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?

I think the "This is how the era's diet is going to wreck your health this time." could be a nice antidote to the notion that "back then" people ate wholesome goodness and would have lived nearly forever if only they had modern medicine and why are we KILLING ourselves like this?

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?

The difference is that I could choose when to start the ER experience, even if not the end. Christ, if she was late because she had a patient before me, I'd at least understand what I'm rolling with, but I'm the first person she sees!

Christ, I hate that the bar is so low that I'm gonna roll with it (or is that my inability to stand up for myself winning?)--waiting an hour for her to show after I've had to call and remind her to come in the first place, and then locking myself in my room so that I can avoid pushy nosy stressy conversations (I still ended up "punching in" two google searches for her as she tried to convince me of yet another five treatments, and even as I'm trying to be as accommodating as possible to get her out the door, she's insisting it's not spelt "Avsey" or whatever, and I need to keep typing in her latest bonnet-bee verbatim until the internet caves and just rolls with it too. She adds another 33% of the visit duration trying to guilt me into a new type of snake oil each week, and I'm just tired and it hurts and I don't want to hide from people in my own home.

Or something.