting put on probation at work. These days one does not have to do much to be put on leave without pay probation. So I would wake up every half hour and check my pager to make sure I hadn't missed a page. Good thing is I hadn't missed a single page. Bad thing is woke up at 7 this morning with a killer head ache.
There is plenty of other bad news in the world and in my life but it will remain between my ears for the time being.
There is one bit of good news. I moved my vacation back to ensure that i will have a pass port. i still haven't reserved my ticket but the prices aren't going up. thanks goodness. i just have to figure out if i want to be there for a whole weekend and fly on during the week or arive there on saturday and leave on saturday... i think i will fly mid week. turns out i have enough PTO to take 48 hours of vacation.
It all started at 3am this morning. I am on call and they were making a big change to the lab system at the hospital. Well at 3 am I get a page about the lab needing some of my network services. So I call back and hear that it's two problems and not just one. I fix the first problem easy enough and ask if the second is a priority and needs to be fixed that night or could it wait till morning. They said they would call me back. So it's by this time 3:30. I stay awake with much difficulty till about 4:30 am. At which point I decided that if it did need to be fixed in the same day they would have called me by then. But unfortunately for me I'm now fully awake and had a very difficult time falling back asleep.
My sleep was then hounded by dreams of not hearing my pager and getting put on probation at work. These days one does not have to do much to be put on leave without pay probation. So I would wake up every half hour and check my pager to make sure I hadn't missed a page. Good thing is I hadn't missed a single page. Bad thing is woke up at 7 this morning with a killer head ache.
There is plenty of other bad news in the world and in my life but it will remain between my ears for the time being.
There is one bit of good news. I moved my vacation back to ensure that i will have a pass port. i still haven't reserved my ticket but the prices aren't going up. thanks goodness. i just have to figure out if i want to be there for a whole weekend and fly on during the week or arive there on saturday and leave on saturday... i think i will fly mid week. turns out i have enough PTO to take 48 hours of vacation.