Still around 80 here in Illinois, but we are finally getting rain!
Posted By: mlstoo on 2005-07-20
In Reply to: outside temperature where you are - dls
It hasn't been this dry here for 130 years. Had our first t-storm in 2 months.
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Monsoon FINALLY hits Arizona. Microburst winds & rain.
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Wow, we are having one heck of a thunder and lightening storm from the heat, finally started to rain
some.....gonna hit 105 here in VA (near Richmond)....yikes! Hope we don't lose power, have 1 stand fan and 1 window fan if power does go (have a generator) but still, way to little for such heat. Our poor AC is gonna blow (along with the electric bill). 
Illinois MT
Yes I am.
44 female - Illinois
me
I'm assuming you are in Illinois?? No?? (nm)
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Chicago, Illinois
The home of the gangsters.
sounds like Illinois
I currently live in Illinois and seems like here they are bound and determined to take every last dime they can from you. I have never in my life seen a state with such taxes! Our phone bill was 60. but by the time they added on the taxes, it was 105! I see a tax on my electric bill for the privilege of the city letting them run lines through the town! In the process of getting the heck out!
Illinois IC tax question
I will be taking my taxes to a professional this year but am getting conflicting info as to IC status. I work full time in house as an MT and have started working as IC for company in Florida. Another MT told me her tax person said she does not have to claim IC work if she made under a certain $$ amount. (I also file jointly with my husband). What is required for my ic acct? Would like to know what other Illinois MTs do.
Thanks!
IC working in Illinois
Hi, I am an IC working in Illinois. I have someone do my taxes, since I think it is pretty complicated. The last I heard was that if you make under $600 in a year you would not have to pay taxes. But I think that is only if that is your only income and as an IC you have to pay quarterly taxes. Your tax person should be able to tell you what that is. Hope this helps.
any info on ChartNotes PRN out of Illinois - sm
does anyone know of this company? Do they offshore? Has anyone ever worked for them??
Any info that someone could provide to us would be greatly appreciated.
University Illinois-Chicago!
Daughter is going great, made the Deans List for the second time in Liberal Arts & Science.... and will be a Jr this fall.
Illinois company and it appears
when I checked they still have the account and the account is up to date. Since direct deposit is an option, I figure there are some who do not realize they didn't get paid yet, since I was told everyone on that account did not get paid. Why would they keep the account if they did not get paid by the client? Tried calling the labor board and left a message for a call back. I will have to see what I can do. Thanks for your response.
RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY. PLEASE!!!
ARRRGGGGHHH!!!! It has been raining on and off since Friday. Every half hour, a downpour. We got 6 1/2" yesterday alone and it has been raining cats and dogs all night and every hour or so today. We supposedly are supposed to get 2 more days of this. 
There are people that are being evacuated from their homes, people being rescued from their cars, homes are getting flooded, roads closed, and river rescues...
We are lucky. The underground springs only washed out our driveway and the small creek turned into a raging river and flooded our storage trailer, but I feel really bad for the volunteer firefighters. They are getting called out left and right.
On top of this, there have been fires and now the electric is going on and off. PLEASE, someone wave their magic wand and stop this. We are waterlogged.
(Just had to get this off my chest). Thanks for listening.
rain
 I didn't realize y'all were getting that much, I pray it stops soon! We are having 100 degree DRY days; can't there be a happy medium? Good luck to you!
Np. Take a rain check...ya never know :-)
every day come rain or shine (and no taxes to pay) NT
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I just hope some of the rain comes up to VA, it has not rained
trees are dying, leaves are falling early (started coming off in droves about 2 weeks ago), ground is rock hard......maybe some slight bit of good can come out of it if those that just need some rain get it.
Yes, love the sound of the rain on the roof! nm
:-)
Lots of wind, rain from Alberto -
The year went by F-A-S-T! Getting lots of bad weather from Alberto. My satellite is going in and out - no internet, no work. Think I'll take a nap!!
Not just high temps every day but no rain in nearly 2 months where I am!
It was 109 here yesterday with the heat index! A hot, gusty wind was blowing so hard that from inside I thought surely it must be raining, but it was the trees swaying, their dry leaves rustling. Corn crops here are a total loss, and I hear cotton is not far behind. Someone do a rain dance, please!
Sunny and 45 in Randleman, NC...chance of rain today though.
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We had some storms with heavy rain yesterday but did not make a dent
in the dryness. The past few years we have been saturated with it raining constantly. Last year we were 40 some inches over the norm for rain at one point. This year dry as a bone and hot as heck. The little bit you get through the thunderstorms has not made a dent in our need for rain. The river is low.
The weather pattern is so strange.
