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This is a fully functional babe lair
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Akron, OH
Posts: 2,324
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I believe it. A standard ALS run for my company runs around $700. And that's for trips around 10 miles. Then you add mileage on top of that, specialized equipment like ventilators, any medications used en route, # of crew needed (bariatric pts needing up to 6 people, or long distances requiring a third EMT or sometimes a whole second crew), and you can get into some pretty high numbers. My longest trip was from Akron, OH to Allentown, PA. 380 miles one way. Severe burn pediatric pt. Don't even want to know the bill for that one.
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#7308 |
Professor
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 1,857
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The AC repairman came and solved the problem only 1 hour after my call on a day in Houston where it is 100 degrees F. And it only cost $130 and he told me how to resolve the issue myself very inexpensively so it won't happen againg.
And he gave me the winning lottery numbers for the 13 million dollar jackpot and a cure for cancer! What a guy! |
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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#7310 |
Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: In the Deep South
Posts: 3,408
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I'm so freaking happy!!!!! I got 2 cards and a gift from Sundae. Plus she has promised me a video of her & her new puppet. WOW!!! This is friggin' awesome.!!
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 13,002
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I found it I found it I found it.
After two harrowing weeks and hundreds of spreadsheet manipulations, I finally found the last $2000+ to reconcile the 80 million disbursed for that particular aid year. It was down to the wire. An unforeseen problem made itself evident as I was doing the final crunching. It was a mess. You just keep whittling away and hope you whittle to the right spot. I had to get a week's extension. But it's done. And I know what to fix to make it go better for the next year's reconciliation, which I'm starting on right now. I was trying everything. I had anxiety attacks. I threw my hands up in the air. I teared up a time or two. But I finally found it. When I added up the final numbers on my adding machine and they finally equaled what is on record with the Dept...I almost yelled for joy! I can keep my job for another week or two. ![]() Whew. |
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#7312 |
Only looks like a disaster tourist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: above 7,000 feet
Posts: 7,208
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Adding machine?
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#7313 |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 13,002
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I might try chisenbop next time.
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#7314 | |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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I sent Bri a postcard too, and she got it aaaaaages ago! Still, better a mini bonanza than nothing at all ![]() Working on the puppet video. Don't expect anything other than rank amateurism, and me giggling all over the place! It's nothing like The Sound of Music - just me with a fluffy, squawky hand puppet, making a racket. I intend to use it to help choose things next school year - as part of taking turns and sharing. What child wouldn't concede to a big pink rackety bird? Or her puppet? Glad they got there in the end! |
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#7315 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
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#7316 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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Infi - I've been up to the wire on reconciliations before too.
Nothing like the pressure you're under, but due to my problem with numbers they made me extremely stressed. Which apparently translated into fierce. I've never been feared anywhere I've worked before. By the time I found out, I was back to my normal cheery helpful self. Wish I could've milked it... |
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#7317 |
Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: In the Deep South
Posts: 3,408
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Mine can take longer because I use a mail service and I only get my mail once a week. You made me so, so happy
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#7318 |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 13,002
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HA! Yeah, they know when my brow knits and I look like I'm about ready to cry...the genius is under the pressure.
![]() I love reconciling. It's why I wanted this job. It's just that I get so busy putting out the fires in the front the main part of my job gets put on the back burner. And it takes a ton of concentration to juggle these kinds of numbers. I'm so freaking happy I can't stand myself. I've been a stress mess for too long! |
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#7319 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
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I think it's kind of funny that they would be willing to pay you for a few weeks to find a missing $2,000. At what point do they say let's just cut our losses?
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
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I've got my PhD Transfer coming up (about a year into the phd, you have to go through this process, where they look at your plan and some other stuff, and decide if there really is a Phd in it, and if it looks like you'll be able to complete the project within the allotted time).
I've been 'working' at it for a couple of months, but for the most part it's been like pulling teeth. Have to produce a sample chapter, or long essay of around 10k words, plus a report on the project to date, plus a chapter plan, or thesis outline and a working bibliography. Anyways, after it just being a real bloody nightmare for weeks, it's started really coming together the past week. I have almost finishe dthe chapter/long essay. Just the conclusion to write and then the referenes and editing. Done the story so far on the prject and research, and got about half the bibilography done. The long essay is good, i think. And so is the story so far. I'm really pleased with them. Also, whilst it's been a painful problem trying to pull this together into a structured form at such an early stage, it's been really useful. I am starting to see how this thesis might actually look.
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