Showdown

I am getting ready for a showdown at work. Sometimes people do not use their common sense and it comes back to kick them in the behind. We have a woman who is in graduate school and doing her dissertation with data that we have gathered through our patients. She got angry at one of the other doctors and decided that she did not want "her" data left in the office. She was clearly told that she cannot under any circumstances remove it. On Tuesday, someone noticed that it was missing. She was given one day to return it and now according to our lawyer she has to sign a paper saying she unlawfully removed paperwork from the office. I am the one that has to give her the paper and have her sign it. This will not be pleasant. I hope she does not become belligerent as I have no patience for that. She had better come in, drop off the papers, sign and leave. That is all that I am in the mood for today.

Free Is Better

Yesterday my office voicemail system broke. It is part of an expensive system that has been there longer than I have. I called the person that installed it only to find out he sold the business four years ago. The new owner of his business said he could come over and look at the problem for a charge of $225. I had no choice but to say yes as our patients leave us messages after hours. The man came by and said that a new system would cost $6500 since the old one was antiquated. A repair with a few new parts would cost $2500. I did not like either option. I then asked if he could just detach our phones from the system and then I could call Verizon to set up Verizon Messaging. He said I could do that. He disconnected the system from the phones and I called Verizon to order their voicemail. This morning I will do the set up on it. Free is so much better than $6500.

All Caps

I hate when people write in all CAPS. To me it is like shouting. My husband does this and so does my receptionist. No matter how many times I ask them to write correctly, they do not. When I use their computers and start to write a sentence it begins lIKE tHIS, because I naturally start of with a capital letter but the computer is in cap lock. I have sometimes written a few lines before I reread it only to find tHAT iT lOOKS lIKE tHIS. Then I have to go back and rewrite. My receptionist enters data in all caps and then we have to redo it so it fits the report format. Why can't people listen to instructions?

A Visual

Saturday night we went to a restaurant with my family. I asked for a table for four plus a highchair. We were seated but the hostess forgot the highchair. She seated us in a booth for four and usually the highchair is put at the end. When a few minutes passed and there was no highchair, my husband went to get her. She returned with a booster seat chair that sits in the booth. I said it would not be good as there was no where to put it. She looked baffled. My husband was standing next to her at this point. I said there are four adults and one child at a four seat booth. Where will the booster seat go? She pointed to the empty seat, as my husband was standing next to her. I then said there are four adults, me, him (my son) her (my daughter in law) and him (my husband). I pointed to each of us. I then asked where the seat would go and she again said, There",  pointing to the empty seat that my husband would be sitting in. Seeing as I was getting nowhere, I told my husband to sit down in his seat. Then I asked for the third time, "Where does the seat go now"? This time she said, "There is no room for it". Finally she got the point, but did not understand it unless she had the visual. She then brought us the right type of chair.

Blown Away

This morning I felt like I was in Oz. The wind was blowing like a tornado. This wasn't Kansas anymore. Lately we are having windstorms which is not usual for New York. My lights went out twice. My son's lights are still out. He bought a generator after Hurricane Sandy. My garbage is strewn all over and Shelby almost flew to the moon when I walked him. Mother Nature is playng with the East coast.

Stop Calling

This morning at 7:30am my house phone rang. My heart started pounding. No one calls my house that early. If it was my cell phone I would not have been scared. You can call my cell at any time of the day or night. I ran to the phone and the person on the other end of line was from the "Windows Operating Center". As we all know, that is a scam call from India trying to get us to give them money for fake repairs. I usually joke around with them and say that my windows are new and have no air coming through them, but this morning I was annoyed. Don't make me run to the phone for this nonsense. When I heard the it was "Jane, from Windows" I told her to f*ck off and stop calling me.

First Birthday

Happy first birthday to my eyeball. It is one year since I had cataract surgery on my right eye. One year since I had to wear my heavy glasses. It has been a good year except for the floaters, but I would rather have them than go back to glasses. I can't believe how the year flew.