MQ finally getting to me too
I can relate, MQ finally getting to me too. I'm about at the same place, just unsure where to go from here, not wanting to get in more of a mess! I was originally with ddi from 1991, MQ bought in 1997 or thereabouts - I have had ONE raise since MQ came on, that was maybe in 1998... !
I've ignored so much about this company simply out of, ultimately, fear I guess - fear of the unknown with another national co.? What's that saying, better the devil we know... My attitude was always hey, I get paid well, work on accounts I've been on for years, and as long as no one messes with my pay check and leaves me alone in general, what's to not like about this job. I can ignore all the other scuttlebutt. Why torture myself with learning it a new way for another co. and then finding out they are just as, well... Not So Great.
But, that's just not cutting it any more. There are too many glaring problems to shrug it off any more it seems, including, for me, my pay has now been messed with, and, I believe, has been for quite a while.
Well, anyway, I wish you luck with wherever you move on to and send you a big dose of courage to Just Do It! It sure helps to hear some honest MQ MTs experience and opinions. And, I'm also glad for those MQers who find the company still works well for them. It's all relative.
I used to be that way until I finally
got fed up. the company just kept taking more and more advantage of me and "expected" me to clean up the mess so instead of 5 days I was working 7. one night my 3 yo said "mommy I want you to be with me and not work". that was the night that I started only working my shift and that's it. the company has taken revenge and has been switching me around from account to account more than normal and with the worst dr of course, but I only get one shot with my son and I don't need extra help screwing that up. the extra money doesn't mean enough to me. I've turned the furnace way down and use the fireplace daily instead. if you don't draw a line this job will control you because we all know that if we're not typing we're not getting paid but everyone needs something other than typing every waking minute!
FINALLY!!
you know what I mean
I FINALLY had my last ..
period at age 58! For 3 or 4 years prior to that, I noticed that I was a lot less heat tolerant. Like you, I'd get sweaty (mainly face, neck chest) suddenly off and on for years but still was having a period regularly. They finally started getting irregular around age 55 where I'd skip one occasionally. Then the last year or two I'd skip several and finally had my last period at 58 (about a year and a half ago). The biggest symptom I had was night sweats. I'd wake up in the middle of the night absolutely burning up and kick off the covers. Actually this just stopped recently. I still will get a "flash" (face sweaty and hot) once in a while though. Other than that I didn't have many other symptoms. A little moody but not too bad. Good luck to you. I hope all goes smoothly for you!
I finally got
one of my docs to go digital. I had him buy the recorder (Olympus DSS4000 I believe). It came with software to load on his and my computer. I use Hypersend to email the completed reports back (encrypted). Unfortunately, I have another doc who is unwilling to have his staff download and do envelopes for his letters so I still have to go pick up tapes (but only twice a week and at least he is close).
What finally went through on the (sm)
Word Board was exactly what I was trying to put through all the other times. Anyway, thanks for the response and I'll just keep plugging along.
Finally
Finally someone who sees my point of view.
Finally, THANKS SO MUCH
Well finally someone who speaks with intellect!  I agree with everything you said and what Patti said. OK I will get everything together and now that I know how to get the information to the Admin., I will do so tonight. Thank you for your words of WISDOM. I am not going to respond anymore. You are right and also you can go on forever with these comments. Again, thank you very much! XOXO
Finally.........
Best reading all day. 10 kudos!
I finally did this......
I don't know your physical ability, but have you tried walking a couple of hours before bedtime? I began going just around my block and back and was amazed at how much better I slept. I use to run every morning but because of really bad heel spur, I can't anymore. The walking doesn't feel so great on my foot either but I had to do something. I needed sleep.
Or,try soaking in a tub of warm water before bed. My hubby does this for arthritis before he goes to bed and I notice how much it really helps him sleep.
Another one, and I know this sounds crazy, but my hubby got me some great headphones that you plug into the TV at night, so if he falls asleep, I can watch TV without bothering him. What I noticed when having trouble falling asleep, if I put the TV on something boring, turn the volume down on my earphones, close my eyes, and try to listen, I find myself getting so drowsy that I turn them off and am able to sleep. I hope you find something that works for you.
Yes, finally........someone else!
I was beginning to think I was the only one who cringed with female dictators. The um, um, um.....I WANT TO SCREAM!!!!! Stop with the um and just speak WORDS!!!!!! And if the uuuhhmmmm isn't enough, I have a Pakistani female dictator and she is HORRIBLE. The mumbling 90 mph and uuuhhhhmmmmm.....I'm sorry I just want to reach out and slap her and ask her if that took her off the uuuhhmmmmmmm and could she now please just SPEAK NORMALLY!!!!!
Finally got rid of it!!!!!
Thank you all for your help with this blankety-blank problem I had that was entirely my fault. After trying 3 different ways to get rid of this garbage, I think I have succeeded.
