Summer driving in Austin is a joy compared to the rest of the year. People are taking vacations, which helps. The bigger factor is the college population from tu is gone. (you know, that *other* college in town.)
I really enjoy being able to leave the house and get to work ten minutes early. During other parts of the year, traffic and stop lights can mean I get to work five minutes before or after my usual starting time.
So, any particular times of year ya’ll like driving around town?
Every now and then things come up at work that I’m tempted to talk about. Sometimes silly (people accidently hitting the panic button on the alarm system instead of the disarm button in the morning), sometimes serious (three people have left the job since I started), other times random musings (do we really want to take down all the trees in the back?)
This is all part of one of the Internet Great Debates that is never going to get solved. Some people say talk about everything and anything, speech is free! Others have been put in bad spots because of it. (dooce.com is an example of that; she lost her tech job by talking about it online way back)
I tend twards the ” don’t put it online ” camp. How about y’all?
Well … finally found a new chiropractor.
It was a mixed experience. He did x-rays, always fun to look at those, but he also does the ‘relaxing’ electrical stimulation that feels like I’m being gnawed at by thousands of tiny ants.
I’m leaving for a whirlwind of work travel in just a few days, and so the chiropractor tells me he wants to see me every day this week. Is that just because I’m leaving town or something else?
Most of our first visit was spent on the pitch, that chiropractic is a safe and effective medical treatment. The pitch about spinal adjustments. The pitch about spinal alignment and pinched nerves. The pitch about nerves supporting muscle and organ function. The pitch about … about everything. I watched a 10 minute video pitch. He sent me home with another CD containing another pitch.
But on the other hand … my previous chiropractor could not adjust one side of my neck. At all. It just kept getting stiffer and stiffer, and .. and nothing. I liked him, he did great back work, but my neck was too stubborn for him. This guy? WHAM. I think the man adjusted my skull. It’s an hour later, and I still feel kind of sick. Which is a good thing. (which I know from experience, not because of the pitch)
So … do I assume that the annoying intro is past? Am I through all the pitches? Do I simply agree that, yes, after 6 months of no treatment and facing a month of travel, I need to have daily visits for the next 3 days? Does the fact that he gave a really great first adjustment trump the fact that he hooks me up to relax-you’re-being-eaten-by-ants electrodes?
The original post is so long ago I thought a reply to it would go unnoticed. But this is really a reply to that post, and not a post in its own right.
I logged into ebay, and there was new information there about their feedback policies. I don’t know how ‘new’ it is, but it is new to me (I don’t e-bay often, though I’m bidding on something now 🙂 ).
Don’t know if it’s real or not. But it seems that we’re not alone in thinking their feedback and contact us services have been inadequate .. and they might be trying to fix it.