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Jan. 23rd, 2010 00:42Tuesday January 19, 2010 The sign said "Free Love Church." I looked again; it said "True Love Church."
***Yearly medical checkup at HealthPartners West in St. Louis Park.
The good news: I'm mostly okay. And there's an improved colon cancer test I can take, with colonoscopy needed only if this test has ominous results. (Is it just me, or does "fecal occult" sound like bad fantasy? Or a band name?)
The bad news: My blood pressure is too high. I need to get more blood pressure checks, to see if it's a problem rather than a symptom of white coat fever.
And my weight has gone up again.
I got inoculated against the Big Bad Flu.
***Near the clinic was a group of new shops I didn't remember having seen before. Since I'm only in that area once a year, they could easily have started during the interim. Or I could have forgotten they were there.
***On the way home, I stopped in at Steeple People thrift store and the Wedge Coop.
In the Wedge, a man was recruiting census workers. I would have thought that in this economic climate, there would be enough applicants already. Apparently not.
***Mail from the Star Tribune: "Add ON TV Magazine to your new subscription for an extra 69ยข per week." The Strib used to have a free TV magazine; the Pioneer Press still does.
***Everyone is a Pollster
Mark Blumenthal notes that two automated polling outfits will soon offer the ability for anyone to conduct a poll for less than $1000. [http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/mp_20100119_8090.php]
"Scott Rasmussen will soon launch a new venture, Pulse Opinion Research, that will allow anyone willing to pay $600 to go to the website, type in their credit card number, and run any poll that they wanted, with any language that they want...
"That news coincided with the launch of Precision Polling, a self-service Web site that allows anyone to enter their own questions, call a toll-free number and record the questions in their own voice, submit a list of telephone numbers and start dialing at a cost of 10 cents per call."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/01/19/everyone_is_a_pollster.html
***Yearly medical checkup at HealthPartners West in St. Louis Park.
The good news: I'm mostly okay. And there's an improved colon cancer test I can take, with colonoscopy needed only if this test has ominous results. (Is it just me, or does "fecal occult" sound like bad fantasy? Or a band name?)
The bad news: My blood pressure is too high. I need to get more blood pressure checks, to see if it's a problem rather than a symptom of white coat fever.
And my weight has gone up again.
I got inoculated against the Big Bad Flu.
***Near the clinic was a group of new shops I didn't remember having seen before. Since I'm only in that area once a year, they could easily have started during the interim. Or I could have forgotten they were there.
***On the way home, I stopped in at Steeple People thrift store and the Wedge Coop.
In the Wedge, a man was recruiting census workers. I would have thought that in this economic climate, there would be enough applicants already. Apparently not.
***Mail from the Star Tribune: "Add ON TV Magazine to your new subscription for an extra 69ยข per week." The Strib used to have a free TV magazine; the Pioneer Press still does.
***Everyone is a Pollster
Mark Blumenthal notes that two automated polling outfits will soon offer the ability for anyone to conduct a poll for less than $1000. [http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/mp_20100119_8090.php]
"Scott Rasmussen will soon launch a new venture, Pulse Opinion Research, that will allow anyone willing to pay $600 to go to the website, type in their credit card number, and run any poll that they wanted, with any language that they want...
"That news coincided with the launch of Precision Polling, a self-service Web site that allows anyone to enter their own questions, call a toll-free number and record the questions in their own voice, submit a list of telephone numbers and start dialing at a cost of 10 cents per call."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/01/19/everyone_is_a_pollster.html