HELL WEEK!
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seawaspLessee... how did this week suck? Let me count the ways...
Monday: Go to pick up my medicine. They don't have Foradil in stock. They say they'll order it.
Tuesday: Had to have the endoscopy and dilation. By itself this was a PITA, but it was for a good cause -- allowing me to eat without fear and pain -- so that would be good.
But then blood vessels popped in my eyes (subconjunctival hemmorhage)making the whites blood-red. This landed me in the E.R., at the same hospital, for the entirety of the evening. Exhausting, nerve-wracking for both me and Kathy. I can't shut down easily after that, so I didn't get to sleep before nearly 2.
Wednesday. Go to pick up Foradil. The order didn't come in. Suppliers were out. Vicky breaks her arm. Back in a hospital for the third time in 36 hours. We get back around 11:30, finally get her to sleep, by the time I manage to get to sleep, it's 1:30.
Thursday: I got some things done at work but not nearly as much as I wanted to. No one has to go to the ER. However, this is the day we learn Vicky actually DID break her arm; they weren't able to read the X-rays well enough at the hospital. Foradil, at least, finally arrives.
Friday: I have to take Gabriel to an appointment I'd forgotten about. I get back around 10:15; Kathy has to take Vicky to the orthopedic specialist for an evaluation as to whether she'll need surgery. This might not have been so bad, except that today Gabriel has a half-day at school. I have to stay home because Kathy won't be there when he gets home. Kathy doesn't get back until close on 3:00, which essentially renders going in to work pointless. This means that the extra work I did LAST week has now been totally wiped out; I'm probably back on minus hours. (Technically I'm salaried, so hours per se don't matter, but it's the principle of the thing, and I have A BUTTLOAD OF THINGS TO DO). Then to cap it off, NASA announces its selections for the last SBIR round, and of three proposals we had in -- ones we felt were pretty darn good -- we won exactly 0 (that's nil, zero, zip, nada).
Please let this annoying week be over as of now. Please?
Monday: Go to pick up my medicine. They don't have Foradil in stock. They say they'll order it.
Tuesday: Had to have the endoscopy and dilation. By itself this was a PITA, but it was for a good cause -- allowing me to eat without fear and pain -- so that would be good.
But then blood vessels popped in my eyes (subconjunctival hemmorhage)making the whites blood-red. This landed me in the E.R., at the same hospital, for the entirety of the evening. Exhausting, nerve-wracking for both me and Kathy. I can't shut down easily after that, so I didn't get to sleep before nearly 2.
Wednesday. Go to pick up Foradil. The order didn't come in. Suppliers were out. Vicky breaks her arm. Back in a hospital for the third time in 36 hours. We get back around 11:30, finally get her to sleep, by the time I manage to get to sleep, it's 1:30.
Thursday: I got some things done at work but not nearly as much as I wanted to. No one has to go to the ER. However, this is the day we learn Vicky actually DID break her arm; they weren't able to read the X-rays well enough at the hospital. Foradil, at least, finally arrives.
Friday: I have to take Gabriel to an appointment I'd forgotten about. I get back around 10:15; Kathy has to take Vicky to the orthopedic specialist for an evaluation as to whether she'll need surgery. This might not have been so bad, except that today Gabriel has a half-day at school. I have to stay home because Kathy won't be there when he gets home. Kathy doesn't get back until close on 3:00, which essentially renders going in to work pointless. This means that the extra work I did LAST week has now been totally wiped out; I'm probably back on minus hours. (Technically I'm salaried, so hours per se don't matter, but it's the principle of the thing, and I have A BUTTLOAD OF THINGS TO DO). Then to cap it off, NASA announces its selections for the last SBIR round, and of three proposals we had in -- ones we felt were pretty darn good -- we won exactly 0 (that's nil, zero, zip, nada).
Please let this annoying week be over as of now. Please?
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Date: 2006-11-18 01:22 am (UTC)That's the kind of week to make you want to kill things.
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Date: 2006-11-18 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-18 02:04 am (UTC)This is the easy button. Just press play.
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Date: 2006-11-18 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-18 09:16 am (UTC)I really do hope things improve for you over the weekend. Also, I wish you and your family a happy Thanksgiving. :-)
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Date: 2006-11-19 04:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-20 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-28 07:06 am (UTC)I mean, just look at the difference between NASA's and any of the DoD's agencies that have the program. And now it seems that they've infected NIAC. Last year they changed the call so that whatever you send in has to "fit" NASA's mission and/or one of the Enterprises. And on top of that, they didn't post the call to the website for at least a month (methinks more) past the date on the cover sheet.
Well, they've done it again. Still not up (just checked 2006Dec28 1:25 (or so) AM EST) over at http://www.niac.usra.edu/call/index.html though you can download it from http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/call/ and clicking on 07-01.pdf.
Honistly? Take the proposals and reformat to fit and fire them off to one of the DoD sites or DARPA. Worst case is that they say no. Oh, and DoD SBIR 2007.1 is currently open and closes 2007Jan10.
Michael
aka Eeyore on the Bar