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Aug. 6th, 2007 10:13 pm
there are too many things
Someday I will write a real post.
Last week we went to the ER twice. Mark is fine now, and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection and given extra antibiotics. We weren't reassured by the doctor's "worst-case scenario - it might be Chrohn's disease or colitis". In fact, I'm sort of frustrated that we're in 2007 now and medicine is mostly guessing until you get it right. I'm not saying that our doctors sucked; they were doing the best with the information they had, but still. A little certainty would go a long way, is all I'm saying.
More aggravating was the fact that we actually bought groceries and planned to cook last week, but because of the above, didn't get to do much of it. My mom was sweet, though, and made me bring Mark some soup and "wife cookies". No, I have no idea why they're called that. I went home for dinner on Saturday and she practically kicked me out of the house right after, telling me I had to take care of him. (I bet Mark just looooves that.)
I've been working on my eHub articles and part of that is reviewing different sites. Doing this, as fun as it is, is still annoying sometimes, especially when I have to deal with a website that does stupid things - for example, instead of writing out their features in plain old text, advise you to watch a video, or linking to an "about" page that is non-existent, or my very biggest pet peeve - charge money for things that are now standard to give away for free. If I can get what you are offering for free somewhere else, why wouldn't I go somewhere else?
Today my train was delayed due to a person being struck by another train. According to what we heard, it was a probable suicide. Which is awful.
I will write about New York later. Still have to work on other stuff first. Some links of interest to me, and maybe to you:
Remember that tasering incident in UCLA? UCLA's campus police decided to taser some kid because he had no ID, and there was an internal investigation that found no fault with the campus police. However, there was another investigation and this time found that the officer violated "use of force" policies. via Metafilter.
Daniel Wu's blog is still going. This time he writes about the destruction of the Queen's Pier. I have a soft spot for him because he went to school in Oakland. I mean, true, it was Head-Royce, one of the best private schools around, but still. Oakland!
I am with John Scalzi on the creation of a union for bloggers - WTF? First, who are you going to bargain with? Actually in the comments it's noted that the original person who talked about it was actually trying to figure out ways for bloggers to get health insurance. But still, unless blogging is your sole source of income (in which case you need to start looking for another job) maybe you should just look at the stuff that's already out there.
New York's deliverymen sue their employers.
Last week we went to the ER twice. Mark is fine now, and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection and given extra antibiotics. We weren't reassured by the doctor's "worst-case scenario - it might be Chrohn's disease or colitis". In fact, I'm sort of frustrated that we're in 2007 now and medicine is mostly guessing until you get it right. I'm not saying that our doctors sucked; they were doing the best with the information they had, but still. A little certainty would go a long way, is all I'm saying.
More aggravating was the fact that we actually bought groceries and planned to cook last week, but because of the above, didn't get to do much of it. My mom was sweet, though, and made me bring Mark some soup and "wife cookies". No, I have no idea why they're called that. I went home for dinner on Saturday and she practically kicked me out of the house right after, telling me I had to take care of him. (I bet Mark just looooves that.)
I've been working on my eHub articles and part of that is reviewing different sites. Doing this, as fun as it is, is still annoying sometimes, especially when I have to deal with a website that does stupid things - for example, instead of writing out their features in plain old text, advise you to watch a video, or linking to an "about" page that is non-existent, or my very biggest pet peeve - charge money for things that are now standard to give away for free. If I can get what you are offering for free somewhere else, why wouldn't I go somewhere else?
Today my train was delayed due to a person being struck by another train. According to what we heard, it was a probable suicide. Which is awful.
I will write about New York later. Still have to work on other stuff first. Some links of interest to me, and maybe to you:
Remember that tasering incident in UCLA? UCLA's campus police decided to taser some kid because he had no ID, and there was an internal investigation that found no fault with the campus police. However, there was another investigation and this time found that the officer violated "use of force" policies. via Metafilter.
Daniel Wu's blog is still going. This time he writes about the destruction of the Queen's Pier. I have a soft spot for him because he went to school in Oakland. I mean, true, it was Head-Royce, one of the best private schools around, but still. Oakland!
I am with John Scalzi on the creation of a union for bloggers - WTF? First, who are you going to bargain with? Actually in the comments it's noted that the original person who talked about it was actually trying to figure out ways for bloggers to get health insurance. But still, unless blogging is your sole source of income (in which case you need to start looking for another job) maybe you should just look at the stuff that's already out there.
New York's deliverymen sue their employers.