#queue management system price

[perfectlywingedpost]

Patient queue management system

Hospitals that use a patient queue management system ( Kiosk) improve patient flow, cut down on wait times, and improve patient satisfaction overall. Patient lines for lab testing, billing, and consultations are effectively arranged by QMS through the use of digital displays, ticket dispensers, and real-time monitoring. It guarantees fair and orderly queuing and gives patients precise instructions on their wait time and turn. Healthcare employees are able to better manage their schedules thanks to this approach, which also increases operational efficiency and lessens waiting room congestion. In the end, a QMS improves patient satisfaction and makes the hospital setting more orderly and stress-free.

[digital-forge-blog]

A queue management system can help improve patient flow in healthcare. This means patients will receive care faster and more efficiently. This blog post will explain how a queue management system for healthcare works and its benefits, such as shorter wait times. This post is useful for healthcare professionals who want to improve patient flow and the patient experience.

[fuck-customers]

Halle-fucking-lujah!!!

I'm not sure if it's my autism talking or if it's a weird me thing, but I hate when things are not the way they're supposed to be. In this specific context, I hate when products in a store are not clearly marked with prices.

I'm a cashier and at my work, none of the candy or snacks in the queue line had price tags on them. I had made handmade price tags for them several times, since I don't have access to the label making system, and my nutjob manager keeps removing them.

Until I repurposed a couple of old tags for different items of the same price. (In this instance, we had some small toys at the register that were $3.49 without tags and even though I didn't have the correct tag, I did have a tag that was for $3.49 of another item that we no longer carry. I figured since the $3.49 is in big bold text and the description is in small text, no one would notice unless they purposely inspect it. And I was right) I tested them out to see if my nutjob manager would also remove these and she didn't.

Then today I found the holy grail- pages and pages of unused price stickers. Some of which were actually for candy that we actually had. For the rest, I just used whichever ones were the correct price and blacked out the description in case any customers looked and tried to argue the price because it's not technically the right tag)

This is something that has genuinely been bothering me for months and in one shift, I fixed it.

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[mistydeyes]

first line treatments: how the pharmacist met the 141

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summary: After your time as the pharmacist in the army, you think back to your days when you first started at the pharmacy. You were in your late 20's, less experienced and also less stressed, and more importantly had not familiarized with your patient. However, you fondly remember how you got to know each member of the 141.

pairing: Task Force 141 x pharmacist!Reader

some other parts of the pharmacist!series:

counseling the 141 - first part to the pharmacist! story

weird dreams when they are injured on the field

being sick and having the 141 come to the rescue

warnings: medical/pharmacy terminology, medical inaccuracies, swearing, depiction of wounds and violence

a/n: this took me a while to think of because I knew I wanted to continue my pharmacist!series but I wasn't sure where to go with it! hope you enjoy!

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"Alright Captain, here's the keys," the head of the medical department said as she dropped them in your hand, "the pharmacy opens in an hour." You held the heavy chain in your palm, noting the various tags on the individual keys. "Wait, what do you mean in an hour?" you questioned as you stood outside the locked gates. She let out a laugh before responding. "An hour, Captain," she corrected and your eyes widened, "you're the new pharmacist in charge and the Army wouldn't have picked you if they didn't think you would be able to do this." With that, she walked off, leaving you to fumble around and try to orient yourself in the new area.

Despite the awful time you had waking up at 05:00, any sense of sleeplessness was gone and you were fully running on adrenaline. You felt like someone injected you with epinephrine based on how you ran around the pharmacy, trying to fill scripts and get your logins in. At 06:30, you heard a knock on the door to the pharmacy. You practically jumped, almost dropping the bottle of Metformin in your hand. "Hello?" you questioned as you saw a uniformed officer standing with a water bottle. "You must be the new pharmacist," she smiled and you opened the door to fully, "I'm your technician." You could feel your stress subside as she gave you a quick tour of the pharmacy. By the time she was finished, she informed you she would take care of the incoming scripts while you managed the queue and the verification process.

To your delight, the automatic pharmacy doors opened and you saw there was not a large queue of soldiers waiting for their scripts. You took a moment to catch your breath and review some of the new scripts as well as the occasional filled prescription that required your verification. You were focused, drowning out the sounds of the pills hitting the tray and the occasional conversations in the hallway. "Um Captain," your technician called, "I think someone is waiting." You felt your face flush as you quickly walked over to see a captain politely waiting. "I'm so sorry," you apologized as you looked up at him, "first day on the job." "It's alright," he reassured and you smiled, relieved he wasn't an irate customer.

"Did you check in with the app?" you asked and he shook his head. "I like to come early to avoid all that nonsense, I believe medical sent something down for me," he spoke gently, "the name's John Price." You turned to the computer and took a few moments to orient yourself with the system. Eventually, you were able to find his file amongst the surprising amounts of John Price's in the system. "Yes, looks there's two here for you," you said and turned to search around the bins. You thought searching the system took you long but navigating the bins took even longer. You eventually found the clear bag of his items and returned. "Here you go," you responded, "any questions?" He shook his head and you handed over the bag. Before he left, he turned back to you. "It's already half past 7, you're making it through your first day," he commented. You weren't sure if it was a compliment or a complaint based on your slow time, however, you were comforted knowing the day was going quickly.

soap

After a few more patients, you finally had time to review your emails for the day. You sighed as you clicked through the reminders for meetings and on-boarding. You finally reached something of note. You sat back in the chair as you read through the email and attached file carefully. In summary, it notified you of a certain non-compliant patient who would be visiting your pharmacy soon. You laughed at the bold red letters that read “PLEASE ADVISE SERGEANT MACTAVISH TO TAKE THE FULL COURSE OF ANTIBIOTICS.” This was the first email of its kind you’ve received and you laughed at the childlike recommendation.

