Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
A few days ago I learned that my friend’s dad passed away after having a stroke. Although I only met him a couple of times, I seem to remember him being pretty cool for a dad.
Yesterday I learned one of the volunteers I work with at the Aquarium passed away over the weekend from a heart attack. He always gave me the latest updates with the birds when I came in for my Saturday morning shift. It will be strange not seeing him around and hearing his stories.
Sad days all around.
I have a feeling this is going to mean that I’m going to be a lot busier in the near future.
UnitedHealthcare (UHc) will require all facilities performing diagnostic imaging to obtain appropriate accreditation by third quarter 2008, in order to continue receiving reimbursements for many imaging procedures. The deadline had previously been March 1.
UHc has recognized the ACR and the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission as acceptable accrediting organizations for medical imaging, and has designated the following modalities as falling under the mandate: CT, CT angiography, MRI, MR angiography, PET, nuclear medicine/cardiology and echocardiography.
It’s been almost a week since Hannah was adopted out, and today I got another update from her new mom. It was in the form of a mother’s letter to daughter explaining the process they went through to get Hannah. Sounds like Hannah and the daughter are already best of friends and getting along marvelously and that Hannah’s in just the right home she needs to be in.
Hannah was a great dog to have around and I miss having her here, but getting the letter and knowing she’s in a great new home where she’ll get way more attention than I could give her makes it all worthwhile.
Vacation coming up so it’ll be a few more weeks before I think I’ll get another dog to foster. Can’t wait to see what the next one will be like.
After moving the computer setup to the other desk, I was thoroughly disgusted by the rats nest of cabling building up. Although not as bad as some I’ve seen, it was getting pretty messy around the desk.
So, inspired by Declutter Your Desk, I decided to DIY a solution based on the peg board method.
A few before shots:
I decided to do the side and back of the desk using pegboard. On the side I used the lock shackle and peg method shown on Declutter Your Desk since this side was going to be supporting the most weight with all the gadgets. This was all done pretty much as described, except with the shackles oriented vertically.
On the back since I was only planning on securing cables, I went with eye screws and S hooks. This let the pegboard swing free and is easy to move around. Just drill a few pilot holes into the desk and screw in the eye screws.
After that was done came the task of arranging and attaching everything to the pegboard. I used zipties instead of wire.
And here’s how everything looks after:
The UPS is far too heavy to mount on the pegboard, so it stays on the floor.
Shopping list (I already had a bunch of zip ties, so didn’t need to buy those.):
2 2’x4’x1/8″ pegboard – $3.53 each
3 2.5″ lock clasps – $2.56 each
Open S hooks (package of 6) – $0.88
1 1/8″ eye screws (package of 10) – $0.90
5/16″x48″ dowel – $0.68
Total cost: $17.20
Yesterday’s St. Labby Day party for WHLR turned out to be a little more than what I expected. I drove out there expecting to see just a small meet and greet type type thing set up, but it ended up being a whole block party instead.
Turned out to be somewhat chaotic but very fun. Both litters of puppies were out there and were hugely popular with the kids (as usual). The fundraising raffle was a pretty big success and we gave out a bunch of application forms. I think we also finalized 4 o 6 adoptions yesterday too which was great. Don’t think we sold quite as much stuff as we did during SEWE, but we generate a lot of interest.
Pictures from the event are here