Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Last night came on 1/2-hour late though.

• Kathy Griffin life on the D list - train wreck.
  • She has had to have 5 surgeries on her right eye due to complications of LASIK. sm - Rachel
  • Not only that, her husband is thinking of getting gastric bypass - sm
    • He isn't getting the gastric bypass... - C.C.
      • That's good. Personally, I'd have to - sm
  • Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Last night came on 1/2-hour late though. - C.C.
    • darn it, I missed her getting dissed by the - The View gals. grr
      • What you missed regarding The View gals... - C.C.
        • re: View girls - snobs!!! sm
          • Star Jones gets even more ugly - with every pound she loses. nm
          • The women of the View are the epitome - I so totally agree!!!
            • That must have been before my time. Who was the blond?? Don't even remember a blond - lm
              • Debbie Matenopoulos. She was no brain. nm - Rachel

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oy!  Those poor kids, not asleep in bed yet, and exhausted mom or dad are tryyyying to catch up with dictation ... imho -- the worst ... though I admit I personally have never had from-the-car-on-the-freeway dictation which I gather beats the band! 

Wailing children are so heart wrenching.

You are more apt to see a bear (and definitely deer) in Cades Cove.  It is a small approximately 11-mile loop through old farms.  However, on Wednesdays they don't open until 10am so the traffic backs up waiting and you will be in traffic jam instead of taking a nice leisurely ride.  Now for my bear story:

When we bought property in Maggie Valley, we became friends with one of the locals, Jerry.  He is one of 14 children and his family had lived in the mountains for generations, hunting for food, including bear meat.  Jerry stills hunts and eat bear during the hunting season, but he also respects them for the beautiful creatures that they are.  He and his wife offered to take us to Cades Cove.  During the loop, we saw a Mama bear with 2 cubs across a tall field of grass.  Wanting a closer picture, Jerry and I grabbed our digital cameras and walked across the field, which was up to our waists.  Jerry, who knows bears and how they act, told me, "If I tell you to run, then run."  We got to what Jerry felt was a safe distance, but Jerry couldn't get his new camera on, so we worked on that.  When we looked back up the bears were gone.  Disappointed, I said, "Where'd the bear go?" and about that time, Mama Bear popped up out the grass about 25 feet in front of us!  I was so shocked, I stood there with my mouth open and never raised my camera.  Jerry raises his camera - 'Click!' - and Mama Bear let out a huge roar.  Jerry softly says, "Run!"  We turn to run, but unfortunately, we turned into and slammed into each other, falling into the grass on our backs.  We jumped up and the bear was gone.  I'm screaming "Where's the bear!  Where's the bear!" and again she stands up out of the grass about 10 feet in front of us!  We lit out towards the van, (I haven't run that fast since elementary school) to the tune of our significant others screaming, "RUN, FOREST, RUN!!!"  They were rolling in the van with laughter - said we looked like something out of Keystone Cops out there.  I turned to look and Mama Bear and the babies were walking back into the woods.  I never got my picture, but Jerry got a good one and he printed it off for me.  Definitely one of my  more memorable days!

I do the opposite, I offer a small discount when they pay within five days and in the past five years I have had my checks well within that time frame (usually 2 days) and never have had to ask for my check.  

Patti

credit report.  You may also get an "Intention to Foreclose" letter, which will scare the heck out of you.  Those letters standardly go out the day after the 30 days passes.

I agree that your best bet would be to ask for one deferred payment.  Some lenders will do that, but some are very hard-nosed and NEVER do it. 

Will you be able to make your March payment before the end of March?  If so, you should try to schedule both February's and March's payment to come out of your account on specific days . . . say, on March 2 (as you mentioned) and even March 31.  That will keep you from getting another 30-day late.

Once you start to lag behind, it is soooo hard to catch up again.  I'm hoping they let you defer a payment. 

