Every time I go to an evening doctors appointment I end up springing for dinner for my family. Usually around $30.00 or so (we’ll pick a place like Jason’s Deli which is potentially more nutritious than a fast food restaurant, but not much more expensive). The evening appointments cost the same as the day appointments at the doctor’s office, but I can avoid missing a lot of work time during the day. The nicety of going in the evening is offset by the eating out, but when you’re sitting there at the restaurant having spent more money than you’d like for the evening you have to account for your choices.

I think I may try taking an afternoon appointment in the future and make up missed work time in the evening because it’ll still cost me less than appointments and dinner. Its time to do investigative surgery and at least try the other approach and see if it saves the money it should save. Hopefully a lesson learned and we’ll just move forward from here.

Each year I get sick about twice a year.  Each time I may or may not lose work time (and therefore potentially income) depending on the timing of the sickness.  As that happens I have to calculate any lost revenue.  This last week I was sick on my trip to Texas.  I didn’t have the energy to write once I was ‘off’ of work in the evenings and certainly was dragging myself out of bed in the mornings.  In short the sickness cost me in non-work areas, but it still cost me at the conference I was at because I was much less likely to network and get time in communication with folks because I isolated myself so as to not get others sick.

The long term impact of those numbers may be hard to calculate, but I surely didn’t gain new readers this last week from a lengthy list of new articles.  I did get some traffic from the guest post at GenXFinance - Trint from the Simple Dollar linked to that post and his blog just sends a lot of traffic.  Its the closest to being ‘Dugg’ as I’ve experienced.

Progress may have been on hold, but I’ve been evaluating some new article ideas that should be forthcoming.