Escapade Con

It's hump day! We're almost halfway there! We're one day closer to the weekend (which for us looks like it's going to be a weather filled weekend.

We're still about 3-4 days out from the storm, so I don't know how accurate the forecast is yet, but they're talking about upwards of 12", maybe closer to 20?!?! That's a lot of fucking snow. The temp is going to be in the teens, so they're saying probably powdery snow, with a decent amount of wind. I have nowhere to go after the projected start time. I do have to go get my hair cut on Saturday morning, but that should be fine. Then, we have game til 3. I think the snow is supposed to start in the evening, so we might have time to go grab dinner. It's restaurant week, but we haven't made it anywhere. Then we shall hunker down and relax and wait to see how much snow we end up with. It's going to snow all day Sunday, so it's a good time for hot cocoa and maybe some baking. We'll see. I've been low key wanting to make my cinnamon rolls again. I might need to get some more yeast first, though. I need to see how long it's good for. Apparently it's only good for a couple months, so yeah, I'll need another small jar of yeast. I want my rolls to plump up nicely.

Yesterday was busy at work. Mostly answering calls, though I did fill in a few cardiac slots. Apparently the Columbia office is going to start doing Cardiac MRIs, which is awesome. We're booking into April, so all the help they can give would be great. The tricky part is that they're only doing limited diagnoses. There's a list of about 15 things that they will see patients for.

Right now, that's perfectly fine, as I'm the only one filling these in, and I can read and follow directions. But in the coming weeks, they're going to open it to general scheduling. And then, it is going to be a clusterfuck. I like my coworkers, but some of them are dumb as hell. We're going to mess up the template right off the bat. And then there's the fact that some patients schedule through mychart. I have no faith that the system will be able to understand what Columbia wants. In this case, since these are my circus and my monkey, I'm a little bit nervous about how it's going to go. Because if it goes poorly, it's probably mine to fix.

While I wait for my "rather soon" pay bump, I did apply with another dept for a supervisory position. It's in our concierge office, which would probably be a handful. I don't want to leave Radiology, but I do want more money. I figure if I were to get it, I could come back to Radiology and ask for a counter offer. That's what the assistant manager suggested, at least.

We watched the first episode of Heated Rivalry last night. I really enjoyed it. Not sure if I'm going to end up fannish about it, but we'll see!

I'm very much ready for a vacation. I've still got 106 days to go. Though the NY day trip is in 87 days, so that's good. I'm looking forward to both trips. I've not been to a Broadway play in New York in *forever*, so that's exciting. I think our last one was to see Joey Fatone in Rent, probably...15 years ago? Maybe?

I do want to start going more often. I really enjoyed Phantom when we saw it in Baltimore a few months ago. I liked Rent. I want to see Hadestown and maybe Beetlejuice, so that'll be on my list.

And of course, I cannot wait for Alaska. It's going to be so relaxing and fun. I'm looking forward to every part of it, except the flights. I'm not a fan of flying, so that might be a bit sucky. I wonder what we'll be able to see from the plane, though. Will we fly south enough to see the Grand Canyon? Will we be able to see the Rockies? What does the Pacific ocean look like? I've never been further west than Texas.

If the flight goes well, I may consider doing more things in the future. Spur of the moment trips to different places. Like Boston or Toronto. Then, in the fall, we have CONfab in Chicago, which should be fun.

And on that note, I have some CONfab news to post, so I'm going to go forth and do that. Everyone have an amazing Wednesday!

IT's Tuesday! We made it through Monday!

Mind you, work is probably going to be 300x busier today than yesterday. Though yesterday they kept me busy with callbacks and filling slots. I won't say the day flew by, but they kept me busy enough that it didn't drag, so that's good. I took a few calls, but not many. Most of them were outbound.

After work, I finally cooked those steaks. Denver cut steaks=really fucking good. I did exactly what the internet told me. Sear on high, then move it to the oven for about 15min on 350. It worked out perfectly. It was still juicy and delcious and very tender. IF you have it available, it's a much cheaper alternative to a strip steak.

I managed to drop our heavy ass wooden serving platter onto my foot yesterday. It was propped up and just tipped over onto my instep. It's sore and a bit bruised today, which is annoying. Considering the monster size and the patch of spikes to hold your meat in place, I'm lucky that it was just a bruise. It hurts to walk and I'm sure putting a shoe on to take the doggo out is going to be unpleasant.

I may cook tonight or I may do carryout. I found a new Italian place to try, so I'm tempted. I should do what I planned and make chicken with a piccata pasta. I have to look at our white wine. I don't know if I have any that isn't sweet, so I may need to postpone that til tomorrow night.

Tomorrow, I have nothing planned, though Jess has a game, which is cool. It's nice to be slowly restarting games now that poisontaster is feeling better. Thursday, I have a virtual game night to attend for work.

This weekend, they're talking about a "major snow event" for us. It's still early, so that could change, but right now, I'm seeing anywhere from 5-13". It's supposed to start slow on Saturday morning, and then really pick up towards the afternoon and evening. (I, of course, have an appt to get my hair cut at 10am, so we'll see.) Then, on Sunday, we're due for another few inches. Not looking forward to that. It'll be super pretty, but goddamn that's a lot of snow to clean off the cars.

We're down to 107 days til the cruise, and it's time to start looking at all the shit I want to do in Vancouver and Seattle. I know Seattle we're doing the Space Needle for the BIL and then Pike's Place Market for me, but Vancouver is a little less structured.

I know I want to do the Flyover Candad and Iceland rides at the place in Canada Place. I'd like to see the steam clock do it's hourly thing, Granville Island for lunch, and then maybe a bit of Stanley Park. We're going to get tickets to the hop on hop off bus, which will take us around town. Night one, we're eating at the ARC Restaurant, which is right across the street from our hotel.

Breakfasts will be in the club room. They also serve snacks and nightly hors d'oeuvres, so that could also be good. Depending on how tired I am, those may be dinner.

It's only one half day in Seattle and a full day in Vancouver, so it's not much time. We're coming in on the 7th, early and will have 4 hours in Seattle, then up to Vancouver we shall go. The next day, we can explore Vancouver, and then on the 9th, the ship sails.

I set the schedule according to my internal clock, which means getting up early a lot. For the flight to Seattle, we need to leave at 4:30am to get to the airport. To get on the boat, I'm figuring no later than 8am. We need to get breakfast, have the porters pick up our luggage, with a port arrival time around 11:30, so I'd like to leave about 10:30 to have time to get down there and through the maze of the check in and customs. Since we're going on a cruise that goes to the US, we need to clear American customs to get on the boat.

Then, it'l be thermal spas and mimosa's for the rest of the week.

And now, sad that I sill have 107 days until said 4:30am departure, it's time to get myself together. Everyone have an excellent Tuesday!