You're supposed to plant them in beds and line the bed with chicken wire and then place the bulbs
Posted By: me on 2006-06-18
In Reply to: Rodents ate all my bulbs. (nt) - Never again!
on top of the wire and cover. This keeps the critters from getting to them, but is a lot of work.
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You're supposed to be able to do
twice the lines because VR is editing as opposed to straight transcription; it would depend on the dictators and the VR program as to how much editing would be required by the MT. 
Hey, you're supposed to put jokes
on the comedy stop board.
they can have bad days, but they're still supposed to be professional while dictating. I'd co
You're supposed to go back to school because of this government???
Maybe you should go back to school because you have higher expectations for yourself instead of blaming the government for the result of your own life choices.
Try assuming some responsibility and try making your life better on your own without blaming someone else.
Such a defeated attitude! Is that the government's fault too?
The government isn't Santa Claus. No one is responsible for our success but ourselves.
Grow up.
Southern fried chicken. We're having friend over, too. I love it but
I can only eat fried chicken once in a while. Makin SMASHED (taters, eh?), blackeyed peas and green beans with pepper sauce.
Hey we all make our own beds...
If you are being mistreated that's your fault for allowing it to happen. You need to move on... that's part of life. You can control who you work for ya' know.... LOL
They're not supposed to touch my computer ever, but my teenager is sneaky!
I just happened to notice just now that it happened after I had transcribed dictation file through the TransNet Player and and then I got a VR report as my next one and the wave volume was down again as soon as I got into the VR report. Is there a difference in the sound files?
Just got a check for a supposed miscalculation of line on DQS for the last 2 years. Guess they
figure they werent going to win that lawsuit. Wonder what else they are going to do. They reduce ASR, they load the accounts with tons of MTs and we need either tons of backups or just a few and then have no work, what next.
Are you supposed to use the on-line counter or the Ctrl-I function? You need access to get to the
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They're supposed to be good luck. He'll find his way out when he's hungry. nm
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Some jobs will disable your Ctrl/I function as it's supposed to give a higher line count. Can'
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Either way, you're in the wrong place. sm
Please read your own message. You made two errors when you neglected to take out two headers not needed, IMO. I don't mean to be rude, but you said it yourself.
Aye, we're between a rock and a hard place.
I don't know that I'm willing to pay the price anymore. If I can make more money but my capacity for happiness is being slowly crushed out of me, eventually I have to decide whether it's worth it.
The fact that practically nobody is paying a living wage in a given town is another problem entirely, and one that I could rant for days about.
You're welcome. It's a great place to live!
Except in February. Dang it's cold in February.
Seriously though, I don't lock my doors and if I need to find the car keys, they're in the ignition.
The way I see it, if them fools need thaht cah baahd enuff, might's well let 'em go ahead and have it.
I know which testing place you're talking about, and I won't
test through them either. Most of the bigger nationals go through them now, don't they? The way I feel about it is if I didn't have what it takes to make it in this career field, I wouldn't have lasted this long. Try the smaller MTSOs. The tests are maybe 1-3 little dictation files, the workload is less stressful, and you'll make more money.
If you're going to place yourself in a caregiver role,
you need to take into consideration your support system. You're going to need one. I was my husband's caregiver until he had to go into skilled nursing, and it was by far more draining (physically, emotionally, spiritually) than I could have ever imagined. I wish you the best; take care of yourself.
You're right about the "prehistoric" part! The place I used to work (sm)
uses Lanier, and it's a mess. It's WORSE than prehistoric. It was down more than it was up. It was also not at all friendly for at-home MTs, either.
