Thank you everyone!! great ideas. curious though as to why beef jerky wouldn't be allowed?? sm
Posted By: anon on 2006-03-14
In Reply to: care package for military in iraq ideas?? sm - anon
also, i know i have seen insulated boxes before and was wondering if you sent chocolate goodies, would they survive in an insulated box with ice pack? i know it probably takes a few weeks before they receive them.
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They LOVE beef jerky! nm
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Thanks you all! These are really great ideas. sm
I've been taking glucosamine w/chondroitin for years, and have nerve heard of glucosamine MSM. Used to have cubital tunnel and terrible forearm aching, but took several years off and it cured itself. Now finger arthritis is my biggest problem. My doctor also prescribed a ketoprofin cream that I run on my joints at night...I call it the miracle cream. It has to be covered with plastic wrap, but wow does it help the inflammation! It has to be made up at a compounding pharmacy, too, regular stores don't stock it. Silly doctors...I had to suggest it to my doctor, but he didn't object to writing the Rx, since it wasn't systemic.
Thanks for all the great ideas!!
Some great ideas by all of you. Thanks so much for the advice and sorry to the people who are complaining about not interested in pets. Since this is the main board and sort of a pot-pourri of things get posted here, I thought it would be okay to ask for advice, and yes, I'm an MT too! 
These are all great ideas. (sm)
With a 3-year-old child at home who NEVER stops talking, I pretty much have to work on and off all day long to get a decent pay check! I've heard the stop watch thing works pretty well though.
Great ideas..sm
We have been thinking seriously about Hershey Park, PA. I thought that would be a GREAT trip...My son LOVES trains also. So that is a thought. We always, every year since I can remember, go to Myrtle Beach but we have seen everything...and want some place new. My best friend lives in Maryland so that might be another thought - get to enjoy the beach and visit with her. Thanks for the great ideas! I will keep all of those in mind....
Great ideas!! Thanks all. nm
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Thanks everyone!!!! Got some great ideas!!! nm
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Thank you everyone for all the great ideas! nm
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Great ideas...
Thanks for all the great ideas - I have been looking around for groups to join, but most meet when I am working in this area, so makes it difficult to get involved when most people in these groups are retired. I probably sound like I am making excuses, but I am really not - just difficult to explain that there are not a lot of choices around here to get involved unless you create something that works for you and then who knows what response that would get! Yes, there are cafes, but again it is retired people who frequent these places. Yes, there is a garden club and book club, sewing and quilting club (no sewing machine to get involved), garden and book club meets in the day time when I am working, I do knit and have thought of starting a prayer shawl ministry, but would have to ask around of others who do this and get together. I will check out googling groups in my area for chat or such - never thought of that. I am somewhat shy, when I feel comfortable around people then I am more comfortable with socializing, but stepping out cold turkey and getting involved is not my thing. My closest neighbor is a mile or more away, I live in the country - so makes the getting acquainted a little more challenging and again there are many older people who live around here. Don't know of anyone interested in a Bible study, but would enjoy doing that if I knew of anyone interested. Being single in a couples or elderly world is a tough thing!! I have tried things before, but feel there are not a lot of opportunities around here, so that is why I thought of seeing if there was an interest in my area with people who work out of their homes - maybe they have enough friends and don't need somethign like that, but was just an idea of mine. I will take your ideas to heart and see what I can come up with - thanks for your responses - they are appreciated!!
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These are great ideas..thank you so much! :-) (nm)
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Great ideas...
...a couple of which I didn't think of. Thx! I have thought of another IC job with another company, but I am afraid to get tied into another schedule. We all know how it goes...one week, praying for work, the next, praying for a break! Thank you both.
Great ideas
How about a bumper sticker --- "DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS ARE?"
See hgtv.com for ideas, too. Great stuff! nm
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Those are great ideas, but I think the food banks
and churches are probably not going to want to be so eager to help since the OP owns 5 houses. Her best bet is going to be to be extremely frugal at low cost markets.
great post; hope your ideas do catch on.
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Great ideas! If anyone is too shy to post...smBennies are for employees..?