The incoming scripts had dissipated and your technician decided to take over the counter for you. Eventually, you heard your name being called and you walked over. "Captain, there's a mandatory counseling notification for you," she remarked and you nodded. You looked up to the patient who seemed to know what this was about. "If you don't mind Sergeant, you can come to the vaccination area and we can discuss," you explained with a smile. He nodded at your command and you walked to the private corner. You settled into the plastic chair and he sat across from you. “You're not in any trouble," you joked, "I’ve actually heard a lot about you, Sergeant.” He let out a laugh as you grabbed his medication. “You can drop the formalities,” he said before you began your counseling, “it’s just Johnny.”

"Well Johnny," you returned the conversation to you, "medical wanted me to talk to you about how to take these." Another laugh and this time you looked at him a bit confused. "Doctors are always tellin me that," he said as his voice boomed in the small area. "They are right after all, you should be taking the full course of these," you advised, "they even come counted out for you." You turned the bottle of Amoxicillin/Clavulanic acid in your hand, looking at the nine white tablets. "I'm serious, Johnny, you know the types of recurring infections you get if you don't take these," you said, sternly, as if you were a mother chiding their child. "I know, I know, Captain," he said defensively, hands in the air. "Good," you said handing the pills over, "then I shouldn't be seeing a script for you anytime soon." With that, he nodded and you dismissed him before returning back to your computer. Little did you know, you would be cursing at the pharmacy system as a script for Mactavish, John came in for MRSA infection.

gaz

After a week, you were finally comfortable in your role as the pharmacy officer. You were able to fill and verify scripts quickly and keep the queue from turning into an angry mob. The constant self-dosing of paracetamol was a thing of the past for you. However, as your technicians were frantically running around when you returned from lunch, your mood changed. After one of them sheepishly explained the situation, you felt like screaming. "What do you mean the medical file system is down?!" you exclaimed as your heart dropped. Apparently, it would be fixed once it was determined to be an error and not a malicious hack. You were also advised to stay off the phone lines and other systems as a precaution. This didn't help you as a platoon of soldiers was coming in for their prescriptions and were leaving on a 6-month deployment.

It would be no issue but you found that you were unable to verify an NSAID allergy for a patient. "Guess I'm doing this the old-fashioned way," you mumbled before walking out the pharmacy doors. As you exited the pharmacy, you soon realized your haste. Despite receiving a full tour on the first day, you had no idea where to go. You spent 15 minutes exploring the halls but to no avail. Finally, you threw in the towel and decided to ask someone. You looked around and saw a sergeant walking down the hall, casually. "Excuse me, Sergeant!" you called out and he walked closer. You read his name tag before continuing. "Sergeant Garrick," you asked as you looked up at him, "would you mind directing me to the medical wing?" "The directions are a bit confusing, so I can walk with you," he offered and you nodded happily.

As you walked, you made pleasant conversation. He asked you many questions about your short time on base and took an interest in your hospital pharmacy job before this. "The career change came when I was tired of mixing IV bags" you explained, remembering how after that shift you went to a recruitment center. In contrast, he described how he enlisted after secondary school and eventually worked his way up the ranks. "Do you ever regret it?" you asked, hoping not to offend the soldier. He let out a small chuckle which rebounded in the linoleum hallway. "Lots of people ask that but there's never a day that I do," he responded, smiling back at you. After the afternoon you had, Sergeant Garrick was a fresh of breath air. His optimism and smile made you think he was his squad's dose of Vitamin C.

Eventually, you saw the sign for the medical wing. Part of you had forgotten this is how your stroll had begun. "And here she is," he presented, sarcastically having his hands. "I can't thank you enough, this would've taken me ages to find," you said with gratitude. He nodded before turning around and walking back to his initial destination. "Thanks for the walk, Captain," he called and you smiled to yourself before navigating through the various doctor's offices.

ghost

As you looked up at the clock, you watched it painstakingly go second by second. Fridays and weekends were especially slow as most soldiers were on leave or off-base. You even relieved your technician as the hours slowly passed with no scripts being entered. Eventually, you heard the doors open and you walked to the counter.“Can I return this?” the man spoke, pushing over a small bottle of pills. You looked up at him, reading his name tag. “Well, Lieutenant Riley. If it’s an antibiotic you can toss it once the course is completed, you don’t have to come back here,” you clarified, expecting him to take the bottle back. But he simply shook his head. You placated the lieutenant and picked up the bottle. It looked like one from a civilian chemists and you turned the label to find it was a prescription for fluoxetine.

"Oh I see now," you realized, "I can dispose of this for you." As you threw the bottle into the bin to process later, you realized he was still standing at the counter. "Did you need something else, Lieutenant?" you asked as he stood in place. "Is there any way to get it off my file? The chemists gave this to me for the third time and I don't take it anymore," he requested and you were more than happy to oblige. "Yes, I'm sorry that it still gets sent out when you're on leave," you apologized, turning your gaze to the computer. You typed in a few things and after requesting his full name and date of birth, you were able to pull up his medical file.

Despite looking like a well-oiled machine, his file was as long as the base itself. You scrolled past various psych evals, mandatory therapy notes, and hospital records until you reached his prescription list. You tried to hide your dismay when you saw he was initially prescribed this in 2001, over 20 years ago. You wondered if this was the first time he had ever thought to get it discontinued officially in the records. "Everything alright?" he asked, noting how you stared at the screen and you nodded. "I can remove it for you now and add a note to prevent any further refills," you said and with a few codes and your confirmation, it was successfully removed. You returned back to the counter, letting the lieutenant know it was completed. "Thank you, Captain," he said quietly and turned to probably head back to his quarters. You made sure to close his file before you returned the item, trying to avoid the copious amounts of alerts regarding his plethora of scripts and refills. "Guess I'll be seeing you soon, Lieutenant," you said under your breath, not realizing how often you would be seeing certain patients.

