wherein Liz reappears to gripe briefly about work

Well, I got enough on top of my life to reapply to Not the IRS for the 2024 tax season, so there's that. Now I just need to start worrying about my tax continuing education credits. *sigh*

In other news, late summer is, as always, crunch time at the rental company. We are all running around like headless chickens trying to make sure apartments get turned over on time, while also renting our last remaining stock AND in my case trying to get apartments staged so I can shoot photos and video tours in the slice of time between when the maintenance department finishes getting the apartment ready and when the new tenants pick up keys and move in. So that's been a lot.

I mean, I do get paid for my overtime! And this year, Company Owner has finally realized that we are all giving 110% during August, and set up an incentive program where if someone works all their scheduled hours for the month, they will get a check in the first week of September that consists of an extra $2/hour for each regular hour worked, and an extra $3/hour for each overtime hour worked.

I'd prefer that he just hired more people! It would reduce everyone's stress and probably cost him approximately the same amount of money! But he doesn't want to pay wages good enough to get reliable short-term contract workers, because he has CEO-knows-best penny-wise-pound-foolish syndrome. *deeper sigh*

Anyway, I'm going to have a glass of wine and a small snack and then fall into bed.

some stuff

Also, a belated catch-up life update post:

1. My colonoscopy went pretty smoothly, aside from the part where it took two nurses three tries to insert the IV into my arm, what even. The doctor found only one polyp, but it was pre-cancerous and it was weirdly large for a single polyp in a person of my age, so they want me to get a follow-up in 3 years instead of 5. Which is more or less what I was expecting -- didn't really think I'd have actual cancer, but did expect some pre-cancerous nonsense due to family history, which is why I wanted the colonoscopy in the first place -- so I think that's as good a result as could be expected.

The laxative prep medication, on the other hand, was absolutely godawful. I literally could not drink more than one or two swallows at a time without tripping my gag reflex and needing to wash it down with either juice or chicken broth. UGH.

2. The Cape Cod trip was AMAZING. It was really great to meet a bunch of NFE folks in person, not to mention swimming in the bay and playing Cards Against Narnia and Narniopoly late into the nights. I got diverted en route to pick up be_themoon from Logan airport due to flight delays (there was some kind of travel curse that hit multiple people), but otherwise I personally had a pretty smooth drive both to and from.

3. I have a mammogram scheduled for Wednesday morning, which is cool; I have a dentist appointment scheduled for next week, which is also cool; and yesterday I got an email saying that I have an appointment with my GP on Thursday morning, which was news to me! So I need to call her office and A) figure out WTF that's about, and B) reschedule, because that's a work day.

4. Had a Zoom call with Cat and Susan on Friday evening -- always good to see them and catch up!

5. I splurged and bought season tickets to NYS Baroque, the Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, because what is even the point of finally having disposable income if I don't spend some of it on nice things? (I mean, I also give a bunch to miscellaneous charities and stuff, but one cannot live on virtue alone.)

I think that's the highlights.