Hugs for Laura, health ~ma for amyth, benefits ~ma for Dana.

Lighter note: I spent many hours at the salon getting my hair died blue/teal, so I've got my peacock colors back.

Yay for peacock shrift!

Yay, peacock hair shrift. That must look gorgeous!

It's Friday! Thessaly is supposed to come over after I pick up ltc from school.

Yay Thessaly!

I have been on my last nerve with work since about 7:35 am. This is going to be a long day. But it will end.

We have a company-wide "town meeting" scheduled for next week. I have been complaining that our new managing director has not given us much clue what our new director is, but now that he's apparently going to I'm all anxious that I won't like it. Ah well, out of my hands.

Good luck, -t.

Boo work and insurance stress.

I have created a new work space for myself. I had my computer set up on an end table in my living room prior to summer, but that pretty much had me on the computer all the time, even when socializing or watching tv. When I came back from NY I temporarily put my workstation on a couple tray tables in the corner of the living room so at least there was some separation between being on computer and being social. Yesterday I moved everything into my bedroom. Set up a 9 drawer vanity in front of the window as a desk and have my work phone, computer, scanner, etc all set up and actual drawers to keep stuff. View out the window of the park and lake. So now if I am eating, socializing, or watching tv I actually leave my desk and go elsewhere. And when I am at my desk there are fewer distractions. Whee!

I have been on my last nerve with work since about 7:35 am

SAAAAME. 7:35 am your time, at least. But it WILL end. (Will I have gotten everything done by then? TBD.)

Joining Laura's BOO on all the stressors.

That sounds like an excellent workspace redo!

This drives me nuts about candidates who want to 'build onto' employer-provided health care to reach universal coverage. If they mean it as a transitional thing, then okay, but I think wanting to keep that system is insane. I wish the Dems would make more of an issue how single-payer (or even a very heavily regulated public-private partnership) would make it so much easier for small businesses, for people wanting to start their own business, for contractors, and for a more fluid labor market.

I know the two I'm seriously considering (Harris and Warren) are both proposing exactly this--shifting to M4A (with private insurance as an optional add-on, as in many other countries) but recognizing that there's no way a big systemic change like that can happen overnight without causing at least as much chaos and misery as it solves; Harris's transition timeline is longer than Warren's, but they share the same end goal and IIRC Warren has even backed down a little and admitted that her 4-year timeline may be unrealistic and could end up being a lot more protracted.

But I have a whole lot less faith than you do in the ability of most of our fellow voters to listen to rational discussion of that issue or any other.

I just don't understand why big businesses aren't pushing to get healthcare off of their list of things to do. There is so much time spent administering the plans and it can take specialized staff that have nothing to do with your core business. I would think more companies would be rallying to get this out of their scope of responsibility.

Yeah, I don't understand that either. Unless the big non-healthcare companies are just sympathetic to the big healthcare companies and don't want to rock the boat?