Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.....

This is been an interesting day.

I dropped off the new car for a scheduled maintenance at the dealership. The service manager promised me that when it was ready I would be called. Then he tried to sell me a brand-new set of tires, to the tune of $1600! Thank you, no.

I had their courtesy car service drop me at the hospital so I can have a light breakfast, and to update my registration with the latest version of the electronic medical record that they use, now which will be cloud-based. I had to get this done by tomorrow when it goes live. Then it was off to the office to get paperwork done followed by a very busy afternoon seeing patients.

At 7 o'clock I sent both the last of my staff and the last of the patients out the door, only to realize once everyone pulled away that the dealership had never called and I had no vehicle. To add insult to injury, while I was trying to get the dealership on the phone, labor and delivery called. I had someone in labor & no way to get there. Fortunately for me it was her first child and I had hours to get there. (She delivered at 1 am, which is why I'm still awake). Mama, whom I delivered once upon a time and her little one are doing just fine.

I called the dealership to find the service department was closed, so I called sales and got ugly. They sent someone over with a loaner car.

I'm going to try to get some shut eye now. Will continue this in the morning.

More on last night....

When all was said and done last night, I walked out of the hospital at 3 AM. This however, was not before having 2 cups of coffee to be certain I would be able to make the drive home. Unfortunately this also made it so I was absolutely wide-awake when I got home and it was time to go to bed.

I have a meeting in San Jose later this afternoon and so I decided to pack what I needed last night. This of course meant rummaging around in the closet for a little bit, selecting clothing.

While in the closet I decided to try on an old Levi's denim shirt, Labeled IIx. Much to my surprise, bordering on shock, it fits. Part of the reason I'm so surprised since I had it on approximately a month ago, and at that time I figured I had at least 40 pounds to lose before it would be wearable. Well, I was wrong; it's fits now. Finding that it fit prompted me to look at my oilskin drover coat. It's got to be a dozen years ago that I bought this thing. We were in the middle of a very wet winter, and I was all of 250 pounds. The oilskin is actually a cotton cloth that's been impregnated with a water repellent oil, & the coat was pattern after the drover style of coach popular in Australia. I like its distinctive style, & that winter was very helpful given the amount of rain we had. It's a double X. I tried the thing on about a month and a half two months ago and again figured I would not be anywhere near being able to wear it at this point. Well, were we having much rain (and with our drought we're not), I would actually be able to wear it again. That news nearly knocked me over.

The two major discoveries in my closet where exactly the thing that my psyche needed last night. I've been on a plateau for the last couple of weeks which has been on a small level somewhat discouraging. Further, patient care over the past week, plus having had my ankle injected on Monday rather um, shall we say vigorously, has kept me from the gym since last Sunday & that's getting me rather frustrated.

That's all for now. Patient care awaits. Will post about the car later