[roebeanstalk]

general commission info/process update

Howdy y’all!

tl;dr:

-Commission prices are increasing to account for cost of living, increased quality, and more. -Those with colored sketches currently outstanding are being upgraded to my new "Standard Commission" as a thank you for your patience. -A new Patreon tier has a 5% commission discount as a perk. -I've adopted a new workload management system where I focus on 5 pieces at a time, and reload the workbench on Mondays. My Trello has been updated with general info on this.

The whole update:

I am raising my commission prices. This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make, but it is ultimately for the best for myself, my clients, and more.

Since I’ve started doing commissions regularly, the amount of time I want to spend on any particular piece has grown, but I haven’t had the time due to a large workload. With this price increase, I’m able to spend more time on each commission and create work at a quality that I am happy with. I’ve found myself working back and forth with clients more, creating more technically sound drawings, and being happier overall with my work. That being said, the prices I have been charging are not enough and often work out to less than minimum wage.

I have added a new tier on Patreon that gives a 5% discount on all commissions from me, in addition to all the perks on my $5 tier.

Pay What You Want commissions are something I have loved doing, and I want to be able to continue to do them moving forward. I love being able to offer a more affordable, sliding scale commission. This allows access to folks who might not otherwise be able to commission artwork from me. The price increase on my commissions will also make this more sustainable.

In addition to the price change, I have recently adjusted the way that I handle my queue. I have a “Workbench” which contains five things that I am working on currently. This allows me to focus on a smaller amount of projects despite how many pieces are in my queue. I can specialize and give each piece the attention it needs. Each Monday, I refill the workbench to 5 pieces by pulling them from the queue.

I’ve been doing this system for the last few weeks, and it has been a revelation. I am much calmer while working, and I am able to work back and forth with clients in a more personal way that feels really fulfilling. I’m also less likely to be super worried about everything I have on my plate, by focusing on a smaller portion. My work quality has increased from this alone.

My new Standard Commission is an upgraded version of the colored sketch commissions I was offering before. Those who are on my queue for colored sketches have been waiting for a bit, and I am so grateful for their patience. It will still be a little bit, but I am excited to deliver them good quality commissions. As a thank you for their patience and to slightly make up for the time, I’m upgrading all colored sketches on my queue to the new Standard Commission. This means a bit more back and forth, making it a piece we’ll both be happier with.

With all of these changes, I am hopeful that so many other things about my work, my life, and more will improve. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me through commissions, donations, kind words, follows, reblogs, everything. It means the absolute world to me, and I am so excited to keep pushing forward.

<3 Robin

[sssuuri]

So, here is the promised pr insight. But instead of giving my opinion on recent events, I would like to talk about PR stunts in general so that you can draw your own conclusions. Let's start with the fact that working with a big studio limits your freedom, because you become their face. This is especially true for gay actors, because if studio bosses want you to stay closeted and have a beard, you can't avoid it. Well, maybe you can say: "I don't want it and I don't like it." But in this case, you will be marked as a problematic actor. Hollywood is a big village, and soon everyone will know about it. In addition, it is a very competitive field, where the doors are always open and there is a queue of other actors who want to take your place. So, if you can't avoid PR stunts, can you at least choose a suitable beard for yourself? It's not as easy as it seems, and in most cases you have to agree with what has been agreed and approved for you. If PR stunts are part of the Hollywood system, do gay actors perceive it as just a job? Yes, but they hate it. Literally hate it. Some tolerate it easier, others have mental breakdowns and depression. But everyone hates it. When you see PR couples smiling and flirting on the red carpet, it's always a forced game. The lucky ones are those who manage to maintain friendly interaction with their beards. Some people say that performing PR stunts is the price you pay for being in big movies. Yes, but straight actors don't pay that price. I've said this before, but I'll repeat: Hollywood is not a dream factory, it's a money factory.

Thanks to all anons for their asks 🙌🙌

[theuniversitychallengereview]

Half The World Away

I've been walking for a week.

I got the bus to Glasgow and walked back home along the West Highland Way (about 96 miles). I tried this last year, but about five days in I felt my foot Slide Away and my knee gave up the ghost so we had to abandon.

This meant there was some unfinished business and we put together The Masterplan to come back and best our (mostly my) demons.

All of which is to say that I have been largely off the internet for the past seven days, and it seems like a lot has happened in my absence.

And Oasis reformed, after a decade and a half of the Gallagher brothers insisting that they hated each other and would never reform. Some Might Say that it's a cynical money-grab, fuelled by a £20m divorce settlement (looks like someone is no longer Married With Children), and they'd probably be right.

They're going to make a boatload of cash from these shows.

Especially given the fact that some of the tickets, thanks to Ticketmaster's ingenious dynamic pricing system, sold for nearly £500 to people who had been in an online queue for hours, expecting to pay just north of £100. It's greedy and callous, but Don't Look Back In Anger, because they're Rock'n'Roll Stars, so surely it'll be worth it.

But will it?

Would it even have been worth it at £115?

Could anything ever live up to the hype of this musical Lazarus?

Or will it be a half-assed schlep around stadiums full of bandwaggoners and the old faithful, coming together in a futile attempt recreate a moment already lost to time?

