And finally, it's Friday! Whoohoo! It's time for the weekend!

Yesterday was a less busy day at work. I spent a fair amount of time off the phones filling in slots and calling back patients, which was nice.

They need to go ahead and announce that I've been promoted, because it seems that they're asking me to take more of a leadership role, and right now that's difficult, because I'm still listed as PASII, which is what everyone else is.

Case in point, J came to me and asked me to call a patient who needed a fairly tricky to schedule test. I open the chart, and the pt has behavioral flags, which is far less shocking than it sounds. This one was pretty bad, though. So I call, and get voice mail, and leave a message. In the meantime, I see that one of my coworkers is in the chart, and sure enough, she messages me.

I relayed the message that the insurance didn't require auth, so the pt could just be scheduled. And I went back to J and said that she had gotten the call and was taking care of the pt. J came back with "Oh, I don't think I love that." I said I'd double check her, and sent a message reminding her to watch the timing on the study. I got back a rather pissy message that she "Knows what she's doing."

Josh immediately told me to nicely tell her that she needed to send the call to me, because I'm "better suited for it." While I tried to find a nice way to ask that, the pt hung up on her and was "very rude."

I called her back, and a few minutes later, the pt called in again. This time, they got B (who definitely doesn't deserve to be involved in this shitshow. I immediately told her I'd take the pt, and she happily sent her my way.

After all that, the pt was perfectly nice with me. We also decided that they would prefer to be contacted via mychart rather than phone call. I am perfectly okay with forestalling future blow ups, so I agreed.

But yeah, if I'm going to be doing this, they need to make an announcement soon, so that I have some form of authority. (To be fair, I don't know if it would have helped with D. I've seen her push back on the other PASIII's when she asks questions and doesn't get the answer she wants.)

I'm going to mention it to J today and see when they are planning to announce it. I'm happy to take on more of a leadership role, I just need the people I'm leading to know that I'm not just putting on airs.

During lunch I did our taxes, so I'm done that for the year. I also burned the refund I'm getting by deciding to get new phones for everyone. I had a promotion for upgrading that made it $73/month for three Samsung S26 Ultras, so I went for it.

The cases were just delivered by Amazon, and the phones should probably come Monday. I wanted everyone to have a good camera for Alaska. Plus Jess and I both had older phones which weren't holding a charge nearly as well as they should. And I was almost out of storage, which considering how many pictures I'm going to take, would be a problem.

So, bigger hard drive, top of the line camera and a hopefully fast and useful phone. Wonder how much AI shit I'll need to turn off. I'm guessing probably a lot.

After work, we took the dog to the vet for his doggy flu shot. He did great with it. No whining after or anything. And he was so good! He has to have his second shot in 4 weeks, and then has to wait 2 weeks before we can board him. It's cutting it very close, and I'm a little concerned about how he's going to do with only one test run, but we'll give it a go.

I need to call the pet sitting company and set up for someone to come in and feed Boodle, so I'll do that today. I'm thinking three half hour visits daily. Plus a camera to keep watch on her. I'm worried about her being sad, but less so than Yoda. I will be giving her smooches all over her little face before we leave. She'll be so thrilled.

Today, I have work, then our Vecna game tonight, which is always fun. I think I'm making grilled cheese, which should be tasty. I haven't made them in a hot minute. We ended up ordering last night, since we were out getting Yoda his vaccine.

I didn't really get to watch any videos, but I have a couple queued up. One is about San Francisco Chinatown, and where to eat and one is about the Hawaiian airlines first class seats. I'm defintely looking at doing that for both flights. 6 hours is way too long to sit in coach. I did when I went to Scotland, but that was thirty some years ago. Now, no thank you. I'd rather pay. We've got First class going to Seattle for Alaska, too. Not that Alaska Air's 737 MAX 9 compairs to Hawaiian's Airbus 330. That fucker has lay flat seating.

Since our flight to Seattle leaves at 7, we'll be leaving for the airport at 4:30am. I could damn well use a lie flat seat, but alas. I will deal with a mild recline. BIL is very anxious about flying, so I'm hoping for a relatively easy flight with minimal turbulence. Hell, I'm hoping for that for me, too. I don't really like to fly, but I recognize that it's the only way to get places, so I do it. I'm too old to drive 12+ hours to get to places unless I budget a few days to do it.

