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When the person responsible for putting up the cabinetry in your storage room at the new office happens to be on vacation the week you move….

A glimpse of the “fun” I’ve been dealing with this week

So I stared the next decade of my life this past weekend. I didn’t do anything special to celebrate it–I just kept things low-key and simple. In fact I slept a lot during the day. (My usual Saturday afternoon M.O),

Friday was very busy as The Work has moved offices. We’ve moved across town. The people responsible for planning the move didn’t plan well, so I’m trying to help out with things all while doing my everyday stuff. I still have a bit of exploring to do in the new area.

I’ve already found the nearest 7-11 (1 avenue away), a place to buy diet pepsi, the nearest Kosher butcher (it’s a block away). A coworker informed me that the nearby Dunkin Donuts is also Kosher (she was let down to find out that she couldn’t get her egg-sausage-cheese sandwich). I consider that to be good progress for a first day.

Now back to reading dry papers on medical reimbursement written by lawyers….

Via Forbes: The Truly Staggering Cost Of Inventing New Drugs

Having worked in and with Clinical Trials, I can first hand attest to the costs involved in Clinical Trials. These are trials in humans, which means a compound has already passed the rigorous screening process in the lab and in animals.

There’s a myriad of regulations for clinical trials. Not only that, there are additional regulations (computer system validation, filings, audits) that add to the costs.

Ultimately, every drug that makes it to the market not only has to pay for its own development–but also for all the previously attempted developments.

This year’s Super Bowl was quite a good game.
The commercials left a lot to be desired, but the game itself was a classic battle. Such a close game is much preferable to a rout in my opinion.

Needless to say, once the final Hail Mary pass fell in the end zone, the partying began on the avenue.

Here’s some videos of the local scene

(Sorry, the embed feature isn’t working)

Is it game time yet?

I’m a bit tired of waiting for 6:38pm to roll around.

Granted, I’ll admit to being a bit sick of 2 weeks of non-stop pre-game hype–particularly here in NYC.

Still, kickoff can’t come soon enough!

Speaking of Football–anyone else see the Chelsea-Manchester United game earlier today? What a second half!

Today we had some solicitor call the office–trying to solicit advertising for a newspaper (we’d never heard of).

Alas, the solicitor sounded almost identical to “Peggy” the representative in the Discover Card commercials…

Of course my coworker had to put the call on speaker…and we couldn’t help but laugh

I’m suddenly finding a bunch of Russian spam on my blog’s comments….um…does this have anything to do with work?

I’d submitted requests to three separate software vendors today about their products.

The requests were put in before 10:30AM….and how many did I hear back from today?

Zero

I’d think that a sales person would be more proactive towards a potential, interested customer. Especially when said customer approaches the vendor as opposed to a cold call.

But hey–what do I know. I’m just the “back-office” guru/planning type. Not at all a salesperson.

I’ll see what if any calls I get tomorrow….

Been very busy this weekend and past few days…

Among other things going on…basically about to launch a new company. It’s already had a quiet launch, but now it’s time to make noise…

Finished a Power{oint presentation for a conference on Friday
Trekked through the snow, up hill both ways to pick up marketing materials
Doodled a successful website design and layout
*insert break for Diet Pepsi consumption*
Spent some time at Barnes & Noble flipping through some computer books forideas
(The library was closed at that hour–B&N is the next best thing)
Helped the doctor out with his computer
Got inquiries for data
*more Diet Pepsi*
Read boring Medicare NCDs and LCDs
Fixed a computer at work

You can sort of get the idea….

It’s going to be an exciting week….

Now more importantly, how soon till the football games start?

An interesting piece from today’s Post on the history of NYC’s (stringent) gun control laws.

Politics aside–I found the history lesson to be of interest….

3 good playoff games this weekend (the NE-Denver game was a “snoozer” by comparison).

The SF-NO game was just wild. However, the performance the Giants just put on this evening was quite the surprise.

Now that I’ve watched Football, I can be all conversational at the gym tomorrow.

If writers block is to writing….

Then what is the equivalent for PowerPoint?

Sometimes I just think of work as a giant game of Calvinball.

You can’t do things the same way twice…

Although Calvinball is a lot more fun

Saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last night.

However, I’m still scratching my head over the film. It appears to be the kind of film I’m going to either have to wait to have come out on DVD to watch and/or maybe read the book on which it’s based.

Sorry for the absence–but for the past week-plus or so–I’ve not had internet access at my apartment!

I finally figured out how to fix the problem (no thanks to Time Warner Cable)

Much to catch up on (online) that I didn’t want to do while at the office.

Normalcy to hopefully resume soon

Had connectivity issues in the apartment this past week.

Finally isolated the problem to the old router I had. It was dropping packets when I tried to ping 192.168.1.1 So I went out and got a replacement this evening.

Now I’m back online…

Sorry again for the lack of posting here, but again I’ve been under a lot of stress recently. I’d rather not talk about it in such an open forum (Sorry!)

At the same time, I’ve been encountering a lot of, what I guess you could call “disappointment”. It’s a bit depressing to have to deal with people, of your religion–who try to make you do things that go against the tenets of your (shared) religion.

Seems like a good night to just take a book and get lost in it

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been busy.
Traveling for Thanksgiving + cooking and running errands while home. Riding a mobius strip with work–it’s been busy.

Things should normalize soon….

It’s a bit sad to see Joe Paterno’s career ending the way it is. That said, this manner of departure is going to tarnish his reputation.

The time change. It’s still messing with my head. Ugh.
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Overheard at an office today:

Receptionist I to doc: “Mr. X is here to get a refill on Controlled Substance and he wants to pick up an Rx for his wife for the same drug too”
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Conversation with my mother:

Me: “So the sister burnt some sugar the other night while preparing some candied orange peels. How can I get the burnt sticky mess out of the pot?”

The Mom: “Honesly, google it!”

Me: “Oh….I thought you’d have an idea. Maybe Grandma will know”.

Googling this did give the suggestion of boiling hydrogen peroxide (aside: which is an extremely dumb if not dangerous idea!)