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I am making this short since I really need to get to the laundry, UG! However, I woke up this morning and realized today I have been a medical transcriptionist for 33 years. Yeah, I know, they used to plug blind people into that profession, but I actually have enjoyed working in transcription. As my hearing is not what it had been when younger, I have more difficulty with non-English speakers, but I still enjoy keeping my hand in and do so successfully from home. Rather proud of this milestone! Fay is on the way! Talked to my family. They are getting the house ready to handle the storm. Will be definitely thinking of them as it approaches. Perhaps since they are in central Florida they will not have a bad time. Sure hope so for a whole lot of reasons. Hope everyone else in the state stays safe too. I am off to accomplish my chore (laundry)! One of the necessary evils if one wants clean clothes. Hotest day of this week today, about 90 degrees, so rather glad I am stuck with this to do. Hope to come back later, but I may just get into one of the 3 books I have started reading. Going to have to try not to start so many as I get interested in all of them and can't finish any of them very quickly! Thought I had gotten over doing this! Guess not! Tags: books; laundry; medical transcription
Current Location: my desk
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: air conditioner
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Where to start! I hate, hate, hate web-based email! This morning Aldo decided to put all 3 of my email addresses in outlook instead of my needing to go online to try and figure out how to read/delete/reply/etc. We weree able to delete hotmail fairly easily and it went into Outlook fairly easily! Then we tried with gmail! GRRR. I ended up with 3600 emails, most of which I had never read. I just decided to dump them all hoping that I could start fresh! Out they went. Great. Now I had a clear account! However, when I went into gmail, they were still there. Aldo finally realized that a copy had been held on the server. He told it not to hold a copy of the email and I again downloaded 3600 emails, quite a few of which I had never seen. Out they went again! By that time I was gritting my teeth, and believe me, I do not need to grind/grit my teeth with no dental insurance! I was feeling just horrible because I was asked to be moderator and members secretary for my alumni chapter with GDB, and I did not even know what had been discussed or even how to use the gmail! Well, just decided now that I have everything on Outlook that at least I can be more a part of the chapter. However, it just proved to me how little I really know about any part of the computer! After lunch Aldo and I went to help Donna, a friend, learn to use email. We left Brooks and Trident with our neighbor. I don't like leaving him, but our friends have a pit bull so we just don't want to take chances, even though she is really a nice dog. Anyway, I guess I found out working with Donna just how much I do know, though I am still in the toddler stage with computers. We had to start at the very beginning. Unfortunately she needs to use Live Mail which is really not set up with Jaws, but hoping that Aldo has at least made it usable. Sent an email so guess I will see if she writes back. Will feel very good if she understood what we taught her. Beginning to try and write my story for livejournal/GDHAW. I put the blog on my friends page so I think I can now go and check to see if I can post. Not tonight, though. Took my mile walk and I am exhausted. Oh, and that is another thing! Ever since I fell and bounced my head off the sidewalk, I feel so unsure and unstable on my feet. I know it is in my head, but I found myself wondering today just when I would lose the feeling. Right now I just feel so old and battered. I am not that old, but it seems I have just taken so many spills over the past few years, and I do not know why. One minute I am standing and the next I am down. Cannot wait until next summer when I can finally get Medicare so I can run my lack of balance and reflexes by my doctor. The other part of this mess is that I have really slowed Brooks down. I am so afraid that he will quit working for me because he wants to walk faster than I am capable of walking, and even though he is slowing down I wonder if it is fair to him to keep him at the slower pace. He is 26 inches tall and his stride is long. Guess I just want to be back to normal, whatever that is! LOL! We found a farmer's market that Karen stopped at for us. We got Michigan corn, melon, cucumbers, and tomatoes that are local and are about the best tasting things you can get. The stuff we get over the winter from other places cannot compare in any way with Michigan grown! I heard a program on NPR a few months back talking about the global food market. The premise of the program was that the best and most healthy thing for everyone to be doing is eating "locally." I believe it! The fresher the fruit and vegetables and the fewer the chemicals put on them is the better for the consumer! Going to start a series written by Karen Kingsbury. I validated a couple of her book on Bookshare so I really want to see what her other books are like. Guess I won't have Brooks to listen with me. I think he just went to bed! Tags: karen kingsbury; computers; helping a fr
Current Location: desk
Current Mood:  drained
Current Music: both dogs panting
