Experience as an auditor

 Remembering (throwing back to) my days at the Office of the DC Auditor. The work was interesting and I became a much better writer. I worked on several audits/reviews. One of the audits I worked on was the audit of ANC 4C. The (published) report is available at: https://dcauditor.org/report/audit-of-advisory-neighborhood-commission-4c-for-fiscal-years-2000-through-2003-as-of-march-31-2003/. You can tell that I contributed to the report from the code shown on the title page (016:03:FM:gk). I was a main contributor. Looking back at it, I don't believe I included so many tables! I like them a lot. They work in the report. Another assignment was to assist a Senior Auditor with a parking meter audit (I guess I was a member of the audit team). I liked being on location at an office on U Street. The audit included a review of finances (parking meter revenues) but it was a performance audit.

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Funding

 Academia.edu provides information on funding opportunities! I received an email from Academia.edu notifying me that their AI software found a $20,000 funding opportunity that "aligns perfectly" with my paper/research on the online review industry. I am so happy that my papers for publishing are on that site. It would be great to obtain funding for my research!

Update

 It is the 27th. There was an appointment for today. It was rescheduled at the last minute (yesterday). The call from Kaiser was a surprise. I did not have to go out after all. It has been a while since I went out. It has been a few weeks.

Sometimes life is difficult

 I don't do as much as I used to, which makes sense because I am dealing with a lot of health issues. It takes a while to get things done. I do the best I can. I was busy doing some chores today. There was some pain involved (back pain and so on) but I got some work done. I am not complaining. Life is difficult. I am a person who has to deal with health problems for now and still try to hold it together (take care of things). I am looking forward to a "normal" life again.

(I am still working on obtaining disability benefits/income and I need to prepare for appointments.)

New preprint website

 I found another website that allows sharing of papers that are for publishing. I joined today to try it out - I have a new account at Research Square (https://www.researchsquare.com/). I uploaded my marketing paper (mentioned in my recent post https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2026/02/update_10.html) for review. It is currently in prescreening status. I saw that the preprint will be posted and a DOI issued once prescreening completes. The paper already has a DOI issued by ResearchGate. It appears that I cannot opt out of a new DOI so there will be two DOIs assigned to my paper which may cause issues.

This Saturday

 This Saturday I did not do much. There are issues all around. For a pick-me-up, I had mangoes and some other good stuff. Yes, food can make a difference on days like this. Mangoes make me think of Guyana and the Caribbean. The mangoes I had looked and tasted like the long mango. It has another name in United States.

Remembering a vacation

 Today I remember my vacation time in Georgia many years ago (my second trip to Georgia since living in the United States). I enjoyed the drive there (from Maryland). I also enjoyed my time there. It felt like a vacation - I stayed at hotels, I spent some time exploring the local area, and so on. I was at ease in Georgia although I had a bad experience in the past (in another part of Georgia). I took some photos that I added to this blog. I remember I used the hotel computer in the lobby for a post. 

These two posts show photos of some of my activities in Georgia:

https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2022/08/still-traveling.html

https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2022/08/interesting-article-on-online-reviews.html

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