a vile vacation

So it's Monday, and I've just wasted two vacation days... I took Friday and Monday off to relax. OK, I did get to do some of that. My house is clean, tidy, I even did a minimal amount of redecorating..

but now the husband's back in the hospital. We're pretty sure this is Visit Ten to our local medical center, after back surgery complications, knee replacement, MSRA, complications, knee replacement, gall bladder, complications, and more complications. Hopefully this is where we start to turn life around.

The weird thing is that Hubby has been working on projects for a guy who I believe will be the Susan Powter of the 2010's - ok, maybe he'll do better than her (hopefully! What ever happened to Susan Powter after her fall from grace?) but this guy's sharp. And, hanging around with a leading proponent of physical fitness, when your physical condition is... poor... is odd. So we'll see what happens.

musings on shameless self promotion

It strikes me that some "blogs" are deadly boring to read, even if they have an audience of sorts. One that comes immediately to mind is http://blogs.firsttechcu.com/. I use this as my classic example of a "fashion don't" -- it's June 16, and the l;ast post was April 3, and the whole thing is deadly dull -- absolutely and obviously written by a "marketing communications department" at the credit union. It's newsletter pablum! Blah!

I struggle with this at my job, because I work in financial services --and you'd better believe that "we" (in the Corporate-Royal-WE sense) frown on mavericks talking about "our organization" on the Internet. But, I love this company, and I KNOW that this is an organization that's passionately committed to building financial success for our members... but... blogging about stuff like that is dicey and puts me on thin ice.

So, 'nuff about work-related ponderings, except to point you to www.youngfreelaberta.com, which is a credit union that does a killer job of connecting with their members. I love this site, I'm addicted to it.