The Week that never ends!

Monday: November 1st

Day started pretty much ok not much done at work, caught up on paper work from my Friday off. Had a nice weekend with Sabrina and Eric when they visited this past weekend for Ahmie and My 5 year wedding anniversary.

Tuesday: November 2nd

Woke up at 8am and got dressed and ready to go vote. Got a phone call saying that the Medicaid Surveyor was at the house to do the annual inspection and asked me to come ASAP. So Ahmie and I went to our polling place and voted, unlike many other polling places around Cleveland our polling location had a short wait, 10 minutes or so when we were there voting. Got back home from voting and went to work.

Anxiously driving to work because the Surveyor comes once a year to inspect the operation of the house that I manage. If we don't do things "right" according to the standards set in the Medicaid standards I run the risk of being cited for deficiencies. Which requires action on my part to correct the deficiencies and so on. Plus my boss does not like the managers to have too many deficiencies from surveyors. The Medicaid surveyors have the right to pull funding from a place that they visit if there are too many problems seen. But this is only reserved for major problems, or not correcting problems identified.

I was anxious because we have not started preparing for the survey, I was hoping that we would start this week to prepare for this. I was about half way to work when I noticed that my car was running very hot as in line beyond the red in the temperature gauge. So I stopped the car at the first parking lot I could and looked under the hood. Some steam came out and I did not see anything out of place. So I let the car cool for 10-15 minutes and started the car again. This time the car heated up very quickly again. I was thinking "great', exactly what I need on the day of my first Medicaid survey. So I stopped at the first strip mall I found and called Ahmie about the problem. Then I called my boss Jessie and he said that he would pick me up. When I got there at about 11am, everything was pretty settled, the surveyor was going through the books. Ahmie and her mom were helping me with the car. Cindy was driving the car to Polaris Career Center to get it looked at.

Through the afternoon it went pretty well, another surveyor came and did an inspection of the facility. I got cited on a facility issue which is beyond my control, so I am not so worried. The other surveyor stayed and observed dinner and had some suggestions for the staff. Ahmie picked me up at 7.

But before that I was "initated" by Floyd who was an employee of mine. The staff have been talking about giving me an "imitation" for a week or two, so I knew it was coming. I got shaving creamed. Yes it was a little embarrassing, but I think the staff will have something interesting to talk about. I think little things like that strengthen work morale. (picture to post soon).

Coming home I took our old car (92 Saturn) home. We had given the car to our friend Libby and her daughter Katie. However neither Libby nor Katie took care of the car and in the end they did not want it. So Cindy and I took the car back Monday night.
When we got home we were glued to the election coverage. I stayed up past midnight knowing that we had little chance of having a Shrub free presidency for the next four years.

Wednesday: November 3rd
Woke up at 4 am to go to work. Rolled into work at 5 to be there for the Surveyor for her observations. For the most part the rest of the day was uneventful from the Survey. We had the exit interview at about 3 pm and I did not get any citations! Yes! After the exit interview I went home.

Ahmie had the bush blues after hearing Kerry's concession speech and was enraged that her mom voted for the Shrub. She was enraged because the whole reason that swayed Cindy's vote was a political cartoon of Kerry.

Ok enough for this post!