Bought a microscope, lancets to count my platelets.  I figure i can get a gestalt sense of "normal" and recognize when over half are gone, which is a far better signal than i have now. Encouraging results last night in the absence of a useful stain. Somewhat excited about microscopy for fun, too -- Christine is looking forward to playing with it too.

Monday at work had to deal with FMLA paperwork, and i swear someone in corporate's business office hates regulations and makes them more miserable for everyone to comply with. The company outsources compliance to a remarkably incompetent firm. It's an extractive industry, it seems: how to create the most paperwork and time to prove compliance when, you know, not firing people because they are sick should solve that.

Anyhow, after discussing with my HR colleague her advice on the best way to handle things (eg: by phone), the phone dude told me to to the wrong thing. Oh fun.

And then i wrote a late night memo for the 7 am Tuesday meeting. I had avoided solving one problem that we were going to discuss because, hard, and i saw security dragons lurking. I came up with an adequate solution (that required no development on our part) that wasn't elegant but did not roust the security dragons. When several reviews of the solution were met with confusion, the "starting from the top" explanation revealed the problem didn't exist. THANK HEAVENS i did not spend a week on that problem!

Today's goal is not to spend lots of time looking at microscope stuff.