Spire seems to be getting four our of five star reviews. I think I'll order one in a few days so it arrives next week.

Are their any lawyers about?

I am looking at a clinical placement agreement for a distance learning student who lives in Massachusetts, is employed (not by us) in Massachusetts, and is doing her clinical placement in Massachusetts.

The agreement states that we (the school I work at, which is in new york) must have Workers’ Compensation and disability insurance coverage in accordance with the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts covering all its employees.

Are we in "accordance with the laws of the commonwealth of massachusetts" if we have no employees in Massachusetts and therefore no disability/Worker's Comp insurance in MA? Or are they saying that we need to provide MA insurance for our NY workers?

Adulting win. Homeowners policy covers damage from a burst pipe. I may only be out my deductible, which is by marvelous coincidence exactly the same as the amount I just got paid for freelance work. Plumber and "damage mitigation specialists" are on their way.

I've been wanting new carpet, anyway.

Remember yesterday when my brain wasn't working? My boss and I were on a conference call with a client, trying to figure out why our web timesheet system wasn't working on a new server. We wasted several hours on the phone trying to figure out the problem because I forgot that when you hit an .asp page in a directory for the first time, the web server first runs the global.asa for that page.

At least today my brain was working better and I figured out the problem and no one is mad at me. Could have been worse.

Thank-you emails for 30-minute virtual interview, yes? How few sentences can I get away with? (I am stuck at 2.) The cat stayed out of the picture.

Sophia, my dad is a workers comp lawyer in NY. I can email him to ask, if you want.

Hil, That would be great!

Our lawyer here told me to ask HR, and HR is saying that we don't need worker's comp insurance in Massachusetts, so we do not have it. SO I started thinking, maybe we are compliant with Massachusetts law, since by massachusetts law, we only need to provide workers comp to employees in MA! It is like a snake eating its tail.

OK, I'll email him. What does "clinical placement" mean?

Oh, no, Zen! Hooray for insurance!

I don't know about thank you emails (I've never sent one after an interview), but "the cat stays in the picture" is amusing me no end (even if it really stayed out).

its like an unpaid internship for nursing training. They have to (for my program) complete 200 hours in the OR with a surgeon who has agreed to train them.