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[CortJstr]

Yeah, I always use the online catalog before I bother going to the library. Of course for me "going to the library" means "walk across the street." But still. It's annoying to go there just to find out the book you want is only at some other branch, and you could've requested a free transfer online to begin with.

But the a/c and free wifi was nice the day our air conditioner at home was broken. I'm just sad they started closing at 9 instead of 10.

[theinevitable]

ash-- no, I wasn't trying to say I have had a crappy summer. I just think that getting a disease my friends have not heard of would be a good end-of-the-summer thing.

I don't know. I am feeling fine so far. Yesterday we went to our... bosses bosses bosses house? Anyway, the house of the guy who owns the camp. One of the older counselors cracked open a beer and the guy who owns the camp walked in just as his daughter was taking a sip. We all looked at him with fear, and he laughed. "Heck, camp is over, y'all deserve some fun. I used to go out and buy kegs for you guys over breaks!"
It makes me sad that he is not really running things anymore because I admire him more than any man I have ever known. I am not kidding. Me and the other people I work with have long discussions about this... he is just such an amazing man. He makes you want to do a great job, but in a way where he will laugh and commiserate if he hears you bitching about a kid, makes comments like the aforementioned keg comment...
he gave the kids a speech about how amazing their counselors are, and how kids our age are pressured into doing "productive" things with our summers, or else we spend them partying, and that he is just so proud that we have such "fine folks" who are willing to work here for the whole summer with such low pay...

I just, he is such a great guy. Damn.


today I'm going to Asheville to buy some clothes and CDs.

[jaydub]

The incubation time from exposure to symptoms is in the 1-2 week range, averaging 9 days.  Not everyone exposed gets infected (even if cysts are present). Also, you could be one of the lucky carriers who doesn't get symptoms.

[theinevitable]

I am pretty confident that I am going to be fine.

[CortJstr]

...get this message from Spouse and do that thing I do where I don't worry until there's something to worry about.

Suuuuuure I won't

Make sure she goes somewhere that's accredited for CT. </shameless plug>

[Doc]

so proud that we have such "fine folks" who are willing to work here for the whole summer with such low pay...

He sounds like a stand-up guy but this line made me chuckle considering he is the one who gets to make that decision.

[theinevitable]

yeah. yeah. whatever, I am cool with my pay. I guess.
1.25 an hour if you do the math. Maybe a little more if you count that I get 3 or 4 hours free a week.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Today Im going to a restaurant tasting. There is a steakhouse here that I habitually attended until they got some manager that turned the entire thing into bullshit. They once served me an entirely raw piece of meat. As in, it was still cold and soaking in blood. They also had a love fascination with saltiness where salt was never needed. The final time I went I told them how horrible their food had become, bounced a steak on the table, and refused to pay. New manager, new chef, and hes invited my family to taste his new food fo' free, which is a price I like.

[jaydub]

Jeez, did you take it away from him?  He looks pissed!

[Doc]

Imagine that child going for your neck.

Is that not what he's doing right there? The bared teeth, the grasping hands, he's about to leap over that tray and latch onto your face.

[melack]

Today I'm gonna hit up you guys for advice on fun things to do in Berlin and Amsterdam. I'm going to Germany next week for work, and taking the week off after for fun. These are the last two major western European cities I haven't visited yet, so I'm unsure of non-touristy stuff to do.

So.... any ideas? I'm talking stuff I won't find out about reading Lonely Planet.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Today Im gonna go to the doctor. I need him to sign a refill on an Rx I need. I will spend like $15 while my insurance company spends a couple hundo for him to sign this piece of paper. Every month this will go on and every month he will say "yup, you still need this Rx that I said you needed a year ago".But because FDA says hes not allowed to put refills on the bottle, we will  continue to play this game. My question is, how much money+time=value is basically 'lost' with docs sitting with patients re-signing Rxs just because the government says they have to? How many thousands of dollars are spent on this, that are eventually denied on people who have real health concerns?

[Doc]

Well I guess that reason depends on the drug? Different drugs are regulated for different reasons and I suppose the general philosophy is that the costs of repercussions from unregulated exploitation would ultimately be greater than the costs you are describing. I'm certainly down with the idea that many drugs are over-regulated but I think putting an upper limit on certain drugs (I'm thinking more cases where a patient could inadvertantly or deliberately harm themselves more than regulating stuff like pseduoephidrine) is a generally sensible thing to do.

I'm more intrigued at the idea that your doctor would be pocketing 'a couple hundo' for checking you out out and renewing a prescription, round here that would cost 30 - 50 bucks tops Of which you'd get a healthy chunk back thanks to our pinko socialised medicine..

[AugustWest]

Today Im gonna go to the doctor. I need him to sign a fefill on an Rx I need. I will spend like $15 while my insurance company spends a couple hundo for him to sign this piece of paper. Every month this will go on and every month he will say "yup, you still need this Rx that I said you needed a year ago".But because FDA says hes not allowed to put refills on the bottle, we will  continue to play this game. My question is, how much money+time=value is basically 'lost' with docs sitting with patients re-signing Rxs just because the government says they have to? How many thousands of dollars are spent on this, that are eventually denied on people who have real health concerns?

Maybe it's because the doctor has trouble believing that a man your age really needs his Viagra prescription refilled month after month.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Today I'm gonna hit up you guys for advice on fun things to do in Berlin and Amsterdam.

I thought we had a Berlin thread here at one time, but as is so often the case with the search function here I can't find much.  I did find this one, but I thought there was a longer one, where I was trying to tell some female poster cool stuff to do in Berlin and she responded "My boyfriend has lived there for five years."

I haven't been since 2002, but I still recommend Gasthaus Kreuzberg, assuming it's still there.  Kreuzberg in general is a cool neighborhood that isn't all tourist-ified.