Kritique Kritics

After three emergency room visits and a very short stay in the hospital this summer, I started thinking about really dumb remarks made to me or ones I heard from someone else.  Here are a few:

While I was locked in the bathroom, at an after-hours medical clinic, throwing up from a migraine headache a nurse knocked on the door and said “You need to come out; your keeping the doctor waiting.”

While waiting with a relative in a hospital room, we requested a pain killer drip for our loved one.  We were told, “It’s ten o’clock, the doctor might get upset if I call him.” I responded, “I bet he would like ten o’clock a lot better than one or two a.m., because we are going to keep asking you to call him.

While in the ER for a kidney stone pain a doctor said, “If you don’t stop panting, you are going to pass out.”  You would have thought she would have understood the panting was from extreme pain and maybe give me something for it.

Leave your “stupid remarks” under the comments.

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I got this email from my friend, Sue Hardy.  I would like to say I’ve never fallen for any tricks like the ones listed below:

Just received this.  Many of you already know this, I didn’t.

EMAIL TRACKING… VERY USEFUL INFO

Very good article.  Did you know that 85% of all email circulating the globe is spam.  I hope the information in the following article reduces that significantly.

Tracking Emails.

Here is something everyone should read and act accordingly. If you don’t, you’re  hurting yourself and your email buddies.  Please read right to the bottom.

By now, I  suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com
and/or  www.truthorfiction.com
for determining  whether information received via email is just that: true/false  or fact/fiction. Both are  excellent sites.
Advice from Snopes.com Very  important!

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says  forward this on to ’10′ (or however many) of your friends, sign  this petition, or you’ll get bad luck, good luck, you’ll see  something funny on your screen after you send it, or whatever,  it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached  that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward  to.

The host sender  is getting a copy each time it gets  forwarded and then is able to get lists of ‘active’ E-Mail  addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.  Even when you get emails that demand you send the email on  if you’re not ashamed of God/Jesus ….that’s  E-mail tracking and they’re playing on our conscience.  These people don’t care how they get your email addresses  – just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk  about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease  -  “how would you feel if that was  your child”….E-mail Tracking!!!

Ignore them and  don’t participate!

2) Almost all E-Mails  that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are  similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send  business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break  the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was,  and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names  and ‘cookie’ tracking information for telemarketers  and spammers – - to validate active E-Mail accounts for  their own profitable purposes.

You can do  your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this very email information to them; you will be providing a service to your  friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam  E-Mails in the future!

If you have been  sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you  know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a  favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings  regardless how inviting they might sound!…or make you feel  guilty if you don’t!….it’s all about getting email addresses  – nothing more!

You may think you are  supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT! Instead, you will be  getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus  attached!  Plus, you are helping the spammers get rich!  Let’s not make it easy for them!

Susan J. Hardy (Sue)
K-1 Teacher – ACE of Lompoc
Writer, Speaker, Event Coordinator
Memberships SLOCRA, SCBWI, SLONightWriters
http://www.lmusd.org/education/dept/dept.php?sectiondetailid=6889
www.scbwi.org/
www.slonightwriters.org/
http://susanjhardy.wordpress.com/

Sue, I’m really proud of your signature line! You’re catching on fast!

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I feel very lucky to have not one, but two great partners.  I’d like to say I’m just able to read a person and know if they are nice, kind and completely trust worthy.  However, I think there was some luck involved.   My first partner, Jim Leonard, I had know for several years.  But my second partner, Christine Taylor, I only knew a few months before we formed our writing collaboration.

My partners are trust worthy, kind, smart, loyal, protective, good communicators and all around great human beings.

I wish I had some advice for a dear friend who is having “partner regret.”

If you can answer the question “what makes a good partner?”, please leave a comment for me and my friend.

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Destry Ramey sent me this.  Don’t worry it has a safe ending.

The Bear Film by Jean Jacques Annaud

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The painting is going well.  My office is completely painted and the hall has been started.  The stairs and the doors are scheduled for tomorrow.  My husband, Roland, will probably have his office torn up on Friday–just in time for the weekend.

I’m going to shampoo the carpet before I put anything back so I don’t know when I will have my office again.  But, it’s working out well with the computer on the dinning room table.

I’m not finding it as difficult to live with things in boxes this time.  I think it was very difficult to have the master bedroom and bathroom torn up at the same time.  I bet I won’t feel so “easy going” when the kitchen is in disarray.  I am feeling lucky to be able to afford a painter.

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Another GREAT party.  I don’t know how they did it, but this year the entertainment was better than last year.

It is a very nice club to belong, too.  They are very active and the members are nice.

Check out their website:

http://www.slonightwriters.org/

The “Hunk” is Roland

Photo by: Dennis Eamon Young

www.DennisEamonYoungPhoto.com;

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The project is moving along.  I hope to have a schedule of the classes beginning in January.  Here’s what the first three pages of the presentation look like.

I’m still having a couple of problems, i.e. centering the title and adding it to the slide master, which I’ve already done for the date, trademark, page number and the arrows.  I’d like some fancy stuff, too; but, I’m not knowledgeable enough to even know what I’m missing.

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My office is being painted this week so I had to move my computer.  It’s sitting on the dinning room table.  Roland was going to install a wireless network card for me.  However, I decided to start the project without him.  He ended up helping me for approximately five minutes and I did the rest.  It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

This surprised me because I usually don’t like to read how to do something and then do it.  There are three types of learners:  1) listening, 2) seeing and 3)touch/experience.  I’m a touch/experience learner and Roland is a seeing learner so we usually have problems when I ask him to “show” this touch/experience learner.  He would rather I just read the instructions (see) like he does. We worked well together, for those five minutes, and I figured out how to do the rest.

If you are thinking about a wireless network card, go ahead and put it in yourself.

Tags: Computers, Home improvement by debradavishinkle
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