They say if I can work, I can serve. They didn't ask if I could work well.

You could ask them if you could call in to jury duty from home.

Sorry. Did you tell them you frequently work from home because you can't make it to work?

ita,

reality is: you can barely work. You have had several sick days.

I think you need to be clear you aren't trying to get out of jury duty, but that you'd like a postponement of service.

I've postponed twice so far. I've gotten away with a lot. And you can you only postpone within ninety days. I won't be any better by then.

I guess I don't have the energy to fight it.

R.I.P. Claude Choules

Claude Stanley Choules died today at a nursing home in Perth, Australia, at the age of 110. Choules was the last known combat veteran of World War I.

World War I was raging when Choules began training with the British Royal Navy, just one month after he turned 14. In 1917, he joined the battleship HMS Revenge, from which he watched the 1918 surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, the main battle fleet of the German Navy during the war.

“There was no sign of fight left in the Germans as they came out of the mist at about 10 a.m.,” Choules wrote in his autobiography. The German flag, he recalled, was hauled down at sunset.

Arrrgh. Stupid health insurance. I know that I'm very lucky that my job provides it, but we're switching companies because of how much Aetna jacked up our rates.

So we had a meeting yesterday with our insurance guy to explain the new plan, which is more or less like our old one, but with higher co-pays, AND some weird-ass new restrictions on certain things. Like, the insurance will not pay for physical therapy at all, until you meet a $3,500 deductible.

And the kind-of-biggie for me is that it also won't pay for any "procedure" performed in the doctor's office (versus as an outpatient or inpatient). I didn't quite understand what that meant, until Insurance Guy (who WAY overshares) mentioned that another client of his got an IUD (really, he has no business, legally, telling us that), which is done in the OB/GYN office. And then she got a bill for about $1,000, because it was an "in-office" procedure.

Because timing is everything, my IUD is about ready to be swapped for a new one (the Mirena should be switched at about 5 years [and now I'm having weird Farscape images of Scorpius changing the cooling rods in his head]). It was supposed to be done in August.

But since we're still on Aetna until June 1, you can DAMN betcha I called the OB/GYN first thing this morning to have it done before this month is out. Jesus Christ, what fucking bullshit.

There's some other hoops to jump through (we have to do a lot more paperwork for claims and whatnot), but for the most part, it's the same coverage that we have now. Except for that whole part where it's apparently more cost-effective to pay for a woman's pregnancy than it is to pay for them to get 99.5% effective long-term contraception.

So I have onerously already scheduled that. Woo.

Then we have to take all 3 pets to the vet after work (our vet is awesome for letting us bring them all at the same time), because they need their yearly stuff AND because we're worried about Slinky's weight loss and ravenous hunger and such. Fingers crossed that it's diabetes or something else that can be managed with drugs/insulin.

I think I'm going to bake some scones, damn it. (We are off today, as always, for National Day O Prayer.)

Ita if on the venire they will ask you for any reason you can't serve. You can explain the daily migraines and likely they will dismiss you.

POTUS is right outside now. It reminds me that I need to make my vacation plans for this September.

Thanks, bon. We've been called to a courtroom. I'm surprised at how dressed up some people are.

Why do I only have my monster sketchbook?

because we're worried about Slinky's weight loss and ravenous hunger and such. Fingers crossed that it's diabetes or something else that can be managed with drugs/insulin.

That or hyperthyroid would be my guess based on experience with my cats. They both have the hyperthyroid and those were the symptoms, along with hair loss. And that was also the symptoms when Swifty was diagnosed with the diabetes.

(Also, I used to have a cat named Stinky so that's how I keep reading his name!)