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May. 21st, 2019 08:58 pmI've somehow never played I Love Hue with the sound on before, despite having had it for I can't remember how long.
What a mistake, it is 3x as soothing like this.
What a mistake, it is 3x as soothing like this.
DW Anniversary Chowder
May. 1st, 2019 10:30 amI created my account on March 28, 2009; I was one of the few closed beta people way too broke to get myself a seed account, but I did contribute by creating Tropospherical Purple! I should really go back to the
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dw_news post and share the absolute mayhem that was me trying to fax paperwork to DW HQ to authorize its use, but I'm feverish and gross so it's not working out -- see next item. (It is really A Story. It was An Adventure.)I'm still sick; I'm still the kind of sick where I'm mostly at work because it is May 1, and therefore my steam heat is off at home so I need to be in my nice warm medical building to be warm. (Because, happy spring, it's cold and wet out.) We have delivered unto Children's a load of books; people waiting for PMs, as soon as my closet has space, you'll get them.
Got a blue Performer ribbon on my silly pixel dog game.
Cannot remember what this bullet point was supposed to be, distressingly enough, so let's make it: my water pitcher for my workshops at work keeps growing legs and walking off, so I'm apparently dipping into the supply budget to purchase another one. If it were MY water pitcher that kept getting liberated, it wouldn't bother me, but it's for my patients.
In honor of the icon expansion, I am taking icon prompts, because icons are a thing I can do when I'm sick! And I'm told people actually think my skills at cropping and color adjustment are pretty good. If you want to contribute to Random Icon Batch #Howevermany, please leave me a color or a word or something similar in the comments. I can't icon at work, but it will be something to do on my personal computer in batches over the next few days. :) I do not make icons of people and generally not of any form of art; I stick to using stock that I have permission already to use.
○ I'm not dead.
○ I spent the last week in a haze of terrifying fatigue such that I have now changed the dosage times on a number of my medications, which was especially fun when,
○ I hadn't taken any anti-anxiety medicine in eight hours when I learned that a friend of my dad's had been killed in Squirrel Hill. I didn't know him well but that was a hard blow for a number of reasons, and at this point I think there is nothing I can say as a person or as a Jew that has not already been said, but everyone who has been saying good things, thank you, I appreciate you.
○ I have so, so many comments to catch up on and I'm gonna work on that some today. The fatigue haze means I also have a lot of actual job-work to catch up on, so I'll be in and out.
○ Work's bi-annual (meaning, in this case, every TWO years) humanitarian service awards were on the 23rd; I almost had to impromptu public speak but did not. They went pretty well, and I learned some interesting things, plus:
○ While there, I got our BHCC head on board for funding me for further advanced health informatics certifications ... by accident. I mentioned simply that I had not been able to do a population health information cert I wanted to do because I didn't have $2500, and that spiraled into the C-suite folks finding me $2500 to use. I am floored, and just have to get in to the program now.Anyone want to write me a letter of reference in case I can't get ahold of someone else
○ I turned 30 on the 25th; my mother turned 68. We celebrated Saturday, for as much as this was a 'celebratory' weekend.
○ My office floors finally got cleaned! The person who cleaned them did not re-lock my office and also didn't let the room air out, so I walked into cleaner fumes and being a huge HIPAA violation because my individual drawers do not lock. Thankfully, nothing's been touched.
○ Yes, I am doing NaNo, though I should really make that separate journal to talk about writing things I always tell myself I'm going to do and then I don't. Because of health stuff I'm super behind on outlining, but I think this idea (which is the same as last year's idea, but last year my gallbladder ruptured in November and I wrote nothing, unsurprisingly) doesn't suck. Which isn't the same as being good, but it doesn't suck.
○ ( A dog pic. )
○ I spent the last week in a haze of terrifying fatigue such that I have now changed the dosage times on a number of my medications, which was especially fun when,
○ I hadn't taken any anti-anxiety medicine in eight hours when I learned that a friend of my dad's had been killed in Squirrel Hill. I didn't know him well but that was a hard blow for a number of reasons, and at this point I think there is nothing I can say as a person or as a Jew that has not already been said, but everyone who has been saying good things, thank you, I appreciate you.
