Woot, the microwave is gone!

Anyone want a filing cabinet?

I don't think her repeated exhortations to try every alternative medicine ever is a nurse-switching thing--it's deeply irritating, but that's what grown up knickers are for. And she certainly means well--she managed to find a dressing kit on a Sunday morning, and it would have been a showstopper if she couldn't.

But it's another thing with the timing and the plain not just remembering she has me on her roster. Again, my bar is really pretty low, and I'd just appreciate something like this being the responsibility of the right person--a person who is not me. Shit--I forgot to ask her if she can receive text messages. Maybe I'll send her a test one, because that would be easier to manage. Fuck, I could automate that, for crying out loud.

What is the preferred banking software now?

What do you need it for? Tax prep, or general budget and asset management? I don't know how much the different tax softwares differ at the entry level--I use Turbo Tax just because I used it last year. Never done any comparison, once I'd built up a few returns in their database. Seemed simpler that way. For general budgeting I figure you should try mint.com once or twice, since it's so attractively (not) priced. I use very little of their functionality once I set up my accounts and bills, but the automatic settings have been helpful, because I get an email if certain amounts are way out of proportion to history.

This week's nurse recommendations were colloidal silver and atlas orthogonal adjustment. I don't expect everything she says is bullshit, but it's clear she doesn't use much of her training when she falls in love with something ("He will kill all the bacteria in your body--they all have a frequency, and his machine compensates for the frequency and flattens it out"...okay, that sounds not great if it works, this man and his $35K machine) and I do wonder which times her stopped clock will be right.

I'm just remembering that Community had the word "neurotypical" in one of their episodes--my browser still doesn't think that's a real word--and I'm wondering if anyone's heard that used in other TV or movies that aren't All About The Spectrum. How commonly understood is it? Wordnik doesn't have any dictionary definitions, and their usages seem mostly non fiction (The Kitchen Daughter is a noted exception, but it might be about being atypical, instead of it just being mentioned as a part of the landscapte)

I wonder if I can get a new nurse just because this one is eternally disorganised. She's never shown up on time, not once, and I'm flipping a coin on whether she changed her clocks or not. I don't want to be her personal assistant. But how are her patients who need stuff like clockwork (instead of just for pain relief) handling her?

Stressful. But if she's showing up within an hour of when you expect her and the meds are being administered, is that worse than even the best ER potential? I mean, you are certainly within your rights to ask but I know getting weekend home health care is difficult and sometimes you end up prioritizing what matters more to you. Try to get a lie down in though if you can.

Shit--I forgot to ask her if she can receive text messages. Maybe I'll send her a test one, because that would be easier to manage. Fuck, I could automate that, for crying out loud.

If she receives texts, just set it up to remind her and neither of you have to think of it again. I mean, yes, it is her responsibility but of all the hoops you've been asked to jump through for pain management, it doesn't seem as big as some others.

the one problem I have is that Quicken for Mac is a clusterfuck and I have not been able to find a suitable alternative for the mac. I don't have many credit cards, so I just go through the credit card or two that does not give me a yearly statement and indicate which are my business expenses.

clearly my taxes aren't too too complicated or this would not work.

California people, I i need suggestions for worthy CA based charities that (oops) have been especially hard hit by reductions in state funding.

le nubian, is it Quicken Essentials that's no good for you? Because Quicken 2007 works on Lion now, I believe, although I haven't switched back myself (because while I liked 2007 better than Essentials, not enough to overcome my inherent laziness when I have already converted all my data once).

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I haven't tried it and I'm not sure I want to. I have been using koku which seems to kind of get the job done, but I have spent so many hours trying to get this to work that I am not really interested in trying something that I have to futz with and that Intuit is not updating the way they should.

I was looking at some of the other BBC food shows on YouTube and was initially interested in something called The Supersizers Go . . . and they eat the food of various historical periods. However, their premise seemed to boil down to "See how horrible our ancestors ate, how could they have had such terrible taste, OMG, look at all the meat and sugar they're eating!" Each episode they did a full medical check up and talked to a doctor who said, "This is how the era's diet is going to wreck your health this time." I'm not a fan of the Modern Snob approach, ie, "This is how we're so much more enlightened in this day and age, let us now mock our forebears."

What really peeved me was the wartime episode, where their intro said, "This week we'll go to the wartime era, which singlehandedly wrecked our national palate." For god's sake, people, there was rationing! A blockade on optional food products! A real chance of starvation! Maybe they would have acknowledged that in wartime you eat what you've got and be grateful, but I wasn't able to watch more than five minutes of any episode.

However, their premise seemed to boil down to "See how horrible our ancestors ate, how could they have had such terrible taste, OMG, look at all the meat and sugar they're eating!"

Sugar? I know that the amount of meat in the "standard" diet varied a lot by time and place, but I thought that it was pretty well established that people now eat a whole lot more sugar than people in pretty much any earlier period. Which era were they looking at that had all the sugar?