Random Thoughts....

I am looking for a new TV/ monitor for my entertainment room. I was skimming through a deal site and found these deals(?.).

www.samsung.com

110” Class MICRO LED Samsung 4K with Smart Hub TVs - MNA110MS1ACXZA | Samsung US

Discover the latest features and innovations available in the 110 inches Class MICRO LED Samsung 4K with Smart Hub. Find the perfect TVs for you!
www.samsung.com www.samsung.com




For those that don't want to click the links, the first TV is a 110", $149,999.99…

The second is a 325" display and is a mere $1,091,350.

Do I just get 1 of the big ones, or do I get 6 of the smaller ones? 😂
 
I normally go to my local county hospital and local clinic for primary care stuff. Waiting rooms full of people all in one room, phones ringing off the hook, cranky seasoned veterans behind the counters.


Today was my first day with a GI specialist at Stanford's Digestive Health Center. The lobby of the building had a piano player, and on my way out, there was a guy in a lab coat singing Adele along with the piano. I used to sell office/hospitality furniture, and the furniture they had was stuff I could identify as higher-end. The waiting areas were broken out into multiple sections so almost everyone had their own private area. Instead of squeaky hinged doors with closers that people are always fighting against, they had sliding doors so pushing wheelchairs, etc through them was effortless. It looked more like a halfway decent hotel than a 80s high school (like how my normal locations look). My blood pressure and heart rate was actually lower than it was the last half dozen times I had it checked at the other places.



But I haven't gotten my first Stanford bill yet, so it may still end up being one of my last.
 
NecroJoe said:
But I haven't gotten my first Stanford bill yet, so it may still end up being one of my last.
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It amazes me how there’s a rather clear consensus that having a patient comfortable and relaxed, feeling safe and secure and all that stuff does have a very positive effect on their recovery. And still most, if not all hospitals look like absolute crap that make you feel trapped, lost, forgotten about - most probably resulting in an actual adverse effect on recovery. It’s mind boggling. So good to hear that at least Someone somewhere seems to be taking notes… even if, of course, this all does cost more money in the end.
 
I really like how they designed the new children's hospital here in Helsinki (by the way, "socialist" public healthcare):
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www.hus.fi

New Children's Hospital

The New Children's Hospital is Finland's largest hospital focused on demanding specialist pediatric medical care. We treat patients from all around Finland, from newborns to 15-year-olds.
www.hus.fi www.hus.fi

A friend sadly has a chronically ill child so she spends a lot of time there. She says she wishes grown-up hospitals would me more like this.
 
How many of us have done the same or similar things our grand parents or parents did as their career?

I haven't worked for family yet and yet I've done similar work as they have. My grandfather on my dads side worked for Bell & Gossett the water pump company until his retirement in the 90s and still pulls a pension from them, my grandfather on my mothers side worked for Pitney Bowes so both of them were the traveling repairman specialist type like I was. My father works for a leather company as the Chief Engineer which is corporate speak for "guy who heads maintaining everything machine in the factory." I've worked for the first part of my career as a specialist of an OEM to heating equipment. I still am in the field, just not the OEM specialist, hopefully I fix that, but still.
 
93Flareside said:
How many of us have done the same or similar things our grand parents or parents did as their career?
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I considered two options: Choose the same profession as my father (not to follow or impress him, but because I genuinely like what he did for a living) or do what I do now.

I deliberately chose not to follow my father's footsteps because I didn't want the inevitable comparisons.
And in light of how that other line of business developed in the Internet age, I'm very glad about my decision.

Come to think of it, in my family everyone has widely different professions...
 
My mom used to be the department manager when I worked at a grocery store in high school.

But other than that, not really, unless "sales" and "retail" are generic enough to include the things I've done...but I'm currently in school as the the first person in my family to go to college, and at 44 (assuming all goes well), I'll have an associates degree after the fall semester, also the first in my family.

My dad worked for 40 years as a welder for the same company and a volunteer fireman, my mom worked in a nursing home until I was born, then mostly retail.