This is one place the font and line length absolutely
make a difference. If you have to use a small font and long line length, you will make the same or less than a 65 character count. Always check out the number of characters that can be put on the line with their defined margins. For example, 1 company uses 1 inch margin, but a tiny font, so the line length can actually be 104 characters, or almost double what the counted 65 character line is. Some have a "secret" formula for saying it will come out the same as a 65 character line, but that is a hoax, as well, as only part of the report is adjusted for that, not the entire report. The only gross line count on WP51 was the only good way for gross lines. Word has really changed that picture.
my laptop also had a hard wire
connection that I could use in hotel rooms. Used it many times while doing the college tour with my daughter.
OT: Flower bulbs keep getting dug up
I live in a bad neighborhood on a fairly high-traffic corner. There is a little patch of ground outside my fence that I have been trying since spring to plant bulbs there, but they keep disappearing. First I tried tulips. They did start to bloom, and one morning they were all pulled out and scattered about the area. We do have a lot of squirrels around, so I blamed it on them not knowing at the time I planted that squirrels love tulip bulbs.
So I gave up on the tulips and tried something else I found packaged as Flowers for Dummies. I don't even know what these are called. They are a mixture of purple and white kind of weedy-looking flowers on the package. They didn't even start to bloom yet, and I go out there today and they are all pulled up.
Does anyone have any idea if it would be the local kids doing this or stray cats or dogs or what? I'm really getting a complex about this as this is my 3rd crop of bulbs! At any rate, I have given up on the flower bulbs and think now I will try to spread wildflower seeds and see if anything grows.
Rodents ate all my bulbs. (nt)
Bulbs/squirrels
I have tried tulips and crocus and the squirrels love them, but they do not like daffodils. There is a mixture you can get to plant with the bulbs that squirrels hate, also from what I understand from my neighbor they hate marigolds, he puts them around his vegetables to keep animals out/no fence. Cats will dig up lawns, dogs also will dig up flower beds. Oh, and skunks looking for grubs. I feel for you trying to plant something nice in a small space. You can try a little fence around the area or that, but if it is kids not taught to respect property, it won't matter what you do. Your local garden store or Home Depot should have something you can buy to put on your garden to keep pesty critters away without harming them. I have known people who have bought coyote urine and put that around their gardens because of damage due from deer/raccoons, etc.
Nevermind. Apparently, my speaker wire
came loose just a little bit from the computer and it caused this. You would think it would not work at all if that happened. Sorry!
I like that idea of rabbit wire and dirt....
around them and using them as planters. I don't have any stumps in my yard now, but did have a property once with lots of stumps and after I moved and got a little more into gardening realized how useful they could be. Use the stump as a pedistal for potted plants such as wave petunias. Nail a few cross limbs on it and put some climbing flowering vines like clematis or cardinal climbers and make little garden beds in the rich soil around them. Scatter birdseed on top of some and use others to make birdbaths with a shallow dish. Also they make a nice place to just sit and enjoy your garden. I wish I had more stumps in my yard! 
That chicken looks good, too! Fried chicken is the one thing
I'm terrible at making. I just can't do it. Whenever we do have fried chicken maybe once a year, I buy the frozen boxed stuff or KFC.
I haven't thought about dinner yet. I'm making muffins today, spiced applesauce muffins, Tabor City yam bread muffins, and banana zucchini muffins. Going to send some to work with hubby and freeze the rest for breakfasts.
Narcissus bulbs (paperwhites) & calla lilies
sorry, I have 2....*LOL*
They're still at version 7 and version 8 is supposed to come out this Fall, which may be compatib
You must be a MQ mgmt plant. nm
NOT
I have an aloe plant
I think I'll try some out. Thanks for the tip!
They laid off over 200 people at the plant
near me. I'm sure there have been layoffs elsewhere. I'd say that is the problem not waiting on parts. When they opened the new plant here one of the requirements was that all suppliers had to be within 30 minutes of Dell.
