I’ve had UHC for the last 20 years. Including dealing with the final very expensive decade of my late first wife. Never had problem 1.
No guarantee that won’t be totally different now that I’m under the Medicare umbrella versus my former employer’s umbrella.
We shall see.
My waist is down an inch. Go me! I’ve cut out cookies/candy/crunchy snacks and have been hitting the gym 3 times a week. I still have a long way to go but I’m going in the right direction.
@Jack_Batty, the Crater Lake pics are great. Bob certainly has grown.
It’s 2:10 PM ET and I’m back in my “just like it was before” home office! Yay!! So nice to be comin’ at ya from my home computer again (vs the work computer I’ve been using since Wednesday morning). 
I love this… 
Yay!! 
Well the selling my self to the board of directors went ok, I think. They want a break down of what the costs will be. And some other nit-picky things. I dunno…the thing isn’t fully designed yet. A third for design and graphics, a third for materials, and a third for labor.
And now there’s a squirrel in a wall in my shop. I contacted the landlord but haven’t heard back yet.
Got a notice from management today telling us that someone is actively trying to scam residents in the building by calling and representing herself as the business office woman and telling people that there is a problem with their banking information. And another lower form of life crawls out of the sewer.
I have words. I have many MANY words. None of these are nice words, so I will refrain, but I’m sure thinking them really loudly.
Not really surprising, you are a true master craftsman and your work is already well known. I hope you make lots of money!
Currently I’m waiting to hear if our housekeeper needs a ride to the community center to enter her grands into the cookie contest and then I’ll head off with my entry.
Yes, the plastic wrap doesn’t look very neat. I know this. I have never been able to understand why that shit sticks to everything including itself until you manage to get an unmangled piece wrapped around something and then it refuses to stick to anything.
GG and VBC are currently out in the catio enjoying the sunny day (87F) so Draco was left unattended. I brushed most of the cat hairs off for his photo shoot.
Thank you again, FCM! It’s super cute and looks like it is going to hold up to being mauled on a regular basis.
Housekeeper doesn’t need a ride, so off I go.
I thought about asking what his porn name was, but that might be a bit much for MMPs delicate sensibilities.
JtC Oooh chocolate crack-ups! I loved making those when I was a kid. The waiting for the dough to cool in the fridge was torture.
On the morrow we embark upon a voyage to the Northern Latitudes on the good ship Bliss.
We’ll take the cats to Cat Country Resort, where Tonka and Creamsickle had pleasant stays, this afternoon. Goo and Abbey hated it last year, which was their first stay. They get along much better than they did then, so I hope they’ll have fun. I always hate boarding pets. They don’t know why they’re being taken out of their home, they don’t know why they’re being ‘abandoned’, and they don’t know that ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ are coming back.
I found that recipe online and instantly remembered cooking with Grandma. They taste like nostalgia
I also found a recipe for Divinity that looks very close to what I remember making back then and will be giving it a try soon.
Afternoon all. Swimming and Sauna are completed, the digital scale in the men’s dressing room was a little…confusing…today, before exercise it said I was 243.2lbs, then after swimming, whirlpool and sauna/shower, it showed 239.2lbs, and a couple minutes later, after drying out my swimsuit (they have a spinning machine that does it pretty well), it showed 241.0lbs. So my weight is somewhere in that range.
77F outside, nearly a record for this time of year, so refereeing should be a pleasant duty. Team pictures are available for pickup tomorrow at 8am, since my first game is at 8:30am, need to make sure I am there and first in line.
FCM, we had a dachshund when I was a kid, some contractors wouldn’t come in the house until she was put in the bedroom or somewhere away from them. Little dogs are fierce!
shoe, hope the road work is minor. And yeah, plastic(?) not wooden shades, but I do have a some socks/rags that I can expend on it. Will try it…sometime…
cookie, hope wife is feeling better. And fie! on scammers.
Oopsie, glad house-irk is done for the time being. Wish we had a knife-sharpener coming by, mine could use it, and enjoy the music.
doggio, enjoy the debauchery this weekend.
wet one, great news about the waistline. Of course, then there’s all the clothes that you have to replace… I’m getting close to going from a 44" waist on my Jeans (flex) to a 42", which would be a noticeable step forward for me. Keeping working at it.
VanGo, hope both the estimates and the squirrel end up as positive stories.
JtC, those cookies are perfect for the season…as long as they don’t grow legs and start wandering… 
Flyboy, safe travels and the Cats will forgive you…eventually.
