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Career Plan


11 Jul

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I like having a plan, even for things that are years out. I have now been in my current position for a year, so it is time for a career plan.

In another two to three years, I want go to work for an international health organization. Someplace like PATH, which has headquarters in Seattle would be good, though the husband wouldn’t mind if I looked for a company in Oregon or the Bay Area.

That means that I need to join the Associate for Operations Management and get some of their certificates sometime in the next year or so.

Healthcare = Happiness


10 Jul

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Recently the results of the first year of an ongoing study about the effects of providing people with state run healthcare were released. This is run through a lottery that allowed some people who normally wouldn’t be eligible to apply for Medicaid.

Short term findings: Providing health coverage cost the state more. People given coverage accessed preventative care but still used ERs just as often. However, those people took fewer sick days from work and reported greater overall happiness.

It’s a promising start, and I look forward to long term results, when I suspect costs will start to go down.

Goodbye to the Space Shuttles


09 Jul

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Friday marked the end of an era- the last launch of a space shuttle. I grew up watching shuttle launches on the Today Show while my family ate breakfast. I grew up in the era of Space Camp (the movie) and the Challenger explosion. These are important memories in my childhood, and it saddens me that similar new memories are not being made.

NASA still has plans. There is still the international space station, and we are getting closer every year to civilian space flights. But there will be no more space shuttles, at least not for the foreseeable future.

Hiding your success?


08 Jul

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Even on a money message board where we are all there to talk about money, it seems that a lot of people are afraid of actually talking about money.

I got a promotion a year ago. It came with a significant raise.

If I were going on a cruise, it would never occur to hide the information in case friends and family looked up my trip to see how much I spent. If they wanted to know, they could ask me.

I do not think money should be a taboo subject, and I’d actually like to work toward changing that.

No purpose other than discrimination


07 Jul

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The Obama administration has not been perfect. I’ve had problems with some of their decisions. However, there are others that keep hope alive for me, and this is one of them.

The Administration has sent a brief to a California court, urging it to find the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, and to rule in favor of a federal employee who is suing over health insurance benefits for her same sex spouse.

So now, not only is the Administration refusing to defend DOMA, its actively working to bring it down. This makes me very happy. This I can support.

Could we focus please?


06 Jul

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There are court cases that I think the public should be following; court decisions that people should be up in arms about, like the current Supreme Court’s tendency to side with corporations over individuals every single time.

What I don’t like and don’t agree with is the “celebrity” criminal trial. It makes no difference in my life or yours (unless you’re a member of the family) if Casey Anthony is guilty or not. Why is this taking up time and energy of people living on the other side of the country? Get over it and get back to work, please.

Rock Band


05 Jul

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Bought Rock Band 3 for the husband as part of his birthday gift. We’ve been playing it a lot recently and really enjoying ourselves. We’ve downloaded some songs from the network (Flogging Molly and Stroke 9) as well as other songs newly available (Fleetwood Mac). There has been singing and guitar and drum playing. Now at the point we’re considering a keyboard purchase.

My favorite video games have always been cooperative, so I think, that even if the music games are falling out of fashion (as the Game Stop guys claimed), we’ll be playing Rock Band for years to come.

The first 106 words of the Declaration of Independence


04 Jul

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When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Pandora <3


03 Jul

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I know, I’m late to the party. I’m ALWAYS late to the party, at least when it comes to a lot of pop culture. Just this month, I started listening to Pandora. Pandora, which no one has heard of, which was why they just had their IPO…

Anyway, big surprise, I love it.

I’ve created a number of stations, but my two favorites are Flogging Molly station and my Rhianna/Justin Timberlake station. DH has created an Afghan Whigs station that he likes.

I’m happy to have musical variety that is almost all upbeat to get me through the work day.

Jagr back in PA


02 Jul

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Jaromir Jagr is back in Pennsylvania, but not in the black and gold of the Penguins. No, instead he’s going to be wearing the orange of the Flyers. The Flyers?

Okay, so if you’re not a hockey fan, you probably don’t know or care who Jagr is. You certainly don’t care that he’s signed a one year deal with Philly. But for those of us who are fans, even if we’re not fans ofPittsburgh, there’s just something wrong here.

And I know, Gretzsky left the Oilers for the Kings and all, but this is the same state. Same state!

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