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Shall I try this again? Well, going to try. It says that I was gone for 49 weeks. Wow, cannot believe it was that long! Much has happened in the almost year I was gone. I know most of you know, but in case some do not I have a yellow labrador from GDB I received in March, the 28th to be exact. His name is Brooks. We have had a rocky start, but we are really beginning to know each other now. We have been through a lot together including 3 falls in class, fortunately nothing serious, and 2 serious falls at home, again glad to say not serious! However, we have worked through a dog and kid fear, and now he knows he really needs to be very careful with me. Friday I tripped on the smallest crack in the sidewalk ever and fell flat on my face. I scraped up my face and look like I was oin a fight, but as today's walk let me know, it taught him he needs to be just a little more careful with this old lady! (smiles) Besides my new dog, I bought a Stream, a portable MP3 player for the blind but so much more. It is very small and compact and with a 4 gigabyte SD card, I can download books from NLS to my heart's content. In fact I have read 4 or 5 books recently that were great. One of them was about the dog mauling that happened in San Francisco a few years ago. I think the owners of the dogs got off easy! They knew what their dogs were capable of. This is not much for the first post back, but I hear that ACB radio is doing a program on the PacMate, and I can sure use the help with that. Glad to be back! Tags: acb radio, books, new dog
Current Location: my home office
Current Mood:  calm
Current Music: Brooks doing lab loops
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One week. Just cannot get here often enough! Grrrr! Thought when I left the hospital job I would have plenty of time, hahahahahahahaha! Not much is going on here. Lonnie is feeling a lot better. Don't know if it is the dog food or the feet feeling better, but this morning he was really pulling. I am just so happy about that!! Going to try and join a book club from Bookshare for mysteries, yeah, I need another thing to do! Oh well, I will try it. I like mysteries in general, and they have chosen a good title for the first one or at least I hope it is good. Some of the others I have read were great. The name of the book is ICE, a MCBAIN mystery. Should be kind of fun if I can make certain I have the time to read the book. Not a whisper from anyone that they want our house, and then heard this morning that Michigan was the worst state for falling house prices. How depressing! Oh well, at least I can afford the mortgage. Heard of someone yesterday who had an adjustable loan and can't affort their house any longer. They cannot even make it a 30-year fixed because they owe more than the house is worth in today's market in Michigan, and mortgage companies don't want to lend that much. As I said in a comment to Pawpower, this country has been screwed up so bad we never will recover! Now there is talk about going into Iran! Is there anything his kingship knows how to do except start another war? Well, I am off. Still have a bunch to do. Besides I think I am hungry! Tags: book club, lonnie, selling house, war
Current Location: computer room
Current Mood: hungry I think
Current Music: computer keys and hard drive
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I will make this a quick post since I have about 872 messages to run through on email. (Where did they come from! Lonnie had his vet appointment on Friday. X-rays and blood work was done. Nothing showed up, which I am very happy about, but we still do not know why he is dropping weight. Changing, at the request of the vet, to Joint Diet by Science Diet. Not happy about this because the first ingredient is corn, but I am going to play their game until he goes back on September 28 and his weight is taken to see if he has stabilized. If he has, Iam going to tell them I cannot afford the food. It is about double what I pay for Chicken Soup, and ingredients, not even close. I have him on the senior, but I am going to go back to the adult formula of Chicken Soup. Just need to see if he will hold his weight. We are working on 3 of his feet. Apparently he has licked them raw or they were burned on the sidewalk. Big blister on the back right one. Anyway, I need to soak his feet in Epsom Salts. Wow, what fun! No time to teach him how little by little. He hates water on his feet! Hoping he will get used to me putting those feet in the warm water, and just when he no longer tries to run for the hills when he sees the pan, it will be the end of the 10 days was supposed to do it anyway! Never a dull moment with these guys! Raining, raining, raining! We complained all summer that there was none. Now we have had 2 days of very hard rain! Flooding roads, etc. We need it, but hmmm, not really this much! It is cooler also. That is a real plus. However, really all I want to do is lay down with a good book and listen to the rain. Maybe I will! Off to try and clear some email. Tags: lonnie; rain; email
Current Location: computer room
Current Mood:  lazy
Current Music: computer running
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Hey there everyone! I am still alive! I know it has been a couple of weeks since I posted. The biggest reason I haven't posted is that August has just kicked my allergies in the butt. Today I feel pretty good, but with all the humidity and heat I was getting headaches upon headaches! I literally did not feel like doing anything. I was lucky if I got all my email done. Ah well, I should be used to August by now. My problem is that the drugs needed to help get rid of the headaches causes the side effect of no sleep! Got myself into an exhausted state. Anyone know a good holistic measure for stopping sinus headaches and allergies? Then there is work! I have been at my job for 1-1/2 years, and now they are trying to drive everyone away. I was chosen to be in a "special project group" testing out a new computer program. Did they make it accessible and easy? Oh no! At least they did put some links in it. Then I was accused of not clocking in on the site, which was not the case. I called my supervisor, who was livid because I supposedly did not clock into the "special project" site and went into the previous site. I blew up at her, which I suppose I shouldn't have, but I told her I was doing exactly what she had asked and it was not me. Someone probably has my password and is trying to grab my lines for more money. Then I told her that since they now want us to do all the accounts the company holds, and not just the ones assigned, that I need to be payed something for the extra work. (Every hospital as its own profile, and it takes about 30 minutes to read the "new" profile with Jaws and then because it is new it is easy to forget while typing the report.) The problem is that the hospitals want "indian" pay scales. The hospital wants to pay the company "nothing" and then the percentage that we get goes down. They just tell us that we are lucky we can work because they could send the work to India and would only have to pay 2 or 3 cents a line and not what I make. