When I cleaned out the refrigerator at my old apartment, I found five (!) bottles of wine I'd forgotten about. Now if I could only find my corkscrew ....
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Jul 31, 2020 5:33:56 am PDT #24308 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Jul 31, 2020 6:29:03 am PDT #24309 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dammit, Tep, now I'm filled with anger over the whole stupid charging people for needing medical care system we have. It's based in wrongness and implemented terribly in just about every way it possibly could and I hate it so much! Argh!
My life insurance bill is due next week and I am unsure how I'm going to pay it (I think I pay it annually, but possibly semi-annually, but maybe I can switch it to monthly because while it's not a lot out of my annual salary it is a big chunk out of my paycheck) but now is NOT the time to be letting life insurance lapse, right? It's a pretty small policy, just meant to help my heirs (that sounds so fancy for the people who will have to deal with my debts and sell my house) cover short-term expenses (like the funeral I still haven't arranged although I have the burial plot and the headstone...), it would be REALLY IRRESPONSIBLE for me to not have it
Score, Toddson! Corkscrew~ma. I actually got a free corkscrew from a travel agency that I visited on my last public outing before shelter at home (that is to say, the last time I attended an organized public thing, not the last time I went out in public at all) and it has come in very handy
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2020 6:42:30 am PDT #24310 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
The big spend items this summer have been a new HVAC system after ours burned out and medical bills. Fun times.
My crazy purchase was a 1:300 Lego-knock-off model of the U.S.S. Enterprise (WWII not Star Trek). To put together this week while I am on vacation.
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2020 6:43:45 am PDT #24311 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I also bought some new underwear, but one of my dogs has taken bites out of most them so I also got a hamper and more new underwear.
-t - Jul 31, 2020 7:14:09 am PDT #24312 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Whoa, that lego Enterprise is awesome!
amyparker - Jul 31, 2020 7:44:52 am PDT #24313 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Oh, Tep, I hear that - my parents were (and are!) a shining example of "how not to be" around money. Have you or Tim received any "explanation of benefits" statements online from your insurance company?
Laura - Jul 31, 2020 8:02:46 am PDT #24314 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I inherited none of my mother's financial skills. A depression child, she was incredibly frugal. My dad worked for the state as a civil engineer, so middle class, but not big bucks by any means, and mom didn't work for income. Still, they put 4 kids through Catholic schools, had 2 homes and 2 cars all my life. She canned fruits and vegetables, bought half cows and froze stuff. When dish soap was on sale she got a dozen, and so forth. Dad did have good health and retirement benefits so that wasn't an issue. We never really wanted for anything and they had a comfortable retirement.
That said, I inherited none of her sensible habits. At all.
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2020 8:08:07 am PDT #24315 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
Whoa, that lego Enterprise is awesome!
HMS Warspite is the one I was really wanted, but it isn't available right now, but the Enterprise is still pretty cool.
Steph L. - Jul 31, 2020 8:21:45 am PDT #24316 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Have you or Tim received any "explanation of benefits" statements online from your insurance company?
Yeah, pretty soon after the surgery, although right now I can't remember what the EOB said our portion is. I just really expected the hospital and/or surgeon to have billed us by now.
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2020 8:27:40 am PDT #24317 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I had a physicians group send us to a collection agency before we even got a bill. Upon contacting them, they started sending bills, but the amounts kept changing. That was from a case where I went to an ER that was in-network but was seen by a doctor from a physicians group that was out-of-network. Gave me a real appreciation for how f*cked up medical billing is.