buffer bites, taters and gravy with
Posted By: sm on 2006-01-21
In Reply to: What's for Dinner? - hungry typer
broccoli and cheeze ... (bite = cut up buffalo roast into little bites and fry them up)
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Fried pork chops, mashed taters and milk gravy, and corn. nm
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Breakfast sausage in white gravy over canned biscuits... MMMmmm! Biskits and gravy!
Technical help, please- buffer overload?
Going along today and computer decided to show me a buffer overload, not able to do anything at all, said something overloaded. Anyone know what this means and how to get rid of it? I used to have Dell, oh how I miss and was told you could not have a computer made by Dell because of Vista and cannot use Vista on my platform. I need assistance, anyone??
Oh please -- the recipe for the seasoned taters?!
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fried pork, taters, and corn....nm
Nope! I only stress over things worth stressing over, which doesn't include turkey & taters!
That bites.
When I worked in-house, our production level was less because we had to answer the phone and the door. Even working at home for a hospital, we were only required to do approximately 110 lines per hour. Of course, it was easy to do more.
It sounds like they're jerking you around in regard to your pregnancy. That could be illegal. Understandably, it is difficult to work and care for a child at the same time. Do you have anything in writing about the daily production levels? As for the routing, you might even have a larger pool of dictators if you work for a national. For the most part, routing and carbon copies are all listed in your account specs to refer back to, however.
Do you use a word expander? I wonder if that would help you out. Maybe that's why they keep raising the production level is because some of the MTs are using Expanders and really knocking out the lines.
I think you'd be happier working at home with your baby. I wish I had done it sooner because I wasted so much time working outside the home, being resentful, feeling guilty over leaving my kids at daycare, and going to college to find a bigger, better paycheck. I started out slow in MT because I only had to make around $700 gross per month to equal what I would have made after daycare at my old job.
Well, you don't worry about any of this right now. Taking care of yourself and that baby are your first priorities. You didn't mention a significant other, but don't let anybody tell you that you have to work fulltime. I always thought I had to work fulltime to be a productive member of society because it was drilled into my head by my family. Being a good mother is a fulltime job in itself. No stressing. Everything always works out in the end.
Reality bites
Sorry to hear about your disappointment in a raise in line rate pay, but it is reality. I had my own business for many, many years, and during the last eight years, I could not raise my pay or I would lose my accounts. I went from 14 cents a line in 1991 to 11.5 cents a line in 2005. Every year it was the same old thing - Gee, could you lower your rate, CFO got a brochure from another company willing to do it cheaper, or I was always told it was not in the budget, hospital was losing money, had to cut somewhere. The sad reality is that offshoring has cut our pay to crap because of the competition, if you can call it that. Remembering that the whole medical system is collapsing upon itself in this country with no universal healthcare policy in this country and millions every year losing their medical insurance, the powers that make these decisions in cutting their budgets where it is most obvious - nonrevenue-producing departments. Be creative, diversify, maybe do other types of transcribing added to your business, and perhaps learn something else now. The job of the future will be three part-time jobs. The kids of today know that all too well.
Blistering Bites
Was turkey hunting in central Texas and was bitten numberous times over the course of the weekend. Still unsure if it was done in the field or in the motel room at night.
The bites look exactly like the ones described in the original note on this thread. Center blisters with big red welts under them (half to silver dollar size). They break and scab and become very dark and then start to decrease in size after about 10 days. My doctor gave me a cortisione steroid to take orally for 6 days and an anti-biotic to stop any possible infection. My friends and I are all outdoorsman but have not seen this type of bite before. Everything points towards spider but typically spider bites are defensive and they will bite once and leave. I was bitten 11 times in 3 days. As far as a recluse is concerned, the odds are slim as they are definetly a "one and run" type of spider and with as many times as I was bitten, I would've been very sick. If you have many of these bites and are not very ill, chances are it was not a brown recluse.
Reality bites doesn't it?
Sorry you don't seem to be able to deal with the reality of MT world as it is in 2005. You are the one with false illusions that somehow there is a code of ethics in any company or these MTs would unite to fight ??? uhh what's the fight and where is it at. Might as well try to get a herd of cats together to fight an undefined battle for you once you figure out who your enemy is.
Well, well, word gets around, another OSi QA bites the dust
What is wrong with all you QA's who will not leave OSi altogether, how many is that lately who won't put up with you know whose QA BS and need to tell the whole company good riddance and up yours
Suckups
Not laughing at your bill.. that bites..but
in California gas & electric has sucked big time for decades! I average around $2000 a year...throw in some rolling blackouts too.
Me, too, but it's the dark chocolate. I get up and do something else, have a few bites, and then
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Gravy train?
