Pistachio

Enjoying various gelatos lately, pistachio being my favorite. Talenti brand, so not often, but perhaps once every three weeks. Got some pre-packaged flan, with trepidation, but it is very nice, just what we wanted.

Went to the neighborhood community council meeting last night. Highlight being the engineers describing how they plan to refurbish the old City County Building, a lovely stone edifice that spend many years in the 80s surrounded by scaffolding, and the process starts again next year. But instead of needing a crane to take inspectors up to the high parts and towers, this time they used drones to take photos of otherwise inaccessible areas where the stone is delaminating.

The worst part was the nut, possibly a bit soused, interrupting with a rant about some baseball field issue that most of us had never heard of, but boy was he angry about it. When he was called to order, he called the moderator "rude." Jerk.

New scrub tech orienting. I'd set up the mini c-arm, got it plugged in, about to get the numbers to access later images set up, and she says, "Can I unplug the c-arm?"

"No. Why?"

She needed to get her table in, and instead of taking it over the power cord, or moving the machine to go around, her first thought it to unplug it. When I remind her never to just unplug c-arms of any sort, she says, "Oh, I would have turned it off first." Sure you would have.

Patient in the room, residents getting ready to place the tourniquet. The resident anesthesiologist turns on the tourniquet box, we hear the churning and hissing of the air pressure. The cuff isn't even placed on, the tubing isn't plugged in, and anyway, we would never have it up while we position and prep and drape, that's the last thing before incision. Guy doesn't even have the sense to say "Sorry, of course, not thinking" no, he says, "I heard you say put on the tourniquet!"

Get home, and maybe a half dozen people are sitting on the sidewalk in front of our house, a bike partly in the driveway. I park in back, walk out, and suggest the park a half block away might be a better choice. One guy gets all aggressive and accusatory of me, defending his "right" to be on "public" property. Thing is, if they'd just said, "Oh, enjoying the sunflowers. Mind if we hang out a few more minutes?" - I'd have said cool, be careful of anyone walking by. But Aggro guy was already huffing and fuming and storming off. My attempts at de-escalation were not effective, but then he had my lines that he had written already in his head, and nothing I could do. Saw the rest of them, later, and Aggro was not with them. If I'd been closer, I would have tried to keep peace with them.

Some people, there is no peace to be found.

D had to deal with people having a meeting around his table, when they have real offices. He was not part of the meeting, only the victim.

The world is bizarre and annoying this week. Good thing there is pistachio gelato and flan to be had.