No, it's not normal

My life is not THAT exciting, thank you so much!I thought walking miles at MegaConference and staying in a place without flushing toilets was exciting.

No. I was topped again. I talked to my pharmacist friend who told me about her week. Besides the usual crazy cast of characters in the large metro neighborhood, one of them decided to steal a police automatic rifle, out of a police car, one block from her store.

Said thief must have been what she lovingly calls an "unlicensed pharmacy professional" who obtained said firearm for protection of his "inventory." Thief then sells his wares to local yokel and shows him the rifle.

Local yokel takes random drug of the moment (she had no idea what) and has a bad experience. Could he get physically sick? Oh, no! He does get psychotic thought and starts trashing aisles of BigPharmacy, where she works. Store management calls police and 911.

Once local yokel sees they are on to his bad trip, he runs to the pharmacy and proceeds to jump over the counter, screaming, "The machine gun man is coming to get us."

My friend, freaked out and having no idea, that Local has been reported, calls 911. They put her on hold. She wanted to run out of the store (via a back door) but her tech froze, so no dice.

After  all the hubbub, Local is taking to station, and stuff  written up. Local only got a night in jail.

So what's the first thing you do after you crazily climb into the pharmacy and tell everyone a murderer with a machine gun is coming?

You call your pharmacist (at the same store) and ask for a refill, because you forgot it.

Madame Pharmacist was not amused...

Fun things to do early in the AM

I love getting to work early, because you see things in stillness, when it's quiet and not quite crazy as they will be when the regular day shift starts.

So, I try to be efficient. Yep, I find people who are already there and we work on stuff that might not get done early.  Here's what I did recently.

1. I roamed around with our new campus tech guy (aka New Guy). He saved my butt and I got SU work done the other day. (NG is not new to the role as campus poobah, just the Hotel).

2. During roaming, I helped him with his equipment inventory. It's nice to show up when no one's around and get it tagged and checked.

3. If people were around, he got introduced to the staff: on the floor, in the offices, to the docs, everybody (I didn't leave anyone out who I could snatch as they walked by).

4. Really funny introduction: startling the boss when he/she brings in his lunch, coffee and everything first thing.

Intro went kind of like this, after Jess the admin let us in his/her office:

Me (with NG): "Hi Boss, we're doing inventory. Jess let us in."
Boss: (startled) "Hi! " (Wanders in...coffee cup looks full.)
NG: "Sir do you use this device (pointing at inventory item)?"
Boss: "Not really. I need a different one, like the radiologists use."
Me: "BTW, NG, Boss has to look at a lot of procedures where he needs to know where his needles go, by looking at MRIs, etc."
NG: "No problems, Boss. Mr. R (equipment guru) can get you one...or two if you really want."
Boss: "Thanks. One's fine."
Me: "Bye boss." (exit stage right)

You  just never know what will happen roaming around the office at all hours.

Stay tuned...