I recently had to leave a wonderful lady and I mean absolutely wonderful due to late payments.  She had paid late several times over the last year.  I had even changed my bill dates so that I could accomodate the usually no more than 5 days late that she consistently was with pay.  Last month she was 6 days late, which would have been okay with me, except that I had an automatic payment come out the day before the pay was due to be DD (which I signed up for due to promise that pay would be on time this way).  Fortunately I was paranoid and called my bank and was made aware of the problem, but I had to borrow from my niece, my 21-year-old niece!!  HOW HUMILIATING!!!  I told my very extremely wonderful MTSO that I could not work for her if she was late again.  I also had it set up that all I needed was my August pay checks on time (meaning within the 5 day "grace period" I gave her) and the September 1st paycheck, then I was set to just put her checks into savings. 

Well, that never happened.  It did not occur to me that she would dare be late, but come August 21 I went to deposit a refund check from a Church camp as it was canceled due to fires, and the bank tells me that after depositing $220 that I was still short in my account!  To make things worse, it was not my money that paid for the camp.  I was depositing the refund check and then writing a check to my mom's Church as she had used her tithe money to pay for my girls to go to camp!  I still was trying to be calm at this point and asked the MTSO what was going on, well supposedly she had sent me a check on the 7th of August.  Funny thing is I did not even bill her until the 9th.  First it was a certified check, then it was a money order, then it was sent on a different date.......... I could go on and on, but needless to say I had to quit.  I cannot afford to work for free.  I cannot afford to be late on my bills. 

I stayed with this MTSO for so long despite late payments because I thought I new I would always get paid.  We had a GREAT working relationship, except the pay, and I really wanted the long time IC, great reference that this provided me...... you know a real "feather in my cap" for my resume.  I plan on going after my own accounts next year after saving a couple of months worth of bills.  BUT, in the end I had to threaten legal action to even get what I was owed, and I was sick for several days because of how ......... well sick this made me to have to "burn" that bridge, and how sick it made me because I ended up having to get very, very ugly (which made me even more sick) in order to get more than "I will check into that and get back to you" on when I was going to get paid. 

This is a touch situation that you are in and only you can make the final decision.  I personally LOVE being an MT.  I just have learned to not "put all my eggs into one basket."  I work for a couple of companies, one a national and one an MTSO.  I can get extra lines at both if desired.  It can take a long time to find the right fit, so hang in there if you like being an MT.  Of course, teaching is a very honorable and rewarding career choice too. 

Please excuse any typos, tired, but felt it very important to respond to this one to let OP know she is not alone and there is hope.

This is the procedure I found for when you want to transfer glossary from one computer to another, I'm assuming you do not have access to the other computer:

You need only send your .glo files to the new computer through an email attachment, through floppy, jump drive or other media, and save to C:InstTextGlossary folder. Then open IT and finally, open the glossaries.

I'm sure I will regret my decision, but I have decided to ride the storm out

I am in Slidell which is on the north shore, but I know we are going to see extensive wind damage and who knows what else!

I want to talk about why so many MTSOs pay late.  We have all read the posts about complaints of independent contractors receiving late payments.  We have all read that some people feel these companies that pay late do not know how to manage the company.   I would imagine that many of these late-paying companies have not received their payments from their accounts, and they themselves are waiting for their money, so that they have enough money in the bank to pay the contractors.  I suspect that many of these companies do not pay late intentionally and maliciously.  I think they have a problem with cash flow mainly because their accounts may be slow to pay.  Many of these MTSOs probably do not have bank privileges to allow them to write checks to the ICs (while awaiting their payments).  So what do we ICs do when this happens?  Just be patient and understand this is the nature of the beast?   We are at the mercy of the accounts and their payments to the MTSOs.  What can the MTSOs do to improve their situation with cash flow?  Some people post notes suggesting to quit, run the other way, and find a better-paying company.  This is not always that easy to do.  This seems an unfortunately typical problem.  Doesn't the problem lie mainly with the hospitals and clinics themselves, who fail to pay on time to their MTSOs that serve them 24/7/375?  Suggestions?  Ideas? 

I would go to the different stores and website to find one that is new but last years model if you don't want Vista.  They are starting to be preinstalled. 

Personally, I love my Gateway and they have all american customer service and tech support.   It is nice to call and talk to someone that can understand me the first time! They have been very prompt and understand that my system is important for work.  I have only had one minor issue which was probably me and not the computer.