Couldn't have done it without you. Thanks so much.
Finally!
I am WITH ya! Why can't we stand up all together! Been in this 15 years and made more $$ and actually had personal time years ago. Less pay for training a "machine" to eventually give us less work and probably put us out of a job...
Seems everyone is either afraid or, like us, do not know how to begin and what to do. If all of us that have been seeing such drastic changes because of low $$, low work and we stood together - even on 1 day just for 1 hour - WOW - what a backlog and that would speak the loudest! It could work, too. The majority who have these same issues far outnumber those that seemingly don't.
Blasted cold out today. It was 104 degrees last week, but it's 40 degrees today with rain.
However, I do like cozy days like today when I don't have to go anywhere. I'm done working, the house is clean, there's chili on the stove for dinner already, and I'm just putzing around. I think I'll go bake some jalapeno cheese bread to go with the chili.
Finally cools off and what do we have?
SKUNKS! I guess it was too hot for them to come out in the past month. Now they come out to scrounge around the neighborhood at 8:00 p.m. to pick through the trash bags that people leave out on the roadside 3 days before trash pick up. My whole house smells like skunk.
But you can't stop these people that work the M-F shift and gather up all of their garbage in garbage bags and leave them out on Sunday evening so they won't have to get up 5 minutes early on Tuesday, which is trash day, to take the bags out to the roadside. Yes, there is a law (more like a "town ordinance" that says no trash until the morning of pickup). It's not enforced though and we just have to put up with the lazy people.
Oh well, "Eau de skunkola" is the fragrance for this evening. 
I'm glad somebody finally got it right! :)
Then there is the easy man 7 course meal: Six pack and a bag of chips.
Finally! Thank you Lord.
It's about time all of you whiners left MedQuist. I have had enough of you complainers. It is just more work for me now! Yeah!!!! Did any of you ever think that it is time to retire? If you can't understand DocQscribe, which is so basic, I love it, you probably shouldn't be a Transcriptionist anymore. I think that is why so many of you can't get your lines up because you don't know what you are doing in the program. Anyway, thank you lord that you all are leaving. It is about time you quit complaining and do something for once in your lives.
Finally leaving MQ
Finally leaving MQ. Will miss the nice people but not the new changes. Thanks everyong on this board for your help. It's kind of scary to make a change, but what the heck. It won't matter in 10 years.
Finally leaving MQ
If you do not mind my asking, what company was that test for?
For WEEKS I had this. It's finally gone. nm
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Finally, we have gone digital...
 I just want to share my enthusiasm and gratitude with all of the MTs on this board who provided me with information on how to go about going digital as opposed to using tapes. It has been about 2 months in the making, and today I finally successfully and securely received my first audio file from the physician's office. No more tapes and wasting time and gas! Again, thanks to all of the more experienced & knowledgeable MTs on this board. Your wisdom has helped me a great deal. 
Finally someone who thinks like I do! sm
I never understood how Bucky even got in the top 12! What drove me nuts the most was was his inability to speak clearly! I really laughed when Ryan said "I have no idea what you just said" and when Kenny Rogers said he needed to enunciate or the song wasn't going to make any sense.
Bucky just really had a skeevy look to me...like I wouldn't leave a child alone with him.
I finally got into my mail but IM still down...nm
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Glad someone finally said it
This is so true - i am courted by companies every week - all making empty promises - and I know this because of what everyone on this board says about them. We are a great help to each other - and if anyone finds that "great"MTSO who is looking for a part-timer - look me up! I want in on the deal and i have experience to back it up.
FINALLY PAID
Well I finally got my check from the 15th. It was dated for the 16th, postmarked the 24th and received on the 29th. Let's see how long it takes to receive the final one.
thanks ER/MT - I got it finally *dense here*..nm
Never mind...finally got on a while ago..nm
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Finally, it works!
Thanks! This works great. For oldies like me, we need more specific instructions unfortunately. When people were saying to change the backstep to a higher number I didn't realize it went that high!! I don't know if there's anyone else out there that wasn't understanding but, I went under backstep on stop, highlighted it and changed it to 2000. Wonderful! thanks!
Yay, finally a subject I know something about
In case you haven't already found your answer - there are two variables to take into account. 1) Is the company an ASO (administrative services only), meaning they are self funded, or 2) do they actually purchase a policy through an insurance company? If they are ASO then they are under no obligation to follow any state/federal guidelines regarding coverage. However, if they actually purchase an insurance policy then they must add him to the policy regardless of his medical history. There may be a pre-x condition waiting period (ok, there's really no "maybe" about it, there will be), however, if he has had continuous coverage for at least 18 months without a gap in coverage greater than 30 days then that should be waived. Depends on how long their waiting period is as to how much previous coverage he would have to prove.
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