You can e-mail me your responses. All ideas and requests are welcome. Maybe I cannot deliver on all but you never know if you don't ask. Wouldn't it be great if at least we could get the top 3 or 5 requests? Keep writing your thoughts, I'm listening.
Great platform, but curious about being paid by line vs. report as well, which is best?
Wouldn't that be great?
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Yes, wouldn't it be great if they are finally seeing
Most people willing to work for those rates aren't experienced and need either a lot of QA or training or they just aren't very good. The MTs who know they are good at what they do typically hold out for a rate that is worthwhile. I hope these companies start seeing that in order to get quality workers, they will need to start upping the ante!!
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Great idea except you wouldn't get any work done!--nm
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wouldn't it be great, if it were real??hahah, thanks! (no message)
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For CURIOUS: You are not curious, you are paranoid and a sociopath
Are you referring to the sentence
'And HOW to you put a marker?'
where I typed a 't' instead of a 'd'?
It was just a TYPO!
I am an American MT!
It is so pitiful how PARANOID SOME American MTs have become, ESPECIALLY THE OLD ONES, fearing for their jobs and being afraid of getting the boot.
Trying to be 'expert linguists,' sniffing out various dialects, detecting some Indian hints, whereas they most probably live in rural areas or in cities with a population of 1,000 inhabitants.
So sad, so sad, what has become of the MTing profession?
Now, CURIOUS, start nitpicking my post.
What exactly is YOUR beef??
 There's been plenty of people here who said they liked her house, and you're complaining about that. Then you're complaining about the people who don't like her house! Why don't you GET A LIFE?
It wouldn't load with my Office. Somehow it wouldn't "read" my 2003 Basic, although sm
technical couldn't find anything wrong with my software. They really tried hard. I see so many people that like Escription, I'm sorry not to be able to use it. Hopefully I can get Office Pro on my next machine, and maybe use it then. I could upgrade, but I'm still not sure it would work.
roast beef
I have found the less water you use in the crock pot the better off the roast will be. It makes moisture of its own. I usually just add about 1/4 cup of robust red wine, some seasonings and let it go.
Beef in Wine
Brown roast.
In separate pot cook two onions, two cloves garlic, two stalks celery,chopped, two carrots, in butter until soft. Add to meat. Mix 2 cups of tomato puree and 2 cups red wine. Add a tablespoon of salt, 10 whole peppercorns, 2 bay leaves. Cook on top of stove until tender, about 3 to 4 hours. Do the day before. The next day clean up the meat and slice it. Serve over noodles. It is delicious.
Beef Stew - Yum Yum!
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To really beef up your expander... sm
read the ShortHand and Instant Text boards at Productivity Talk at http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/index.php. A lot of the techniques can work in other Expanders as well.
Beef stew in crockpot
What's for dinner? Beef stew here.
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Beef about account managers
I'll say right off which company I'm talking about, it's DTS out of TN. I'm not mad, just at the point of head banging. I'd really like to know what it is that some account managers do and where they get them. I transcribe on several accounts and without fail, not one of them seems to know anything about the account. One particular one, "GK", I'll email with a question and IF she answers back, it will be somebody else's question, an "I don't know" or "where did you read that" (well DUH I read it in the account instructions). You get doctor lists that came out before modern medicine was invented and after requesting new ones 10-20 times, you just give up (some you can't get online). Then you get emails if you leave a blank for a doctor or feedback from QA that they can't find them either. Two accounts are GONE just this month, wonder if this has anything to do with it?
78 and hot beef on mash potatoes and braed.
Yum!
and dog is labeled beef in the chow mein
Do you think it was a round-up because of rabies or at the restaurants, markets, etc., they were having a shortage of "beef?"
I have an aunt in Arizona who had a lot of cats in her neighborhood that kept disappearing too and found out about 2 blocks away at a restaurant, they were the House Special. lol
Personally, I like beef, but if I ever went to see the process of rounding up the cows and how they are committing mass murder of them, I would probably never eat beef again. Strange world all over. Take Care and keep your dogs inside. :)
I'm having a homemade roast beef sub and chips for lunch.
DH can probably BBQ hot dogs and burgers for dinner because I don't feel like cooking.
Dinner help! I have a beef round rump roast.. help!
 any interesting ideas?
