Done yesterday (20100810 Tu)

( raw notes )

Not a very satisfying day; stressful. I wasted an hour and a half at Kaiser over what should have been lunchtime, finding out that their billing system is hopelessly screwed up (from my point of view) -- charges can come back to bite you months after the actual appointment, and meanwhile the co-pays that don't have charges attached to them yet hang around and offset the unpaid balance. It's a mess. I said I wanted to register a complaint, and got a call back around 4:30 which included a hapless person who had been told that I wanted to talk to a supervisor. No, damn it, I understand (now) what's on the bill, it's what's not on it (i.e., breaking out the co-pays that are on hold because the charges haven't come in ye)t that I want to complain abuot.

Fascinating bug in my server code. First one to be found by the QA team. What I get for trying to be efficient and using cp -lr without making sure that everything that might rewrite a file unlinks the old one first.

It took a drink and dinner before I was finally human again after the Kaiser thing. But I did sing for Colleen and Naomi, which was nice.

Lying awake in bed from 3:30-4:50 wasn't so nice. But I got a little more done in the morning than usual, so go me! Wish I could get by on 4 hours of sleep every night.

The links are to parts two and three of Norman Spinrad's Publishing Death Spiral series, courtesy of ysabetwordsmith. Here's part one in case you missed it.