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Writing Challenge Day 30: Monitoring Mixology - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bourbon
I hope this post finds you and your family happy, healthy, and warm during the holiday season. For those who imbibe, I wanted to share a couple of recipes with you. One for the warmer months, and one for the colder. Why both? Well, I don’t want to alarm you, but March is only 61 days away, making it a full year since…
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Writing Challenge Day 29: Things I h̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ loved in 2020
Let’s start there. That’s a tough sentence to finish, right? Massive wildfires, a pandemic, shelter-in-place orders, the tragic loss of RBG… To the questionable—yet I assure you it was real—Kanye West running for POTUS, toilet paper shortages, household Wi-Fi bandwidths stretched to their limits, and suddenly understanding…
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Writing Challenge Day 28: When This Is Over
When this is over, will we shake hands again? Will we make plans again? Or will it all be banned again? When this is over, will we commute again? Will offices be absolute again? Or will my car be moot again? When this is over, will we still carry hand sanitizer? Will we be any wiser? Or will we forget it all like a blur? I…
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Electronic Health Records (EHR) Privacy
For some of us, a trip to the doctor includes the doctor inputting our information into our medical record using their computer or tablet. The updated record saves to the medical office’s server. Your information can then go anywhere from a medical billing office, to your insurance company’s claims office, to your…
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DOD’s Cloud Strategy Aids Information Dominance
The DOD cloud strategy recognizes the department’s disjointed and siloed systems have negatively impacted the effectiveness of warfighters, decision makers and staff. According to the strategy, only cloud computing will “enable the department to harness the full power of its data and information systems.” In short, the…
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Writing Challenge Day 24: All Dressed-Up and Nowhere to Go.
My jeans still fit. In any other year this would be less of an accomplishment, but I’ll take it, even with sub-optimal result. My significant others have also been geeks or at least geek-leaning, and after nearly a hundred heavily engineer-populated corporate holiday parties, I’ve had a chance to notice how many…
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Writing Challenge Day 15: Sweatpants Are Now Business Attire
Some of you are still in an office. I’m not ignoring you, but I think this question is already answered for you. So, this is what I look like 99% of the time at work. Like many of you my short-term work from home became permanent. I might block my camera and set this to the background and see who notices I don’t move. Are…
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Writing Challenge Day 23: Taking PTO and Going... Nowhere
Pre-March 2020, I was one of those people who always had their next vacation booked and kept a running wish list of future trips. Staycationing was not a thing we did when I was growing up, nor a habit I developed as an adult. My husband and I love exploring the world, and over the years—between business trips and…
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Writing Challenge Day 21: Not All Introverts WFH
“You must be loving this.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard this statement in the past nine months. Being a self-proclaimed introvert (and proud of it!), the implication is that I love being able to work from home, away from all the people and all the small talk. To be fair, getting away from small talk might…
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Writing Challenge Day 22: Confessions of a Shopaholic
I used to hate to shop. As a little girl, my mom had to force me into the stores. I’d rather sit on the bench in the middle of the mall (remember those?) and watch people. People have always fascinated me. You know the game we play when we imagine the lives of those around us? The couple sitting there eating dinner—it’s…