I do know a lot of the cost of Hubby's treatments were the cost of the materials. He was getting cool stuff like puff adder venom and extract of rare tree barks and I think a couple of spider venoms. They weren't expecting someone who could read the Latin. By the end he probably could have survived being bitten by 90% of the world's venomous creatures. Or 5% of what lives in Australia.

The latest Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery had a funnel web spider as the murder weapon. And Phrynne is desperately afraid of spiders. Jack was very cruel to her about that.

He was getting cool stuff like puff adder venom and extract of rare tree barks and I think a couple of spider venoms. They weren't expecting someone who could read the Latin.

Tim cannot know about this, because he'd totally go for it.

Tim cannot know about this, because he'd totally go for it.

It's like a very ghoulish bingo. But like Keith Richards, Hubby had trained for years on having exotic chemicals dumped into his system. He was actually kind of sad not to get the medical marijuana, because that was the only box he wasn't getting on the quarterly drug test.

My latest eShakti wish list, which I am looking at instead of working:

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Epic, all my best wishes to you and your mom. I'm sorry you're feeling so overwhelmed and worrying about this scary situation. Remember you have us, for what it's worth.

Here is why I don't believe in office birthday celebrations: One team here does them a LOT. I just learned it's because the boss likes it. Well, the assistant just found out today that his birthday? Was last Wednesday. She didn't know! So they didn't do anything for him, and now she's mortified.

"I'm 57, I don't know this computer stuff." If he annoys me any further, I think I'll say "I'm 55, and I fix this computer stuff."

I have fist-bumped some older female passengers (i.e. as old as me or older) when they have been especially cluefull about using ride-sharing, cellphones or GPS.

(GPS in particular is problematic when it comes to mapping addresses, since sometimes it goes by the absolute lat/long, so if the address says 200 Clarendon, and you're at the far end of the building on say Trinity Place, guess where it sends your poor innocent Lyft driver? The smart passenger double-checks where the pickup point has landed....)

I get that R&D costs are high, but I still don't understand the point of pricing a drug so high that no one can afford it without assistance. Just price it lower in that case.

It's not just blatant greed, but it is all the ridiculously confusing people who are trying to influence payment options. My insurance is excellent and Grace's super expensive meds have no copay for us. So the idiotic pricing is a result of insurance insanity.

Timelies all!

It's Monday. It's Monday after a weekend where I didn't get to sleep in at all.(First panel at the con I was commuting to was 9 am, and I gave myself extra time because Metro.)