Montreal has a great underground. Building connected by malls that run underground. You can walk a few metro stops without coming up for sun.

We have a great underground concourse of shops at Rockefeller Center and extending beyond it, but not really anywhere else in New York which is a shame. The WTC site was the only other one that I can think of.

Does this mean that same-sex spouses can be covered byyour insures, but you have to pay taxes on that as "income"?

Yes, that is what it means.

Well, that sucks. Not for me, but in general. Also, they couch it such vague terms that it is hard to understand.

And insurance sucks, and I have no idea how to choose a plan and I hardly use it. I think the best option might be the one with a Health Savings Account, and a really high deductible (which you put in the HSA just in case) However, I can find no information on how exactly the HSA works, and frankly, if I have to be sending in paperwork for reimbursement, I am just going to be losing that money. I am so tempted to pay the high price and go back to having co-pays, but I know that I pretty much only see the doctore once or twice a year.

There's a potluck happening in the meeting room next to my office. It is loud.

The HSA we have has a credit card which is really convenient, though it sometimes triggers requests for receipts. Also, you can upload electronic copies of stuff that you can't use the card for and it will deposit straight into your account. It is really pretty handy.

My boss has just asked me to keep my work to 40 hours a week. I know he doesn't want me to come in later, there's nowhere to go for an hour at lunch every day--can I really leave an hour earlier?

I know he doesn't want me to come in later, there's nowhere to go for an hour at lunch every day--can I really leave an hour earlier?

When I worked for the government, we *had* to take at least a 30 minute lunch or we were violating some law. Does he care if you leave early? Can you reduce lunch to 30 minutes maybe?

We have the HSA with a high deductible. It's worked out okay, mostly. The only real problem I've run into is that I've had to pay some expense that don't count towards my deductible - like therapist visits are supposed to cost us less than we actually pay, so the only lesser amount comes out of the deductible - so we actually just ran out of money and have yet to meet the deductible. But we haven't had to file our own claims or anything, and if you don't use the money in the HSA, it's still yours, you just have to pay taxes on it if you use it for a different purpos. It doesn't disappear like Cafeteria funds

Very cool student geneology project!

All US Presidents except Martin Van Buren are distantly related:

BridgeAnne d'Avignon, who attends Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, traced that Obama, and all other U.S. presidents except Martin Van Buren, are related to John "Lackland" Plantagenet, a king of England and signer of the Magna Carta.

The student and her grandfather, who is a genealogist, spent this past summer designing the first known family tree chart in history that shows the presidents' direct relationship. BridgeAnne's grandfather has researched president genealogy for 60 years.