Done yesterday (20120604 Mo)

[mdlbear]

My doctor said I appear to be in good health. My therapist said I appear to be handling the stress well. And Group Health in Washington appears to be affiliated in some way with Kaiser, so hopefully we'll be able to use them.

And I took a walk (somewhat short because it was starting to rain, but pleasant), and brought a lot of boxes, mostly old receipts, down to be sorted.

And tested Kat's old HP scanner/printer -- it fails with an "ink system failure", and might be fixable with fresh ink cartridges. Not worth the price to find out; if you want it, it'll be at the Starport now through the party on Saturday. I mentioned Our Last Starport Party, didn't I? Yes.

At the end of the day I more-or-less fell into bed.

Link of the day is NASA EDGE @ Mauna Kea, Hawaii: Live Webcast Streams - if you hit it before 9pm Pacific time today (Tuesday), the Transit of Venus will still be in progress. (Or check out Astronomy Picture of the Day for a really spectacular view via the Solar Dynamics Observatory.)

0604 Mo
  * up 6:35; W=198.8; d, n, t, hair; dishes
  @ What Do You Mean The "End of the Phone System?" I Gotta Call Home for
    Father's Day! | Public Knowledge 
  * leave house 8:20
  * 8:50 Awsare - physical
    *- skin tags
    *- BP meds, aggrenox.  Necessary? probably
    -> GroupHealth is apparently a Permanente company, so records etc may
       transfer.  YAY!!
  * get records transfered to USB drive $5 
  * walk - 1.6mi Cut short because it was starting to rain
  : The new Hood River jacket is very warm, and tucks nicely into the handle
    loop on Angelique (the new sling bag).
  * 11am Rogers - th.
    *- stress recognition and management.
       Says I'm apparently managing it myself very well; thing to watch out for
       is procrastination, which is a common reaction.  Similar to depression
       except that in stress you _need_ extra sleep.  But sleep has never been
       much of a problem for me anyway.
  * packed almost all of the computers & society books for storage.
  * check on how closely connected GroupHealth is to Kaiser
    Affiliates: Group Health and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan work together in
    areas such as marketing to regional and national customers, sharing best
    clinical practices, and full-service member reciprocity.  In May 2011, Group
    Health Medical Centers became a network affiliate of the Seattle Cancer Care
    Alliance, a world-class cancer treatment center.
  * 2 more boxes from attic, stack of kids' school photos
  * checked HP printer.  "Ink system failure" -- may or may not be fixable.
  * afternoon - Og will be here to put up screens
  * tested HP printer - "ink system failure"
  * tested YD's Gateway laptop - dead screen
  * set up a guest laptop for Devon - guest login on the newest IBM (blackroot)
    Guest - no password
  * more packing and triage.  Got one of the oldest boxes (from Zilog) emptied. 
  @ Facebook Will Disappear by 2020, Says Analyst 
    "In five to eight years they are going to disappear in the way that Yahoo
     has disappeared," Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson told the CNBC show
     Squawk on the Street on Monday. 
    "Yahoo is still making money, it’s still profitable, still has 13,000
     employees working for it, but it’s 10% of the value that it was at the
     height of 2000,” Jackson added. “For all intents and purposes, it’s
     disappeared.”  
    : If the site still works, who cares how profitable the company is?
  * fasting for labwork in the morning
  @ NASA EDGE @ Mauna Kea, Hawaii: Live Webcast Streams Transit of Venus
    starts 12:04 (Hawaiian time, UTC-10); ends 18:26.  (15:04 - 21:26 PDT)

Comments

[kshandra]

Conversation from earlier this afternoon:

kshandra: ([expletive deleted], how am I going to manage the housecooling on Saturday if I CAN'T TALK?)
gridlore: Bring your whiteboard!
kshandra: Bring the laptop, and set up a Notepad page. I type faster than I write.

So we'll be there, at least briefly.

[mdlbear]

Yay! See you then!

[johno.livejournal.com]

Group Health is the service provider for KP in parts of Washington state.

Outside of California, KP often contracts out to local hospital or medical centers to provide service to members

[mdlbear]

Thanks for the info.