○ I have so, so many comments to catch up on and I'm gonna work on that some today. The fatigue haze means I also have a lot of actual job-work to catch up on, so I'll be in and out.
○ Work's bi-annual (meaning, in this case, every TWO years) humanitarian service awards were on the 23rd; I almost had to impromptu public speak but did not. They went pretty well, and I learned some interesting things, plus:
○ While there, I got our BHCC head on board for funding me for further advanced health informatics certifications ... by accident. I mentioned simply that I had not been able to do a population health information cert I wanted to do because I didn't have $2500, and that spiraled into the C-suite folks finding me $2500 to use. I am floored, and just have to get in to the program now.
○ I turned 30 on the 25th; my mother turned 68. We celebrated Saturday, for as much as this was a 'celebratory' weekend.
○ My office floors finally got cleaned! The person who cleaned them did not re-lock my office and also didn't let the room air out, so I walked into cleaner fumes and being a huge HIPAA violation because my individual drawers do not lock. Thankfully, nothing's been touched.
○ Yes, I am doing NaNo, though I should really make that separate journal to talk about writing things I always tell myself I'm going to do and then I don't. Because of health stuff I'm super behind on outlining, but I think this idea (which is the same as last year's idea, but last year my gallbladder ruptured in November and I wrote nothing, unsurprisingly) doesn't suck. Which isn't the same as being good, but it doesn't suck.
○ ( A dog pic. )
Hello, new folks (and folks who have been around a while)!
I am terrible at intro posts, so I'm going to do this differently. But wait! First, it's a few doggie daycare pics, because I know several people added me because my dog is cute. I think that's an excellent reason, and so here are some adorable dogs to start your reading experience! For reference, the white lab mix is mine. He goes to daycare anywhere from 2 to 5 days a week because he is a very, very social dog when it comes to dogs, and so the other guys here are his 'pack.' (I know most of their names, but not all, because he's only been here a month and change.)
I'm also terrible at descriptions of any kind due to my stroke basically wrecking that area of my brain in particular, so despite being vision impaired myself there's no alt text for these, I apologize.
( Dogs dogs dogs! )
Now, like I said, I'm bad at intro posts, so instead I will do this this way and hope it garners any results: please, ask things. I don't know what to say about myself, so whatever you think I should say, please put it in the comments and I'll provide that info. :) Unless I can't, since some job-related things need to go behind a lock, but I'll do my best.
I am terrible at intro posts, so I'm going to do this differently. But wait! First, it's a few doggie daycare pics, because I know several people added me because my dog is cute. I think that's an excellent reason, and so here are some adorable dogs to start your reading experience! For reference, the white lab mix is mine. He goes to daycare anywhere from 2 to 5 days a week because he is a very, very social dog when it comes to dogs, and so the other guys here are his 'pack.' (I know most of their names, but not all, because he's only been here a month and change.)
I'm also terrible at descriptions of any kind due to my stroke basically wrecking that area of my brain in particular, so despite being vision impaired myself there's no alt text for these, I apologize.
( Dogs dogs dogs! )
Now, like I said, I'm bad at intro posts, so instead I will do this this way and hope it garners any results: please, ask things. I don't know what to say about myself, so whatever you think I should say, please put it in the comments and I'll provide that info. :) Unless I can't, since some job-related things need to go behind a lock, but I'll do my best.
5 questions meme, finally
Oct. 15th, 2018 01:10 pmAnd here we have, FINALLY, my 5 questions meme answers. They got et by depression for a while there.
Set one, from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yhlee!
1. How did you learn about BJDs?
Someone on my dumb Pern game got a Super Dollfie in 2001 and showed it off; my young doll-loving self was enthralled. My doll-hating mother was very unimpressed. I ended up getting really deep into all the websites and watching my friend do all her customizations, and it took me many years to consider owning one because I am the least crafty persn on the planet and would just outright ruin a doll -- then I married someone who is craft-talented and now he is my doll assistant.
