Friday frets and follies

It is official !! Urs Truly has his first work ID badge! The Overlords have decreed all minions must wear their ID badges while working so patients (some I have known for decades) will be able to identify me. Someone, who has always worked in corporations, is familiar with ID badges but they are new for me. I started wearing it around my neck but now it is clamped at my waist, starboard side. No one can see it there probably, but it fulfils the letter of the law.

The Overlords also announced their many consent forms are being compacted into one. It is not clear to me if eight single pages are being put into one eight page form. If so it will rival the length of a CVS receipt. Rumor has it all patients must resign the form(s) come January. That isn’t new; before The Overlords my previous employers obliged all patients to redo their paperwork each year. It took months. There were complaints of course, along the line nothing has changed so why do I have to fill them out again? I think The Overlords will be severe on this matter viz. patients must sign their form(s) or they can’t be seen. Oh the pain.

Christmas show 2024

But let’s talk about something pleasant. After work today we are going downtown to see a Christmas show. I shall wear my top hat. We went last year to this holiday spectacle and Someone arranged that the ‘volunteer from the audience’ would be me. The actors got me on stage and I was bedecked as a living Christmas tree. Oh the embarrassment. I won’t mind this happening again, if that ‘elf’ is the same actor, a burly redhead who is all I want for Christmas.

Last night I erected the tree. It was some job. It now needs lights and decorations. I hope Someone has some time this weekend, for it’s no fun ho-ho-hoing this by myself. On the positive, the tree will be decorated properly. Someone carries on the Spo tradition of my brothers putting up things without thought where things hang. After all is done I have to discreetly go around and rehang things. Oh the pain. I feel there ought to be a bit of whimsy hanging on the tree among all the fancy proper ornaments. I saved some of the defunct car fresheners shaped like spruce trees and plan to hang as well. Jolly good fun.