quick ramblings

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wow, i wouldn't even be able to do this on the piano! quite impressive. link courtesy of bob.

2. yay for friends who work for cool companies! thanks to amy once again, we get to help volunteer for the third day/david crowder concert at the flint center, and gain free admission. woohoo! i've never been able to help volunteer at spirit west coast since it's always in july during quarter-end at work, so when concerts pop up, i always jump on the opportunity. and it's in my own backyard this time. if you want to volunteer or know anyone who may be interested, let me know!

3. Anyone have $1400 to spare and want a 30" Dell flat-panel monitor? Guess they're giving employees of my company an $800 discount to this monitor. Pretty decent discount, but still $$. but wanted to throw it out there if anyone was shopping for one.

4. I had to train some coworkers yesterday and today on a system I've been involved in help designing for our company. Seriously - if you're getting trained, don't irritate the trainer. For example, don't NOT pay attention and work on your laptop the entire time, and then when it comes time to use the system, make me sit by you and teach you step-by-step again what to do. Or don't interrupt me in the middle of my training to try to train ME incorrectly on the very system i'm trying to train YOU on. sounds ridiculous, right? but it happened! drive me crazy. okay. done with rant.

5. my pt told me that one of her patients works for HR at my company. my pt told me she told her about me and my surgeries and how i (as well as several other patients of hers who work at my company) have been screwed by our health insurance. that person knows the person who is involved in negotiating our health insurance contract and said she would definitely talk to the person about our therapy coverage and why it sucks so bad and try to get it improved. my pt didn't tell the person my name, but the HR person told her, hey i think i know who you're talking about, i see her hobbling around everywhere (i work in the same buildling as HR). great. it may be too late to benefit me, but maybe by next year we'll have a better policy.

6. my mom is taking me for my birthday (yes, very early) on sunday after church to a ballet. even though i used to do ballet, i've never really watched many and... i actually think sometimes they're boring. gasp. hahaha. but this one sounds interesting. it's right down the street from church, too - on castro - i didn't even know there's a theater on castro?

7. my coworker downloaded the 24 ringtone (not the 24 song, but the actual office phone ring they use on the show) on his cell phone. now every time i hear it ring, my ears perk up and i think jack bauer is calling chloe or is somewhere around.

8. NBC needs to learn how schedule their programs better. why did they put the highlight of the entire olympics, womens figure skating, on at 11pm?? ridiculous. both jenie and i fell asleep in front of the tv and missed the entire thing. what we managed to stay awake for was downhill skiing. yay. no wonder NBC's ratings for the olympics have sucked.