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After months of not really updating regularly, I appear to be updating regularly. Chaotic updates, but updates none-the-less…

Today I took the car in for its 45K oil change. Got a loaner that was nice — in 20 years or so when we’ve run the current two into the ground, if they’ve got that car in a hybrid or whatever the alternative will be 20 years into the future, I would probably go for it. That’s a long ways away though. I’m afraid it’s a solid & staid car so there’s no point in name dropping because it’s not a particularly sexy car. But it was a nice drive.

Health insurance is trying to weasel out of paying 100% for M1’s well child in Sept. It says “Naturopath covered 100% in network with $25 co-pay.” They’re trying to tell my provider, and me, that oh, well child has to be done by a pediatrician or a family practice. No. As it so happens, my ND also happens to be a fabulous RN who specializes in women’s health & pediatrics running a family practice. I found her as covered in their network. I’ve passed the issue on to my HR folks who said, “WTF?” and passed it on to the benefit reps to figure out. Last week we found out that our company would be switching plans at the next opportunity because so many people have complained about the insurance we’re currently with. And you know? Amen to that.

The thing I love most about exercise is being done with it for the day.

Coming up fast on one year at my current job. What started out to be a cohesive team approach to things seems to have splintered into us all kinda doing our things. We’re still a team, but I don’t so much know what B2, B3, K, L, & N2 are up to. I miss having all of us kinda close together. I’m very curious to see what kinds of things are coming up for me in the next year. I know one thing will be pretty wide open, if I want to step into it. There’s some stuff in that area I would like to do, involving content analysis -> determining appropriate tags -> making sure the tags are in the taxonomy -> making correct queries to retrieve docs with appropriate tags -> making sure it appears correctly on the site -> documenting required tags & shoving the project off (meanwhile working with ia/ux folks, PMs, developers & others). I did some other stuff, & content gap analysis which was fun too. And finding content for others to use. And of course, more taxmology. Cuz I like teh taxmology. And as BoxcarDewey notes, the intarweb cats have really streamlined & improved our processes. I’m in ur consultancy deliverin’ ur snark success. Anyway. The time has come to do the one year content & gap analysis in my performance. That should be interesting.