Obama and Health Care
Okay, I had to take my son to the doctor on Thursday. My appointment was set for 2:45. I signed in at 2:40. At 3:15, the nurse finally called us back to the office. She took my sons temp and weighed him. I informed her at the time that I had to pick up my wife at 4:15, so if the doctor wasn’t going to be able to see me by 4:00, to let me know so I could call my wife. She said that the doctor was almost through with the current patient, and only had a physical to do before us, so it shouldn’t be that long.
For the next 45 minutes, my son (who, btw, is 3 years old) and I sat in a 10×10 room with nothing for him to do. At 4:00, I looked out of the room. The receptionist, nurse, and doctor were all sitting behind the desk doing some paperwork or something. 1 hour and 15 minutes after the appointment time, we had not been told anything about the doctor running behind.
Instead of worrying about giving everyone in the country health care (which who know how it is going to be paid for), lets worry about the health care people are already getting. If I told my students class started at 3, and didn’t show up until 3:15, they would have all left by then. If I was supposed to meet a client at noon, and didn’t show up until 12:30, I would lose the contract. NO ONE gets away with being that late, except doctors and dentists. Even airplanes that often run late at least let you know they are running late. And if its late enough, they will refund your money.
Maybe we should charge the doctors for being late. If the government imposed a fee for every time a doctor was more then 15 minutes late seeing a patient, then, not only would it be able to cover health care for everyone in the nation, but would actually be able to start paying back some of the debt. Or at least the doctors might stop overbooking, so that they actually took care of their patients and didn’t just think of them as a paycheck.
Fun with Wordpress
Been playing with a couple different things to see how they work.
First is Gigya Socialize. It seems to be pretty cool, but it isn’t working properly. For some reason, when you click any of the login buttons, it says it can’t be opened. Not sure if I set up something wrong, or if it is something on their part. Guess I’ll give it a couple days and then find out. As of right now, it is pretty worthless.
The second was the PingPressFM plugin. This is “supposed” to send your blog posts to ping.fm. Well, I couldn’t get it to do much of anything. The button to actually activate it wouldn’t do anything. I checked their support site, and other people are having the same problem (and have been for a long time). But I did find one called Shorten2Ping which will at least activate properly. Don’t know if it actually works, because I haven’t finished writing a post yet.
Time Management
Okay, I really need to take a class in time management or something. I am just not getting anything done. I am spending more time trying to figure out what I want to do, then getting anything done. Instead of writing posts, I’m busy looking up more information. I’ve got things to post multiple places, but instead of writing it up properly, I keep going out and looking for more things. I haven’t even started to convert the tutorials that I already have written for my business, and I’m to busy worrying about what I need to do other places.
ebay wtf?
Okay, if you are a seller on ebay, you may realize all the changes they are making. They are basically trying to “protect the buyer,” but at the same time, they are doing absolutely nothing to help the seller. For example, if you get negative feedback as a seller, it is going to show up no matter what. I have seen negative feedback because an item took 4 days to arrive, and the buyer expected it in 3. Yet about a month ago, we had a buyer that never paid. So we did the unpaid dispute and the buyer had an “unpaid” strike against them. Less then a week later, the strike was gone. Apparently, a buyer can have negative things from their account, as long as they “meet certain undisclosed criteria.” Yet a seller can’t have negative feedback removed when it was given because the buyer wanted to be a jerk.
Anyway, enough of that rant… As you may also know, they have been doing a lot of changes to the software lately. Changing the layout, and doing some special seller or some crap. Yet they still haven’t fixed problems from before. For example:
unpaid items
Even though all these items are from the exact same buyer, the last one can not be included in the invoice. Simply because it is 31 days old. So basically, if a buyer takes over 30 days to pay, then the transaction is “lost” or something. It still shows up, but it can’t be invoiced any more. If it wasn’t for the fact that we had other items that needed to be invoiced, it would be really tough. We just added the cost on for that item into the buyers invoice for the other items. If we didn’t have that to work with, we would have to do some direct payment through paypal, but how many sellers actually know how to do that?
New blog
Okay, so my wife decided to join me in the challenge to get health and quit smoking. So we have started a new weblog at 90-days.org to track our progress.