On reread, a couple of things I missed:
Now, the part where Insurance!Agent told me about my co-worker's medical claim, and named her? Pretty sure that IS a big ol' violation of HIPAA.
Yes, it absolutely is. There is no way it isn't. Signed, had HIPAA training every year
I need to hang out in bars more. In New Orleans. When I'm not pregnant.
We can definitely make that happen! It was a small bar, I will note - maybe 20 people in there, max.
You go, beth. That is seriously impressive.
OMFG, Tep, that is crazy-insane-stupid. I hope you get him fired, and that's never anything I say lightly.
bonny, I know you'll miss your pup, but he'll be ok, and so will you, m'dear,
ION: M. got here today!! Woo! Poor little guy got up at 4 am to get on the flight, and we went to breakfast, Target and Hy-Vee.
He's 9 now, and I can TOTALLY see the prepubescent attitude starting to flare up, but he's just testing boundaries, and I actually had a pretty good convo with his mom about it, and we seem to be on the same page about backing each other up when he tried to play the "I can't do this/I always do this" card.
But it's all normal stuff, and he's SO EXCITED to be here. Dan and I took turns scratching his back and reading a Susan Cooper book to him, and he is zonked.
I'm wiped, too, as I was up working on shit til 5:30am and got up at 8am.
Aw, Erin, it's so cool to see you excited about M's arrival.
Truly, you are teh bomb.
He's 9 now, and I can TOTALLY see the prepubescent attitude starting to flare up, but he's just testing boundaries, and I actually had a pretty good convo with his mom about it, and we seem to be on the same page about backing each other up when he tried to play the "I can't do this/I always do this" card.
That's huge progress!! And so key, too. Have fun with M!
Yay for M, and yay for Susan Cooper books!
I just disabled my OKC account again. No more skeevy messages with poor spelling, at least I hope for a while!
I DO love him. It's not that total mom-love, you know; we don't see each other too often, but it's love and protectiveness and a desire to see him be happy and learn and be a good person.
I had a question I was going to ask, but then I forgot.
So. Tired.
42 -- the number of hours it will take me to weed my garden the first day it goes below 85.
Oh! Yeah -- do I need to feed my tomato plant special tomato plant food, or will Miracle Grow work fine? I know there's special food for roses and tomatoes.
Erin, the answer is 42.
No one in my family understood when I made this reference. I had to text the Niecelet to make sure *she* at least was raised right. She was laughing at me. Cause she Got The Joke.
Fun Math Facts About 42:
Forty-two is a pronic number and an abundant number; its prime factorization 2 · 3 · 7 makes it the second sphenic number and also the second of the form { 2 · 3 · r }. As with all sphenic numbers of this form, the aliquot sum is abundant by 12. 42 is also the second sphenic number to be bracketed by twin primes; 30 is also a pronic number and also rests between two primes. 42 has a 14 member aliquot sequence 42, 54, 66, 78, 90, 144, 259, 45, 33, 15, 9, 4, 3, 1, 0 and is itself part of the aliquot sequence commencing with the first sphenic number 30. Further, 42 is the 10th member of the 3-aliquot tree.
It's the 10th member of the 3-aliquot tree!