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Skriven 2007-06-08 16:01:44 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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ML> it's an astonishing $540 a week just
ML> for the transport (dialysis itself is covered by Medicare).
ML> Both uncle S. Y. and Ti Li commented on how nice the van
ML> driver is. As he makes as much as I do (more, counting my
ML> expenses) just on one patient, and I bet he has dozens, he
ML> can afford to be nice.

Here is something perhaps no one in the echo ever knew about
me:  I was a taxi / medical transport driver.  For medical
transports, I earned Connecticut minimum wage.  (For taxi
service I earned the same, plus whatever tips came my way.)
Someone might be getting wealthy off that $540 a week, but 
unless things have changed since I did it, it might not be
the driver.

(Several of my clients became friends over the years I drove
them twice or three times a week I drove them in.)

ML> I have been quite depressed about having to lie to the 
ML> old man about his prospects of going back to the house. 
ML> He gets so happy when he thinks about going back.

[sigh]  My aunt was the same way.  My sympathies.

ML> I'll try to exchange a weekend of adjusting this box by
ML> my computer guru (heads up, Clean Dave) for a couple Texas
ML> Roadhouse steaks.

First order of business is to do all the XP updates that are
probably waiting.  We'll take it from there.

How about Saturday night at the Roadhouse, Sunday AM I treat
you to an oyster brunch at Zoe's?

= = 

ML> Pennsylvania Dutch (tm) birch beer - "made from an old
ML> Pennsylvania Dutch recipe" - one that has HFCS. The taste is
ML> not bad, a more wintergreeny root beer taste, but it too is
ML> too sweet. 

I started looking into making my own root beer - a draft style,
with ale yeast for a natural carbonation and head and read a
lot of articles that mention wintergreen as the primary flavor
note in modern root beers since sassafras was outlawed by the
FDA as "too carcinogenic" or something.

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