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I wore mine on a 900 mile drive

Posted By: dipthong on 2007-02-28
In Reply to: I've been wearing them for a year while I work with no....sm - casey

to florida. Didn't leak a bit.


 




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I have about a 20 mile drive
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60-mile drive
I used to drive 50 miles one way for my transcription job.  It took me four years before I got to go home, and then I still had to drive back and forth to pick up the tapes, until they got me on the system last March  - so now I totally work from home.  So nice, but you are the only one that can determine whether it is worth it for you.  I need/want the bennies and was willing to do it.  With a sickly husband at home, it is so nice now to be at home working.  Don't know if I would go back to working outside again. 
I used to drive a 100+ mile roundtrip....SM

I did it for over two years to be able to work in the office of my mentor and get the experience I needed to be a good MT.  Most days I didn't mind, but did try to avoid busy times on the freeway.  A lot depends on traffic too and not just gas.  I have always enjoyed the time alone in a car, which is something I rarely get.


Thirty miles isn't that far.  Good luck!


Hubby has 30 mile drive to work (sm)
so he bought a motorcycle and rides that instead of driving his truck.
I can't install mine...??? I have to keep the CD in the drive
and click on My Computer and then click on the CD drive and then click on BOS2 to open. Then I just keep it minimized. I also like it much better than the book because of the search feature!
Do a search of your C drive for it. I have mine placed directly - sm
in my C drive but usually it is in some obscure place within a file, within a file, etc. Look for "autorecovery" and see what comes up. Then the file will not be named "Smith ltr" or whatever but with letters and numbers, go by the date modified column (list details) for the date and time of the file. Hope this helps.
Mine works with printer and external hard drive
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I had them - GREAT! Wore them out in 3 years. nm
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I once wore a hole in my spacebar...
I loved that keyboard. the letters were intact, just that figgind hole.
Did this for 2 years. Wore me out! Finally, gave one up.
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I wore one, but by all means DO WHAT YOU WANT! Your comfort is what matters.:-) nm
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I wore a Spanish mantilla - it stayed out of the way and was still fun.

I actually wore a hole in some of my keyboard letters... nm
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oh yeah, at that wedding, the bridesmaids wore black, too sm
with dark red rose boquets.  It really was beautiful, at night, with candle light...ooh, I wanna get married again...
I did for a while and they paid on alternating weeks, which was nice. But wore me out so I
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remember when nurses wore the little hats...hahaha
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I'm in GSO too, about 1 mile from PG. nm
 
Friends tried hypnosis for smoking. It lasted for about 2 weeks then wore off. nm
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A jump drive is the same as a USB drive. SM
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I'd pay $10 an hour plus 0.35 a mile. GL. NM
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35 cents a mile???? UR kidding???...nm

Gov. pays 44.5 cents a mile, will probably....sm
go up to 48.5 cents over the summer. That's what we claim on travel vouchers.
I think there's a difference between going the extra mile
and not going at all. I used to spend lots of time, probably way too much time, looking up words in the pre-production days, but those days are over, and those kinds of questionable words get left as blanks. That's not the same thing as not trying at all.
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from her college (since I work at home) for her sake, the things we do for our kids.
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Would you make a 60 mile round trip every day
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I begin my day, every day, with a nice 2 to 3 mile walk with
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Texas drivers ~ insurance by the mile....

Have any of you heard of this?  It is auto insurance charged by the miles driven.  I got a quote online for myself and it is very reasonable for me but not for the 17-yo.


https://milemeter.com/faq/other


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Ok, I invite you to hop on a bicycle for 15 mile ride in below freezing weather, snow, ice, etc.
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Funny! Mine is almost as large, and I don't mind cleaning mine!
It's no problem at all.  Besides, I'll take lots of oodles of square footage any day of the week over living in a sardine can!
How far is the new job to drive - sm
You need to consider many things.

Consider the expenses of driving further and parking fees if there are any. How much time out of your day is driving back and forth, etc.

Teaching hospital - means more ESL than a community hospital. Do you want your day filled with difficult dictators?

Personally, when I was in my 20's - I'd make the change no matter what. Now, that I am 38 and have 2 teens at home, etc. it is way more beneficial to me to make more money at home.

Go with your "gut" feeling! That usually never steers you wrong.

Good luck in whatever you decide.





I was thinking this the other day, I don't drive much
and short distances at that, but its comparable to that movie minority report where tom cruise is driving in one of those computerized cars and people are whipping by him and you just see the blur.  I feel like that.  Also people are so ornery, I go the speed limit or sometimes five over, I get passed and given a dirty look or yelled at and even a finger here and there.  I feel like I need to pull over and take a deep breath or something, its a jungle out there.  We're lucky we don't have to deal with traffic everyday, I would be grumpy as well. 
just drive it into a lake

yes - it will probably drive you crazy until you get
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zip drive discs
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You pay $26,800 to drive a new car for 5 years! You can buy

 a used 2004 buick lesabre for less than that AND drive it for another five years for free... (see link below) then pocket the extra 26K you spent to drive a "new" car for those five years. You can put 200,000 miles on those cars. They are extremely reliable.  Even repairs couldn't possibly cost you over $6000 - and that's what you're paying in ONE YEAR to drive your "brand new" leased vehicle. I guess if you want to throw away $6000 a year so everyone else can see your brand new car, be my guest. Me - I'd rather travel or spend it on my education or sock it away in my IRA rather than look good  :)  Would be interesting to hear how much debt those who lease carry.... don't say this to boast - not at all -but to give weight to what I say about living below your means. We live in a very nice, (average for our area ) custom house, 10 years old,  on a 5 acre lot. We each have a vehicle to drive with no rust that don't require repair. We have 0 debt on credit cards, 0 debt in car loans, 0 debt on mortgage (paid it off in 7 years when my MTs was doing quite well)....ask anyone who leases what their asset sheet looks like...and then decide who you would rather be like. Those who lease tend to be Big Hat, No Cattle.


 


 


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I remember "Happy Days" was the hit show when I was a teen and the boys tried to look and be like the "Fonze".

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When you click on the C: drive,
'Documents and Settings'? That is the folder that I would double click on in the C: drive folder, and then 'Owner'. My 'My Documents' folder is inside the 'Owner' folder.
Does it drive anyone else crazy when..
You are listening to a dictation and can hear another doctor in the background dictating quite loudly, and then go to start that same docs dictation, and can barely hear him??
I think you'd drive me to drink, too,
if I lived with you!! Amen!  Nasty, much?
Just copy the cd to your C drive
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where is the hard drive sm
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Hard drive out, now what?
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You need a jump drive, not PCA.
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Flash drive to
copy Word to the other computer. Don't know about the other question!
flash drive
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