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Ok, I'm back and reading through all the post's and continuing my search for music. However, I became quite depressed when I thought "wait, golden oldies for the more mature members" only to find out that when I search for oldies but goodies, it's all music from my teen years. I swear, I'm sensing a major fail is going to rear it's ugly head. But I'm now set on the Halloween music, 50's through 00's and am now having to gather and listen to the past 5 years. I'm not going to complain about the lyrics but oh my word, the musical landscape has really, really changed. In other words, I'm way too old and out of touch for this, so I'm going to play Eminem and hope they never ask me again.

For some reason there are some in my ward who thought I used to DJ for a living. I did it twice for church functions and I swore I'd never do it again because I utterly FAILED at it. Well, it took three people to get me to volunteer to DJ the Halloween dance on the 30th. Somewhere along the line of my repentance and rehabilitation I lost the ability to say "NO!" and stick to it. So now I need help in a desperate way, especially since my kids are not being very forthcoming... Can someone please give me a list of songs that people/kids/zombies (I mean teens) dance to these days?!?!? It it's not Styx, ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet or the Ohio Players, I'm lost so I need to be brought up to speed, please help, I'm lost.

Yea, a thread that shows who on the forum are REALLY into themselves.

Yea, I found one ICD-9 code that was replaced with 31 ICD-10 codes. It's all about specificity. BTW, yes, there's a code for getting hurt in a spacecraft.

ICD-9 was implemented in 1979. This is more than a code update, it's a total code change. We're going from 14K-ish to over 64K-ish.

ICD-10, yes, I am the resident expert for our firm, and every other office we know who didn't prepare themselves. The calls and emails are already rolling in, the charge tags are starting to pile up. I get to review all our client's Dx's to make sure it's it all works. The one saving grace is that I held a couple of training seminars so most all our clients have a clue. October is going to be painful. I can't imagine what it must be to work for a large clinic or hospital. So please be patient with your doctors offices, they have a huge coding change to deal with and may not be in a good mood.

No cute story here, but with an Asperger's child, sacrament meetings were a battle that I usually lost. But I do remember way, way back in my teen years, there was a kid who got up and mentioned about when her mom was suicidal. Mom didn't slink, she ran out of the chapel. Interesting meeting.

So, what do I do with this goat I bought to sacrifice to the great gods of blood-moons?

What really disturbs me is that some chick is going to find this adorable, marry the dude, and they'll replicate themselves. As for her, well, so much I could say, none of it would be appropriate.

Our concern was that their mom is diabetic so we kept a land-line so the kids, when they were little, could call 911 and the address would pop-up. That way, if their little minds were to lock up, the 911 operator would know where they were. We ditched the landline when they got older. Thankfully, they never had to call emergency services except for once when there was an accident in front of their house and a neighbor got hurt. But then, they were already teenagers.

I guess the crew of Battlestar Galactica didn't do a through job of cleaning their tracks.

I got called to the primary right after my mission. The Elders Pres thought I went inactive since he never saw me in SS or EQ.

There was lightning protection at the punch-down board. Lightning hit the phone line just outside the building, blowing the cable open, jumped the protection at the board and killed a modem, firewall, fax, phone and fried lots of cabling. Lightning protection is good for most surges but this hit so close and was so strong, I don't thing anything would have been enough protection.

Posted this to my Facebook but thought might be interesting: Last week a phone line was hit by lightning outside our Stake Center. It shot raw power through the building phone system, blowing out the punch-out board and phone jacks. It hit the DSL modem so hard that it arced to the firewall it was sitting on top of, thus the little spot welding on the chassis. Yes, it got killed. The first time I've seen this type of damage from a lightning strike. Quite frankly, I'm surprised the building didn't burn. This has been the busiest tech-wise I've been in my tech calling.

I have a daughter that has ADD and Aspergers (high functioning). It is what she say's it is, period, unless I can give her evidence to the contrary. But dog-gone-it, her photographic memory makes it difficult. So, I'm not going to argue with Vort - he's right. Now let's all go out to get some ice cream.

Last night I dropped by the Wilson building to see how the networking was going, thinking I was going to have to pester someone to get the cabling done for the new clerks office for the Fletcher and Arroyo wards. What I saw was one of the members finishing up running the cabling, quote, "so it get's done." Well, at least I don't have to wait for the FM group to get it done. Last time we needed cables to get run, it took over six months for it to be completed. But I can't get too upset with the FM group because next to a couple of big projects in the area, they just got a burnt out building thrust on them that keeps getting damaged. The latest is that it got vandalized (news linky). In any case, there's a meeting tonight to discuss the transition so that we can finish getting the two wards settled into their new digs. I was just informed last night that it looks like our stake will be taking over the tech job for the two wards so I have two more units worth of computer systems to care for. Now I have to try to formulate how I'm going to get the two said computer systems into that small clerks office. It's pretty amazing how much we, as a stake, have been able to accomplish in just a week in absorbing two new wards into our care.

I remember being taught in my really young youth that Pluto was an ice planet since it was out there so far away. It's pretty darn neat to see what the real color is. This is going to be great!

The biggest problem is that they go for the absolute lowest bids. Many times I've seen work done that is shoddy, half-a... I mean, half-baked and once not done because the contractor ran out of money and walked off the job. I've spoken with a couple of contractors who got frustrated because they gave good, solid bids, but where undercut and had to watch as the work was horribly done. Although in one building I was the rep for, there were three big repairs that sat for years. What I did was to ask that the repairs be put into the next year's budget then follow up before years end. I had to wait but the repairs did get done within the first four months of the new year.

Don't get me started on our FM group.

Well, let this be a lesson to cut back the shrubs and trees around your structures. There was a small brush fire that burned up a hill then burned the roof of the Glassell Park church building (news linky1, news linky2). The tree's were not trimmed back so branches grew under the eves and over the roof of the building, thus, carrying the brush fire to the structure. Two Spanish wards from the East L.A. Stake are displaced. They've been moved into the Wilson Building in Glendale, CA (in my Stake) where there are already two wards and one group so it's going to be a bustling place for a couple of years. I'm the Stake Tech Guy so I'll be working with the FM folks and the wards to get them set up and welcomed into their temporary home.

Having ridden a motorcycle for many years (at times exclusively bikes), I can say that it would not be a good idea. I've gotten smacked plenty of times , hi-sided once and screwed up my knee to the point that I needed surgery. If he does get a bike, at least double his life insurance policy. While I believe that they don't get into accidents more than cars, injuries and fatalities are higher. Unfortunatly, I cannot unsee what I've seen. Now this is my experience riding in a huge city so it may be colored differently from others. In any case, unless you both are willing to take the risk, don't.

Congrats! I live in the Arcadia mission so I can tell you that you'll have a good time riding your bike up some steep hills, unless you get placed south of the I-210, then it's avoiding traffic and distracted drivers. Either way, it's not Ohio.

It's called hit and run, I'm practicing. Naw, work, school, callings, they're pulling me in all different directions.

Lest we forget, Soul beats his employees into submission Soul, Long time no see! Good to see you back.

Happy one-year-closer-to-being-DEAD