What can you do without the internet?

Guest post of the week by Brittany Booker

The other morning I was at a friend’s house and we were planning to look up some great places in the area to go eat brunch. The only problem was her internet was not working for whatever reason. Of course neither of us had charged our smart phones the night before so we were trying to conserve battery which meant that using our phones to look up places to go was out. We had to just go out on the street and start walking to find a place. It got me thinking about what it would be like to live in today’s times without having access to the internet. These days everyone just assumes that you have a computer and access to the World Wide Web. As it turns out not everyone does have a computer or access to the internet. I decided I was going to try to live a week without it and see how I felt at the end of that week. I own a small business and need small business internet to run my company. I only lasted two days without the internet before I caved.

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Maintaining Weight Loss - Keeping Busy

I have been trying to maintain my weight loss from last year - I lost 48 lbs. last year and then the holidays hit.  I ate and ate and then after they were over I continued to eat.

I have kept off about 35 lbs and have settled down with the overeating and am getting ready to get headed in the right direction again.

I have been keeping busy - working on a lot of sewing projects.

I have also been hosting a weekly craft club - but this has developed into an eating club too - everyone brings something to munch on - an naturally alot of this is sweets and high fat items.

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Lutheran Senior Services in St. Louis

Lutheran Senior Services in St. Louis was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as one of the "Best Places to work".   They strive to improve the quality of care for their residents.  One way they do this is by implementing a program called Electronic medical Records Software.

Using the Optimus EMR^® system for their electronic medical records saves time because the staff does not have to waste time searching for the patient information.  It is all there at their fingertips on the home page when they look at the computer.  They can access real time, up-dates on the residents, census, quality indicators, operational performance data and more.


Lutheran Senior Services utilizes the Optimus EMR system because it is the only automated system for long term care.  This system helps them achieve the goal of quality patient care.

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