A doomed attempt to bottle nostalgia and inhale it with cocaine and Instagram stories. D'you Know What I Mean? (sidenote, I just listened to this track, and realised it used to scare the shit out of me as a kid - the helicopters at the start are freaky, man. So that was a fun little blast down memory lane)

Another thing I missed this week was episode 3 of University Challenge, so Don't Go Away, we'll get to that now.

Listen Up, here's your first starter for ten.

This match saw Gonville and Caius, Cambridge facing Bristol - if you want to watch the episode before reading the review you can do so here.

G&C, Rajan tells us, have reached the quarter-finals on 8 of their 11 appearances, which is an incredible ratio. They won in 2015, thanks to the monumental Grand Final performance of Ted Loveday (Mr Hapax Legomenon, in case the name doesn't ring any bells).

Bristol were runners-up in 2023, their best ever result, with their previous peak seven quarter-finals in the Paxman era.

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Both sides have bears for mascots, but only the Bristol bear is wearing a top hat. It remains to be seen whether this matters.

Warner kicks things off for Bristol with Lise Meitner, and they follow this with a full set of bonuses on New York cities. Noble hit back for G&C who managed two bonuses of their own, before a second starter for Warner won a set on words starting with s-o-r-r.

Qureshi takes his first starter with theramin, an instrument that hasn't featured on an Oasis tracks, as far as I'm aware.

No one gets the music starter, which is bloody typical when I've spent the whole time mucking around talking about music, but Watts wins Bristol the bonuses with aufbau on the replacement starter - She's Electric.

I can't quite believe how well that She's Electric line just worked. I hope that people haven't stopped reading because of all the Oasis puns because this one makes it all worth it. And it fell onto my lap, completely unexpectedly. The Shock of the Lightning, as it were (which is apparently another of their singles. This keeps getting better and better).

Bristol are well into the 200s now, but G&C Soldier On, although all Noble can manage is to lose five points with an incorrect interruption. G&C scored 305 in the opening match of their 2015 title run, and it looks as though they are going to be on the receiving end of a triple century here, but Bentham finally stops the rot and brings up a consolatory 50 for the Cambridge side, who are Going Nowhere.

Watts (She's Electric. Yeah, I'm using it again, Whatever) brings Bristol closer to 300, and Warner takes them over it - what a performance from this quartet (as one Oasis fan may say to another at Wembley next year).

The gong sounds (I'm Outta Time). Gonville and Caius are put out of their misery, and Bristol celebrate with a Champagne Supernova (probably, I'm not really sure what that is).G&C 80 - 325 Bristol

So I just looked Champagne Supernova up, and its actually very helpful for explaining the indifference of these working class lads towards the ordinary people they're fleecing.

It's about when you're young and you see people in groups and you think about what they did for you and they did nothing. As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process. Bands like the Clash just petered out. Punk rock was supposed to be the revolution but what did it do? Fuck all. The Manchester thing was going to be the greatest movement on earth but it was fuck all. When we started, we decided we weren't going to do anything for anybody, we just thought we'd leave a bunch of great songs.

We weren't going to do anything for anybody, we just thought we'd leave a bunch of great songs.

It's been there from the start - so in a way they've not betrayed any of their principles, because they decided not to have any.

So congrats to Bristol on a monstrous victory, and commiserations to G&C for having fallen victim to such a monstrous victory.

As for me, I've finished my big hike back from Glasgow, but I'm still going, slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.

PS - I did try to fit Wonderwall in, but its an entirely made up word so I struggled, and I'm chuffed enough with the She's Electric bit that I feel alright about it. Shakermaker proved too difficult, too. If I'd managed Bonehead's Bank Holiday I'd have deserved the Pulitzer.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Grid backlog drives innovative approaches in Brazil

Grid connection queues in Brazil are offering new opportunities for energy storage and hybrid systems and opening new energy business models. Renewables companies including Auren, Statkraft, and Casa dos Ventos are adding solar and batteries to their utility-scale wind power sites to use existing power transmission capacity.

Batteries are also making inroads into small-scale, distributed generation in response to connection shortages to the utility-run, low-voltage distribution network and to power failures in states including São Paulo. In addition, businesses such as France’s GreenYellow are adopting a “zero-grid” approach focusing on generation at the point of consumption without injection into the grid. GreenYellow has previously added more than 200 MW of remote-generation solar capacity to the grid.

Casa dos Ventos has told pv magazine Brasil it will begin construction in 2024 on 300 MW of solar in Bahia, with 200 MW to be added to its under-construction 553 MW Babilônia Centro wind site and 100 MW at its operational, 360 MW Babilônia Sul wind farm. In May 2024, solar development engineering manager Guilherme Castro said the solar plants will share transmission system connection with the turbines, with access granted in April 2024.

Those plants will provide energy under the “autoprodução,” or self-production model, in which the end user becomes a partner in the project and receives discounts on some taxes and on transmission system charges. While self-production electricity is more costly than current low wholesale prices, it is less volatile and the arrangement makes new renewables sites more viable in the low-electricity price environment.

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[bronzewool]

I've been in California for just over a month now, so here's list of all the things I love about America:

The people are very polite and eager to help

Designing a town in a grid system and dividing each avenue into numbers and letters makes sense for figuring out where everything is. As does the freeway having the exits divided into avenues and each one is a mile apart so you know when your exit is (its logical)

Plus sized manquins in clothing stores (body diversity win)

Aircon in the house (I will never go back to using an electric fan again)

Watching the sunrise over the desert

Travel sized books (genius!)

International food is so much easier to find (I finally understand why so many cooking channels are like "just go to your local asain market")

Fandom merch is also so much easier to find. There were so many shops in this one mall that were all deidcated to anime. Even stuff I didn't think would get much attention has at least a T-shirt. Hocus Pocus stuff was everywhere! Who even remembers that movie???

