Balls and Walnuts
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I’m getting calls out the ying yang. I think Portland wants to interview me (or at least it looks promising). And perhaps Denver. And Alamosa Colorado! Any of y’all ever been to Alamosa?
Then I got a call from a recruiter responding to my query about a position in “the greater Seattle area.” Turns out this town is two-and-a-quarter hours’ drive from Seattle.
“Oh, the GREATER Seattle area,” I said, and made a crack about honesty in advertising.
But the best call of the day was this weird call from a recruiter representing two businessmen who were interested in opening a snoring clinic in Walnut Creek. I would be treating one thing and one thing only and by one technique only . . . some proprietary thing they wanted to promote (I’m guessing it’s the pillar procedure). They would pay me a sum that would make a lot of folks blanch, but I would be bored as hell, all of my other skills would get rusty, and I’d probably spend 90% of my time scratching myself and playing solitaire on the computer because THERE JUST AREN’T THAT MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE WILLING TO PAY COLD HARD CASH FOR THEIR SNORING PROBLEMS. Businessmen. Jeez.
Southern California went well, by the way (but I’ve thought that before, and been wrong). I’m hopeful.
D.
Hubby and I will be in Portland May 16-19 for my son’s graduation from Reed College. If you and your family are in the area then, let’s meet live.
2 1/2 hours NORTH of Seattle, 2 1/2 hours EAST of Seattle, or 2 1/2 hours SOUTH of Seattle?
Lucie: this is entirely possible. Cool!
Dean, you goofball, if it were 2 1/2 hours north, we’d be celebrating. Nope. 2 1/2 hours EAST.
Just be glad I didn’t ask whether it was 2 1/2 hours WEST of Seattle.
Snoring clinic? ‘Don’t scoff too much at the business model. My husband has been snoring for a while and I eventually convinced him to go to a sleep specialist, since I suspected he had apnea. The specialist sent him for a sleep study (I had thought that our insurance would pay – maybe should have checked before he did the $1,500 night). When the doc reviewed the results, the outcome was <> depression! Dang – we’d hoped it was something straightforward like apnea that could be solved with the mask. Not “go change your life”!
Cool! There are a ton of people in Nut Creek willing to pay for snoring problems. Stay in Nut Creek. (Little Voice in my Head: Do you think Walnut bought what you just wrote? Voice of Reason in my Head: No, he’s smarter than that.)
My husband has sleep apnea and has been using a C-Pap for it seems like centuries. Medicare pays for everything, including periodic overnight studies at Vanderbilt’s sleep clinic. The people who really clean up are not the docs, but the ones who provide the devices which don’t seem to ever last more than a few months and they are very expensive. A lot of the folks using the C-Pap’s just really need to lose weight, and those in that category are usually not really helped by the surgeries. Note to those out there considering C-Paps: they are very un-sexy!!!!!!
Kira: what’s your guy depressed about? Give him a back rub. I still remember your back rubs, and I’m sure you could rub the depression right out of him.
CD: as much as I would like to stay in WC, I’ve had my fill twiddling my thumbs in Santa Rosa. My big revelation from the Santa Rosa experience: I actually LIKE working hard. (Catrina, stop laughing.)
Lucie, you mean you never had a thing for Darth Vader?
Thanks for the kind words! He doesn’t like massage (I am still amazed that there are people out there that don’t – me I could have a massage everyday), so that route’s out. Sigh.
On the other hand, several colleagues at work have enjoyed some hands-on interaction. Oooh, guess that could be misinterpreted… We are talking shoulder rubs here. Really.
What’s the matter with the guy — he some kind of Communist?
*snicker*