Training day

 I am a volunteer!!!  St John's Hospital is across the street from our home.  We take advantage of the senior citizens 25% discount at the cafeteria......and I've 'taken advantage' of its nearby emergency facilities where I've been a few times, once as a prelude to a four-day hospital stay.

Yesterday, from 10:30am through shortly after 2pm, two of us, one a high school student who will get school credit for volunteer service - and me, a geriatric (but still very much alive) fart who has time to volunteer.  Katherine went through the first orientation on 17 May (while I prepped for my Improv gig later on that day).  There was another orientation on Friday, 30 May, the day after I returned from Japan - and I was in no condition to sit through a five hour orientation that day.  And then there were two of us left - we did the orientation yesterday in the 4th floor conference room, comfortable when Katherine and 21 others did it on 17 May......cold as hell with 3 of us (and the other two wearing sweaters - not me - dammit!).

I have to go through blood tests as I cannot provide my initial batch of vaccination records from 80+ years ago.....and then I can start on Thursday evenings from 8pm - 10pm, as a cheerful visitor to a recuperation ward under the 'Sweet Dreams' program.  If patients want to chat, I'll be there to chat.......that'll be my initial thing.........

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