life and energy and money and time and sanity.
Today at work I got a letter from a Medicare branch. We have been billing both electronically AND via dead trees, and apparently according to Section 3 of the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act, PubL.107-105 (ASCA) and the implementing regulation tons-of-numbers-and-letters, this is only allowed IF: *three pages [...]
Archive for April, 2009
30 Apr
Why The Economy Sucks
29 Apr
Makes: Infinite Proceedurals. Serves: Infinite Masses
Ingredients:
White Main Characters
Secondary Characters of Varying Races
Humor
Good Looking Guys
Dramatic Music (Suggested: something Death Cab for Cutie-esque. It is not necessary to use appropriately.)
Women With a Past
Guns
Gritty Locale
Copious Amounts of Karo Syrup
Angst
Swelling Music Sung By Crooners
Swelling Music Sung By Wailers
Dark Rooms
Sexual Tension
Flashlights
Witty Repartee
Inner Torment
Questioning Looks
Expendable Supporting Characters With Enough Quirky Habits to Make Howard Hughes [...]
27 Apr
Red White and Blue Lights
Basically, it’s my own fault. But not for the reasons the cops are saying.
It’s my gluttony, not my smart mouth or political opinions or ‘failure to be carrying some form of federal identification.’ Plain and simple, it’s my love of food that landed me in this jail cell, standing against the wall being given the [...]
19 Apr
Metaphor Needs Tightening
“Who do you want to take it?”
More static.
“Wasjeck, who are you going to assign to take the case?”
I finally made eye contact with Royce, annoyed he was talking to me, angry he was asking, brusquely astonished he didn’t know. “We’re taking it.”
None of us wanted it. But no-one else could be trusted to get it [...]
6 Apr
Highlights Collection
Everyone needs friends who encourage them to follow their dreams, and everyone needs friends who point out the shortcomings and hazards in said dreams.
Why I got the extremes of both spectrums, I do not know. For instance, when I expressed my desire to go skydiving, Lisa told me ‘Soar, baby. Take yourself up past everything [...]
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