Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

My birthday started very well, at midnight, with all my late night IM friends wishing me a Happy Birthday :)

This morning, I opened the two parcels that arrived. The largest was from Rik and Carol and it contained several bottles of delicious looking cider. Hurrah!! The other parcel was from lithium_doll and it was the Special Edition of I-Robot!! Yayyyy!! I have good friends :) *snugs all round* Aunty Eve sent me a birthday card and a cheque, bless her, so I will have to ring her later and thank her.

So now I'm slurping tea and trying to wake up. I must get my lazy arse out of this chair today. I MUST go and pick up my asthma prescription. I SHOULD also go shopping for a USB cable so I can connect up my shiny new ADSL modem - there's a cable with it, obviously, but it's nowhere near long enough. I may be able to jury rig something with some phone cable extensions for the filters and whatnot but I'll still need a USB extension cable to get everything to reach the 'pooter.

*has a sudden thought*

Oooh. I wonder if I could cancel my main phone line and switch all my services to the second line? *thinks that through* No, buggerit, that would just leave me the problem of not having a phone in the hall and having to run a cable all the way from the lounge to my bedroom to plug in the Sky digibox. At some point, I will have to get a new telephone point installed in my bedroom, but I'm sure I can bodge something for now :)

So yeh, I should go shopping for the cable. I should also go clothes shopping and try and buy something different to wear for the dinner tomorrow night and the party bash on Saturday. Beh. Maybe tomorrow.

*wanders off for more tea*

I had to go and pick up my asthma prescription today. Now the way it works is I have a repeat prescription; I just tick the boxes next to the items I want and hand it in to the surgery. It gets authorised and then sent over to the dispensing chemist, meaning I can just stroll in 48 hours later and pick up the stuff, without faffing about.

However, it does have the flaw that if the surgery cock up the prescription, I don't know about it until the pharmacist has made up the order. As was the case today, when the assistant came out of the pharmacy with two lots of stuff, not the one I was expecting. I instantly realise they've gotten carried away and issued the prescription for all 3 items on my repeat, instead of the two I've ticked. I tell the assistant I only need the asthma stuff not the additional item. This causes her to frown in a perplexed fashion.

"But can't you take it anyway? It'll mean there'll be an error in the dispensing records."
"Umm, you can just cancel it, can't you?"
"Well yes, but see, on the new repeat prescription, it'll say "Last dispensed 10.02.05" and if you need it again soon, they might not let you have it."
"*patiently* That's ok, I'll nip over to the surgery and explain it, get it cancelled there."
"...."

She wasn't happy at all but took away the surplus with a scowl on her face as if it was going to fuck up her entire day. Well tough. I could have ranted at her and pointed out that £12.80 was quite enough to pay, without adding on another £6.40 for stuff I don't need, don't want, will probably go past its expiry date before I can use and which I still have plenty of at home anyway. But I just ignored her and let it go.

Of course, I toddled straight over to the surgery and they were all "Oh sorry about that! No problem, we'll just change the date....*ding* There we go! Anything else?" Took all of 10 seconds to sort out. So I'm glad I stuck to my guns. Someone else might have been bullied into taking stuff they didn't need - I'm tempted to write a letter and complain.

Anyway, I now have new asthma inhalers. And, to my geeky joy, they've redesigned the dispenser so that there's a lil' counter embedded in the case that counts down the number of "puffs" dispensed so you can tell when you're running out. This is great, I've been bitching how easy it is to run out of the stuff simply because it goes from "druuuuuuuuuuuuugs" to "juuuuust aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirr" in the space of a single puff. They've also made the dispenser MUCH easier to hold and use, plus they've added a lil' prong thing to the inside of mouthpiece cap which keeps the mouth of the inhaler free of dust and gunk and makes it harder for the mouthpiece cap to come off. I've inhaled dust and bits of tissue too many times NOT to think this is a Good Thing :)

And now there is RP with my two fave RP-ers and my fave characters. *purrs happily*

Sorry for the spammage, but a GIP was definitely called for. Lookee what jatg made me for my birthday!




Yay! Thanks Jett!