2. What is the neatest thing about your job that most people wouldn't guess/know?
Considering my job description confuses most people and says exactly nothing about what I do (except for the obvious 'integrating primary and behavioral health care'), the answer could be technically 'everything,' but really I think that the people who are in our program don't even know how much I do toward cost controls. They don't see me gaming the system and using creative diagnostic and CPT coding in order to make things cheaper for them while trying to increase revenue to our organization (because we ... really need it since we have to keep the lights on and I've seen the recent fiscal reports and they're frightening). The combination of what we're doing overall to improve health and decrease hospitalizations plus my creative use of data is lowering health costs for everyone in my program and also therefore helping out NYS Medicaid and that makes me feel good about myself even if it's something that most people can't see or aren't aware of (or in the case of some of my patients, really do not care about).
3. What's the last book you read for fun?
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas. I absolutely loved every moment of it, though it is definitely not for everyone. There's some content that might bother people who don't like gory things about brains or reading about Nigerian politics.
4. Favorite fencing move (to watch, or one that you used to do)?
My favorite to do was always feint and then a foot attack, because I fenced epee and am also a) short, b) an asshole. XD Though I lost my blade half the time because my feints weren't, uh, feint-y enough. Watching a counter-parry riposte in foil is also very entertaining!
5. Favorite month of the year?
June! It is warm and sun-like but not oppressively sunny, and not too warm, and people are in Summery Moods and yet it's also early enough that it's not the emotional baggage of August. Once upon a time, August was my favorite month, but now it is June. Sorry, August, you have too many memories. (Though dad was actually admitted to hospice in June, my brain doesn't start having its subconscious anxiety-fests until mid-July sometime.)
And frommisbegotten!
1) What's your dream job?
Something with the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, which MITRE explains more about, even if they made 'healthcare' one word and I hate that. >_> I hd a chance to apply for a position but it just took so long and was so slow that I took the job I have (which also didn't require relocation, though we did end up moving it was a very short move, ~13 miles), though I still hope that there might be a CAMH role for me sometime in the future!
2) Do you have any pets? Have you had any in the past? What about the future?
I currently have a dog! His name is Trip, he's a 1 yr old Labrador Retriever/Cretan Hound mix we rescued from Little Cayman and Hurricane Irma. He's training to be my assistance dog but is also the most anxious, moody dog I've ever encountered in my entire life -- so I mean, the dog could also use an assistance dog.
In the past I have owned: a cat, a horse, three birds (one was technically my dad's), another dog, and a tortoise. All have passed on except the cat (though he's getting on in years); my allergies got so bad that he had to go live with friends long enough ago that he has been their cat much longer than he was ours, and he's happier in a multi-cat home, so he's doing quite well. In the future I would like to have more dogs, and if we live someplace that is compatible I would like to bring another horse into my life but I'm never going to have the kind of money where I could board one off-site. I adore birds, but am not sure I could do parrot + needy dog at the same time, I'd go insane from being needed by animals!
3) If you could turn one piece of fanon into canon, what would you pick?
I went back ad forth a bit on this one and then decided that I would assume a missing scene kind of fanfic would count and that this entire Queen's Thief fic (NSFW) being What Actually Happened on the wedding night we never see. Funny that this is my first thought because I overall do not like YA and I rarely read fantasy, but this ship is close to my heart
4) If you could live anywhere without the climate affecting you adversely, where would you live?
Haha considering the asker it's funny, but I'd absolutely go back to Michigan and probably settle near Ann Arbor for good. I am happier there than most anywhere else, but also usually ... very cold. Virginia Beach is in second place.
5) What's your favorite game? What's the appeal?
The board game "Plague, Inc" - it's got both competitive and collaborative aspects, and it's an epidemiology game that is largely scientifically accurate! Who could say no? Probably lots of people, but definitely not me.
(It's also playable with only 2 people, which is the number of people I usually have available.)
Everyone knows the drill: if you want 5 questions, feel free to comment (they might be very weird since I'm still having some Brain Issues), and if you want to ASK me five questions more feel free to just throw them in here. I know I owe a few people questions, I promise I haven't forgotten you. ♥
Set one, from
yhlee!1. How did you learn about BJDs?
