Tuesday May 25, 2004
Good: I have been found by a bracelet. It appeared out of nowhere when I was leaving the meditation garden behind the Sacred Source a few weeks ago. When I went into the store today I was told that nobody was missing it so I must be meant to have it. Just call me Wonder Woman.
Bad: The freezer of the fridge that was installed here in October is dying a horrible, noisy death. Oh joy. Luckily my friend Larissa has freezer space if I need it. The landlord will be getting a call in the morning. Lucky guy.
Indifferent: My GP's attitude today when I brought to her attention a blood test result that she'd had since the end of April and had not discussed with me but which leads me to believe I may have a more serious condition than originally suspected: a positive ANA test. She was willing today to state what I'd suspected for many weeks: she doesn't know much about liver things. And she apparently doesn't read the lab results until I am in her office: searching through the papers in my file, saying she may not have received the results. I reminded her that I'd gotten the information from her file, so it had to be in there (we were discussing a spreadsheet I'd prepared from the copies).
A pharmacist told me last week that she insists on getting copies of all testing just for this reason - sometimes nobody looks at them, in which case the lack of a call from the doctor indicates nobody has looked, not that there is no problem. I shall keep this as personal best practice.
When we were nearing the end of our visit, she suggested that perhaps I didn't need to see her for a while what with the GYN, Neuro and Gastro referrals going on. Since I am not at all sure the liver (gastro) doctor is going to be following me from now on, and the earliest I can get an appointment when I call is a couple of weeks, I wrangled a just-in-case post-referral date for the last week of June. But I am much closer to firing her ass than showing up for another useless and potentially dangerous appointment with her.
Weird: While logging in to post this incredibly interesting slice of life, Netscape interpreted the tab (to the password) as a switch to the other window character (happens often on my system - don't ask me why). Not noticing and/or typing faster than the speed of light, I entered my password while the Mail window was active. The result is that the subject of a message now has orange coloured font. I have *no* idea how to undo this, BTW
0) { ?>The reason that the subject of that message is orange is because it's possible to label messages with different status flags. The shortcut keys for these different labels are the number keys.
The orange colour indicates that the message was labeled as something work-related. The hotkey for that is "2", which character probably appears in your password string.
The antidote is to highlight the message and relabel it to "none", either by right-clicking on it and selecting the "_L_abel ->" context menu, or by pressing "0" on the keyboard.
Posted by: Gnomon at May 28, 2004 05:36 PMNo more orange message subjects - thanks! I would have spent the time learning how to do this, but I'm planning to stop using NN as soon as I have enough brain cells to safely backup all my mail and use something better.
Got any suggestions? Or warnings?
Posted by: jch at June 2, 2004 08:37 AM