I am happy to report that Gary is progressing wonderfully. He has not had diarrhea in a couple of days, though last night he did have a wet shit (Daisy's words, not mine). He's very clearly growing, and every time we weigh him he's bigger than before -- though at this juncture he is still under three pounds. Daisy is going to talk to our vet within the next couple of days to give him the full progress report and we'll go from there as to whether we should release him into the wild unknown of the rest of the house.
He is a gorgeous boy.
The AC guys canceled on us on Friday due to the weather/workload they had and rescheduled for this afternoon. Apparently, a rodent (of some sort) chewed through a four-inch length of wire on the AC unit, which shorted it out. The short blew out the power supply/relay to the house fan as it did not have a fuse on it.
"Do you have an outside cat?" the AC guy asked me.
"Nope, all of mine are indoor house loaves," I replied.
"Might want to get one," he said, and held up what was left of a very fried mouse he'd pulled out of the AC housing.
So yeah, that was that. Parts were replaced and our AC is once more ice cold.
I've not been sleeping well. It's either been too hot or too uncomfortable in bed during the daytime hours. I could try to sleep in my chair, but that ends up hurting my knees if I do it too long, and my knees have felt particularly awful over the course of the past few weeks. I know part of this is the onset of the coming summer -- it gets warm here quickly in Nebraska and generally stays hot from April until...well, like October -- and I know part of it is stress and going back to overnights at my job after working dayshift for well over a month.
Going back to overnights has been fine from a job perspective -- we're still working on somewhat of a skeleton crew while everyone gets re-aligned and acclimated to the new company structure, so the bulk of my job tends to be working one or two escalated issues a night, which usually finish around midnight-ish...and then spending the next seven hours watching through Star Trek: Enterprise episode after episode to kill time because there's not much else to do.
Mind you, I've already seen Enterprise, but haven't watched it in a decade or so. I'm starting the fourth and final season this week. I have not skipped a single episode or fast-forwarded through anything.
I don't expect this level of silent running on overnights to last that much longer. Another week or two maybe, give or take. But, I've also been saying that for going on a month now. I do not yet have a team, and I do not yet have a purpose other than "hey, this is hot, handle this please." We're still very much in the rebuilding stages. I'm trying to enjoy the downtime as much as possible, but it makes the week very long and very boring sometimes. And I've got two more nights to go this week before a few short days of freedom.
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