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! They have already made the lines longer so it takes more strokes to get a line. Just walk all over the American worker! Getting off that subject since smoke is now coming out my ears! Oh yeah, another thing that has me going crazy is that there is no place for Lonnie and I to walk. The City decided they would replace sidewalks, well parts of sidewalks, (more money to pay to the City, grrr). Anyway, they came into our area and chopped up the sidewalks, literally, and then they just left. No cement laid down...nothing since last Thursday. Nobody can get into our driveway, and if I wanted to walk, and this is the prime walking time of the year, I would have to walk in the street or on the grass all the way down to who knows where! I haven't tried going out and I am beginning to feel "cabin fever." I think I will try walking today, but that just may end up in frustration on both our parts. If we had been working sidewalkless all along, I guess it would be fine, walking in the street, but I am hoping they are going to fill in soon so calling GDB for help doesn't make sense. The other half of this equation is that with the way things are so torn up, nobody is going to even think of buying our home. Something good. I finally have a computer set up for me to do my journal and email. I was working on a computer that my company gave me, but I was nervous because companies spy on ther computers to see what the employee is doing with it. This way, I can work on the work computer for work (novel idea (smiles) and this computer I can use for me! People keep telling me that Lonnie is losing weight. He got heavy an I took weight off of him and switched him to a senior food. I am thinking I need to get him to a vet, but with everything torn up it becomes rather difficult, although I could get a cab. He seems just fine and more waggly than ever, but guess I am a worried mom, don't like the thought that he is still losing weight. His harness is not showing signs of that, though, so maybe he has just not been seen by a couple of folks for a while so it shows up to them a little more. Well, it is just about time for a trip to the vet anyway so we shall see. Need to catch up on email so I am off. Now that I know it was not Live Journal that caused the crash of my other computer, I hope I will post a little more. Tags: allergies, headaches, job, lonnie, sidewalks, weigh loss
Current Location: new computer room
Current Mood: good
Current Music: computer noise
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I just cannot seem to get it straight. I keep thinking this is Sunday for some reeeason. Maybe it is wishful thinking because I worked 3 hours this morning and still will work 5 hours tonight. Then I will be working tomorrow too! In some respects I don't like working out of my house. I got my cursor in the wrong place on a report and ended up cutting off a billing code. Then after typing the report, I forgot to contact the editors and sent it through to the hospital. Grrrr! I was panic stricken. Nobody in the company I can contact except by email. Well, I am hoping there is something she can do. I sent it high importance and receipt requested, which is something I never do. Had to do something! I still wish there was a way to ask the dictation to come bck on the screen after sending, at least with a number or something. In Detroit today, there is a cruise going on today called the Telegraph cruise. The one that is so popular with car enthusiasts and people who never care about a car until that cruise is the Woodward Cruise, and that is in August. I have a friend who has an old Mustang from 1968. It was originally a drag racer but he has made it "street usable" again. He and his wife brought the car to the Telegraph cruise today and stopped by to haved our neighbor time the engine. I think there are now 4 mufflers on that car, and it is still really loud! Every time the car started up Lonnie would back up and stare at it! His ears were down and he just started. Of course being an old car it was pretty smelly too. The car used to reside in our garage so it was good to see it again. It was good to see my friends too. Didn't get a ride. Hoped they would, but I think Karen was very, very tired and wanted to go home. Cruising was a really popular thing to do in Detroit in the 50s and 60s. On some of the long streets at that time they would often have drag races with cars too. When these 2 events happen, it is just so interesting to watch all the old cars, everything from early 1900s up to now classic cars of the 70s! The cops kind of look the other way during these events and people get to re-live wshat was part of their younger years, at least for the baby-boomers anyway! The Woodward Cruise has people bringing "classic cars" from all over the world. It was started by a local radio station and grew into a multi-million-dollar event. I am thinking of everyone who is graduating with new dogs today at least is OR. Now will start the work! Always a fun time meeting puppy raisers. It can be a really tiring day, though. Dinner is quickly being grilled by our neighbor so off to eat! Tags: cruising, graduation, old cars
Current Location: living room
Current Mood: content
Current Music: radio
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