The food - Real mexican food, deli meat sandwiches, olive garden breadsticks, pumpkin spiced everything, so many different types of cereal

Thin duvets that I can snuggle up in on the sofa :3

And for balance here is a list of things I miss about the UK

Pepsi Max Cherry (California only has regular and diet)

Good chocolate (the Halloween candy I gave out was bad and those kids deserved better)

The standard of driving

Pavements (streets in America just randomly stop existing and it's not wheelchair friendly. Where am I suppose to walk???)

Public transport/the ability to just walk to where I need to be

The price on the tag is the price you pay (Hidden fees can die in a fire)

The ability to communicate with just a look (British people don't like talking ok.)

Green grass and rain and hills and winding roads.

The DVLA (The DMV can suck my dick. They wanted me to come back, to show them some paperwork that was missing from my first visit. Not post it, or email them a copy. They wanted me to go through the whole queue process AGAIN just so I can hold up a smog certificate to this miserable employee. Why do you hate modern technology? Just put everything online???)

Car dealerships (I'm not lying when I say California traumatized me. They stand outside the building like vultures, they won't let you wander around the lot at your own leisure, they ask too many questions, even when you tell them what you want they still want to show you other cars, they won't shut up about how much they care about you and getting you the right vehicle (stop lying to my face you creep), the guy showing you the car can't sell the car so you meet his manager who also wants to have a chat with you, and they're just creepy. They're not even trying to be professional. They're just creepy with their creepy ass smiles as they walk you to your car)

[thessalian]

Thess vs Computers in General

Computers. I love them, but sometimes I also hate them. Well, let's be fair, it's not the computers that I hate; they only allow me to access things, really, so it's the things that they access that I love or hate, and I can love them unconditionally because they allow me to access the good stuff and the bad stuff isn't their fault.

(Yes, I anthropomorphise my computers. We all do, I think. It's why we give them names. My current one is Gilmore, because my current one is powerful and glorious - and also has a colour-shifting LED in there so it's basically a Pride flag with a CPU.)

Anyway. Annoyances with the work systems continue, because ... well, they listened to about the whole thing where the software wasn't marking finished dictations as finished - sort of. What they did was try to make it so that it would attach our names to bits of dictation so they'd be able to look at a bit of dictation and know a typist had been at it even if it still got listed as Transcription Pending. Except ... well, despite the fact that we all log on to our own separate instances of this software and so it should be able to be an automatic thing to have our name stapled to them ... well, it should be automatic to have it listed as Finished when we click "Finished" and it's not doing that either. So what we have now is, every time we click a bit of dictation to type, a little window pops up and obliges us to put our initials into it before we can proceed to the typing. And because of the limitations of our frankly bullshit IT infrastructure, there's just enough pause between the clicking on the bit of dictation and the window popping open that, if you're on "speed-typing autopilot" (which I am basically all the time), you can kind of forget and leave the remote desktop window for the main desktop window where you're supposed to type the report. And then you press Play on the footpedal and nothing happens and then you remember and it's like, "Oh, fuck". IT Guy says he's going to try to automate the initials thing, but I'm not holding my breath. We're apparently not even going to be using this iteration of the software for that long anyway, so why they're making these changes is beyond me.

Also I still can't drag and drop a chunk of typing into my personal queue. This makes it harder to manage my workload effectively, and also not only makes it easier for Temp to pick out all the nice little short easy typing she craves, but also makes it easier to hide that she's doing it, because I have no way of checking up on her. I know she's doing it; I just couldn't prove it if I was asked to. So ... yeah, this is great for her and sucks for me. Story of my life where work is concerned, to be fair.

There was a break at 3pm-ish. Well. I say 'break', but that was the most tense part of my day, I think. Because that was when the autograph slots for the Critical Role cast's upcoming visit to London's MCM Comic Con went on sale. Now, after one year of missing it because I didn't know I had to book in advance (though I met a lovely woman who is now one of my D&D players, so it worked out okay), and another year of missing it because global pandemic, I was going to up and fucking die if I had to miss it again. And that was even with seeing the prices on the tickets.

Side note: I can talk about this now - there was an issue when I saw how expensive the tickets were going to be. Like, we're talking £63 per autograph. That's nearly doubled from the last time, if memory serves me. Now, my mother had agreed to having the autographs and the ticket to the expo itself be my combination Christmas / birthday gift for the 2023/2024 holiday season (my birthday's in February so that's kind of how I look at it) but £63 x 8 is £504 and the ticket itself brings the entire thing up to an even £600 and that was just ... way, way too much to ask. Yes, even for both gift-giving events. So I emailed my mother going, "This is what it is going to cost and I will totally understand if it is too much; can we please discuss something reasonable?" And she emailed me back with a "Yikes" and an offer of paying for just over half of them. Thankfully I had some money squirreled away for a new graphics card. I hadn't been saving for very long, so there was only just about enough to cover it if I pitched in some of this month's fun money, but y'know what? A new graphics card can wait. I have been waiting years for this, and I may never get this chance again.

Anyway, so I made sure everything was set up - debit card out and at the ready, MCM page open to let me refresh for the "Book Tickets Here" button as quickly as possible, etc etc, and a couple of minutes before 3pm, I moved from my little WFH office set-up to my home set-up (I have a long desk; the side near the window is my rig and dual monitors; the other side is my dinky work laptop propped on a bunch of RPG sourcebooks) and started navigating. Now, the first thing that happened was unbelievably slow loading as everyone swamped the page at once.

The next thing that happened was the whole server crashed on their end. Some of you might have heard the frustrated Quebecois swearing.