Both of my grandmothers were housewives. My maternal grandfather was a farmer. My paternal grandfather was also a farmer, and then a salesman for a seed corn company, which is still around, with the some logo too from 40 years ago. https://tracyseeds.com/
 
So, as some of you might have figured out, I'm sorta on the rightwing off the political spectrum, fine, who cares right? Today at the pub someone took issue with that, 'you should all be shot' , so I invited him to get his gun from his car ( they never drive a truck do they?) and shoot me .......he said he did not have one, so I offered to lend him mine.....he got even more upset......strange people.
 
Nothing says Good Employee like a meter stick with a curse word on it.

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NecroJoe said:
I normally go to my local county hospital and local clinic for primary care stuff. Waiting rooms full of people all in one room, phones ringing off the hook, cranky seasoned veterans behind the counters.


Today was my first day with a GI specialist at Stanford's Digestive Health Center. The lobby of the building had a piano player, and on my way out, there was a guy in a lab coat singing Adele along with the piano. I used to sell office/hospitality furniture, and the furniture they had was stuff I could identify as higher-end. The waiting areas were broken out into multiple sections so almost everyone had their own private area. Instead of squeaky hinged doors with closers that people are always fighting against, they had sliding doors so pushing wheelchairs, etc through them was effortless. It looked more like a halfway decent hotel than a 80s high school (like how my normal locations look). My blood pressure and heart rate was actually lower than it was the last half dozen times I had it checked at the other places.



But I haven't gotten my first Stanford bill yet, so it may still end up being one of my last.
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Yeeeeeeeah. I'm in the boat of having to find a new primary care doc after my last one went back to the research side. It's annoying. He was great! His other specialty was sports medicine, so he knew exactly what to do when I had that hella awful race car accident. I need that again, preferably close to home because I'm terrible about leaving on time for appointments further out. Like, I know myself. You could be the best damn doc in the area, on my insurance, taking new patients, except in Cedar Park and that last part's probably a deal killer, haha.

UT's got a good hospital system with a pretty new building that sounds really similar to your Stanford experience, but I don't know if they handle primary care stuff. Would be convenient as hell, though. I keep running into docs still on my insurance list who've gone to "concierge" practices, which is basically just a big, pricey subscription for care and not actually through insurance, so that's a fun minefield to navigate. I didn't know that was a thing until this year, and it also means that my insurance list is out-of-date. Grumble.

I've been getting some of the specialist bills back for my What The Hell Is This Spot scare, though, and oof, I need a job. I need a job with benefits, but like...goshdarnit, I really need a job. I'm about to give up on finding another journalism gig given how many places are laying people off, like, rapidly. I mentioned one of the comms roles I applied for in tech, and one of my friends was like, "you're looking for stability...by moving back over to tech?! where they're also laying people off?" I'm just like, oh, my sweet summer child. OHHHHH my sweet summer child. Yes, journalism layoffs make tech companies (even in 2023) look stable as hell. At least they'd probably offer a better severance package when it happens. And pay. Way better pay. Screw it, man, I don't even care anymore, I just want to buy a parsh.
 
93Flareside said:
How many of us have done the same or similar things our grand parents or parents did as their career?

I haven't worked for family yet and yet I've done similar work as they have. My grandfather on my dads side worked for Bell & Gossett the water pump company until his retirement in the 90s and still pulls a pension from them, my grandfather on my mothers side worked for Pitney Bowes so both of them were the traveling repairman specialist type like I was. My father works for a leather company as the Chief Engineer which is corporate speak for "guy who heads maintaining everything machine in the factory." I've worked for the first part of my career as a specialist of an OEM to heating equipment. I still am in the field, just not the OEM specialist, hopefully I fix that, but still.
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I guess grandpa being a mechanic sort of relates? I do the ten-ply part of writing about it, though. (And hurting myself working on my crapcans for fun. That, too.)
 
93Flareside said:
meter stick
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Funny American immigrants with their weird measurement units. :p
Those are commonly called "Zollstock" (lit: "inch stick") in German. :D

Yes I know that proper craftspeople call it "Meterstab" or "Gliedermaßstab" when they want to annoy customers. ;)
 
DanRoM said:
Those are commonly called "Zollstock" (lit: "inch stick") in German. :D
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Wait wait wait, so the metric country commonly calls it an inch stick while the US and here (where my parents and now younger sister use feet and inches) call it a metre stick? I'm flabbergasted.
 
Inch stick? They are called yard sticks here in the USofA.
 
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