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

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!)

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!

Since I was out last week for the Holiday, I’ve got a lot of work to catch up on. It doesn’t help that the Month ended at the same time (since that usually means more work anyway).

Anyone else have the experience at work where others expect you to know things…that until you’re put on the spot you have no idea about?

It’s as if one is supposed to be psychic or something…

Now were I to be psychic, I wouldn’t be so surprised that the Browns have started 2-1!

Ambulatory Payment Classifications for Medicare!

I guess it’s better than reading technical documentation or performing an audit like I did today.
(The latter I would definitely not do again!)

The Company finally decided to implement a CRM (only took 3 months of me suggesting it…)

Alas, I now have to teach everyone how to use said CRM–and alas, it’s not like I have much if any experience in marketing or sales.

So it’s documentation reading night here….sigh…

I’m scheduled to head down to Philly for an Aufruf followed by a traverse to NJ for a wedding.

Thing is, the chuppah was originally planned to take place outdoors. however due to Irene, I doubt that’ll be taking place

I can only hope to be able to make it back into the City Sunday night or Monday…we’ll see

Been a bit tied up with things as of late. Traveled home last weekend to visit with family and have been working more than one job. Keeps me busy.

Should get back to posting sometime soon.

Been tied up with some consulting work and an injury that makes using a PC a bit uncomfy.

Still gathering my thoughts….

What more is there to say about the weather the past couple of days?

on the plus side there’s a new Fairway in the neighborhood–hooray!

more when I cool down

This article makes me think I should start keeping some napkins on my desk at the office.

Napkins: Where Ethernet, Compaq and Facebook’s cool data center got their starts

Granted, I can’t write on a napkin without ripping it, but we can work on that.

Personally, I don’t know why so many of my friends recommended this movie so highly.

It was rather lame and just full of (mediocre quality) dirty jokes.

For a movie about horrible bosses/workplaces, Office Space is still much better.

Today the time just seemed to drag on….it’s as if 5pm couldn’t come soon enough.

I don’t remember the last time I had a day like that….