Tell anyone who will listen. Plant the seeds of worry in your own - sm
physician, HMO, or whatever, that you and others don't want ANY of your personal or medical info. going offshore. Ask who transcribes their work. If they say they don't know, raise your eyebrows and ask WHY they don't know. If a record is important enough to be in a patient's chart, or even be dictated, it's a document that could end up in court someday. They might want to stack the odds in their favor by at the very least having accurate, intelligible documents. Ask how you can get copies of your own medical records. (Probably the Med.Records Dept. of that facility). Call them. Ask for your own copies. Go over them with a fine-toothed comb. Scream bloody murder to the MR Dept. and your doctor if there are ANY mistakes. Ask MR for the name of the company that does the transcription. If they don't know, asy WHY they don't know. (They probabaly DO know). Do some detective work and find out if that company offshores. If it does, and the doc or MR Dept. told you that facility NEVER offshores, then tell them they better rethink that.
Aloe is amazing. I should grow it as a window plant, it's
Had cottonwoods. Be careful not to plant close to house
with the water lines. They are supposed to be pasture trees but they make for quick landscaping. The branches were weak and broke after here and there and one was too close to house. Had to put in a herbicidal strip of some kind to kill it before the root lifted up the kitchen floor.
Homemade cookies? A nice potted plant?
What do they like? Do they have a hobby, or collect anything?
Anyone ever plant hybrid poplar trees? They are those fast grow ones
that are supposed to grow 8 feet a year. Some claim they send up too many "sucker" shoots from the root areas, some love em. I need a wind break on the N. and W. sides of my lot, and was thinking of these. Anybody ever plant these?
We're usually paid by the line SM
I think MTEC is worth it, at least from what I hear.
It's the only place I have ever lived.. Great place to retire or raise a family. Low crime rate e
living is pretty easy here. Low stress..
If you're paid by the hour, and not by the line, YES.
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Per report if they're short, per line if take too much time. nm
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If you're so brilliant then, why aren't you in a better line of work?
1. Surgeon.
2. Attorney.
3. College professor.
oh, and yes, my brilliant one - what year exactly did you graduate with your Ph.D. from Harvard?
LMBO
Or.... how about the famous line "we're growing!!!"
and you see the same ad week after week after week after week. I can think of 3 places that continuously have ads out. I have worked all 3. I now know firsthand why they advertise all the time, they probably can't keep anybody more than a month or two.
Line check, anyone care to share where you're at this morning.
OMG, I never made the connection but I think you're right - sugar = big line counts = $$$$$ Than
Geez, you're really getting close to the line of sounding bitter.
May I suggest some counseling? The OP asked an innocent question and you took it like a personal attack against you.
I've been a single parent and mind you I know how hard it is to be in that situation, but if someone asks a simple question like "what does your spouse do" most people who don't have a SO at the moment would have moved on to another thread and never given it a second thought.
Seriously, time to do some self-searching.
If you can't afford to pay a transcriptionist 10 cents a line then obviously you're part of th
The reality of the situation might be, Gloria, that no one is willing to pay your business more than the "going rate" because they just don't think you're worth it.
It probably means you're not Indian and won't work for 2 cents a line.
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You're expected quota depends on whether you are paid hourly or per line. SM
I'm paid hourly and I was told the requirement was 50 or more reports per day. I've never worked QA per line, but I'm sure their line quota is pretty high, at least 2000 or better per day, as you get credit for every line in every report you QA.
Hope this was the answer you were looking for.
The position varies from place to place..
Sometimes you end up doing VR, which can be really easy or a real pain. Sometimes you end up simply editing files and all is good. Other times, you end up with more job responsibilities and hours than you ever wanted. All in all better than typing LOL.
A gross line is anything on a line is a line. A line set at 65 characters means it sm
has 1-inch margins on each side. The maximum number of characters on that line would be 65 and that includes spaces. If there is 1 character on that line it is a line.
A standard 65-character line usually consists of 65 characters with spaces unless, of course, the employer does not pay for spaces and then it would be 65-characters without spaces.
Anything on the line makes up a line even if just one letter or number. Every line of print is a
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