I wouldn't call it ever being a gravy train. We are highly trained professionals who work hard at what we do and we do it darn good, thank you very much. It's not like we sat here eating our bon bons and getting upset because the banging away at the keyboard ruined our new manicure! To say it was a gravy train is downright insulting, IMO.
That said, I don't have 30+ years in this profession but I do have 15+ years including working in-house and remotely from home. My first at-home was around 1997 for a small company doing straight transcription, none of this VR stuff, which lasted only about 4 months until the work dried up. The pay was good while it lasted though and there was 24 TAT, no punching a time clock and sticking to a strict schedule. As long as the work got down within 24 hours it was fine. That same company is still around today as a national but not huge like others out there. I ended up having to go back in-house and was there until about 4 years ago when I signed on with a very well known national that screws people to the Q, if you get my drift. I don't know when the MT biz as a whole went into the toilet, but up until 2 years ago I had no problem. I was working hard all the time as work was available basically 24/7. Never did I get NJA except for an occasional week or two around the holidays but very quickly the workload would start to pick up. I had a GREAT supervisor who made working fun and made us feel like we were a real team. The company always had bonus incentives with quirky little games. It may sound corny but it actually made us feel valued and brought some fun into it while making good money at the same time. Then about 2 years ago, things started changing for the worst and it's been going downhill FAST every since. Maybe the offshoring and technological advances have something to do with it, I really don't know. One thing I do know, I DO NOT advise anybody new starting in this profession now. What once was a professional and lucrative career has basically been made into a sweat shop scam for the so called "training programs" and large nationals to make a nice profit at the expense of the MTs. It is such a cut throat business with accounts going to the lowest bidder just to save a few bucks. I only hope that things will turn around some day soon and MT can be the professional career it once used to be.
Please don't say it was a gravy train. Thank you.
Insect bites, center water blister.
For an entire month maybe once or twice a week, I have been bitten by some unknown sneaky bug that leaves a center water blister and a huge red swollen area around the blister, maybe the size of a half dollar coin. I have been putting neosporin on it but would love to know what is biting me. I woke up this morning with 3 extra bites. I knew about the one on my wrist which has already started to blister. I am thinking of going to the doctor but don't want to look like a wacko going in for nothing. However, I absolutely hate insects and they seem to love me with the bites.
The itching seems to happen when I am in the backyard (lots of trees and bushes). So, might be getting bit there first then the bites get worse as time goes by. They leave scabby cicular scars. The skin looks healed but very dark.
Anyone else with this experience or should I just head to the doctor. Can't really afford it but tired of the bites and the scars they are leaving. Thanks.
roast in mini bites (finger food)
going to cut up one of the bison roasts into bite sized pieces, shake in a bit of flour, and pan-fry nice and slow. It makes such yummy bites! probably have a home-grown salad too...i made some tater soup with left-over brocolli and gr beans for lunch -- we are blessed with too much good food. i need to use some squash too :)
The quality I see coming out of Pakistan and Egypt still bites the big one.
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i didn't say the reduction was gravy
i said what you have been getting up til now IS gravy -- you've been paid high-dollar for ASR when you don't have to do anything but edit.
Just ate some B&G that DD made, except I like my gravy on toast. nm
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I have gravy accounts, but I still plan to get out.
I have my own accounts, 14 cpl, and average 300 lph - or more. You do the math. Great $$, but I am tired of typing. And I am tired of the lack of the respect MTs get. And I am tired of the not so great MTs that make all of us look bad. And I am sick of the wages being driven down because of big MT companies wanting to pay 7 or 8 cpl and make a big profit for themselves. And I am sick of the companies sending work overseas.
Steak and gravy recipe...sm
I have eye of round and want to make a steak and gravy dish!!!!!!!!! Any recipes? I have never made this before and I am not good with cooking meat, mine is always tough as shoe leather. What is the secret to tender meat?
Vietnam sound bites..But either way, war was absolutely NOT illegal. He violated
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You're welcome. I am just so sick and tired of factless sound bites
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crockpot chicken/gravy over rice
Brown up chicken breasts and put in crockpot. pour mixture of Cream of chicken soup,dried onion,parsley and 1/2 can water over the top. cook on low all afternoon and serve over rice.
Not a chowder, more like (?) pork with milk sauce/gravy. . . nm
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Breakfast...bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy!
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Unfortunately, this guy had a nervous breakdown and that gravy train came to screeching halt!
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Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, beef gravy, fried okra.
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Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, milk gravy, veggie. nm
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For me, it's ham, mashed potatoes/gravy, yeast rolls and some nice dessert, pie or cake.
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BBQ smoked sausage, baked beans, mashed potatoes and gravy and Hawiian rolls. nm
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