Disney was quite a roadtrip. We did about five hours night one, but thanks to DC traffic, that only got us to the edge of North Carolina. The rest was all that second day. We started at 9am, and didn't pull into our hotel parking lot until about 8pm. It was a lot.

I thought about doing that for CONfab, and leaving on Tuesday to get there Wednesday, then coming back on Monday, but I don't really want to use the PTO. Gotta build it back up for Hawaii. On the other hand, if that's the way Jess would feel most comfortable and will come to the con, I will consider it.

We have so many things coming up. I'm wondering if I overdid it. 27 days til classes, 36 til we go see the Lost Boys Musical, 55 days til Alaska, 99 days to Rocky Horror, 140 days til Weird Al and 220 to CONfab. That's a lot to have planned. Plus, I'm hoping to squeeze another show in there, as Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell are doing Much Ado About Nothing in NY this fall. Tickets aren't on sale yet, so we'll see when the show is. I don't want to do it too close to CONfab, but I'd really like to see it.

I said this was my year of saying yes, but I might have taken that a bit over the top. I'm thinking if Yoda does well with boarding, we may put him in overnight for those trips. He can't go in for Lost Boys, because it'll be too soon after having his Flu, but for the rest, I'll give my sister a break from taking him for walkies.

Tomorrow, another game, and in the morning, I have to wait for the Safelite dude to come fix my windsheild, where a chip has grown a crack after the shitty snow/ice mix that the forecasters called snowcrete, last month. I'd like to have that fixed before another rock hits it and shatters it.

I suppose I should do my last Orientation module for school, but I don't really feel like it. Maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, everyone have a fabulous Friday!

It's Thursday at 4am, must be time to get up. I probably should get used to it, since I will probably move my alarm back when I start school so I have time in the morning to study or do my classwork.

Yesterday was payday, so always a good day. Mostly, I took calls, as we were crazy busy. Like 20 calls holding in the queue busy. I'm looking forward to that being done in a couple of weeks. Not that I mind the calls that much, but it'll be nice to only make outbound calls. I love when patients call you back hours after I call them for a same/next day appt. I cannot hold it that long, my good bitch. That's why my message says "if you get this by _____, please call back, I can hold the appointment until then." Some days I love patients. I was perky as hell yesterday, and I have no idea why. I think I had a somewhat rude patient, and so I perked at them, and then I couldn't turn it off.

I asked J. a follow up question. Apparently, I can still do OT, which is lovely. That'll be $45/hr Every couple of weekends, which should be lovely. IT'll probably damn near pay for Hawaii next year, especially if they want us to work any holidays this year. I am 100% here to work Memorial, Fourth of July, Labor and MLK again if they need me. I love those extra 8 hours of PTO.

After work, we threw in some potatoes to bake, and I cooked up some steaks in the cast iron pan. I used another of my "hype" presents, some Aloha Smoke Spice from Kailua Seasoning Company. OMG, it was SO good. Lightly smoky, a little bit of chili, but not enough to bother even my whitest of palates. But overall, it was salty and delicious and brought out the flavor of the steak even more. I loved it. So far, Hawaii has not disappointed. I've got the macadamia nuts, which are excellent. I got the macadamia butter shortbread and the white chocolate coconut shortbread, and those have been amazing.

After dinner, we had game scheduled, but the electric had other intentions. It went out with an almighty bang right around 6:30pm, and came back on after 1am. No game for us. And another one to reschedule *bangs head*. I stayed up for a while, hoping it would come back on, but eventually the early morning caught up with me and I fell asleep with my phone on my chest.

We did have some storms, though not severe like the weather said they might be. And at one point a tornado warning that was cancelled almost as quickly as it occurred, so that was fun.

Thanks to the weather dropping from 80 degrees to 40 degrees today, Jess had a particularly bad migraine, and my head and neck were twinging too. I would have been fine to play, but Jess had already dropped out of the game for the night.

Today, we're having tomato soup and grilled cheese. The BIL brought over his homemade tomato soup, so we've gotta use that up.

I'm sure work will be busy again, as it has all week. We'll see what I end up doing most of the day. Maybe there will be another Cardiac slot that opens so I get a little bit of time off the phones.

I don't know when they're going to set up everything for me. I think there are a few things to download on my computer before I start the new job. I need access to the queue as well as the main inbox, and I'm sure a few other things. I, of course, am ready to go. Get me set up and let's light this thing.

