Back at work week.

And it's been a bit of a shi!t week too.

We've consolidated our clinical lab information system with the Mother Ship's, and went live on their system on Thursday. There were a few things we'd forgotten about (eg for our location on their system, we had no electronic tracking set up for donor blood units ("virtual blood fridge") much less anything in said virtual fridge) and a few things that went all surprising on us on the day.
While patient histories for histology and blood bank were migrated onto the new system, none of the patient results for other disciplines were, so Thursday in haematology land was very, very tedious as whenever I had an abnormal result in the new system, I had to refer back to the old to see if this result was an ongoing thing that had previously been commented on. Plus, for whatever reason/s, the new system was running extremely slowly.

Friday would have been better, but the interface for (mostly) biochem results fell over. To cut a long story short, this meant things in biochem-land were running over 4 hours behind schedule (for stuff that should be finalised within 1 hour) and we were getting a lot of angry phone calls.

So today, Mr P and I went to Bundoora Farmer's Market (Bundoora Park on the first Saturday of every month). To be honest, the market wasn't all that great - as markets go I prefer Preston Market, and as farmer's markets go I like St Andrews). So here's some pix from the market:






Here is Mr P making a friend in the back of a ute.















Buying some curry sauce from the bloke that makes his own. We got some korma sauce.













Buying seeds, and seedlings. This seller was all out of basil, but he had some coriander, and lots of seed packets.









But wait - there's more! Unfortunately, no more pix, because this was the point at which the camera's memory card said it was full.

We went for a drive in Bundoora Park after the market and went to the children's farm. Man, do I love children's farms! There were sheep, and cows, and sleeping pigs, and rabbits, and chooks, and ducks, and goats - yay! I love goats! - and alpacas - double yay! - and guinea pigs. Mr P is now known by three kids as "The Guinea Pig Man" after he caught them one each so they good have a photie taken with gp's by Mum. Unfortunately there were also geese. I am not fond of geese.

I got some more done on Normal Histology.