Thankfully that did not last long and things were running a lot smoother after that. And, after a bit of poking around my bank app validating the purchase (to be fair, that's a big spend for me) ... confirmation page and confirmation email went *ping* at me.

...So ... this is actually happening.

After all these years, THIS IS FINALLY HAPPENING!

It's going to hurt. It's going to hurt like hell. But it's going to be so worth it. And the best part? I'll have help! Mum can't go because she's visiting North America on that specific weekend, more's the pity, but she'd only have been coming on the Friday anyway. However, one of my D&D players - the one I met at MCM Comic Con the last time the Critical Role cast came to town - is coming as well, and I have offered her my sofa for the long weekend and I'll have company and someone with me in case of anything worse than the ow. You know, the bullshit like vertigo, balance problems, all that kind of thing. And someone to figuratively speaking slap me upside the head if I start going, "Eh, maybe I don't need an accessibility lanyard..."

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to find some way of dealing with adrenaline afterburn. Because I was honestly expecting more to go wrong and it didn't but my body was in fight-or-flight mode for days and I am still vibrating. Also I probably need to start actively thinking about Scent of a Warden-ing Bell's Hells...

(Also I think I am going to raid the blackberry bushes that grow around the local cemetery and make blackberry tea out of them. And give some to Taliesin because a) actual Dead People Tea and b) how much more goth do you get than "blackberries from a literal cemetery"?)

[scarleteclipseart]

Updated Commission System

Hey guys, i'm making some changes to how my commissions will be working from now on. (You can skip the next paragraph if you don't care about why I decided to do this) Previously, I would accept a varying amount of commissions right at the beginning of each month. This system was ok, but there was a few problems; 1: Everything would be due at around the same time, which if I didn't manage my time well enough I would end up rushing to finish the last commissions 2: People who don't have spending money at the beginning of the month are just out of luck. And when they do, I'm already closed because I have a long list that needs to be done before a certain date. The new system allows me to accept new work anytime slots become available, and not just within a specific window. Due dates will also be a bit more spaced out and easier for me to manage. I may even be able to cut down the actual due dates a bit as well. (Skip here) How will things work?

There are 3 main sections in my queue (https://trello.com/b/QtGqyzs8), Waitlist, Paid and Working on. Each having a limited number of slots available (I may adjust these numbers if I feel the need to).

When you send a commission inquiry, I will quote you the price.

Upon agreement you are then added to the waitlist. (You are not expected to pay at this time)

Waitlist commissions are treated as ACCEPTED. Meaning, when it is your turn I will be in contact with you and promptly be sending the invoice out, you will be expected to pay within the next 72 hours. (You are allowed to back out of the list at any time before paying, or ask to be moved down if you are not ready)

 Commissions are moved from one list to the next as slots become available (WAITLIST > PAID > WORKING ON).

NOTE: Waitlisted commissions are locked by the quoted price, if you want changes to your commission that will largely effect the price, your position will be reset to the bottom of the list. Likewise, if the change does not effect the price or does so very little you may maintain your position. Why this rule? If someone asks for a colored sketch, and then once they are at the top of the list they decided to change their idea completely to a complex scene with 5 characters, that just isn't fair.

[perfectlywingedpost]

Queue management system companies

Queue management system companies specialize in developing and providing solutions to manage and streamline customer flow in various service environments. These companies offer a range of products, from simple ticketing systems to sophisticated platforms integrating digital signage, mobile apps, and real-time data analytics. Leading QMS companies include Qmatic, Wavetec, QLess, and Tensator, each known for their innovative technologies and customization capabilities. These firms serve diverse industries such as healthcare, banking, retail, and government, aiming to enhance operational efficiency, reduce wait times, and improve customer satisfaction. Their solutions often include installation, training, and ongoing support to ensure optimal system performance.

[skywalker-swift]

hey guys i know we're all a bit frustrated at the situation (i was in queue for two hours before it let me in and my code wouldn't work and I had to watch presale tickets go before my eyes trying to get it to work, which was honestly emotionally scarring) but taylor didn't CHOSE to work with ticketmaster. as you've probably seen ticketmaster holds a monopoly on the ticketing industry, and they do what they do because they CAN! she probably would have done slow ticketing again because she has always emphasized that she wants her fans there not scalpers. ticketmaster did not make as much money off of her slow ticketing process as they did previously/as they did with this presale. they most likely booted the system because they haven't had any other artist to do it since then to my knowledge. also we don't know if it has anything to do with her management/record company changing as well. I know republic records takes care of taylor and gives her a lot of freedom, but they might have put their foot down with some things, like dynamic pricing, etc. etc. now, i am disappointed in taylor and her team affectively letting us fucking drown with all of this without nearly a mention of shit or any reassurance, mostly because i think they want ticketmaster to take all of the blame (which they should honestly, they probably had months to plan for this). i know it's easy to be mad at taylor because she is the face of this whole thing, she's the reason why we want to go, but i have a *feeling* that a lot of this is out of her personal control. i'm not saying don't be upset and frustrated, but i feel like the direct blame really shouldn't be on taylor...

[ajpandey1]

Amazon Web Service & Adobe Experience Manager:- A Journey together (Part-1)

In the world of digital marketing today, providing a quick, secure, and seamless experience is crucial. A quicker time to market might be a differentiation, and it is crucial to reach a larger audience across all devices. Businesses are relying on cloud-based solutions to increase corporate agility, seize new opportunities, and cut costs.

Managing your marketing content and assets is simple with AEM. There are many advantages to using AWS to run AEM, including improved business agility, better flexibility, and lower expenses.

AEM & AWS a Gift for you:-

We knows about AEM as market leader in the Digital marketing but AWS is having answer for almost all the Architectural concerns like global capacity, security, reliability, fault tolerance, programmability, and usability.

