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!)
WOw….what a finish there was to the OSU-Wisconsin game last night!
While it’s a bit disheartening to see the OSU defense start to fall apart late, Still what a finish for the Scarlet and Gray!
It brought back memories of the ’97 Rose Bowl game in which then OSU QB Germaine led an unexpected game winning drive with little time left. [Aside, the ’97 Rose Bowl was a classic in and of itself).
Though OSU still needs to develop a passing game at some point–it appears that the Woody Hayes style of play is working.
From the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine: Did Osama bin Laden Suffer from Sleep Disordered Breathing?
There is a suggestive photo with the article…but this is still too silly
Ohio Cops Arrest Topless Woman After 128 MPH Police Chase
The weird part is that this took place on Rte 422–a route I’ve taken countless times. Too weird….
Suffice it to say, I’m anything but a fan of the EMR system we utilize at the office.
Besides the simple fact that the software doesn’t really fit our practice (it was implemented before I cam aboard)–what really kills me is the poor support.
For example today I sent in a form to enroll for Electronic Remittance Advice. I get a response from the vendor, telling me that the clearinghouse which their software uses doesn’t offer ERAs. Funny, but I’ve used the same clearinghouse elsewhere and get ERAs just fine….
It’ll keep me occupied tomorrow….
The sister got some sort of gift or promotional samples of some organic vegetable/fruit juice blends.
[Personally, I'd rather eat my veggies and fruits in solid form]
Being curious, I perused the ingredients. The recurring theme on them all was the appearance of “Alkalized Water”
Now being a science person, it’s known that the pH of water is neutral–7.0
[Yes, I know that tap water may not be exactly at 7.0, but we're not talking about a chemistry or molecular biology lab here!]
Thus, one can only wonder, what make’s “alkalized water” more alkaline? How do they magically ad more hydroxyl (-OH) groups to water?
The Little Brother was in-town over this past weekend.
If I’ve not mentioned it before, the Brother constantly seeks two things: food and attention. (Mostly the latter).
When he’s here it’s a full-time job for me to be on top of (and then some!)
The brother got to have an NY experience this time around, including visits to museums, a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, subway rides (trains are his “thing”) and seeing “Blue Man Group” last night.
Of course, for me it meant a lot more work and having to share my room with a snorer! However, isn’t that what older brothers are for?
The Brother is coming to town for a visit…meaning I’m going to have my hands very full the next couple of days.
Here goes nothing!