Anything Can Happen Day

[rolanni]

The new computer system at the day-job is much better than last year's flavor in terms of work-flow than. Also? The colors are...wait for it...alphabetized. It is to swoon. Training is now over; I have received the blessing of my instructors and am theoretically ready to hit the phone typing bright and sunshine early on Sunday. Unfortunately, Sunday is also the day of the debate between the incumbent Republican Senator, Ms. Snowe, and the Democratic hopeful, Ms. Hay-Bright. Ms. Snowe has held her office for as long as I've been in Maine, and while she had for a long time been pretty good, insofaras&c, she unfortunately appears to have lost her mind about the time Al Gore won the presidential election and has been sliding steadily downhill ever since. I don't think Ms. Hay-Bright has a snowball's chance of gaining Ms. Snowe's seat, but it would be...gratifying if Ms. Snowe failed to win by her usual landslide.

Here on the home front, the (actually very few) pages covered in blood have been placed in an envelope and will be mailed back to Ace on the morrow. Also on tomorrow's schedule, finishing the incredible pile of paperwork for DirigoHealth, and re-reading "Prodigal Son" with an eye toward revision. Yes, that was supposed to have happened yesterday, but yesterday I nodded off over the galleys, and everything slipped.

...and there was something else, but heck if I can remember it now.

And by this sign we shall know that it is time to get off the computer.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Having just sent our monthly blackmail check off to Anthem (boohissboo), we would be interested in hearing how DirigoHealth works out for you guys.

Ms. Hay-Bright is a ditz. Worse, she's a boring writer...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

we would be interested in hearing how DirigoHealth works out for you guys.

It looks good on paper, and it'll cut something on the order of 50% of our monthly premium cost after the January increase goes through for coverage far superior to what we have now, and a lower deductible. On the downside, the application paperwork is Beyond Belief. But. I actually lucked out and got a helpful rep, who went through the general outlines of the program with me, and did a quick-and-dirty calculation while I was on the phone so I could decide if it was worthwhile to go forward. I can give you his direct line if you're interested in at least exploring the possibility. Drop me an email.

Ms. Hay-Bright is a ditz.

I allow she's young, and inexperienced, and has, as above, the snowball's odds -- but Olympia's gone over to the Dark Side. Which leaves me voting for numbers -- and that's just pitiful.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Hay-Bright ain't that young. Her brief website bio says she was married in 1966 and moved to Maine in 1972.

I wouldn't mind sending an aging hippie off to Washington, but I'd prefer a _competent_ aging hippie. Her writing and my contact with Cape Rosier folks raises questions about competence...

[moon-happy.livejournal.com]

But, but, but, do you look for Red under Crimson or Blood?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

This being LLBean, you look for Mountain Red under M, Red under R, Coastal Red (I think it is this year) under C, and so forth.

The new system really is much easier. Last year, I'd open up a page for, oh, turtlenecks, and be confronted with more than twenty possible colors listed in no order whatsoever -- Alpha? nope. Color group? nope. Reverse alpha? uh-uh. Color number? not that, either.

Combine the utter chaos of the color list with a Christmas-shopping customer who wants one each of fourteen different colors, and you have a...time consuming transaction.