Leftover beef stew for the men. Veg heads get veg burgers and salad. nm
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Grilled beef fajitas with yellow, green, and peppers, red onions,
Wouldn't that mean that you simply wouldn't have to print out everything?
Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, beef gravy, fried okra.
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Sweet and Sour Soup, Potstickers, Mandarine Salad, Beef and Broccoli.
Gotta love him.
Greek salad, Braised beef plate short ribs with dumplints, fresh steamed corn on the cob and
a banana split without the cherry, I'm on a diet!! HA HA HA HA 
And is QA allowed to let her know
about these errors? Or is the company afraid she'll be offended if errors are pointed out? Some people get very upset when they are corrected, so I always wonder if anybody has the courage to pass on corrections to good producers who might go elsewhere if they get offended.
And is QA allowed to let her know...
I've been reading with much interest all the debate going on about QA but this particular post really caught my eye.
As a former MT/supervisor/QA employee in a major MTSO and having differences in the amount of MT training of my staff, which would determine how I would mark a QA error, I also used the "how would I feel" quotient. Were the remarks I might make be taken the wrong way; after all, I was just trying to "educate!"
I still feel passionately that all employees, MTs and all, should be treated fairly and with dignity without taking into account whether a person might or might not leave. In today's MT market, sometimes we "step on toes" because we're human, but I would like to think that most MTs just continue to love what they're doing---even in the bad times. When compassion and yes sheer joy for the job dissipates, then it's time to move on!
This is not allowed at our school.
They used to have volunteers, but these volunteers were given assignments in various areas. Now the parents have to drop the kids off outside and drive on. If a parent needs to come inside, he goes to the office, not to the student's room.
Not allowed at our schools either. sm
You can volunteer and go in and do reading with the kids, etc., but all visitors need to check in with the office and any "in class" volunteering needs to be approved by the teacher and the principal.
I have found this a good thing in light of the world changing. Fathers have shown up in the past to get their child when a protection order had been filed and they were not allowed to have unsupervised visitation. Of course the mom would forget to inform the school and the kids would always run to daddy.
I have one child left in the elementary school, my older two have graduated and one will be a freshman in high school starting day after tomorrow. (Yay! can't wait to see that bus! :)) I have seen a lot of changes, both with parents and with policies. The staff at the elementary school know me by name, but I would never dream of picking up my child without checking with the office first. Every time I check in, the office staff says, "Oh hi! Go on up to the classroom." I still check in after 18 years.
These parents that interfere should be told to sign up for when volunteer help is needed in the classroom or other areas of the school. And only then. They need to stay out of it. If they're so worried about "little Bobby" and have so much time on their hands, they should home school and leave the teachers to do what they do best. I've been through 25 elementary school teachers and only had a problem with one who was finally fired.
No way is my dog allowed in my office.
I'm working in here, not entertaining my pet. I love him to death, but this is my workplace, not a hangout for my dog, my cats or my kids.
But I know what you mean. I miss my pup when I'm working. It was just too hard to deal with so he was banished from my office along with the 2 cats. Too much fur on the carpet for one thing and, like you, every time I got up, my dog thought it was time to play or go for a walk.
My only other suggestion is a "porta potty"? 
You are not allowed to work
more than 40 hours in a week; Sunday through Saturday; that is considered overtime and they will not pay you for overtime; you will get a WARNING.
If you work 40.5 hours one week and 39.5 hours the next, which equals 80 hours for the pay period, you are over and that is a NO NO.
Gladly would add a little here and there but you cannot without permission and after 40 hours for the week we are wiped out from switching from account to account to account, etc., etc.
No cherrypicking allowed here, but....
I know some reports do get shot back into the pool now and then. Luckily for me, they're nearly always LONG reports by my favorite dictators (ESLs are my specialty), so I don't complain at all. However, the rule here, which is hard to enforce, is that any skipped jobs or cherrypicking is grounds for being severely chastised for the first offense and immediate termination for the second.
IMO, why not just type it and be done with it???? Doing that takes less time than anything else, and time is $.
Are you allowed to work outside your sm
schedule to get in your line count if you can't get it done in 8 hours or do you automatically lose your benefits?
Sorry - did not realize I was not allowed to do that. Really, sorry..nm
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