Stocking up on MMPs

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I have been down the rabbit hole of Medicare. Holy frick. However, after talking to various insurance reps who were reading off scripts and/or seemed like they were probably playing games on their phone while I was asking questions, I found one that was extremely nice, very thorough, and seems to know his stuff. His company offers the second-cheapest option. I’m waiting for a call back from my eye doc. One of my eye meds is VERY expensive, and having been on others of the same kind, I’m hoping to get switched to something cheaper, which will allow me better Part D options.

After September 20th, I hope I never turn 65 again. Too much hassle.

Mom, I’ve had similar experiences with friends who were once conservatives but who’ve drunk the un-Kool-Aid and gone radical. It’s horrible, like they got possessed by demons or something. :frowning: They’re not the same caring people I knew.

swampy, hope you get the hardware issues figured out. I bet Tom would hate this being such a hassle for you.

shoe, yay for good friends and forgiving–or at least easily distracted–kitties! Are you supposed to self-isolate if you’re vaccinated and were then exposed to COVID? Maybe it depends on whether or not you were masked and distanced? Or maybe just get tested? It looks like the odds of your getting really sick with the Delta variant (IF that’s what she has) would be very remote, but of course you wouldn’t want to spread it to others. Ugh. A pox on this pandemic. Glad your friend will be OK.

MetalMouse, good on ya for getting tested before soccer starts up again.

Kid goats are cute. I’m not overly fond of the adults, having had unhappy experiences with them, but live and let live. I like seeing geese fly or float around a lagoon, but having been chased by some larger ones, I prefer watching from a distance. But hey, they’re geese. It’s their job to be cranky.

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metal mouse for some reason I had thought you were in Warshington, had no idea you were in Ali-bamy. Makes your soccer doings more impressive, considering the heat/humidity.
swampy best of luck on the problematic screw, and regards to Tom.

We had a goat briefly at a theatre I worked at. He was a prop for a show. His name was Tom, as in Stoppard. I think we were doing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The goat was very nice.

As for me, I’m having troubles getting motivated to do, well, anything. I made it over to the shop and have processed two slabs o’ lumber, but actually finishing something doesn’t seem to be in the cards today. Depression sucks. I’ve actually gotten an email for some new work, still can’t get motivated.

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FCD keeps threatening to get goats, or alpacas, or llamas, or chicken, or pigs… he reads local ads and drives me crazy!!! :crazy_face: My goat and sheep encounters have been at petting zoos, so no butting, just begging for whatever the snacks from the gumball-type machines are.

I’ve done the sewing project for FCD, but I’m not going to make the preggo dress today. I did vacuum the office/nursery and I moved all the baby clothes into the changing table that used to be the printer table after it was Roxy’s changing table. I’m going to pull something out of the freezer for supper, then I intend to assume the reading position for a while. Because I can.

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Well, drat… I’m in the midst of making a couple knockoffs of the red leather coat that Kurt Russell wore as Santa in The Christmas Chronicles, and I need more leather. My estimates collided with a couple small holes in the hide. Such is life when you’re trying to get large pieces out of random cows. Off to the warehouse for more…

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Got myself a rye Old Fashioned, with cherries, without orange peel. No stirfry though, redneck or otherwise.

It’s raining. Again. We, here in Luzern, set a record for the rainiest July ever in Luzern. More than 12.5 inches of rain in one month. And it’s still raining!

Got my hair done (cut and color) today. Nice to do something other than work and watch it rain. Or listen to the rain.

We are in transition phase at work, which means I’m still doing all my old tasks and have to hand over most of those tasks.

They use sheep around here to keep the grass short, and some people use chickens to keep the slugs and snails in check. Seems it’s possible to rent almost anything.

Guess I should go forage. I don’t think rye whisky is a food group.

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Chickie strips in the air fryer. Salads to be assembled once FCD gets home. That will be supper.

And Anna Pigeon got shot again, then she set the shooter on fire. :open_mouth:

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The Four Basic Food Groups are Fat, Sugar, Caffeine and Alcohol. Rye would definitely fit in the latter group.

BTW, that means Irish Coffee is the Perfect Superfood!

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Howdy Y’all! Groceries got procured and stowed away. I accomplished necessary church janitor Junior Warden duties, had a chat with EYP about stuff to deal with/assist with while he is on vacation (he’s leavin’ this evenin’ for Iceland), and, most important of all, got Tom plopped down! HUZZAH! I called upon a fellow parishoner who owns every known tool and probably a few he invented. He knew exactly what to do. We got together, uttered a few words one should not say on Hallowed Ground, and got the dang thing out. FINALLY!

nellie I imagine ol’ Tom has had a few giggles over the problem screw. I mean. gettin’ to make trouble on this mortal coil one last time. Who would not get some kicks outta that! I know I would!

