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Now, that's better!
May. 17th, 2006 08:06 amIt was time for me to cut the bedtime muscle relaxant in half and man, does that make a difference. I'm awake after only 6 hours of sleep! Not just out of bed and stumbling around, actually awake! If I'd known how much that was affecting me, I would have cut it last week. I lost track of when the month of the full dose ended. It might have been last week or this one. In any case, it seems that was what caused my fatigue.
I think I missed posting a humorous story or two over the last while.
The first was me chasing every UPS truck in my area trying to find a shipment they messed up and sent to Oakland instead of my house on the day it was supposed to arrive. I'd had to wait for payday to order a print of my Scampi sketch for Minh, a guy I work with. He's the head person from the contractor I've worked for my entire internship so far and another company won the bid for the new contract. He loves the Scampi sketch poster I have in my cubicle and would stand there looking at it up close telling me it was amazing how I did that. So of course I had to order one for him before he left! The posters are pretty cheap. Naturally, UPS messed up when I didn't have an extra day to wait before Minh's last day. As I left for work, I saw a UPS truck turn into the next neighborhood and I chased it. The delivery guy was really nice and checked for it. He didn't have it. He explained there are two trucks that service my area. His was the priority Early AM delivery stuff. The other guy had the regular shipments. I didn't see that truck. So I came home for lunch to see if there was a package. Nope. On the way out I saw a truck pull into the strip mall with the Avon outlet. Wouldn't you know it was the same driver? Grrr. As I pulled back into the street another UPS truck went past me the other direction! I did a turn around in a parking lot and found him on the block before mine, knocking on a door. I waited until he finished delivering that package and asked him if he had mine. He did! YAY! Minh was touched that I'd buy one for him and asked me to sign it. I did. Then his company protested the contract process and as a result, the contract has been extended three times. Minh is still with us. Last week I was home when a shipment came, delivered by the first guy I'd bothered twice. He asked if I ever caught up with the other guy. I told him I had and thanked him for asking. :)
The second humorous story is one of my "D'Oh!" moments. I was heading out to PT last week and I had my arms full of school books, work clothes, my bottle of water and a diet Pepsi plus my shoes. I was wearing workout clothes with sandals. Since I move computers around, I can't wear sandals at work and have safe toes. I couldn't unlock the door of my car with so many things in my arms so I set one shoe on the roof of my car until I unloaded some things. The fatigue has affected my short-term memory and it wasn't until I was nearly to the freeway that I noticed only one shoe sitting on the floor of the car. I'd been driving very gently and I felt the top of the car where it would be. No shoe. Now these are very scuffed up and worn out shoes and I do have a new pair, but when I'm crawling around on floors they're perfect. I don't want to ruin my new shoes. These were ruined very quickly last summer when I started this job. Because I didn't have time to go back, I called Eric who couldn't hold back a little laugh when I told him what I'd done. He checked the street in front of our house and down to the corner, but there was no shoe. He promised to watch for it on his way to work. Later I checked my email and had one from him saying, "What am I bid for a well-loved well-worn shoe?" He'd found it in the middle of the street about 20 feet after the second turn. Nobody had run over it and it didn't appear scuffed in anyplace other than where I'd done it crawling around on floors. YAY! He's my hero!
I think I missed posting a humorous story or two over the last while.
The first was me chasing every UPS truck in my area trying to find a shipment they messed up and sent to Oakland instead of my house on the day it was supposed to arrive. I'd had to wait for payday to order a print of my Scampi sketch for Minh, a guy I work with. He's the head person from the contractor I've worked for my entire internship so far and another company won the bid for the new contract. He loves the Scampi sketch poster I have in my cubicle and would stand there looking at it up close telling me it was amazing how I did that. So of course I had to order one for him before he left! The posters are pretty cheap. Naturally, UPS messed up when I didn't have an extra day to wait before Minh's last day. As I left for work, I saw a UPS truck turn into the next neighborhood and I chased it. The delivery guy was really nice and checked for it. He didn't have it. He explained there are two trucks that service my area. His was the priority Early AM delivery stuff. The other guy had the regular shipments. I didn't see that truck. So I came home for lunch to see if there was a package. Nope. On the way out I saw a truck pull into the strip mall with the Avon outlet. Wouldn't you know it was the same driver? Grrr. As I pulled back into the street another UPS truck went past me the other direction! I did a turn around in a parking lot and found him on the block before mine, knocking on a door. I waited until he finished delivering that package and asked him if he had mine. He did! YAY! Minh was touched that I'd buy one for him and asked me to sign it. I did. Then his company protested the contract process and as a result, the contract has been extended three times. Minh is still with us. Last week I was home when a shipment came, delivered by the first guy I'd bothered twice. He asked if I ever caught up with the other guy. I told him I had and thanked him for asking. :)
The second humorous story is one of my "D'Oh!" moments. I was heading out to PT last week and I had my arms full of school books, work clothes, my bottle of water and a diet Pepsi plus my shoes. I was wearing workout clothes with sandals. Since I move computers around, I can't wear sandals at work and have safe toes. I couldn't unlock the door of my car with so many things in my arms so I set one shoe on the roof of my car until I unloaded some things. The fatigue has affected my short-term memory and it wasn't until I was nearly to the freeway that I noticed only one shoe sitting on the floor of the car. I'd been driving very gently and I felt the top of the car where it would be. No shoe. Now these are very scuffed up and worn out shoes and I do have a new pair, but when I'm crawling around on floors they're perfect. I don't want to ruin my new shoes. These were ruined very quickly last summer when I started this job. Because I didn't have time to go back, I called Eric who couldn't hold back a little laugh when I told him what I'd done. He checked the street in front of our house and down to the corner, but there was no shoe. He promised to watch for it on his way to work. Later I checked my email and had one from him saying, "What am I bid for a well-loved well-worn shoe?" He'd found it in the middle of the street about 20 feet after the second turn. Nobody had run over it and it didn't appear scuffed in anyplace other than where I'd done it crawling around on floors. YAY! He's my hero!
