but it refuses to publish with an image attached no matter what I do. Maybe it's a glitch that will be fixed in an upcoming update.
Anyway, sorry I haven't physically gone to the computer and blogged instead. I've been fairly busy as of late.
I've spent some time setting up the new phone and tablet. The phone I've geared towards listening--things like Pandora, audiobooks, podcasts, music on the SD card, etc. The tablet I've geared towards reading, especially Kindle and Project Gutenberg.
We haven't played the game in a while as one of the players is away visiting family in another state. So the first weekend of this month YKWIA and I went to the Lexington Chamber Orchestra concert at Tates Creek Presbyterian Church and had a very good time. Otherwise, it's been all about doing stuff around the house on the weekend and getting some relaxation in. I haven't read much else, just a bit of
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman, and while I had to turn in
The Labyrinth of Spirits (which, as a new book, was due in 2 weeks rather than 28 days), I got it as an Audible audiobook. Today as I was waiting at a doctor's appointment I went through the book up to where I left off. I was on chapter 19 (21 really, as it has a prologue, etc.), which sounds great but the thing has over 700 pages and while the chapters are short, there are over 170 of them! I'm not sure I can listen to it at work and still focus on my paperwork like I can with music, but I have a device that plugs into the car cigarette lighter that syncs up with Bluetooth to my phone that allows me to play music and answer calls even though I have an old car (18 years old!) that doesn't normally have that functionality. I can also play the audiobook through the device.
Brenda stopped by the other day with a wonderful orchid for me. She'd found it at Kroger for $2, in a plastic pot and finished blooming, but healthy and there are about three plants in there. It's a type I haven't had before with a very prominent pseudobulb on the bottom with leaves coming from them. I've seen them in the store--they have rusty, spidery, small flowers in just clusters of them, and I've really wanted them. I'm not sure what type it is, perhaps a miniature
Cattleya or
Dendrobium.
Speaking of which, it's almost spring, and I read with interest that the
Bluegrass Orchid Society was having their first meeting of the year tonight, with a talk on
Dendrobium species and their care, but I had the doctor's appointment and then we had planned on going over to a friend's house for his birthday. He is battling cancer, and had gone out with his brother and sister-in-law, and was just too tired to get together tonight, so we'll go see him tomorrow. So by the time we got home, it was too late to change plans and go to the meeting. I would have loved to have taken the new orchid, though, and get an identification, but oh, well.
I fed the animals and then YKWIA went to the computer and was watching some weird, twisted soap opera he discovered on YouTube, while I went to my room to lie down for just a bit, and the cats came with me, the one purring on my belly and the other at my feet. I wound up falling asleep for two and a half hours. I got up and did the dishes, plugged in the electronics to charge tonight, and then decided to write a bit. But I can tell sleep is coming fast. I didn't sleep the best last night, kept waking up in fact, and woke up at 4:30 am to pee and almost just got up for the day. I toyed with the idea of going and getting another bookcase for my office since I had the appointment and therefore parking in back of the hospital, but that would have meant going to the storage unit in the dark wee hours of the night, and I thought that wouldn't be particularly prudent. So I decided to go back to sleep, and it's good that I had the parking, as I woke up at 7:16 am, and had to be at work by 8:30 am. I was about 15 minutes early, but if I'd had to ride the bus this morning that would not have happened.
Work has been very busy and I've done really well with productivity and while it can be frustrating, I'm plugging on. The other day I was able to pull off a minor miracle to get a family's MRI scheduled next day, with the help of my co-worker who does the authorizations, and my boss let me come in at an ungodly hour of the morning so I could call first thing. It was touch and go for a while (I got pulled out of a meeting because the family got there and the university had accidentally scheduled a sibling instead, so they were being told there was no appointment made). I'm working on some difficult surgeries, and I have three denials I have to work on for a single case agreement tomorrow. That's when you ask the insurance company to treat your out-of-network status as if it were in-network for that one case only. I've had one other case I tried it on, and it worked, so it's worth a try, and it works better, in my opinion than an appeal. But I don't have much experience in it.
I had applied to the Lexington Public Library in February for a library programming position, but I haven't heard anything, so I'm assuming I didn't get it. LPL does usually send an e-mail, and I haven't received that yet, but it's been a month or so since the position closed so it's not looking good. :(
Tomorrow I'm at work until 3 pm again as I have a blood draw at 4 pm. My family doctor always does a blood draw two weeks ahead of the main appointment. Kudos to my boss, who let me off for a total of four appointments this month, although they're all after 3:30 pm at least. It was five but I rescheduled my appointment with the ophthalmologist to April. My endocrinologist is next Monday; it had already been rescheduled by them from January since she wasn't going to be in that day, and when I tried to reschedule, it was going to be August! So that one had to stay. I need to reschedule one I missed during my bout with the respiratory virus in January, and I have made an optometrist appointment for an exam on the first weekend of April. Yay for weekend appointments. I'm switching dentists and need to get the ball rolling on that, too. But all my appointments were clustering in March and so I'll wait on that till maybe May, I think. Then I can have the second cleaning of the year in November. I did have the DMO plan for Aetna, which paid more fully for services but had a very limited range of providers (mainly Aspen Dental). I switched back to the PPO, which costs a little more but has many dentists so I could go to one I've been to before and liked, one that YKWIA goes to. The reason? Aspen called me up one day insisting I pay a bill I didn't know about before they turned me over to collections. When I asked how much I owed, it was $1. Yes, you read that right, $1. I paid it there over the phone, but it kind of ticked me off that they would do that, threaten to send me to collections over such a trivial amount when I'd never even been billed. Anyway, I like Dr Kleier, although she doesn't have the later hours they did. So I'll have to wait to go there.
Okay, I guess I should head to bed. 6 am comes early, and with the time change, it's a struggle. Good night!
