Health Insurance

Today, as I was not busy, I decided to see whether I should shop for private health insurance, or stick with the crappy insurance offered to me by my firm. I pay about a grand a month in premiums. So I found an article linked by the title of this article. Therein is a website mentioned in the article, which is like a priceline for health insurance.  The really interesting thing is changing your zipcode to other states, and seeing how expensive New York is.‬

I think I'm sticking with my firm's crappy group policy.

Inspiration

"And if you feel that you can't go on. And you feel sick and low. Just believe that you can't go wrong. In the light, you will find the road."

Prednisone

It's fall, and Max's asthma is really bad. So is Jawbitch's. Max is taking Prednisone. It's making him a little wacky.

Max, with tapemeasure in hand: The foreigners cleaning my room are touching my stuff.
Jawbitch: You need to put your magic tricks away.
Max, measuring the bathroom walls: I need to put up some sheetrock and build a miniature room to put my stuff in so that they can't touch it.
Jawbitch: Why don't you go through all your toys, and get rid of the baby toys? Then you will have more room to put your stuff away.
Max: Good idea, Mom!
Jawbitch: Just make three piles: one for your little cousin Alex, one to give away, and one for stuff you throw away.
Max: ok . . .

Several hours later, Jawbitch inspects the piles. There's a small one for Alex, a large one for goodwill, and hardly anything in the throwaway pile.

Jawbitch: What's up with the giveaway pile? Most of these toys are broken. Other kids shouldn't get broken toys.
Max: That's ok, the church kids don't know any better anyway.

Tire Swing

Circuit City --Where the streets are paved with bargains?

Gram found a pile of gift cards that had been laying around, one from Circuit City. I drove to East Northport, which the store locator still indicated was open, a couple of weekends ago with the kids to use it, because they closed the store in Bayshore. It was closed.

So late last week, I decided to bring it into the city. The store was completely picked through. They were selling the fixtures. No joy.

So I walked over to a couple of sales associates remaining and asked them what I could do. They just ignored me, and continued their conversation reminiscing about the past.

Did you get any bargains at Circuit City? I would like to know -- please comment.

Ask for me, I tossed the card down at the associates' feets, grabbed a cart, and walked out. There's a bum I'd seen, hanging out at Bond45 who could probably use it.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Please Don't Release the Detainees, Mr. President!

NYT reports that a Saudi militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September, 2008. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists, that our country pays for in part, before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen. His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by an American counterterrorism official. "The lesson here is, whoever receives former Guantánamo detainees needs to keep a close eye on them," the American official said. Yeah, right.

Tell me, dear ACLU bleeding hearts, how can you "rehabilitate" a terrorist? This proves that you can't.

Mr. Obama, please allow our courts to try the terrorists, and when they are found guilty, sentence them accordingly.

G-man

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

What a dummy

I think the Verizon tech fixed a cabling problem that led to my Internet woes. Time will tell.

Meanwhile, the cleaning folks knocked out power to my clock. I reset it last night. This morning, I felt especially tired. Then I noticed the kitchen clock was off by an hour. Then I noticed all the clocks were off by an hour. Then I noticed my watch was off by an hour. Too many clocks to be a coincidence. Boy am I tired.