I actually forgot to mention the biggest news yesterday: Tyson is in the vet's again. He wouldn't eat and was throwing up. Remember how I mentioned Tyson likes to chew on rocks? Well, he ate one... about the size of a plum. We didn't know that though: We just knew that he was starving, dehydrated, and really looking like he was on his last legs, and we were quite alarmed. Epril, Susan, and Marc emergently drove Tyson to the vet's in CDO on Sunday evening. He pooped out the rock today, and immediately started feeling better. We'll pick him up tomorrow. I swear, Tyson's vet gets more of my money than the folks who sell us his dog food.
This evening at work, a bunch of jobs got stuck in the computer system. Since they wouldn't transfer over to the new software, and were beginning to go past due, I was told to open up the old software and do them there. Instantly, it was like back to 18 months ago and nothing had changed. In 2 hours, I did 1,000 lines of work... what I normally do now in 4½ or 5 hours. Sigh. It felt good.
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I dated this girl who was a vetrinary assistant at one time, and she knows from experience the fact that some dogs will eat anything, especially when she saw a socket wrench inside the stomach of one on the xray.
Our dog some 40 years back ate cement. That was fatal because it hardened (set) in his stomach.
If you can work faster in the old system, why do they have a new system?
Tom,
The new system has more features and performs more checks and keeps better records of what has been done. That is the principal decline in my work speed: After finishing one job (which takes an average of 3 minutes), the software spends about 45 seconds checking the work before sending it on. The old software performed no checks and time between jobs was less than 5 seconds.
Additionally, the new software can work with the Speech Recognition, so that when an "SR" document pops up, the voice file is "connected" to the text, and as each word is spoke in the text file, it is highlighted in the document.
Yesterday, I averaged 500 lines per hour in the old software; last week, I averaged 238 lines per hour in the new software.
Glad Tyson is doing better. Does he have a death wish??? Puppies will be puppies, no matter how big they are...
Wouldn't it be nice if your company recognized the value of the old system...perhaps they do, since they recommended you use it.
Mom
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