Thorsday thoughts

The Medical Assistant has been out all week so I am ‘home alone’ today at the MESA office. It always feels odd to be the only one here. Once upon a time the place was bustling with receptionists, thems who did the billing, the bosses, the house manager, and all the counselors. But those were happier times. Nowadays everyone is somewhere else, working from home probably. I am getting good at checking in patients and scheduling their next appointment. What I am not doing is collecting their co-pay or settling overdue accounts. If folks are no longer calling to make their next appointment, who is monitoring their payments?

Tonight after work we are going to The Irish Cultural Center to see a Beckett play, I forget which one. Driving from Mesa to downtown Phoenix during rush hour is nerve-wracking and I often get to the place just in the nick of time to order a snort of Irish whisky (no rubbish) and take my seat next to Someone. Between the drive and the dram I usually fall right to sleep, so I am counting on Mr. Beckett to keep me awake. For thems unfamiliar with Mr. Beckett, he writes clever-worded plays set in absurd settings. I don’t think I am seeing the one with the actors in garbage cans. It’s not ‘Waiting for Godot’ either, worse luck. Nothing to be done.

The ice maker isn’t working. Oh the pain. I have lost count how many times the fridge has gone on the fritz. The ice maker in the door is working, and in a way I wish it wasn’t. The approach at La Casa de Spo when something breaks is not to fix it but learn to do without. If both ice makers were out, this would prompt a call to The Repairman (or someone like him); with one working I fear we will schlepp along this way. This weekend I plan to poke about to see if I can do something about the situation.

Some villain or bot texted me the other day and normally Idon’t touch these tar babies but I was in mood at the moment, itching for a fight, so I started a conversation waiting for the inevitable invitation to consider investing in crypto. I endured this tedium as I like asking what good is crypto for other than nefarious and criminal interactions? The person/droid deflected and I kept pressing the question until it got discouraged and stopped – a minor victory that cost me ten minutes. I still haven’t received a good answer from anyone on crypto, and until I do, I will keep my money invested in tulip bulbs.