The hospital may have made that decision based on the potential costs of paying of many more millions in settlements over HIPAA violations.

:-p I remember a trip to NYC when I was a fresh-faced, corn-fed 17 year old girl. At the ice cream shop, I didn’t have a watch, and didn’t immediately notice the clock.

I’m not “insincere” when I’m polite and civil to my customers. I’m polite and civil because after 30 years experience I know it makes my job easier and reduces the amount of bile in my stomach. It may not be ‘necessary’ but life is more than the basics and honestly, I think having a gentle tone of voice with a…

I got an email customer service reply from a company in New Jersey that made me feel like an a-hole for asking where my order was.

*UGH*

I’m sorry, but the standard for customer service, world-wide, (and I’m in the industry myself) is to start out polite. At least, be civil. I don’t get why anyone would come out…

It’s very well known that the BBC has 12 actors, three umbrellas, and one gold colored, tufted davenport.

omffsg

“discussing the tenets of Christianity with adults” yep.

A Sunday school teacher came to ‘have a friendly chat’ with my parents because I kept questioning everything he said. Dad came through, though, and told me not to bother going to Sunday school*. Yay!

*I’m pretty sure my folks only made us kids go there to get us…

re: politicians getting off their asses, a quote from the Seattle march:

Registering voters is some serious good action. Happening here at the Seattle march:

“Welcome to Ballard. Here’s your Subaru.” - my ex, commenting on the sheer number of Foresters seen on the streets of this Seattle neighborhood.

IDGAF. I watch this repeatedly for quite a few scenes, not the least of which is the fully-got-damned-justifiable homicide of terrible mobsters by one of the brothers jumping off a roof carrying the toilet to which he was chained (by the bad guys). Also, that scene where they drop out of a ceiling, tangled in rope,…

full disclosure: I straight-up swiped it from someone else

Bobby Three Sticks has his hand on a dead-man’s switch, I’m almost certain of it. By that I mean: if anything should happen to Mueller’s role in this investigation, a shit-ton of sealed indictments will be unsealed. The AGs of NY will take up the criminal part of this investigation, and the clear trail of money…

according to the image/map published with the article, people in Africa and in Australia did not mix.

NO SPOILERS

I thought the film was simply *magical*, in all. Gorgeous.

... and makes everything better!

well, I did post on my facebook all the stories I wanted but didn’t call her out and didn’t post on her timeline. but yeah, o the stuff I wanted to say!!

Before this past Christmas, I hadn’t spoken to my (R) sister since the election*... we finally broke the ice, but luckily she didn’t say word one about Drumph the entire time, or I would have walked out the house, and she knew it.

*Right after the election she told me I needed to calm down, and I told her “so I guess…

thanks for warning of the Salo-level of sadomasochism. Salo was the only movie I’ve ever walked out of.