They pushed the rollout for the new phone system back a little further. Our team is too big, so they're putting us in two groups. Whoo. They say that everything has to be wired for it. Wired headset, ethernet connection. That is going to be an enormous pain in the ass. I am litterally paralell with the box, but there's a 15 foot kitchen wall between it. So, I'm going to have to tack the cord up over the cabinets, or under them. It's really freaking annoying. I got myself a 50' cord, so it should make it easily, but ugh. It's switching from an actual system to VOIP, so I expect problems. Massive problems. They don't know if we're still going to get screen pop ups in Epic, which is a lifesaver when you have a patient with a heavy accent. If they put in their phone number and date of birth, we will get a pop up with their chart. Then all we have to do is verify name and address. It has saved my ass many times, and I'm cranky that we may lose it. They want us to cut down on our talk time, but they're taking away one of our time savers. It's just corporate bullshit. Someone had a meeting, and they decided it looked good and was cheaper, and so they're switching it.

Tonight, after I make dinner, I suppose I will relax, and maybe watch a little videos. I'm flip flopping between Alaska and Hawaii videos. First I'll do one on excursions in Alaska, or boat tours, and then I'll pop back to Hawaiian food trucks. (They have some tasty looking food trucks. I'm especially looking forward to having garlic shrimp.) I think at this point, I can pretty much figure out my way around the ship. I know what floor all the important stuff is on. Our suite and the Neptune lounge is on 7, the food is on 2, 3 and 9 and the pool is deck 9. Oh, and the thermal spa is also on deck 9. Those are the important things.

We have a weekend of games, one tomorrow, one Sat and one Sunday. I'm looking forward to all of them. Tomorrow is my goth disasters in Vecna: Eve of Ruin. Saturday is the game in the style of epic Greek myths in Odyssey of the Dragonlords. And Sunday, I'm a player for Prophecy of the Nine Omens. I'm looking forward to all of them, but I'll admit, I'm especially fond of playing my Bladesinging wizard, Irsu. We're finally getting to the levels that wizards do some serious damage, which is always fun. Also, he's just a lot of fun to play. Very impetuous, always can be counted on to do the stupid, brave thing, even though he has wizard hit points.

Okay, on that note, it's probably time to take my shower. I just didn't have the energy yesterday, so I put it off an extra day and now I feel grungy. Everyone have an amazing Thursday!

It's Wednesday! We're halfway there!

For no apparent reasoning, I woke up at 3:30 am and did not get back to sleep. My body, it is a wonderland. I'm currently drinking my coffee and trying to wake the rest of the way up. It's a challenge.

Yesterday was a pretty good day! I spent my morning taking calls and checking my email to see if my offer letter had arrived, but they seemed determined to make me wait. But finally at about 1:30pm, it landed in my inbox.

It's not as big of a raise as I was hoping, but it's not horrible. It's going to take me up to $30.15/hr or just over $62k a year. I immediately signed the offer letter, and so I will be staying right where I'm at, just with a new title and possibly tax bracket. I'm glad that I get to stay with Radiology. Learning new things might have been fun, but I like working from home. I may have to go in occasionally when we have new hires to greet them and get them their equipment and stuff, but that'll be once every few months.

I asked J for some specifics, but in all honesty, it sounds like it's still being defined. It'll be what I do now for the Cardiac slots, though that may morph from something reactive to something proactive. We have a queue for Cardiac orders, but right now, it's massively overgrown and unusable. There's talk of getting it cleaned up, so that I can work off that. Then, I'll be filling STAT spots, and when needed, I'll be backing up the other two leads answering questions and possibly taking escalation calls if needed. It sounds like it'll be interesting at the very least, and a chance for me to help shape what the job shall be.

It'll start on 3/22, so not very long to wait!

Not long after, my sister sent me her resume to proofread. Y'all, it was not good. It had a ton of unnecessary information, it was formatted like hell, and the statements were basically run on sentences starting with "I". It pained me. After work, I sat down and recreated it, using the appropriate buzzwords, and found an appealing template to stuff it all into. I'm not quite happy with it, but it's already worlds better than what it was, and it looks professional.

