"I'm sorry. I- I, I react to a certain doom a certain way. It's a bad habit."

Working at the bank continues to be fun, though it also has its share of nerve-wracking moments, such as when I discovered my cash was out by almost ten thousand dollars earlier this week. You try to think out paying that back, and the numbers very suddenly cease to be abstract. It all turned out to be an accounting error and I was only actually out by $0.65, which is much better for my blood pressure.

You also overhear some inadvertently hilarious conversations. Case in point;

Two elderly men talking.
"How you doing, my son?"
"Not bad, not bad at'all." *inhales and sucks on his teeth* "Had a heart attack last Sunday."
"Yes, well, 'orrrible weather we're 'avin', eh?"

I just about laughed in my customer's face, but managed to swallow it in time.

What else has happened? Hmmm. Well, I had a rather surreal moment this morning when I glanced up at the weather channel and they were showing something about the orbits of Venus and Mercury while talking about solar storms. I've been thinking in Science Fiction of late in preparation for Nano, and I had one of those moments when you're not quite sure which reality you inhabit. Similar to when I was on a WWII kick and heard the air raid siren go off.

 *blinks* "What was that?" 

I never did find out why the Weather Channel was talking about extra-terrestrial weather, but I am reasonably certain that it wasn't because said weather promises to interfere with the heavy shipping three-planet route. 

And in other news; despite weighing about as much as a winter coat, Gid is now taking 25% more Codeine than an adult would per dose, (and he's talking every four hours,) as well as slow-dose Morphine. They don't stock narcotics in town, so Mommy and Daddy are going on a Date to the next town to pick it up.