OK, need to finish up here and get myself read to referee. Also need to work on the lineups for tomorrow, not sure if I’ll have 11 or 12 players for my 12U team (teams at this age play 9 v 9) so will have to make up a couple of alternative lineups. Also bought a Firday NY Times, so there are puzzles to be solved! Take care all.
Afternoon all. I’ve just been hanging out at home today. Midterms just happened for college, and I’ve been doing pretty alright all things considered. Tomorrow I’m going to be visiting my sister for the day - I’m really excited for it.
Another chapter in BIL saga today. He got a statement in the mail from the hospital - not a bill, but the breakdown of what his last hospitalization cost, totaling something over $20K. He, however, thought it was a bill and he went off the deep end, threatening to kill himself again. He’d called his mom who called FCD who went over to the apt. Apparently BIL was pacing in front of the building and fell or collapsed or something - FCD thinks it was faked - and the front office called EMTs. When they arrived, BIL kept saying he wanted to die, so off to the hospital they took him.
Meanwhile, FCD found the POA and medical POA that he has for his bro - the originals - and he took them with him to the hospital. We don’t know at the moment if they’re going to put him back in the behavioral unit or not, but I’ll be surprised if they don’t. He claims to have taken pills, but couldn’t or wouldn’t say what they were or anything. Bottom line, my sweetie is stuck in the hospital till something gets figured out. And as hateful as this may sound, sometimes I just wish BIL would carry thru with his threats and be done with it. He’s not a happy person, he refuses any sort of help, he refuses to help himself, and he’s mostly just a major stressor to his mother and to us. That or he needs to be in a facility with people who know how to handle people like him.
It’s all flavors of frustrating.
And FCD just called - he’s leaving in the morning to go get his mother - she wants to come home. So I hope they do keep BIL at least for a few days. Otherwise he falls in my lap.
Yep, frustrating…
Howdy Y’all! The goin’ out to feed thing did not happen for me. I’m not quite wantin’ to eat big just yet. So OYKW went to the DQ to get sump’n to eat and got me a single burger with just mustard and ketchup, along with a small fries. I et the burger and a few of the fries and that was enough. He offered to get me a Blizzard, but I said not for me. Of course, I told him to get himself one if he wanted. Don’t feel like I can handle dairy just yet. I achieved nappage and watched some sermons by potential Priest. I’m sure I’ll be able to handle the interview tomorrow and Presidin’ at Morning Prayer on Sunday. Maybe I’ll want more foodstuffs tomorrow. We shall see.
GodBod glad kolledge is still goin’ well. Have fun visitin’ sis!
FlyBoy have a safe trip. The kittehs will forgive you eventually.
Everything happening just sucks, but put your foot down on this one. If they start talking discharge before MIL gets back tell them bluntly that you will not be responsible for BIL. Things would go south very quickly otherwise.
Best of luck no matter whatever happens.
UHC harassed me for more than three years.
Before I retired I signed up for a phone plan and got a new phone. Until then I had a company paid cell phone and I knew they would not let me take it with me into retirement.
The phone number I received used to belong to an elderly African American lady. Laverne S. had UHC. by the end of the first day of owning that phone I started to get calls for her from UHC. Most of them were Robocalls, but some were made by actual human beings. Each time I got a human being I carefully explained that I was not Laverne S and that I would appreciate it if they would correct this at their end. Sometimes a month would go by but eventually the calls would start up again.
I started doing research and called their headquarters. Every person I talked to would tell me that they had fixed the problem but the calls did not stop. Eventually I got through to a regional manager. I explained the issue and he swore to me that he had it solved. He gave me his contact info. The calls continued. I called him back a few times and then decided to take it up a notch.
I filed a complaint with my State Insurance Commission and CC’d his email. That was it. The calls tapered off and then stopped.
I occasionally get calls for Laverne or her family, mostly from older African American women. A few of them have tried to recruit me into the Jehovah Witnesses, but they are pretty harmless.
It’s amazing the recipes that one can find online. My family had a recipe for mincemeat pie, the no meat type of filling. But it was canned and I never learned how to do that. Then I found a recipe that looks and tastes just like it, but I don’t have to can it, just bake it in the pie.
JtC what recipe did you use for the crinkle cookies?
I used this one minus the expresso powder. They would probably be very good with it, but that would detract from the nostalgia.
Let me know how it comes out please. Mom used to buy a cube of something and mixed it with brown sugar and raisins to make a wonderful meatless mincemeat pie. I’m still irritated that she didn’t offer me her old cookbooks before she got rid of them 10 or 15 years ago but of course I don’t say anything to her about it.
Oh I have made it several times and that’s how I know it’s good. If you want the recipe I can type it out for you.