After that, we had celebratory Chinese food from NiHao. They have some of the best food in Baltimore. I always overbuy and have delicious leftovers for the next day or two. Standouts this week were the Peking duck eggrolls, the shrimp dumplings, and as always the scallion and egg fried rice. I also had the Mongolian beef, which was excellent, and regular fried pork dumplings (also very good.) Jess loves their Szechuan sweet chili popcorn chicken, and I will agree, it's very tasty. It has me looking forward to Chinatown in San Francisco next year.

After dinner, we took the dog out. The weather has been gorgeous the last two days. Unfortunately for Yoda, they're calling for storms today, so he'll be hiding under my desk while I work.

Oh, one exciting thing I forgot. I had to use a bit of vacation last week to take Yoda to the vet and to go to my interview, and when my manager was doing time cards, she sent me a message asking if I wanted her to use my OT instead of my PTO to pay my hours. So, I still have PTO left and I should be able to put in for another day off towards Alaska this week, and then next pay, I can do my other day. Then the vacation will be fully covered. I'd like to put in for the Monday after we get back, but if it fills before I can do so, I can just call out that day.

I'm debating on celebrating the promotion by getting myself a new phone. Mine is fine, though the battery runs down fairly quickly, but I'd like a better camera for Alaska. We had gotten a big camera for the trip, but I don't think I can fit it in the carryon luggage, unless I get an actual carryon suitcase and take my backpack as my personal item. Then again, that would be hella cheaper.

I will think on it.

Today, we shall have same old, same old. I've got some lovely steaks and some delicious smoked Hawaiian salt with a touch of chili, so I believe I'm going to put them together and make something tasty for dinner tonight. We also have potatoes, so it's going to be a good steakhouse dinner. Steak and loaded baked potatoes. I'm looking forward to it.

The BIL was over last night, so I gave him one of the steaks as well as some of the salt to try. The steaks came in packs of two, and they were enormous so we definitely didn't need the fourth. I tend to do that a lot. His mother is very picky about what she'll let him buy, so we're his hook up for non-chicken meat. When we have the crab feast, he gets the leftovers, and when I buy ribs, I'll buy him a rack. I remember too well what it was like to take care of Dad, and he's got that with his mother, though at the moment, she's still pretty mobile. So, we all try to do nice things for him to make it more bearable. His sisters help, but they don't live there, so most of it falls on him. I'm honestly shocked that they were able to work it so he could go to Alaska.

I'm watching our stuff on Alaska Air to see when we'll be able to order our in flight meals. From what I gather, it's usually around two weeks, but I keep checking back.

We're getting so close! I'm going to go into my emails and send confirmations to the limo services and verify that everything is good, just to be safe. Everything else, I think is good.

I'm really debating on the final night seafood boil. I've seen a lot of opinions on reddit and facebook of people saying it's not worth the cost. I'll bring it up next time BIL is over. Since we have the big Dungeness crab feast the day before, it may seem anticlimactic to get a half a snow crab leg and some shrimp and fish in a little pot. I don't know, I'll see what they think.

When we were visiting with my friend from 911, I was talking about the cruise, and it kind of hit me how wild this experience is going to be as far as our accommodations. I've mentioned that we have the Pinnacle Suite, which is their version of an owners suite. It's basically a little floating condo. But the perks were the selling point. Because we're considered VIP, we'll have an escort onto the boat, and then they'll take us to meet our concierge. They take your picture for biometric purposes, but ours will also be sent to the crew, along with our names, so that they can greet us by name. That's just fucking wild. Like we're some kind of rock star.

When the new job starts, I think I'm going to go in and change my deposits, and add more money to the one account that I use for the trip. It won't add up before Alaska, but it'll damn sure be good for Hawaii.

Okay, time for me to hop off and grab a nice shower, and be ready for the day. Everyone have a wonderful Wednesday!

We survived Monday! It actually wasn't that bad! It went relatively quickly, I got a few people in for appointments. Had one really obnoxious one who asked me like five times if I'd done it correctly. I flipped off the screen a lot with them, and took a little five minute break when I hung up. That's pretty rare, but she was on my last nerve.

I also got some more news about the promotion. So A. had said that she had never got the application, so she went back to HR and was like, wtf? And it turned out that the job I applied for initally had me shortlisted for the job, and it paused my application. So they figured that out, and A got the application, and has sent it over to Talent to write up my offer letter. I teased her about not needing an interview, and she said "1. Who has time for that. 2. Why would I bother? The job was literally created for you." So that made me feel good.

