Tomorrow is my day off and I am: going running; attending a work telecon for a project I just inherited and know almost nothing about (sigh); signing the contract for my kitchen to get remodeled; getting my hair cut; GETTING A MASSAGE YAY.

Somewhere in there I will have to get lunch.

Today on the way home I stopped at the chichi new wine bar near my office and had a glass of wine and some bruschetta, which was yummy. And fairly cheap, as it was happy hour.

I have the new Naomi Novik novel on my Kindle.

Things could be worse.

There really shouldn't be HIPAA issues if everything is within Kaiser. Or cross platform issues, one would think, but who knows what kind of standards they have for that.

Cross platform would apply to a solution developed by a 3rd party, but any solution used, even if it is developed in-house, has to comply with HIPAA security standards, which are strict as hell for good reason. It's incredibly expensive, complex, and has more moving pieces than you can shake a stick at.

When I say rocket science would be simpler, I am not kidding. I get to hear about the pain points re: developing solutions in this space a lot.

My Quakes app appears to be entirely useless, all it does it tell me it failed to register for remote push notifications.

Remote push notifications are kind of its core responsibility. You had ONE JOB, Quakes!

I can has temporary kitten! Little black sneezy yowly poopy kitten.

Also, a car with a caved-in back door. :( Dude rear-ended me (I was stopped...he was...not) with his work pickup truck, so it hit the spare tire that is in the middle of the back of the car (it's a mini-SUV) and it just sorta caved the whole thing in a bit. It seems to still open and close some. His car was worse off (leaking some fluid, the front bumper almost off, the hood bent). But I figure it will be awfully expensive to fix (replace?) the back door of my car. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing? How does this go? I have never actually had an accident where my car was more than marginally dinged (...there are a ton of dings and bumps on my car, but some are me running into a pole, or my garage, or one big dent in the passenger door that happened mysteriously back when I was parking on a DC street). The car is only worth maybe $4K?

It's pretty much all up to insurance. But don't let them railroad you, you should call your agent to figure out the next steps. And take pictures.

Yay kitten!

oh, no, meara! But I'm glad nobody was hurt.

Kitten!

I wish I wasn't allergic so to cats, because I do love playing with kittens. Mallory Ortberg had a fabulous ongoing story this week about catching a feral kitten in her yard, and it was SO WEE.

sarameg is right, this is bread and butter to insurance companies and the body shops that work for them. They'll tell you what to do.

Well, but what happens? I mean, do they tell me "take it to X place, and once they've looked at it we'll either fix it at Y place or give you $Z"? Or do they say "take it a place you go and tell us how much it will be"? Or?? Do I get a rental car while it's getting fixed? Can I take a rental car to Canada, because I'm supposed to be going there in two weeks? Ugh.

Meara

When a delivery truck backed into the side of my parked car last year (2012 Subaru Forester), the bill to replace the door, back panel and tire was about $5500 all of which, fortunately, was covered by the delivery company's insurance. You will first need to decide whether you want to process the claim under your insurance (in which case you will have to meet the deductible but the insurance company will handle all of the negotiations with the repair place and the other driver's insurance company) or under the other driver's insurance company (which avoids the deductible and the hit on your insurance but means you have to make all of the phone calls -the insurance company, the rental car company, the body shop, the tire shop -yourself over the next few weeks) and, unfortunately, sometimes the body shop won't give you an estimate until they know which insurance company will be paying the bill.

In either event, notify your insurance company tonight and get a claim number; you can tell them to cancel it later if you decide to work with the other driver's insurance.

In my case the other company paid for it all, and they sent someone to take pictures and send in an estimate and then I called a body shop my mechanic recommended. They took care of all the insurance stuff after that. I called a rental place too, and they contacted the insurance company to arrange for them to pay the bill. Was pretty low stress, considering.