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Optical Office
Jun. 9th, 2010 06:56 pmBeen away for a bit, accumulating 'the crap' as I call it. Valuable vintage media as William refers to it as. I don't mind the vinyl, especially the 180gm or the classical, but he certainly did not need a third copy of the Partridge Family's Shopping Bag. Or the 8-tracks. Glen Campbell's alright, wouldn't say I really feel the need to own his back catalog on original 8track though.
Been working on the stereo again, got one of the amps fixed up. Replaced a few capacitors and resistors that had come loose. Hard finding any solder with lead in it these days. The newer stuff you have to really heat up too much and it's not good on the older components.
Been spending the last three days at the day job. It still sucks. I don't know how the one optician they have running the place now keeps it functioning - he doesn't know right from left. Not cool. But, incompetence runs deep and especially in a small community with no trained people to draw from you get what you get. That and both doctors running the practice are distracted, one with his hip surgery and the other with buying a new 300k house (but he has no money he claims). So it's gone downhill. Staff is miserable and I can understand why, but I can't fix it. The management/owners don't want to fix it. I told the head billing clerk that today and I think she finally got it. Their business though. Can't steer a boat with no rudder, no oars, and a massive hole in the hull.
But, I have a nice bottle of wine and I plan on doing reports all night. Lots of fun. Same hours, different work. Glad I have a good work ethic otherwise I'd be slacking off.
Been working on the stereo again, got one of the amps fixed up. Replaced a few capacitors and resistors that had come loose. Hard finding any solder with lead in it these days. The newer stuff you have to really heat up too much and it's not good on the older components.
Been spending the last three days at the day job. It still sucks. I don't know how the one optician they have running the place now keeps it functioning - he doesn't know right from left. Not cool. But, incompetence runs deep and especially in a small community with no trained people to draw from you get what you get. That and both doctors running the practice are distracted, one with his hip surgery and the other with buying a new 300k house (but he has no money he claims). So it's gone downhill. Staff is miserable and I can understand why, but I can't fix it. The management/owners don't want to fix it. I told the head billing clerk that today and I think she finally got it. Their business though. Can't steer a boat with no rudder, no oars, and a massive hole in the hull.
But, I have a nice bottle of wine and I plan on doing reports all night. Lots of fun. Same hours, different work. Glad I have a good work ethic otherwise I'd be slacking off.