So now AEM become more powerful with the power of AWS and gaining more popularity than the on-premises infrastructure.

Limitless Capacity

This combination gives full freedom to scale all AEM environments speedily in cost effective manner, addition is now more easy, In peak traffic volume where requests are very huge or unknown then AEM instance need more power or scaling . Here friend AWS come in to picture for rescue as the on-demand feature allows to scale all workloads. In holiday season, sporting events and sale events like thanks giving etc. AWS is holding hand of AEM and say

"Hey don't worry I am here for you, i will not left you alone in these peak scenario"

When AEM require upgrade but worried about other things like downtime backup etc then also AWS as friend come and support greatly with its cloud capability. It streamlines upgrades and deployments of AEM.

Now it become easy task with AWS. Parallel environment is cake walk now, so migration and testing is much easier without thinking of the infrastructure difficulties.

Performance testing from the QA is much easier without disturbing production. It can be done in AEM production-like environment. Performing the actual production upgrade itself can then be as simple as the change of a domain name system (DNS) entry.

Sky is no limit for AEM with AWS features and Capabilities :

As a market leader AEM is used by customers as the foundation of their digital marketing platform. AWS and AEM can provide a lot of third part integration opportunity such as blogs, and providing additional tools for supporting mobile delivery, analytics, and big data management.

A new feature can be generated with AWS & AEM combination.Many services like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and AWS Lambda, AEM functionality easily integrated with third-party APIs in a decoupled manner. AWS can provide a clean, manageable, and auditable approach to decoupled integration with back-end systems such as CRM and e-commerce systems.

24*7 Global Availability of AEM with Buddy AWS

A more Agile and Innovative requirement can fulfill by cloud transition. How innovation and how much Agile, in previous on-premise environment for any innovation need new infrastructure and more capital expenditure (Capex). Here again the golden combination of AWS and AEM will make things easier and agile. The AWS Cloud model gives you the agility to quickly spin up new instances on AWS, and the ability to try out new services without investing in large and upfront costs. One of the feature of AWS pay-for-what-you-use pricing model is become savior in these activities.

AWS Global Infrastructure available across 24 geographic regions around the globe, so enabling customers to deploy on a global footprint quickly and easily.

Major Security concerns handled with High-Compliance

Security is the major concern about any AEM website. AWS gifts these control and confidence for secure environment. AWS ensure that you will gain the control and confidence with safety and flexibility in secure cloud computing environment . AWS, provides way to improve ability to meet core security and compliance requirements with a comprehensive set of services and features. Compliance certifications and attestations are assessed by a third-party, independent auditor.

Running AEM on AWS provides customers with the benefits of leveraging the compliance and security capabilities of AWS, along with the ability to monitor and audit access to AEM using AWS Security, Identity and Compliance services.

Continue in part-2.......

[hug-your-face]

Okay so wow this is getting notes and asks and messages (thank you all! I’m glad you are curious and hopeful!) so I’ll share what I’ve learned.

I started with Wunderlist bc it was beautiful and simple and the phone app synched with the web app synched with the desktop app.

Microsoft bought Wunderlist and turned it into Microsoft To Do. They made it ugly and awkward and buggy.

I still use MS To Do. The phone app (mostly) synchs with the tablet app and web app and desktop app oh wait the desktop app is giving me login problems. I use it because it’s familiar. I don’t love it at all. But you don’t need to love it it just needs to work for you. I am in the process of migrating from MS ToDo to a rather complicated project management system. More on that later.

If I had to start over again I might use Notion. Or Zenkit. Both are a bit of overkill. But both worked well enough when I tried them.

ToDoIst was also nice. As was AnyList. As was Remember The Milk. At the time I tried them, their prices (more than free) were too high.

If you wish to avoid MS ToDo, here’s what I recommend your queue manager have:

Mobile app or highly usable fast mobile website. You need it with you as much as your phone is with you.

Ease of entry. This is job one. You need to be able to whip it open, jot down “frim the jib jab” and forget it. If there are login screens, Click To Add An Item Now Enter The Title Now Enter A Description Do You Want To Save YN Are You Sure then forget it. You won’t use it.

Ease of reading the whole list at once. See #2.

If you do any work at at a computer, you’ll want some kind of desktop access. Web app, desktop app. Synching needs to happen automagically and RELIABLY. If you feel you cannot trust your queue manager, you won’t use it.

Blindingly easy manual sorting. Drag and drop please. No “click to move up one.” Just be able to grab an item and move it up, down, between.

Automatic Sorting as an option. Ideally saved as a preference. Sort completed at the bottom, new at the top, or whatever works for you. I personally ADD at the bottom, and when I “star” an item it moves to the top.

Minimal metadata per item. A Note is good. Subtasks are iffy. They can be nice to help you make a checklist and to break down a large thing into smaller things. But they also just add complexity and then you’re managing your queue manager, and it’s not managing your queue. Worse, the subtasks are buried under another layer — you can’t see them at a glance when you look ar your queue.

Nice to have: Multiple lists, with blindingly easy moving of an item from one list to another.

How I use my queue manager:

Multiple lists: I have 3: “Now, Next, Someday.” I use Now for “right now, hopefully today but we’ll see.” I use Next for “at the top of my mind, maybe this week” and Someday for “yeah that’s a dream, I sure hope I get to it someday.” When a timer goes off on Fridays I peek thru all of them and try to make them match reality.

Limits on “now.” I try to keep the Now list less than 8 items and the Next list to less than 20. If that means moving some items to Next because they’re not gonna get done today, or moving some away from Next into Someday then that’s what I do. There’s nothing demotivating like a queue that you “should do” that keeps growing and growing. Thats what the Someday list is for. Keep your “now” small….. if it runs empty you can always pull some in from the “next” list!

