:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Monday, July 07, 2003 ::

addtional updates
In addition to the bronchitis, my grandmother has congenitive heart failure? I think... I didn't hear Mom very clearly, but she said they caught everything in time before it becoming pneumonia. That's a good thing. The hospital still has to run some tests (which they screwed up somehow... {{shrugs}}) and then she'll be out soon.



We visited her today in the hospital. She looks pretty good. They've got her on some kind of steroid again, which will probably swell her legs up like it did last time, but it helps her breathing. She complains everytime they put her on it, but there's nothing else that works for her to help her breathe. Either way, she's still coughing up a lot, but she looked pretty good. Mom said it was a major improvement from Saturday.

be vewy vewy quiet... i'm huntin' for jobs
Today was a day of job hunt related errands. I e-mailed a few things out this morning while I was printing up my résumés. Then, I hit NBTY, the vet's office, and this place in Riverhead called Kaps-all.

They build automation machines for bottling plants. Anything that gets put in a bottle can be bottled by their machines, apparently. The guy I talked to was very happy to tell me all about the place, the people, and what they do there. He even showed me the manufacturing area where all the machines are put together. There was another person that had come in to fill out an application at the same time as me, but they didn't ask her to wait and see if the guy could talk to her, so I guess that might be a good sign.

Anyway, I ran a few more errands while I was out, too, before getting home and heading over to the hospital.

moneymoneymoney mo--ney.... money!
Apparently, I was qualified for the earned income credit from the government. I filled out my tax form and sent it in manually this year. After I got my refund, they sent me another form about the EIC. So I filled that out and sent it back, too. Whatever I did this past year was good enough for them because they sent me a nice check in the mail that I got today.

Hey, I'm not complaining. Any money from the government is good. Heck, it's technically our money to begin with, anyway. Heh. ^^;; I already know which bill it's going to pay... {{sigh}}

snapple "real fact" #155
In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.