Someone on my dumb Pern game got a Super Dollfie in 2001 and showed it off; my young doll-loving self was enthralled. My doll-hating mother was very unimpressed. I ended up getting really deep into all the websites and watching my friend do all her customizations, and it took me many years to consider owning one because I am the least crafty persn on the planet and would just outright ruin a doll -- then I married someone who is craft-talented and now he is my doll assistant.
2. What is the neatest thing about your job that most people wouldn't guess/know?
Considering my job description confuses most people and says exactly nothing about what I do (except for the obvious 'integrating primary and behavioral health care'), the answer could be technically 'everything,' but really I think that the people who are in our program don't even know how much I do toward cost controls. They don't see me gaming the system and using creative diagnostic and CPT coding in order to make things cheaper for them while trying to increase revenue to our organization (because we ... really need it since we have to keep the lights on and I've seen the recent fiscal reports and they're frightening). The combination of what we're doing overall to improve health and decrease hospitalizations plus my creative use of data is lowering health costs for everyone in my program and also therefore helping out NYS Medicaid and that makes me feel good about myself even if it's something that most people can't see or aren't aware of (or in the case of some of my patients, really do not care about).
3. What's the last book you read for fun?
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas. I absolutely loved every moment of it, though it is definitely not for everyone. There's some content that might bother people who don't like gory things about brains or reading about Nigerian politics.
4. Favorite fencing move (to watch, or one that you used to do)?
My favorite to do was always feint and then a foot attack, because I fenced epee and am also a) short, b) an asshole. XD Though I lost my blade half the time because my feints weren't, uh, feint-y enough. Watching a counter-parry riposte in foil is also very entertaining!
5. Favorite month of the year?
June! It is warm and sun-like but not oppressively sunny, and not too warm, and people are in Summery Moods and yet it's also early enough that it's not the emotional baggage of August. Once upon a time, August was my favorite month, but now it is June. Sorry, August, you have too many memories. (Though dad was actually admitted to hospice in June, my brain doesn't start having its subconscious anxiety-fests until mid-July sometime.)
And from
misbegotten!1) What's your dream job?
Something with the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, which MITRE explains more about, even if they made 'healthcare' one word and I hate that. >_> I hd a chance to apply for a position but it just took so long and was so slow that I took the job I have (which also didn't require relocation, though we did end up moving it was a very short move, ~13 miles), though I still hope that there might be a CAMH role for me sometime in the future!
2) Do you have any pets? Have you had any in the past? What about the future?
I currently have a dog! His name is Trip, he's a 1 yr old Labrador Retriever/Cretan Hound mix we rescued from Little Cayman and Hurricane Irma. He's training to be my assistance dog but is also the most anxious, moody dog I've ever encountered in my entire life -- so I mean, the dog could also use an assistance dog.
In the past I have owned: a cat, a horse, three birds (one was technically my dad's), another dog, and a tortoise. All have passed on except the cat (though he's getting on in years); my allergies got so bad that he had to go live with friends long enough ago that he has been their cat much longer than he was ours, and he's happier in a multi-cat home, so he's doing quite well. In the future I would like to have more dogs, and if we live someplace that is compatible I would like to bring another horse into my life but I'm never going to have the kind of money where I could board one off-site. I adore birds, but am not sure I could do parrot + needy dog at the same time, I'd go insane from being needed by animals!
3) If you could turn one piece of fanon into canon, what would you pick?
I went back ad forth a bit on this one and then decided that I would assume a missing scene kind of fanfic would count and that this entire Queen's Thief fic (NSFW) being What Actually Happened on the wedding night we never see. Funny that this is my first thought because I overall do not like YA and I rarely read fantasy, but this ship is close to my heart
4) If you could live anywhere without the climate affecting you adversely, where would you live?
Haha considering the asker it's funny, but I'd absolutely go back to Michigan and probably settle near Ann Arbor for good. I am happier there than most anywhere else, but also usually ... very cold. Virginia Beach is in second place.
5) What's your favorite game? What's the appeal?
The board game "Plague, Inc" - it's got both competitive and collaborative aspects, and it's an epidemiology game that is largely scientifically accurate! Who could say no? Probably lots of people, but definitely not me.
(It's also playable with only 2 people, which is the number of people I usually have available.)
