Greetings and salutations! It’s wonderful to see you here again. And wonderful to be seen.

These Days …

Speaking of seeing, I’d planned to have my first cataract surgery on Tuesday. I scheduled a week off from work for recovery. We put in a lot of work last week moving our previous housemate to her new apartment and rearranging our apartment to be available for a new housemate so that I wouldn’t be tempted to do anything physical this week. I had the date for the surgery but not the time. I was tol that the surgery center would call me with the time. At first I wasn’t told when they might call so I called a couple of times in previous weeks to get that time. I was told I needed to wait. They are short staffed and the surgery calender hadn’t been worked out for May yet. I was told that someone would call me two business days before the appointment.

Two business days was April 29th. Halfway through the day I got tired of waiting and called them. I was told by the doctor’s office that they would send a message to the surgery center to have someone call me. And no one did.

On Monday morning Sarah tried calling but couldn’t get through. I called during work breaks and got shuffled around but finally spoke to the surgery center. My name wasn’t on their list of patient scheduled for Tuesday. I called the doctor’s office, again, and was sent to the scheduler She checked. Yup. I hadn’t actually been scheduled.

The scheduler was apologetic. I sighed and got new dates from her. I think she was surprised that I didn’t rage at her. I didn’t see the point. Yelling at her wouldn’t have gotten me an appointment.

One of my frustrations here is that I don’t have a way to check their surgery schedule and no one I talked to checked for me. They made the assumption that I was scheduled and the surgery center would call me when they had a time. I sent the doctor’s office an email expressing my frustration with this situation and got another apology from the scheduler along with assurances that she would personally call me when my surgery time was determined.

Hopefully that will happen.

In the meantime this is my Long Week, the six day work week that occurs every six weeks because of our rotating days off. So I’m tired.

Mugshots

This weeks process gif is of a bookshelf of Cthulhu Mythos tomes. I think of this as the metal version of the books. I suspect that the books, if they actually existed would be more sedate looking. But what would be the fun in that?

As usual, this design is available on a mug in my Zazzle store and on all sorts of schtuff in my Redbubble store.

Here’s Licking at You!

I get a lot of ideas for designs while I am delivering mail. Most of them fade away after a few minutes. This one stuck with me until I had a chance to draw it.

This one is only on schtuff in my Redbubble store. It didn’t fit well on a mug.

That’s it for this week. I hope you are well and living your best life.

See you in seven!