Labor Free Day

At least for me it is. Big Chain Pharmacy Store is open, and I know they’ve scheduled at least one tech to work. It would actually be a great day to have a shift on, since it’s the third day in a row that most doctors’ offices would be closed, meaning at this point there’d be virtually no new script to process. As for refills, (which are easy enough to do since all the informatino is already in the system), most people have picked theirs up already. People who go shopping on a holiday tend to do “fun” shopping, not pharmacy shopping. Whoever got today’s shift gets time and a half for a relatively easy day. Still, I’m glad it’s not me.

After work yesterday I went to pick up my new foster cat, Indiana. Don’t ask. I didn’t name him. My guess is that someone is a Harrison Ford fan, but maybe he just reminded someone of a cat they knew way back when when they lived in the hinterlands. He’s a young male who parted ways with the basic male parts as soon as he entered our system. A bit thin, with a coccidea infection that is currently being treated, he’s a grey tabby with white toes and an outgoing disposition. I felt a twinge of guilt letting him into Molly’s room, which is the first time I ever felt guilty about taking in a new foster. Then again, Molly didn’t get the chances that Indiana is going to get. Pictures will be forthcoming, but he hasn’t been here even 24 hours yet and I want to let him get settled before the papparazzi arrive.

Today I plan to head out to Home Despot, buy a few more MAPP Big Boys, and then finish making the recycled glass beads for my sister’s birthday present. I still have to look up how to anneal the recycled beads. They are turning out to be far more fragile than the soft glass beads I usually make, and I’ve lost close to 10% of them in the cooling process. I can see that a few others have cracks in them that mean they’re already lost; you can’t anneal visible cracks out of a bead without deforming it past usefulness.