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Keeping it alive
I figured I'd better log on once in a while to keep Blogspot remembering I'm here. If you want to see the most up-to-date postings go to http://bluebirdsinging.com/new/ or just click here.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
FIND THE NEW STUFF HERE!!!!!
All the new blog entries after this got hijacked during the Google takeover are here.
Friday, March 30, 2007
A billion reasons to love art
I made a tiny, minute, utio little, nothing contribution to the $1 billion gift to the Seattle Art Museum.
The CEO of a companyI once worked for called giving like this: "Northwest Reserved." New England acts all formal, Texas swaggers, and California flaunts...but around here we just shut up and put up. We just lean back and watch and seek our fancy.
But this leads to my bigger question: What the holyfuck are these people capable of? As much as we lament rich people, here are rich people creating something that rivals the Carnegies and the Rockefellers. I love it.
There is nothing old school about them. They play on their own ballfields (literally, sometimes).
A billion dollars of art. Go figure.
The CEO of a companyI once worked for called giving like this: "Northwest Reserved." New England acts all formal, Texas swaggers, and California flaunts...but around here we just shut up and put up. We just lean back and watch and seek our fancy.
But this leads to my bigger question: What the holyfuck are these people capable of? As much as we lament rich people, here are rich people creating something that rivals the Carnegies and the Rockefellers. I love it.
There is nothing old school about them. They play on their own ballfields (literally, sometimes).
A billion dollars of art. Go figure.
How computer stupid are you?
I understand sales. Get it. Been there, done that.
But to stoop to claiming your 3 1/2-year-old child is smarter on a computer than you? That's exactly what a woman claims on a training site for software that is like an infomercial.
I have no problem saying my kid is smarter than me. But I can kick her ass at applied skills, especially the computer.
Is it fair to say that the parent who has a 3.5-year-old kid better at the computer is just stupid?Can we just call them a dumbshit? Or is the true dumbshit the person that pays 30 bucks tp be as smart as a four-year-old?
But to stoop to claiming your 3 1/2-year-old child is smarter on a computer than you? That's exactly what a woman claims on a training site for software that is like an infomercial.
I have no problem saying my kid is smarter than me. But I can kick her ass at applied skills, especially the computer.
Is it fair to say that the parent who has a 3.5-year-old kid better at the computer is just stupid?Can we just call them a dumbshit? Or is the true dumbshit the person that pays 30 bucks tp be as smart as a four-year-old?
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
I was starting to feel left out of Africa
Been years since I got one of these...
Sir / Madam,
Please, I want to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you My Name is Mr.David Obi,a bank accountant. I wish to know if we can work together.I would like you to stand as the next of kin to my deceased client who made some deposits to my bank.
He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate. If you are interested you do let me know so that I can give you comprehensive details on what we are to do I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.
Please get in touch with me urgently by Email: (mrobi22@mail.md)
Best regards,
Mr.David Obi
Sir / Madam,
Please, I want to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you My Name is Mr.David Obi,a bank accountant. I wish to know if we can work together.I would like you to stand as the next of kin to my deceased client who made some deposits to my bank.
He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate. If you are interested you do let me know so that I can give you comprehensive details on what we are to do I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.
Please get in touch with me urgently by Email: (mrobi22@mail.md)
Best regards,
Mr.David Obi
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
A short note on healthcare
Geeeze, am I lucky when it comes to seeing the doctor, getting treatment and making emergency visits.
On the one end, I cringed today when I saw it was almost a hundred bucks for tywo months of my meds. But that's what I pay. And they keep me healthy and active.
On the other end, I don't think I pay close to enough when I just do a $10 co-pay to see my regular doctor.
He's been my doctor for six years this month. That's even longer than any pediatrician I'd ever had! But we're in sync. In fact, his whole senior office staff is in sync with me and greet me by name. I HATE doctors, but I'd jump off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge if this one told me to. He's funny, sharp, conversational, and not afraid to say we need to try something else.
Read that last part: Not afraid to say we need to try something else.
For instance: When I first started seeing him, my blood pressure was (go ahead, gasp) 283/168.
I was a stress case with a heart about ready to pop through my ribs.
We have played around with different meds and excercise over and over since then. Plus, he liked me "Movin' Out."
About two years ago, I joined the golf club, and it turns out golf is just right for the type of excercise I need. It's perfect.
We hit paydirt...excercise and drugs had me down to 120/75. YoooHooooo!!!!
I was cruising. I got tired fast, but it was all feeling better.
I started think that these monthly checkups were going to finally end.
And then I went in today.
95/60.
Uh, oh.
That's low...we were over correcting. Humbug.
So the meds were completely re-done starting tomorrow and I am on less medication, and I need to be careful of how hard I excercise for a bit.
But my point is, if I had just been popping in and out of doctors the last six years, who would be there to catch that and understand it? It sounds minor, but I was really thinking about that today. MY doctor knows all about me. I pay very little, my insurance, I'm sure, pays a lot. I but I gurantee they would have paid more if I didn't have him in my corner the last six years.
On the one end, I cringed today when I saw it was almost a hundred bucks for tywo months of my meds. But that's what I pay. And they keep me healthy and active.
On the other end, I don't think I pay close to enough when I just do a $10 co-pay to see my regular doctor.
He's been my doctor for six years this month. That's even longer than any pediatrician I'd ever had! But we're in sync. In fact, his whole senior office staff is in sync with me and greet me by name. I HATE doctors, but I'd jump off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge if this one told me to. He's funny, sharp, conversational, and not afraid to say we need to try something else.
Read that last part: Not afraid to say we need to try something else.
For instance: When I first started seeing him, my blood pressure was (go ahead, gasp) 283/168.
I was a stress case with a heart about ready to pop through my ribs.
We have played around with different meds and excercise over and over since then. Plus, he liked me "Movin' Out."
About two years ago, I joined the golf club, and it turns out golf is just right for the type of excercise I need. It's perfect.
We hit paydirt...excercise and drugs had me down to 120/75. YoooHooooo!!!!
I was cruising. I got tired fast, but it was all feeling better.
I started think that these monthly checkups were going to finally end.
And then I went in today.
95/60.
Uh, oh.
That's low...we were over correcting. Humbug.
So the meds were completely re-done starting tomorrow and I am on less medication, and I need to be careful of how hard I excercise for a bit.
But my point is, if I had just been popping in and out of doctors the last six years, who would be there to catch that and understand it? It sounds minor, but I was really thinking about that today. MY doctor knows all about me. I pay very little, my insurance, I'm sure, pays a lot. I but I gurantee they would have paid more if I didn't have him in my corner the last six years.
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