I did have a blip in the morning, where Jess was a little sad about all the games that were ending and that I'm only doing a game a day on the weekend from here on out because of school. I felt like they were giving me pushback, and was a little bit upset about it. And in retrospect, it wasn't even about Jess. One of my players took it upon themselves to nudge to schedule some of the games that are in limbo. But they did it with somewhat passive agressive-feeling sad faces in a bunch of my campaigns. And at the time, I was like Okay, lets schedule. But it really bothered me. I'm not a fucking D&D vending machine. This shit takes actual time and effort to prep, and there's only so much time. This isn't like a Goshapan machine. You put in an emoji, and the D&D falls out. So I could have responded better to Jess. We settled down and talked it out during lunch and we're all good. I'm just going to need to be better about laying down boundaries while I'm in school. Or alternately, just boundaries, full stop.

Sadly when my sister got home, she brought news that they're firing her employee, effective on the 27th. They don't feel like she needs an extra person, since they took the records away and sent it to NY. My sister is devastated. She adores the employee, and she feels like her company is being a bunch of liars. They had assured everyone that the shakeup was done, and then two weeks later, shut down more sites, and now they laid off her employee.

She's started applying to other companies, but probably won't start until after our cruise in May. She's looking at fully remote and hybrid jobs, or jobs that are much closer to home, since she currently has a 45min-60min commute on the shitty Baltimore Beltway. Work from home could be a challenge for all of us, but we'll figure it out.

Today will surely be another busy day. Hopefully we'll get some cancellations, so I can get in more patients, but we'll see what the day brings. It would be nice if it brought an offer letter. I don't know how long that normally takes. I know when I got this job, I applied and got an offer letter the very next day, so I have hopes for soon. I also have hopes for a decent pay bump. Ideally in the $3-$4 range. I don't know how Hopkins works promotions. I know at IKEA, your pay bump was limited a percentage of your salary, and it wasn't much, like ten percent every level you jumped.

Had I gotten any of the team lead jobs I applied for, it would have been a double jump, so I probably would have gotten a decent bump, but otherwise, it was like $2.

It's not like I even need it to live off of. It just would be nice. Though if my sister takes a lower paying job, it would be helpful. I mean, she'll have less gas money and less frequent oil changes, which will save some money, but still. It's not like the company paid that well anyway. I make more managing only myself than she makes managing a multiple sites, and like 8 people, which is fucked up.

Tonight, I shall make some pork tenderloin and try out this hawaiian sea salt blend I got. It's got 3 kinds of salt--one of which is smoked--and some mild chili. It tasted really good when I sampled it, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it tastes on meat.

As per my usual, I'm sitting here with a shortbread, nibbling on that. I may have to order again from them. There were a bunch of other flavors that looked really tasty. And I'll probably get more of the white chocolate coconut macadamia. Or the butter macadamia. That is also really tasty and excellent with coffee.

The macademia nuts are slowly being eaten. I need to get Jess another bag of the chilli, so they won't feel bad about eating the rest of the bag. They really liked them.

I'm mostly a fan of the plain sea salt ones. Though the lilikoi ones as well. It's a sweet and tart Hawaiian flavor from the yellow passionfruit. They're really quite tasty.

Okay, time to do some more orientation. I'm hoping to have it done by the weekend. Hopefully, today or tomorrow, I get my offer letter to sign, and it'll be good. Everyone have a terrific Tuesday!!

And somehow we're back to Monday. I had my obligatory macadamia butter cookie with my coffee and am now trying to wake up. Maybe if I go back for one of the white chocolate coconut it'll help with that goal?



(Again, that's from the Honolulu Cookie Company, and it is baller. Best flavors, amazing slightly moist shortbread.). I need to try maybe warming them up ad see how that is.

Today shall be a busy day at work. There shall be a lot of calls, and a lot of appts made. I'm trying to wake up enough to face it.

As usual, the time change is fucking with me. I went to bed at normal time, but I feel very sleepy and out of sorts today. It'll be fine. I'll drink my coffee and wake the fuck up.

Yesterday was a pretty good day. I got up and once it opened, I went to the pharmacy, and then came back and immediately took my bra off. So much more comfy.

At 11, I began cleaning off the table and assembling the implements for a crab feast. Closer to the time, the crabs went into the oven and warmed up (thankfully they're precooked). By the time the BIL got there, each place setting had two crab halves on it, with another tray in the oven.