Everyone knows the drill: if you want 5 questions, feel free to comment (they might be very weird since I'm still having some Brain Issues), and if you want to ASK me five questions more feel free to just throw them in here. I know I owe a few people questions, I promise I haven't forgotten you. ♥
I am at work on Yom Kippur because I have no sense of how calendars work or when to schedule time off in advance. They would have let me just not come in, but I can't spare the funds right now since we're always frighteningly in the red every month what with Brady's income situation being ... tenuous. I am wearing white and also sneakers because all my work-appropriate shoes are leather. People are acting surprised to see me, though, and in fact our executive director was all, "You are the LAST person I thought would be here today!" Because I guess I am the most blatantly Jewish-looking of our Jewish staff, which is ... likely very true. My last name is a toss-up but my appearance, I think it probably is me.
Here's a pile of miscellany that is just personal logging-stuff. Along with this existential apology for how I am super behind on comments and currently unable to reply to all of them but I appreciate you all and have still been commenting on other people's journals, so ... *shrug*
( Flood casualties/apartment stuff )
( Game stuff )
( Meds stuff )
Here's a pile of miscellany that is just personal logging-stuff. Along with this existential apology for how I am super behind on comments and currently unable to reply to all of them but I appreciate you all and have still been commenting on other people's journals, so ... *shrug*
( Flood casualties/apartment stuff )
( Game stuff )
( Meds stuff )
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Aug. 29th, 2018 10:04 amYesterday did not go as planned; it mostly did, but we'd intended to chill at Dad's memorial bench for a bit, maybe get a couple cute pictures of the dog and/or the Red Wings flag (work is not giving me time to tell this story right now but I will tell it eventually; there is an actual story behind carrying around a hockey team flag) ... forgot about the part where it's two blocks from Gracie Mansion and so if something is going on at the Mayor's house, you can't even get there.
I probably could have scaled a fence, but would have been forced to leave everyone else behind.
"Why did you choose such a horrible place?" asks the sensible person; the answer is pretty simple. I actually grew up at 86th and 1st back when the UES was not someplace only the richest of rich people lived, and that spot in that park was his favorite. It was a total no-brainer. I get choked up sometimes going there just because that is my home that I'm eternally priced out of and it's very upsetting, but it's also really soothing to be there ... which is also how I feel about Mt. Sinai Hospital, which is a pretty odd way to feel about a hospital.
In better news, we caught up on the data input backlog finally. I spent all of yesterday and the day before on it and had such terrible headaches as a result. Today's looking like a combination of meetings and boring enrollment/discharge stuff; there's a lot of really special math going on on some of these spreadsheets that I'm not sure is actually right ...
ETA: Canine materialism! I was informed that my dog loving psychopharmacologist self probably wanted this shirt and that is correct; I also really want this back windshield decor since I FINALLY have a car that has one of those things. My poor stressed hatchback, which went to being driven twice a month to like 50 miles a day.
Unfortunately we still have negative money, but hopefully in a couple of months that will have sorted itself out.
I probably could have scaled a fence, but would have been forced to leave everyone else behind.
"Why did you choose such a horrible place?" asks the sensible person; the answer is pretty simple. I actually grew up at 86th and 1st back when the UES was not someplace only the richest of rich people lived, and that spot in that park was his favorite. It was a total no-brainer. I get choked up sometimes going there just because that is my home that I'm eternally priced out of and it's very upsetting, but it's also really soothing to be there ... which is also how I feel about Mt. Sinai Hospital, which is a pretty odd way to feel about a hospital.
In better news, we caught up on the data input backlog finally. I spent all of yesterday and the day before on it and had such terrible headaches as a result. Today's looking like a combination of meetings and boring enrollment/discharge stuff; there's a lot of really special math going on on some of these spreadsheets that I'm not sure is actually right ...
ETA: Canine materialism! I was informed that my dog loving psychopharmacologist self probably wanted this shirt and that is correct; I also really want this back windshield decor since I FINALLY have a car that has one of those things. My poor stressed hatchback, which went to being driven twice a month to like 50 miles a day.
Unfortunately we still have negative money, but hopefully in a couple of months that will have sorted itself out.