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Rep Retirement Lodge 143: A Golden ;) Oldie

Rep Retirement Lodge 143: A Golden ;) Oldie

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bigblue_dl said:
Had dinner at what was described as a modern style Scottish restaurant. It was really tasty and the waiter was awesome. We had a haggis appetizer (I hope you're happy, les!), which was actually very good and I had rack of lamb with some kind of creamy cabbage and mashed sweet potatoes, all of that was also excellent. I tried a Scottish beer, which was very meh, it didn't have much of any taste, it was like Scottish Bud Light. But, on the other hand,I started asking the waiter about whisky and which he recommended for local, not US distributed stuff, and he gave me a glass of Lagavulin 16 on the house which was excellent. He also gave a recommendation for a distillery tour. All in all, a fine night to start the trip.

edit: as it turns out, it sounds like Lagavulin is available in the US, and actually I'm having a hard time finding any that aren't distributed to the US to some degree
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Auchentoshan. They have a distillery not too far from Glasgow. My Cousin worked for them for a bit. Also Cardhu which is right by where my family is (not near you)

Belhaven Beer.

Beer Pong Horn said:
Suffice it to say, I know how that goes too. :( Talk for a bit if you're online?

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On a lighter note, I thought this article would "appeal" to les. :D

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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One way to reduce mistakes is to have doctors enter the prescriptions on a computer instead of with pen and paper. After the switch, hospitals can see error rates drop by a whopping 60 percent.
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Of course it takes them about 5 minutes to generate one order....


In Westbrook's analysis, software design accounted for 35 percent of the remaining errors after the systems were installed. Most mistakes were minor, and many could be prevented by improving the program — say, by putting the most-used options at the top of each menu.
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Hospitals are reluctant to install the systems, Binder says, because they're seen as expensive and painful to implement. And hospitals that do make the investment can't assume they'll be perfect right out of the box, she says.
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No one has done a study about all the omissions and missed info causing errors because people didn't see it in some obscure window in the chart. Waiting for that one. And where is the study of all the non-documentation happening because it is so time consuming? Used to be discharge summaries were done that day, as the person walked out. Now they are done sometimes weeks or months later because you can't do it without a large block of time. I need to retire.

I am tired. Couldn't sleep last night from the stupid coffee yesterday. I still have to chart the last week and maybe it would be a good idea to bill the last 2 days I worked.
 
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leswp1 said:
I need to retire.

I am tired. Couldn't sleep last night from the stupid coffee yesterday. I still have to chart the last week and maybe it would be a good idea to bill the last 2 days I worked.
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I am right there with you. There is some stuff going on at work that at times makes me wonder if it is time to cut the tie. The only thing keeping me on task is that a bunch of executives will be offered early retirement soon. Much needed and the turnover will be a breath of fresh air.

You couldn't sleep from a cup of coffee yesterday? I usually have depth charge from Caribou every day ( large coffee with a shot of espresso in it). That would probably keep you up for a week. :)

I have not been following all of the posts in the Lodge. Is shiatkickerbeltbuckleboy in Europe? If so, it was nice knowing ya Europe. ;)
 
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Just dropped my phone and completely shattered the screen. This is after breaking my laptop screen last week. Sigh.
 
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gmann said:
I have not been following all of the posts in the Lodge. Is shiatkickerbeltbuckleboy in Europe? If so, it was nice knowing ya Europe. ;)
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He's in Scotchland right now. Soon to be in Sweden, it seems.

On the topic of haggis, my cousin's wife posted on FB that someone ate leftover haggis at their house. :eek: My cousin is half Scots and half Norwegian, talk about a cheap SOB! He squeezes the nickels so hard the buffalo pees.








(not really - nice guy, but there is a lot of truth to those stereotypes.)
 
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gmann said:
I am right there with you. There is some stuff going on at work that at times makes me wonder if it is time to cut the tie. The only thing keeping me on task is that a bunch of executives will be offered early retirement soon. Much needed and the turnover will be a breath of fresh air.

You couldn't sleep from a cup of coffee yesterday? I usually have depth charge from Caribou every day ( large coffee with a shot of espresso in it). That would probably keep you up for a week. :)

I have not been following all of the posts in the Lodge. Is shiatkickerbeltbuckleboy in Europe? If so, it was nice knowing ya Europe. ;)
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They can handle him in Scotland, but Parise help Sweden when he gets there :D

Almington said:
Just dropped my phone and completely shattered the screen. This is after breaking my laptop screen last week. Sigh.
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That's a load of Matt Cooke. At least it's just the coffee maker that broke for me :o



goldy: Uh, I think you're a few decades late. Maybe "squeezes a nickel so hard he pops Jefferson's zits" would be more appropriate :p
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
That's a load of Matt Cooke. At least it's just the coffee maker that broke for me :o
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It appears that it will be cheaper to just buy a new phone (and re up my contract) than to get my current phone fixed.
 
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Almington said:
Except that my "friends" at At&T want to completely overhaul my plan and increase my monthly charges by ~$25, *hats.
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We must have seen the same "friend" at AT&T. Bastiges... I'm definitely not looking forward to upgrading to a smartphone.
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
We must have seen the same "friend" at AT&T. Bastiges... I'm definitely not looking forward to upgrading to a smartphone.
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This. I pay something like $40/mo for more than enough minutes/texts than I could ever use, even on hockey trips where texting is very necessary. I don't need a pocket computer.
 
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Almington said:
Except that my "friends" at At&T want to completely overhaul my plan and increase my monthly charges by ~$25, *hats.
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Unfortunately, that's also usually the case in situations like that. *shrug*
 
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Wow, what has gotten in to people on the DI side lately? It's getting to March levels already...
 
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Almington said:
Except that my "friends" at At&T want to completely overhaul my plan and increase my monthly charges by ~$25, *hats.
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Just went with them because they're the only national provider up here that does the iPhone. I'm starting to hear the horror stories.

They try that **** with me at re-up time, I jailbreak the son of a ***** and run screaming to a local provider or Verizon if they ever get up here. (Of course, by then the 5 will be out and they'll have me by the pubes.)
 
Twitch Boy said:
Just went with them because they're the only national provider up here that does the iPhone. I'm starting to hear the horror stories.

They try that **** with me at re-up time, I jailbreak the son of a ***** and run screaming to a local provider or Verizon if they ever get up here. (Of course, by then the 5 will be out and they'll have me by the pubes.)
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If you switch to Verizon, your AT&T iPhone just became an iPod Touch.

They're two separate systems (unless Verizon runs on GSM up there). AT&T is GSM, VZW is CDMA.
 
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