10 Aug 05 Work, House, Epic

The daily grind continues on.

I wouldn’t call it grind really. I love my job. I get to teach, interact with people, be a code monkey, and generally make positive changes at work and elsewhere. My latest project I am tinkering with is the scores database for the training team. I am getting my hands dirty in the Epic code and finding new ways to use it. It’s been rather fun. I get to work through a lot of peoples source code to find new tricks and features I didn’t know about before. It’s like a huge scavenger hunt! Yes, I know I’m a geek.

The house is coming along. We are moved in, but not yet unpacked. As my Dad mentioned, it never seems to end. That seems to be the case at the Schaab house. We have lots of stuff to sort through, organize, purge, and get in place. We are making progress with the house feeling more like home now. The next big project (other than getting everything in it’s rightful place), is the shed. We bought the shed at Menards and it looks to be a good one. A solidly build vinyl shed that is 10×8 will be appearing in our backyard. I just need to figure out how to get the shed here, how to get the gravel here to make the base, and where to rent the tools. I would like to get it finished this weekend. It could turn into a weekend long project, but I want to get it done soon. Depending on how soon Sandra’s house sells, we might need to find more space quick for the mower, snow blower, etc. that we are getting.

Last note is an interesting view of Epic from someone outside of the company. I found out a site called HISTalk linked to by blog. They picked a winner of a post to link to.

Their view of Epic seems to be that we are young and hippies. I can kinda see where that comes from since we are not all that like a lot of other big companies out there. We get mentioned now and then and it’s a good place to keep up to snuff on happenings in the Health Information Systems world. Good reads.