{"id":948,"date":"2007-04-26T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=948"},"modified":"2007-04-26T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T17:47:00","slug":"thursday-update-harbor-of-health-stupid-school-rules-free-music-fest-tix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/thursday-update-harbor-of-health-stupid-school-rules-free-music-fest-tix\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update: Harbor of Health, stupid school rules, free music fest tix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get started with the day’s news, fellow blogger Rachelandthecity<\/a> asked me to post this:<\/p>\n

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(Click on the image for larger size) It’s a concert to benefit the Crisis Center, at Neil’s tonight. Susan Marshall, Cory Branan, Ben Nichols, Giant Bear and more.<\/p>\n

Today’s lunchtime post is being brought to you by the free Wi-Fi at Bon Ton Cafe. My lunch today: Meatloaf ovetr spaghetti topped with parmesan cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, buttered corn, cornbread, and banana pudding. Glad to have another Wi-Fi lunch option downtown. Bon Ton is your typical big-city diner kind of like the one Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer used to go to all the time.<\/p>\n

I finally got the required physical for my job at Harbor of Health<\/a> over on the Island, and let me tell you, that place was the antithesis of the typical doctor’s office. I’m used to sitting in a crowded waiting room with screaming kids, elevator music, magazines that are several months old, and then after an eternity someone yells out, “RAYBURN! PAUL… RAYBURN!”<\/p>\n

Not so with HoH. The waiting room was peaceful, with a view of beautiful Harbor Town Square. I heard piano music coming from another part of the building. The nurse came out and said, “Are you Paul?” and I went back and saw the physician and got the damn form signed and was out quickly. HoH is not just a medical clinic but a total health solution, with a gym, classes, nutririon counseling and everything. If you live on or near the Island and want to get healthier, you should check it out.<\/p>\n

So I have my stupid form signed and I can officially be put on the schools’ payroll now. I was a day late getting it in. Funny how the city schools’ culture works; a lot of people will fuss at you like you’re a child for not following directions. “DIDN’T I TELL YOU you were supposed to have the physical done by orientation?” the HR person asked, in a tone that made me wonder if she was going to write me a Behavior Document to take home for mommy to sign.<\/p>\n

“Look,” I told her, matter-of-factly, “I don’t have the physical done. I can have it done tomorrow. If I submit the paperwork tomorrow will that be all right?” She said yes. Funny how a lot of people are conditioned to respond to a tone line hers and think, oh my God I’M IN TROUBLE. I just didn’t care. Worst case scenario, I’d get paid a period late, which is no biggie. Well, I guess since she’s HR she could take my job away, but considering a .NET recruiter e-mailed me two days ago to tell me he has open positions, I still wasn’t that concerned.<\/p>\n

Physical went OK… I asked them to do the minimum and they did. I didn’t have to bend over and cough, no dreaded white glove, no needles. Amazingly, my blood pressure and pulse turned out to be normal, and all the second-hand smoke I breathe in every night hasn’t caused any lung disease yet.<\/p>\n

Other news – 93x will be giving out Music Fest tickets today from 5 to 7 at Brookhaven Pub. That’s out in East Memphis somewhere near Poplar and Mendenhall… here, look it up on Yellow Book<\/a> if you don’t know where it is. Or ask Ptolemy Kat<\/a>, she hangs out there.<\/p>\n

I’ll be on a rooftop tonight – haven’t decided yet whether it will be the Peabody or EP’s. I’ll figure it out tonight. I’ll probably be at the Saucer for a pre-rooftop beer 6:30ish.<\/p>\n

I’ve abandoned the idea of building an aStore – the storefront designed by Amazon.com to build private stores – and instead am using a third-party product called Associate-O-Matic<\/a>. Like aStores, it builds custom online stores based on Amazon.com associate links, but it’s a lot more configurable. I got the store about 20% of the way done last night. Hope to have it up by early May. I mentioned that the store would focus on a particular type of product, and one of my readers has already figured out what that product is.<\/p>\n

All right, guess I’ll finish my meatloaf and get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"