The crabs, as usual, were amazing. I ate my two halves and was satiated, but the BIL and sister ate another half each. Then, we all were full.



Oh, in the morning, Yoda's new kibble came. He seems to really enjoy it. It's super expensive, but if he'll eat it, that's something. I was looking at his collar last night, and noticing that it's a bit loose from him not eating well while he wasn't feeling good and his sudden dislike of his old food. He barked ferociously at the delivery man, who must have lofted the box from the stairs, judging by the noise it made when it landed. Fortunately, the contents were pretty well packed, so nothing burst open.

Then we took the dog out for his second walk. Jess had taken him around 9:30, but by 1pm he was agitating for one. He did need to go, so good on him. I hadn't realized how bad he must have been feeling, because now he's perked up so much on is Cytopoint injection. I feel bad that I didn't notice.

The rest of the day was resting and watching videos of Hawaii and San Francisco. I think we've narrowed down our focus for theS San Fran part of the trip. I think we're going to go see Muir Woods for the redwoods, and then the Japanese tea garden. One day, we will possibly take a tuktuk ride around San Fran, and see the rest of the sights. That just seemed like a fun and easy way to see the city. Alcatraz is looking unlikely, though we'll see. I'll probably get tickets for it, just in case. poisontaster has warned me that those are not something you can get day of, so we''ll do that. We might have time after the tuktuk ride, possibly, but it depends on if we do Muir Woods and the Tea Garden on the same day. A lot of what I know of San Francisco is from Seanan McGuire's Toby Day series. So I'm looking forward to all of that. Maybe a little stop at Borderlands Book Store.

I don't need to cross the golden gate bridge, just admire it. Definitely want to ride a cable car, though.

I was also reading about the trip, and found a hilarious one about San Francisco's Chinatown. "This one's food is amazing and cheap, but the servers are notedly surly, and they're not the cleanest. They've had some clashes with the healht dept." That was the review for a lot of the places, so this should be fun. I do want to do dim sum in Chinatown, so we'll look for the cleanest we can find.

We're probably going to stay at Staypineapple Union Square It seems centrally located, and nice enough. It's got good ratings at least.

Sadly, most hotels, experiences, etc are not booking yet. It looks like I'll be booking in late April, early May for the rest of the stuff. Only the Hawaii hotel books over a year in advance.

I shall have it planned out fully by the end of May, and then we shall begin amassing PTO, for both that and for CONfab in October. I'm so looking forward to getting to settle into full planning mode.

I need to decide for Hawaii whether we want to do a day or half day tour, or if we want to rent a car and go driving. I'm a little nervous about driving in unfamiliar roads, but the tour limits the things you can do. I'd like to see the North Shore and also possibly Ko'Alina. Maybe Visit Aulani which is the Disney Resort and have lunch. Their restaurants look amazing.

Getting to pick what we do does sound more fun, but we'll see.

Other places in Waikiki that I know I want to visit: Steak Shack, a little place that does a box lunch steak platter on the beach. The portion looks enormous, more than enough to feed both Jess and I. Leonard's bakery for Malasada donuts. The Breadshop, another bakery. Kan Sushi for their all you can eat sushi and some non sushi items like LA Galbi ribs. Maybe Hy's Steakhouse or another nice restaurant. One of the Luaus, though I haven't decided which one.

It looks like we've got five campaigns that are going to be finishing up by the end of the year, depending on schedules. That's a lot. But we started a lot of games in 2021 and 2022, and it's time. With our schedule, a lot of them might last til the end of the year, we'll see. I was going to finish one, but the players aren't ready to let it go, so we're going to move it from Wednesday to Friday night after a bit of a break for me to get my feet wet in college.

That's not including the one that finished on Saturday. So a total of 6 in 2026. Yeesh. I probably will not start any new ones. It's hard enough to schedule what we have.

My sister is looking for new jobs. Her company is screwing them over, and closing sites, and she's afraid she'll be next. She's already lost a few people that she manages to site closure. And they just moved one of her major duties from them up to NY, thus why she was there last week. She's looking at hybrid or local jobs, as she's tired of dealing with the beltway at rush hour. I sent her a Hopkins job that's work on site for 90 days, then work from home. She might drive us crazy working from home, but it would be better for her, so we'll see.

Okay, time to get myself together and do another bit of orientation. Everyone have the very best Monday you can Monday!