Add at bottom, star to top, move around otherwise. I default new items to go to the bottom of the queue. That means I’m more likely to actually work it as a queue. If something comes in that truly needs to jump to the top, I have MS Todo set so that when I press the “star” on the right of the item, it just jumps to the top.

Timers. I have three each day (morning noon evening) to remind me to check the queue. I have one on Fridays to remind me to do some Queue Gardening. That’s when I’ll move things between the different lists, look at how many I got done this week, and try to be honest with myself about what I really think I can get done next week.

Compassionate Review. See the above on my Friday timer. When you look back WITHOUT JUDGMENT at what you got done and adjust your plans for the next day/week accordingly, you actually get better at estimating what’s realistic.

Allow your methods to evolve. When I started doing this I had items on my queue like “med 1,” “med 2,” “med 3,” “shower,” “breakfast,” “email 15m max.” Over time, making and checking off those things has collapsed the morning into a single “start the day” item with a checklist in the item notes. I’m currently experimenting with a whole separate list for new “big” items, which I ignore until Fridays when I then assign them to one of my “now, next, someday” lists. We’ll see how it works out.

Keep. It. Simple. Many softwares will add features they claim will help you be more productive. Due dates. Reminders. Sharing. Approvals (!) Integration with email, twitter, your water faucet. Sub-lists and sub-sub-lists and sub-sub-sub-lists. No. You just want to manage the queue. You just want to be able to quickly look at the queue and have an answer to “what’s next” or “Ive just watched 2 hours of TOTK videos what was I supposed to be working on again?”

Hope this helps some o’ y’all. Peace.

Listen, if you interrupt me with a new task while I’m midway through another, you aren’t allowed to be mad when I switch to the new task immediately. You clearly thought the new task was important enough to interrupt me with it!

I am just a little pikmin! You’re the one with the whistle!!

[govindhtech]

What Is Azure Blob Storage? And Azure Blob Storage Cost

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Scalable, extremely safe, and reasonably priced cloud object storage

Incredibly safe and scalable object storage for high-performance computing, archiving, data lakes, cloud-native workloads, and machine learning.

What is Azure Blob Storage?

Microsoft’s cloud-based object storage solution is called Blob Storage. Massive volumes of unstructured data are best stored in blob storage. Text and binary data are examples of unstructured data, which deviates from a certain data model or specification.

Scalable storage and retrieval of unstructured data

Azure Blob Storage offers storage for developing robust cloud-native and mobile apps, as well as assistance in creating data lakes for your analytics requirements. For your long-term data, use tiered storage to minimize expenses, and scale up flexibly for tasks including high-performance computing and machine learning.

Construct robust cloud-native apps

Azure Blob Storage was designed from the ground up to meet the demands of cloud-native, online, and mobile application developers in terms of availability, security, and scale. For serverless systems like Azure Functions, use it as a foundation. Blob storage is the only cloud storage solution that provides a premium, SSD-based object storage layer for low-latency and interactive applications, and it supports the most widely used development frameworks, such as Java,.NET, Python, and Node.js.

Save petabytes of data in an economical manner

Store enormous volumes of rarely viewed or infrequently accessed data in an economical manner with automated lifecycle management and numerous storage layers. Azure Blob Storage can take the place of your tape archives, and you won’t have to worry about switching between hardware generations.

Construct robust data lakes

One of the most affordable and scalable data lake options for big data analytics is Azure Data Lake Storage. It helps you accelerate your time to insight by fusing the strength of a high-performance file system with enormous scalability and economy. Data Lake Storage is tailored for analytics workloads and expands the possibilities of Azure Blob Storage.

Scale out for billions of IoT devices or scale up for HPC

Azure Blob Storage offers the volume required to enable storage for billions of data points coming in from IoT endpoints while also satisfying the rigorous, high-throughput needs of HPC applications.

Features

Scalable, robust, and accessible

With geo-replication and the capacity to scale as needed, the durability is designed to be sixteen nines.

Safe and sound

Role-based access control (RBAC), Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory) authentication, sophisticated threat protection, and encryption at rest.

Data lake-optimized

Multi-protocol access and file namespace facilitate analytics workloads for data insights.

Complete data administration

Immutable (WORM) storage, policy-based access control, and end-to-end lifecycle management.

Integrated security and conformance

Complete security and conformance, integrated

Every year, Microsoft spends about $1 billion on cybersecurity research and development.

Over 3,500 security professionals who are committed to data security and privacy work for it.

Azure boasts one of the biggest portfolios of compliance certifications in the sector.

Azure Blob storage cost

Documents, films, images, backups, and other unstructured text or binary data can all be streamed and stored using block blob storage.

The most recent features are accessible through blob storage accounts, however they do not allow page blobs, files, queues, or tables. For the majority of users, general-purpose v2 storage accounts are advised.

Block blob storage’s overall cost is determined by:

Monthly amount of data kept.

Number and kinds of activities carried out, as well as any expenses related to data transfer.

The option for data redundancy was chosen.

Adaptable costs with reserved alternatives to satisfy your needs for cloud storage

Depending on how frequently you anticipate accessing the data, you can select from its storage tiers. Keep regularly accessed data in Hot, seldom accessed data in Cool and Cold, performance-sensitive data in Premium, and rarely accessed data in Archive. Save a lot of money by setting up storage space.

To continue building with the same free features after your credit, switch to pay as you go. Only make a payment if your monthly usage exceeds your free amounts.

You will continue to receive over fifty-five services at no cost after a year, and you will only be charged for the services you utilize above your monthly allotment.

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