I received a bill from a medical facility. Along with the bill was this letter, which was trying to explain why the bill was sent about 3 months after the procedure:
Text of the letter:
Dear Laboratory Patient:
We apologize for the delay in the release of your bill. X installed new computer software. Due to circumstances beyond our control, there were delays in interfacing the new system with some insurers. This work is now complete and patient bills are being processed. Once again, we are sorry for the delay.
Should you have any questions please contact us at XXX-XXX-XXXX or email: x@x.com
Thank you for using X.
I thought about waiting 3 more months, then sending this response along with my payment.
Dear Laboratory:
I apologize for the delay in the release of your payment. I installed new computer software, as opposed to non-computer software. Due to circumstances beyond my control, there were delays in interfacing the new software with my bank account. This work is now complete and invoices are being processed. Once again, I am sorry for the delay.
Should you have any questions, too bad.
Thank you,
Patient
But I didn’t.
For if we had not delayed, surely by now we could have returned twice.
Genesis 43:10
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Thanks to the magazine Machine Design, I have a design to prevent you from ever sleeping past your alarm again:
Whoever tries it first, please let me know how it goes. Remember to arm the snooze button before going to sleep.
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Proverbs 6:4
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I was going to write an answer to the people who ask “Wouldn’t it be nice if the Christmas season lasted all year?” but it turns out I already did.
Rather than write it again, I am going to link to my previous post about the Christmas season and advise you to read that.
My wife noted that stores are opening for Black Friday on Thursday night. Not only does that not make it a Friday event, it also encroaches on the sanctity of Thanksgiving. Dear stores: please stay closed on Thanksgiving.
One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
Romans 14:5
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Every four years, a certain word is used much more frequently than usual. Here is a chart of that:
I expect a smaller spike, a localized maximum, around January 20, 2013.
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 26:4
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Deodorants are well named. Their names evoke connotations that relate well to their purpose and sway you to buy them (or at least think favorably of them). I thought I would invert their names and see what happened.
We’ll start with an easy one:
Speed Stick
versus
(more…)
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About a year ago, I wrote this post comparing Ohio State’s football coach to Adam Sandler.
I still think it was a good likeness:
After watching some more football last weekend, I thought I would try a couple more separated-at-birth photos.
Exhibit A:
In case you’re wondering, that is Bret Bielema (head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers) and Al Bundy (of Married…With Children fame).
Exhibit B:
And that is Mike Smith (head coach of the Atlanta Falcons) and Steve Martin (of Father of the Bride movie fame)
Any other coaches who resemble actors?
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
Ezekiel 10:22
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And now it is Delta’s turn.
It is appointed to our children once to contract roseola, and after that the judgment umm… not to get it anymore.
As you may recall from having read my roseola post from a couple years ago,
Alpha got roseola at 15 months of age,
Beta got roseola at 17 months of age,
Gamma got roseola at 11 months of age,
and now Delta got roseola at 16 months of age.
Like Gamma, his fever was slight. And he had a loss of appetite. But he doesn’t eat very well anyway, so there wasn’t much to be lost there.
It’s hard to pinpoint when or how or where he picked up the virus, since the incubation period is over a week. The only major thing we did was the Lego Fest, about 10 days before the fever started.
So now we’re 4 for 4 with kids catching roseola before they turn 18 months old.
The priest shall look at him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and the mark has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Leviticus 13:6
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This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
