3:51 am

Alrighty then, long, long past due and with all my dear readers having abandoned ship and headed for more fish-ful waters, here i am at long long last.  It's 3:51 a.m. and i'm listening to the sounds of snoring on one side of the hall and quiet and peace on the other side - aaah, blessed sleep.  I'd love to be sleeping at present but alas and alack, i must remain awake to care for my charges.  Thankfully, this shift is going well (where's some wood to knock on??  Just kidding of course!) and i'm looking forward to a weekend again.  It's super hard to believe that it's already the weekend - i just turn around and there it is...that's a good thing but it's just hard to think about just how fast time flies.  I realized the other day, i'm definitely not very good at relaxing - always seem to see some job somewhere or something to do or write or call or clean up.  Oh, don't get me wrong, i certainly can wile away time with the best of them - watching movies or tv programs from the library, but in general, i think i'm usually a fairly productive person. 
Take yesterday, well, okay, Wednesday for an example - sure it took me a little while to get going in the morning, but when i got going, it was good.  It's the year when all the important documents in my life are due to be renewed - License, Health card and Passport.  That takes a bit ot thinking to get all the important IDs together to get that all sorted out.  So i had my hair cut on Wednesday afternoon (all 45993 of them actually) and then since my hair was looking kinda good, i decided to get my license and health card pics done.  Fortunately for me, there was a Service Ontario kiosk right down the road from my hairdresser's and right down the road from that, there was my photography place so i got my passport photos done too.  I have no clue if they'll look any good after the effort (and i thought kinda clever working out of the situation) but it was worth a try - the norm would have been showing up with my hair all over the place and looking like a rat's nest and having to live with that lovely image for the next four or five years.  Aaah, it's a bit of a game eh, see how bad we can make people look on their photos...That's probably good right?  I wonder if customs officials think it's amusing how bad passport photos are - "Hey Bill, check this one out, doesn't look anything like the real thing!". 
Plus, in the veins of efficiency, i finally got my funding request completed to get reimbursed for the oncology exam which i wrote in April.  It's a fair chunk of money and the paperwork was fairly complicated to get it all right... an original of this receipt, a photocopy of that, fill out this form online and then print it out and send it all in - and then would it all fit in one envelope - the nice Canada Post lady was quite helpful and let me get away with a bit of a pudgy envelope (i did my level best to squish it down much to her amusement).  So now it's a wait and see game - but at least that's all done - and in order to do all that, i had to install my new printer - another interesting endeavour involving me sprawled out on my office floor trying to see what step came next - but in the end, it was all good and my $9.00 printer is working just fine - who knows how long it willl last but that only time will tell.
Anyhow, that's about all the blabbing i can do for now because my poor eyelids are drooping and i should probably go and check on my patients (a good excuse for getting the old bones moving!)  Tot ziens!