Crazy Days at Metropolitan State — Inside Out

Three days.  When a patient was first brought in to the hospital, an analysis was done over 72 hours to determine if the patient is “a danger to themselves or others,” and therefore will be staying indefinitely, or if not, to be released.  It’s also the first thing a new patient, “Jomo,” said to me.

“Three days, [...]

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Crazy Days at Metropolitan State — The Night Shift

Second shift was my primary shift — and my favorite one, because I could wake up around noon and wander in to work and still be on time.  There would only be one meal served on second shift, and by the time it was over, most of the patients would be in bed.  On the other [...]

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Windows Mobile and ActiveSync

ActiveSync is a wonderful thing — unless something goes wrong.  In the maddening manner of most Microsoft error messages, you get the functional equivalent of “something went wrong” with no other detail — and worse, an error message that appears to be telling you something:

“Critical communications services have failed to start.  Try resetting the mobile device, [...]

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