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Tubin's Journal  I enjoy LJ for a couple of reasons. The most important is the chance to follow along with the writings of my friends in distant places. But more and more of those have moved to FB or elsewhere. In many cases, everything I see posted here is also posted in FB. I will keep looking here as long as those last few haven't made the move. The other is that LJ has been a convenient vehicle for keeping up with a number of things via RSS feed. But I'm irritated that the RSS feed appears to have been down for days. I've missed multiple episodes of my favorite webcomics and I'm going into cheezburger withdrawal! Is it time to find some other RSS feed reader and drop LJ entirely? Haven't seen anything new on LJ all day. Odd? Are they broken? Will this post appear? Today my group went out to lunch to celebrate birthdays - mine, last weekend, and my boss's earlier this month (not celebrated earlier due to Ramadon). On our return, we met briefly in his office so he could give me my birthday present: a promotion! My new title is "Senior Physician Systems Analyst". I was an applications analyst before. The titles are all just words, I suppose, but the new title was created just for me so, like Tigger, I'm the only one! My newest co-worker is a Physician Systems Analyst, though, so no doubt he'll make good and get himself promoted to senior at some point... at which point I'll be happy to share :) The title comes with a bit of a raise, which seems to prove that it's actually a promotion, not just a rephrasing. And, they're moving my group before long, and in the new space, I get my own office! (that's sort of but not entirely related to the promotion).... Likin' the world right now... (Since there's just one of me, I suppose I could say I'm THE Senior Physician Systems Analyst... saying "The senior..." makes it sound more exalted than it is, probably...) Oh, and I've apparently reached a point where I remember to post to Facebook long before I remember to post here, so most of you probably already saw this news... Yesterday was my revved-up "I'm gonna accomplish something!" day. So I set out to pull the carpet from the third bedroom (which we use as an exercise room)... a job which required clearing up rest of house so there was room to put furniture from that room, moving said furniture, then starting the dusty, gross task of pulling out carpet that's got at least 15 years worth of dirt, spills, mildew, etc ground down into it. Midway through the task, there's a popping noise from somewhere, and a few of the household lights get brighter while whole swaths of the rest of the house go dark. And a bit of a burnt smell. Oh, dear. The circuit that supports the internet connection seems to be dead, so after doing the standard checks (crawl through attic looking for anything smoking or burning, check box for blown breakers or signs of damage, go through house cataloging what's affected and looking for signs of damage), I used the phone to google for an electrician with weekend hours. Found a pleasant company with good BBB ratings and arranged for someone to come out. Before the electrician got here, a Reliant truck came cruising down the street. Seems the problem was some fairly serious incident at the transformer, not at my house. One phase of our two-phase power was out. The burning smell was probably something in my house reacting badly to the unbalanced power (the remaining phase was running slightly hot at 140 v instead of the 110-120 we expect). It took them over six hours to repair it. Meanwhile my electrician appeared, did due diligence to make sure the house wouldn't burn down, and while he was out there we discussed several other things I've needed to do for the house. He wrote up a contract for us for bringing the circuit box and ground wire up to code, installing a whole-house surge protector, and dropping a couple new circuits into key areas of the house... we will do that work next week. So it wasn't such a waste of his time or ours. That's our excitement for the week, I guess. Today I will finish the carpet job... The hospital where I work has a large indoor atrium area, with a central fountain, big sunroof, scattered tables and chairs, guy playing the piano, etc. A pleasant place to pause if I have a little time between meetings. So today I was sitting at one of the tables, with my back to the fountain. I hear a woman behind me, bitching at her kids: "Don't play in the fountain! I told you not to play in the fountain!" *splash* "See, I told you you shouldn't play in the fountain or you'll fall in and start bleeding like that man did!" One of the dishes I make in advance and heat up during the week is this sort of florentine-ish stew - chunks of chicken, browned with some masala spices, then stewed with onion, mushroom, spinach, cream cheese, and chicken broth. It all comes together into this savory, creamy sauce which is very tasty over a pile of egg noodles. But you know, when it's just come out of the fridge to be reheated, it looks less smooth and creamy and more... gloppish. Green and gloppish. And when I drop a big scoop of it into the bowl it sort of falls with a hearty glorp. It really does look like the generic green gloopy food you might include as the horror cafeteria item in some real-life or cartoon comedy.... Looks like we'll be going to the Netherlands for Thanksgiving week. Anyone know of any fun stuff to do in Groningen (the uni town) or in Amsterdam (in Winter)? Would we need a vehicle? How about good places to stay in Amsterdam? Hey, I haven't posted in weeks. This seemed like a conversation-starter. Less boring than work, street reconstruction, fence-building, housework, and the other sorts of things that seem to occupy my time lately. I dreamed last night that a strange cat had kittens in my bedroom closet. They were really cute kittens. I spent the entire dream scrambling around trying to find appropriate food and drink and so on for Momma-cat, who I figured must be starving to death if she'd been trapped in my closet having kittens without anyone knowing. Oh, and nicoleallee and johnbrandon had their triplets last night!Their names are: Tadpole Teddy-bear Jim-Ben Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.... Early this AM, someone at my employer emailed a solicitation to sign a political email petition. To a large usergroup - not the whole institution but to a mailing list that included a fair number of directors and VPs. Yup, you know what happened. A half dozen emails saying "please remove me from this mailing list" appeared, before the first "please stop hitting reply all to ask to be removed" started appearing. You know the routine. I'm happy to say that the guy who maintains the email list caught the whole thing within 20 emails. Killed the list, so no further posts could be sent. Then a few hours later a email went out from the powers-that-be which very publicly spanked the individual who had started the whole thing for (1) using a user group list inappropriately, and (2) sending a politically-oriented email at work. There was a strong implication that such behavior can be considered a firing offense. Competence and a politics-free workplace: Perhaps that's why Methodist was ranked #7 on Fortune's "Best Places to Work" report this year? Receipts I have sitting around for things I planted in the garden (as best I remember...) ( Documentation... boring ) The new job is great and keeping my busy - and in the interim I've managed to get the contract in place for the roof replacement (work to be done when the shingles arrive) and get the wood mostly painted for the fascia repairs, which will be done at the time the roof is done. Also have navigated Christmas, New Years, and Inauguration festivities as well as various birthdays and other fun. Now am trying to shovel out all the piles of paperwork and clutter that somehow accumulated while I was doing all of that. I don't quite understand how my house manages to get progressively messier when I'm not here doing anything in it! I made a New Years resolution to exercise every day. So far I'm on track with that. I do a 2-hour yoga session every Monday night, I meet with the trainer for a half-hour at the gym on Sundays and Wednesdays, and I do 40-minute cardio (usually walking on treadmill with occasional forays into jogging) with K on all the other days. Occasionally on Wednesday night I'll do cardio at the gym for a half-hour in addition to the workout with the trainer - that's generally either a recumbent bike or eliptical machine. Now back to cleaning up. Just felt guilty that my last LJ post was in December and it's almost February! My "ceramic" anniversary is coming up... |
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