Anyone here fill prescriptions at Rite Aid?

Wow, your use of other prescriptions services is way beyond whatever I've used. I'm mostly like "look at bottle, realize I only have a couple left, call for an automated refill". Or occasionally "realize I have none left, stop at pharmacy and say I'll wait". Though Walgreen's was pretty good the other week when I accidentally threw out the bottle and THEN realized I needed a refill-just left a VM and they filled it.

NYC public schools are incredibly strict about redshirting. If you try to enroll your kid a year late for kindergarten they will be placed in first grade.

I assumed it was from sports, but I'd missed its application to kindergarten.

I assume they look seriously at birthdates and cutoff dates and allow leeway for close to the mark kids?

Oh, so cool! When I go to Spain next week, my niece has arranged a day trip to the oldest working lighthouse in the World.

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Do I have an awesome niece, or what?

Very common with boys, and in areas where sports requiring bigness are important (like the SEC.)

Both my kids are on the young end for their grades - in GA Casper's birthday was 3 days before the cutoff - so I have a lot of worry about age inflation in elementary school.

Fricking IRS. Last November, they tried to hit KCD with a $200k tax bill saying he owed for the full value of our house sale. Ummm, no. There was another minor issue they had, which was a true issue. So, being the nice person I am, I helped KCD craft a response telling them to stick it on the big issue and here is the money.

Last week he got a response from them that was basically, ok you are right on the big issue and you owe $$$ on the little issue. Except they pulled some wrong numbers from his original 1040, making the amount due 5x's more than it should be. Once again, I have crafted a response and have copies of his return showing the correct numbers. This one was plain incompetence on the side of the person who prepared it.

We got a foster kitty today! We were hoping for kittens (since with the changing jobs and training I'll be home a lot the next few weeks) but they didn't have any. So we got a pretty long-haired grey cat with green eyes whose name is Rucifee. Which may or may not be a reference to what the mice called the Lucifer cat in Cinderella. Unclear etymology.

We should have him a few weeks at least, and pictures will follow at some point. I was amazing (having never owned a cat) how incredibly much I have picked up here from the cat-having 'ffistas.

Ugh, Typo. Although I will say, when we had no insurance, a couple doctors *did* adjust fees based on what they would have been paid by most insurance. So it doesn't hurt to ask. And once you say "self-pay," a lot of times the doctor or lab or whatever will just show the different pay scale.

Both my kids are on the young end for their grades - in GA Casper's birthday was 3 days before the cutoff - so I have a lot of worry about age inflation in elementary school.

Ben is a February birthday, but Sara is Nov. 29, and started kindergarten at four. She's halfway through third grade, and she's consistently working at or above grade level, so I think it probably matters most what your particular kid is ready to handle. That said, she's a girl, and the big issue seems to be boys and sports, which I think is pretty gross. Education first, people. Sports second.