Joint Commission survey is over, and I hear we scored pretty high with no Type 1 findings. This is a good thing. So we’re good for another 3 years. Excellent.
175 000 miles!
Finally reached 175 000 miles on my beater car last night. Yes, it took me almost 4 months to put 1000 miles on my car. Yes, it doesn’t get driven much anymore. Basically all it does is take me the 10 mile round trip to and from work, with the occasional trip out to the mall or other shopping destinations. And only if my wife isn’t with me. If she is, we have to take her car because she doesn’t like riding in mine anymore. She’s paranoid it’s going to break down and leave us stranded on the road. But it still runs pretty smoothly, and seems pretty reliable. I’m pretty confident I can keep it going to 200 000. My wife might have other ideas though. Guess we’ll see what happens.
Farewell Voyager
APOD’s got a pretty cool representation of what Voyager 1 is about to encounter at the edge of the solar system.
90 AU out, and moving at over 3 AU/year. That’s over 448793612 km/year (278866864 miles/year) or 51197 km/h (31819 miles/h) or 14 km/s (8.8 miles/s). Now that’s fast.
More Blogshares
It seems that to increase the price of your blog in Blogshares, you need to comment on blogs. On a lot of blogs. Blogs that are also in Blogshares. Or have people link to your blog. Blogshares only seems to care what’s on the main index page of the blog, and with comments being transitory things, you need to do a lot of commenting. Which usually means a lot of blog reading. Now, I don’t know about other people, but I work during the day, and have other things to do in the evening so my blog reading is usually a spare time thing. And I generally don’t have much to say about to other bloggers in their comments.
And aside from search engines, I think I might have 2 or 3 regular readers (myself included), so I don’t think too many people are linking to my blog. Not that I care that much.
So I guess my blog will be relegated to Blogshares mediocrity, and my blog valuation will remain at $1000, aside from occasional spikes when I find something interesting enough to comment on.
I guess it’s a good thing there’s no real money involved.
‘Tis the season
The endless loop of Christmas songs on the radio has begun. Started off my morning drive to work to the sounds Christmas music. Halfway through the second song, I had to change stations. Fortunately I have a very short drive to work. I’m just not ready for never-ending Christmas music yet. It’s hard enough for me to get into the holiday spirit around here without snow and decently cold weather. I mean really, how can you feel Christmasy when you’re still walking around in shorts and sandals?
Maybe I’ll go get some bags of cotton batting and decorate my office to make it look like it snowed in there. It’s too bad the thermostat only goes down to 60.