The days are numbered for the school year in TRF. The kids are about out of class for the year, which means a lot of noise around the house and hopefully just a morsel of quiet time left for daddy to get some work done. I will soon discover the true test of a home-based business. It's with somewhat mixed emotions I greet summer with to say the least.
The boys and I decided to take in some of the beautiful evening weather here at sundown and took a long walk, making a wide square to the local train tracks and back, stopping for some Mexican food before looping back and stopping to chat with an old acquaintance, Terri Cuppett, who was out with her guide dog on the corner in front of her house. The sunset was truly spectacular, with the sun being eclipsed by this single white billowy cloud in an azure blue sky with brilliant beams of sunlight bursting out of the top of the cloud in all directions. I wished I had my digital camera with so I'd have a nice new wallpaper for my computer. If nothing else, it's good motivation to make a habit of the evening walk. The only complaint out of the boys is Daniel started saying he was going to "die" if he didn't get something to eat and drink "right away." That was about halfway through the walk and was shortlived as I boosted him on my shoulders and his mind was then shifted to his "fear of heights..." The boys watched a movie Friday night at one of their friend's houses, a rather gawdy colored house in an otherwise conservative neighborhood. Imagine a whole street of white, off white, light yellow, brown/earth tones and pastel blues, then right in the middle of it all, a PURPLE house. At least it's easy for the kids to find...
I finally took a few minutes of free time yesterday afternoon to put together Aaron's half of the bunk bed, lacking my tools to finish the entire set, but I found my tools tonight, so I will likely get the rest done tomorrow and the boys can return to their "pre-Minnesota" sleeping configuration. Speaking of sleeping, I think I'll post a picture of Daniel following a LONG day of play last weekend. You can see he truly had nothing left to give that day...
Since I last wrote, we did take another trip to Grand Forks, North Dakota and signed up last weekend for Sam's Club, so I can keep the kids better supplied with snacks and other staples with fewer trips to the supermarket. We were impressed at the amount of stuff one can fit in a 1991 Honda Civic. This time around we got home before the sun went down completely and didn't have any more run-ins with the local deer population, knock on wood.
As for current vocational activities, I was just graded for my third month's work at Transolutions in Illinois and earned a rating of 99% accuracy, which means I've now gotten 97, 98, and 99% in three consecutive months. They just now switched my backup account from an emergency room in Connecticut to the University of Illinois - Chicago, so I will possibly have the potential of typing discharge summaries and consultations for a large population of residents and therefore a number of English as a second language dictators given it's status as a teaching facility. I'm actually hoping against hope I will always have enough work on my Orthopedic Associates of Hartford account so I never have to type on the secondary one. For those of you interested in who I'm actually typing for, here's their website: http://www.oahct.com/4udr2/webpage.asp?wppagename=physicians.htm&wpleftmenu=leftmenuphysicians.htm&wptitle=Physicians&g_cid=1&g_sid=270796116&chk=9643
They have some nice bios of the various surgeons and physician's assistants with pictures, etc. It's more fascinating for me as I type them all sight unseen and then match up their face with their voice later on. As a transcriptionist, you often conjure a picture in your mind that is far from reality, i.e. thinking the doctor came over on the Mayflower given their stuffy old voice, then finding out they're actually 30 years younger than you had thought. Speaking of transcription, this past week was National Medical Transcription Week and my first week I got a nice card from my employer for it. It's nice to be appreciated at least once a year as this job is mostly unsung for all the things we put up with from doctors.
That's about all that's goin' on over here. I gotta get some sleep before church in the morning. I'll try to get more pictures of the neighborhood for posting so you can see better how TRF looks in the summer. It's so nice and green here right now!
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