Ooh, she’s on her way! But what will she find?!?! Yeah, we all know, no real suspense here, but it’s still pretty funny to see her catch a mouthful of pine needles!
So I’m gonna level with you as much as I can without providing sufficient information to get me fired. So I work for a facility that starts with “h” and rhymes with “crosspital.” An affiliated but completely DIFFERENT place from where I work has gotten in trouble, though it’s not clear whether it’s through ignorance or negligence, for maybe kinda sorta a little bit accidentally exposing more than 200 people to AIDS. Consequently, the state has cracked down with a massive, highly focused inspection, with special emphasis on those working in equipment sanitation.
Guess where that puts me.
Essentially, I have every expectation that the next week and a half are going to be the worst days of my life in recent memory. I will have both inspectors AND coworkers hovering over me like buzzards to watch for me possibly screwing up under the burden of a whole new set of requirements that, while not great prevention for causing mass AIDS, do make it alternately difficult and impossible to do my job efficiently or well. I have not been sleeping well, drinking more frequently than usual, and waking up in the middle of the night to shotgun whole family-size containers of snack food without looking at what I’m eating. Surprised I remember to chew. Anyway, the long and short of it is that until things get back to even approaching normal, my artistic output is going to be somewhat reduced. Bear with me, I’ll get back to 2x as soon as it is feasible.
TL;DR: Next comic on Thursday.
Hang in there, girl! Smile and nod at the inspectors and other busybodies, keep your head down (which both implies that you’re working very hard *and* keeps you from having to make eye contact), and just keep smiling and nodding and looking busy until they go away. Things will be back to whatever passes for normal where you work before you know it.
Hmm, the image does not load for me…
Anyway, that sounds like a messy time.
And they spend a lot of money to try to prevent something like that from happening again. (And it will happen again, because some accountant somewhere will decide that cutting corners is okay, as the profit will increase that way, and if patients are harmed, it will backfire to the employees, and not the accountant.)
Alas, they will surely not spend as much time and effort to help the victims, who may now have AIDS, with all the consequences for the rest of their lives.
I wish you a wonderful and restful sleep, and lots of nerves to ignore the inspectors watching over your shoulders.
The image “https://chat.thebunnysystem.com/comics/2014-05-15-chat102.jpg” can not be displayed, because it contains errors.
Re-uploaded the image, looks okay from here, hopefully no errors for you this time. If still not visible, nothing I can fix until this evening, I’m afraid.
That’s how it comes up for me as well if I try to load the url for the image. Image is not appearing at all on the comic page. Using FF.
alas, still not.
Neither in FF, nor in IE…
Even downloaded the image to use an image viewer, but they all give me the message “can’t open this picture because the file appears to be damaged, corrupted, or is too large.” (1319 kB – so size is not the problem)
https://chat.thebunnysystem.com/comics/2014-05-15-chat102.jpg
for a try at home with the “better” tools I have there, so I do not need to look up the image link again.
nope, pearpad and this image do not go well together… 🙁
Oh, btw, the other tools (irfanview, paintshop, …) have not given me better results. 🙁
I also work in the same industry on the IT side. I definitely feel your pain. But as the urologists like to say about kidney stones, “This too shall pass.”
Still not seeing the comic.
Are you okay there, bunnyfriend?
Hah! My oldest computer has an old IrfanView version on it, which identified the problem:
“Warning!
The file: “C:\Users\(UserName)\Desktop\2014-05-15-chat102.jpg” is a
PSD file with incorrect extension !
Rename ?”
and then displayed the image just fine. (renamed to .psd)
I love you Irfanview.
But why did the newer one not recognise that?
I’ll have a try later. 😉
Also:
Lovely page!
I can imagine AngeChat coughing the needles out!
(neighbours cat was sitting only 10 m from me when I heard it cough up some hairball or other gross thing)
image works fine now (as a .gif).
Thank you!