Oops, missed the part about expecting it to be as big as the moon!

• kid's crazy waiting to see mars - justintime
  • That happened last year and I was able to see it! - sm
  • Sorry to tell you but that's an internet hoax. sm - me
    • Actually, Snopes says it is in October. - booboo
      • that's where I saw the hoax report, too - me
        • Oops, missed the part about expecting it to be as big as the moon! - booboo

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I have Desperate Housewives and Grey's preset to tape every week.  Wasn't thinking with the Super Bowl that Grey's would start late.  The tape cut off right after Dr. Burke sent everyone out of OR except for 2 other people.  He had just told the EMT that her hand was keeping the man from bleeding out and the bomb squad was coming.  Then <poof> that was it!  What happened next?  Anyone, please?  Thanks.

For one thing you need a break,  With the holidays coming up at least you won't have running the kids to school which should give you a few minutes where you can have some "me" time.  Can you adjust your schedule so that you have a split schedule and get up early and work a couple of hours before you take the kids to school and then work in the afternoon, or work in the evening after the kids have gone to bed?   If you can split it up like that, that would give you some time in the evening to clean house, spend time with family, and still have some down time for you. 

If the family helps with chores, just make a list of what needs to be done and divide it up so that everyone gets accomplished.  If you aren't so harried about getting things done you can concentrate on work, knock it out, and then have some restful time for family.

I think the holidays are stressful even on a good day.  We have our tree, doesn't have the first decoration on it, but we plan to do that today.   Haven't wrapped the first present either, but at least all but 1 is bought.  

can get the accounts and the MTs are the ones that get the bad deal.  To be honest, I too, am not good with heavy ESLs but I sure try.  I am also slower than most - but I sure try.  There are some ESLs that really try hard and I appreciate their efforts.  Then there are ESLs that are so fast and so sloppy I haven't a clue what they are saying.  There are also horrible American dictators too.  As the above poster said - the lack of decent courtesy is gone.  Their excuse - I'm in a hurry, blah, blah, blah.  Well sometimes I'm in a hurry so maybe I should stop capitalizing words, quit looking up strange words, forget punctuation.  Really!  Have dictators forgotten that there is a real human being transcribing his mess?

being a roadside idiot holding a stopandgo sign.

that is the bottomline.

I have many years of experience of transcription.

If you don't see the writing on the wall of where MTing is going - well, whoa be it for me

to explain it to you.

I'm just bowled over by the fact that after this many years

my experience is worth less than if I had never learned

how to type, learned English grammar, learned to type 100 cwpm, struggled my way through computer education on my own,

learned medical terms, drug names and values, learned foreign

dialects, learned many specialties .......that here 30 years later I

can hold a sign and make the same money.

But you stay in the field if you feel like you will come out ahead.

Since they have turned the career into a profit making machine for

a bunch of suits - the respectability of it and the career side of it

seems to me has flown out the window and the MT has become nothing

more than a part of that apparatus that can be replaced at their whim, and rather

cheaply -

The OP never said that her supervisor asked MTs to work extra.  If your supervisor asks you to work extra and you do, and there is no work for the other MTs during their schedule...then this is a different story.  This would then be considered a problem with management because they are allowing others to work extra and grab another MTs lines.  If MTs are not being asked to work extra and they are anyway, then this is a problem with greedy MTs not working their schedule.  There is a big difference between the two. 

The bottom line is:  The problem starts with MTs not working their schedule.  If management does not follow through and take care of the problem, then it becomes a problem with management.

paint your house a funky color. I'm thinking I missed a huge sale at Home Depot on paint because my neighbors are going crazy with the colors. Yes, I understand home depot and Lowe's screws up paint and you can get the mixed up colors very cheap but geez. My neighborhood is going crazy with weird paint colors on their houses. Two months ago someone painted their house bright green with bright pink trim, then came the peach house with green trim, bright yellow house followed by bright blue house with the leftover yellow trim. New house being built across the street is all burnt orange including the fence. They even painted the driveway burnt orange and not UT vols orange. Now my neighbor is painting hers bright green. It's not a bad neighborhood here in Central Florida and the houses here run from 150s to 300s but these colors are horrendous. I think if I put my house up for sale I won't get an offer because the peach house, green and pink house, and orange house are all on the dead end street I'm on.