Hehehe. Showers. Showers. Right.

Today is supposed to bring intermittent light showers.

Uh-huh. I got up this morning and when I got outside, the street smelled pleasantly of rain; although things were wet, they weren't soaked.

By the time I got to I-5, it was pouring; I had my windshield wipers on full, and once I hit highway speeds, they were on high. Fortunately, I didn't have to stay at those speeds for long: traffic was massively slow wherever a new on-ramp merged in, and that means it was slow pretty much all the way up.

It had eased up when I got to work; I was able to get inside without getting myself, or the books I was bringing in, soaked. When I started writing this it was pouring agian, the rain beating down on trees and flowers (and the poor folks who are out there doing landscaping work even now). Now it's light again.

I understand, now: heavy rain with intermittent light showers....

Well, that was amusing.

Doctor's appointments are always so much fun. Mine was at 4:10 today, and when I got there, they had no record of it. He made it for me yesterday, 'tomorrow' is always a very clear day, so.... Apparently he forgot to hit enter.

Fortunately, 'he' is the doctor's assistant, and he did remember me, even if he screwed up the computer. So I still was going to be seen. Then some lady wanted a 20-minute procedure, that she came in knowing she wanted, but hadn't mentioned in the phone call. So in the end, my 4:10 appointment was at 4:45 with all the snafus...but considering? I suppose it wasn't that bad.

The mole looks benign, but, it's in a position to get irritated by the waistband of my pants (which is what was causing the sensitivity). Unfortunately, irritated moles aren't great either, so she does want to have it removed, but it's far from critical. Which is good. I have to be out of town a lot through the end of September, and they'd like me to hang around for a week, being as they'd like to remove the stitches. I could conceivably pull that off twice sooner; but one relies on neither trip overflowing its bounds (one of them is not formally scheduled) and the other is just barely long enough and when my doctor's off for two weeks hospital rotation.

I could do it then, with another doctor (or even with the dermatologist I saw for the last one, but since this one looks benign and there's a good explanation for the irrtation, it would be a waste of the dermatologist's time). I'd rather wait and see my doctor, though, and it's not a big deal if I do.

I'm not really looking forward to having another hole put in me. It wasn't, really, that bad when they did the one on my arm; but it stung, and then I had to be careful what I did for a while. This one's better positioned (lifting things or normal motion won't stretch the skin there badly, though I'd better not do any toe-touches or situps...which is safe, I don't do those anyway!), so hopefully it will be less annoying.

They'll have the lab work it up (since they're removing it anyway), but, I'm not real interested in the results. I'm sure I will be if they're abnormal but they shouldn't be, the last mole was more suspicious and turned out to be benign. For once, I'm not worried about something like this, except the "hole in my skin" and "stitches" parts.

Whee. Not a concern for a month and a half anyway, unless an entire site shifts its schedule at work. I think I'll make sure it's scheduled after my four-day weekend at the beginning of October, too. I'd hate to spend vacation days to wander around trying not to stretch (or get wet, or...) a spot on my lower back....

List: computer control?

Things I hope computers won't ever control (no, I don't promise to stick to serious/plausible):

( lj-cut for everyone's sanity, mine included )

Okay, that's I've just gotten silly....