Life continues. Yesterday was a mixed bag. Got a call in the morning about more insurance stuff for mom. There wasn’t going to be time for the forms to travel in the mail, so we had to play some fax-tag with them. But everything’s in the right hands now, and theoretically the problem is solved. I think I’ve figured out where it all went wrong, too. The plan mom was in is the one that was the default, and sometime last year, I got a letter saying If you don’t do anything, you’ll end up in this plan.
Since it was the plan we wanted, I went with my strength and did nothing. But then the county had no paperwork in hand, so things got confused… Anyway, enough about that.
The rest of the day was ups and downs. I was pretty productive again, but I’ve got a number of tasks in which I need feedback from someone else on my team. Unfortunately after they were out at the conference all last week, they’re getting sick this week and I still haven’t gotten the responses I need. So I’m rapidly running out of things I can do without risking heading off in a wrong direction. I left from work a little early as a result. Today I have four meetings scheduled, and I’m torn. Normally I wouldn’t want to spend half the working day in meetings, but I need some answers, so I’m actually hoping for none of the meetings to be cancelled. Wish me luck?
- Scientists are making ball lightning in the lab. Cool. I think they should have taken the picture with white lab-coats, though. [boing boing]
- Here’s a cool little idea: LED Throwies. Colorful nighttime art! Anyone local want to go in on a batch of supplies? [boing boing]
- This movie: Supersize Me! (with Whiskey!) looks like just a plain bad idea. Thirty days of nothing but whiskey? Heck, you’ve gotta mix in some Guinness to balance out the diet. I’m not surprised he had trouble carrying the experiment to completion. [jim]
- Scott’s going to watch 24 Hours of TV with Mark the Red on Saturday February 25th and Sunday the 26th. The catch? They’re going to switch channels every fifteen minutes. It’ll be live-blogged, and they’ll be telling their channel selections via AIM. Sounds like an interesting experiment. Update: They have an official website now. [scottk]
- Over on Flickr, The HDR Pool has pictures “developed” with the High Dynamic Range feature in Photoshop CS2. There are some pretty cool pictures and also some very obviously “fake” ones. [boing boing]
- Finally, I think you need to listen to this “the Indigo” cover that Steveo’s graciously posted. It took me a while to recognize it, at which point I just sat there with a grin for the remaining couple minutes of the song. More about the Indigo on WikiPedia or from their official site. I’ve already requested the albums in the iTunes Store. [steveo]