Truck-Unloading Help?

Does anyone know how to find help-for-hire in Rochester? I need to find someone to help me unload a truck on Monday, May 7th. I've got plenty of help loading the truck in Kansas but my plans to bring help from KS to MN fell through. Also, what is a fair wage for this type of work?

thanks.

John

Tel/ Wireless/ Cable/ broadband services

Hi all,
Does any one know if there are any prefered providers for Tel, wireless, cable and broadband services. Does Mayo offer any discounts on any of them?

From what I've heard Qwest is pretty popular for Tel. Also Mayo offers discounts on some wireless - cingular and sprint. But Midwest has the best service in town.
Any other thoughts?

ACLS at Mayo

Hey gang. This week I completed my ACLS at Mayo, and thought I'd share my thoughts. If you can do it at Mayo, I would - it's free if you do it at Mayo, and it's a pretty well-run course. Most of the teaching is done by residents who do a nice job. If this is your first time doing ACLS, it's a 2-day course at Mayo which can be a pain unless you've already moved to Rochester. When you sign up for ACLS (at any place, as far as I can tell) they'll send you a packet of info well in advance. You have to do an ACLS pre-test, which you can be well-prepared for by going over some practice cases in the ACLS book. As far as I know there is no minimum passing score on the pre-test, and it does nicely tell you what areas you did well and poorly on so you can then focus your review. Overall reading through the ACLS book and doing the pre-test took me maybe 3 hours, but I was frequently flipping through the handbook and looking at the algorithms. At the beginning of the ACLS course (at Mayo, at least) you run through an adult BLS, pedi BLS, and infant BLS station where you get a very small refresher and one of the instructors verifies that you have the skills down. After that you practice ACLS stuff, and the course concludes with a "megacode" exam and written exam. If you've read the book before your pre-test, did OK on the pre-test, and paid attention during the course, the megacode should be pretty straight forward. You can use the handbook for the megacode, but most people don't by then as it just slows them down. You certainly do not need a perfect performance on the megacode to pass. The written exam is a the very end, is closed book, and is relatively easy compared to the pre-test.

One other thing - apparently the phone number we were sent to call to register for ACLS at Mayo was wrong - it was the number that gets called every time a code was called and the code people were afraid that we would swamp their phone line. Yikes! Yet nobody emailed me to let me know or to give me the correct phone number. So, for now I would just email Ms. Sharon Ihrke for more info about registering.

Buying a house (again)

I recently returned from Rochester, also having purchased a house. We used Terese Dutton (same realtor as Jason) and had a great experience. We second everything Jason said about her. She was great. We also used the same loan company, and were very happy with the experience. See Jason's post for contact info on both.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

Hopefully the moving process is treating everyone well.

We're looking forward to meeting everyone in a few months!

Jeff & family