I know one mini-goat, Bob the Goat who is the mascot of the Mighty Yard Goats challenger league kickball team. We all love Bob the Goat. There were goat’s on my uncle’s farm that I spent a good deal of time at growin’ up. I kinda always liked 'em. They pretty much won the stinky animal contest however.

Bumba hope all went well in the end. HAR! I am sure you are home and chillin’ out by now.

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I just got done patching up overlygirl. She & her brother were going to ride their bikes to the store (masks in hand/on faces) and buy some candy while I was going to pretend I didn’t know. She made it around the corner before she fell off on a steep downhill and came back with two scraped elbows, a blistered thumb, a bump on her chin, road rash on her hip and a small cut on her knee.

She seems ok, but I sure am glad we have a follow up orthopedic appointment Friday from the last break (she once broke 6 bones in a year). I’d take her to urgent care, but the scrapes are what’s bothering her now and our local urgent care is useless for anything other than UTIs and covid testing. I don’t think she broke anything, but given her propensity toward breakage, I think we should check but skip the middle man.

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I went to the office today (for the last time until they re-lift the indoor masking requirement): I left at 4pm, went to the grocery store, and got home a little after 5pm. An hour later I’m about to eat some dinner, and will chill until my 7pm meeting about the proposal I’m working on. The deadline for the preliminary review is “COB today” (= any time before midnight), and I thought I’d rather take a break and get home and spend a little time with the doggy and then go back online. I don’t mind the occasional super long day like this…as long as it’s occasional. :slight_smile:

I will turn 50 on September 21st. :smiley:

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So, so you put the old fashioned in the sauce doggio?

Good on you for setting up the class oopsie.

{{{gotti and mama}}}

sari, it’s not just kissing the goats on the lips. During my dippy hippy days (BTW, anyone heard from hippie lately?), we kept a couple of milk goats (Esmarelda and Molly) who we switched up breeding. One day when my dad was visiting, he noticed the rash on my right cheek and asked about it. I told him I didn’t know and he just chuckled and asked which cheek I rested on the goat’s side when I milked. It was the right. :stuck_out_tongue: He said that he used to get the same thing from milking cows.

{{{VanGo}}} Depression bites.

Yay on gettin’ Tom plopped swampy!

Irked, swung through the CU after for a cashier’s check for rent, since they screwed up the amount for it online (doubled it, essentially) and didn’t have the option to change the amount. I’ll be glad to get shed of this place next year. I love the apartment, but am sick of poor management and having to fight to get maintenance done.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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DONE with Medicare crud except for signing a form when it arrives. Thank Gawd Almighty. I wouldn’t wish it on a…goat. Or a goose. The agent I worked with did make it a whole lot easier once I got to that point. It’s all you have to figure out prior that could drive one to drink. After I finish transcribing all my notes into a tidy info sheet for my future reference (and my daughter’s, once I kick it), I shall head to the gym to work out kinks in stomach from all this.

wordy, yikes on poor overlygirl. And she didn’t even get her candy! :frowning: Hope she heals fast and well and has no broken bones. My daughter once had a bike wreck on a steep slope and went through a barbed wire fence: 42 cuts that couldn’t be stitched because barbed wire has a 100% infection rate if stitched, ER doc said. Thank heavens for bike helmets, eh?

VanGo, I hope the depression lifts soonest.

:face_with_raised_eyebrow: I hope OYKW has been forewarned.

I was JUST wondering that exact thing this morning! I hope he’s OK.

And you see how well we both turned out!

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Sounds like he could be a relative of mine, or at least a kindred spirit. I’ve “invented” a few tools over the years. But the important bit is you got Tom where he needed to be.

The leather warehouse knew I was coming and cleverly extracted $627 from me. And that’s at wholesale cost. :exploding_head: :money_with_wings: Figured we might as well get the leather to reupholster PWAISDN’s antique barber chair. Sooner I get that done, the sooner it can be out of my garage.

No word yet on mom’s procedure…

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Rough day at irk. Problematic data, and then… Somehow I delete data from high-priority members. Microsoft makes it entirely too easy to fat-finger things, and then makes it impossible to undo it. (Yes, I did crtl_z.) I finally found the emails. Somehow I’d deleted them. They were not ‘unread’., but since I had them flagged as high-priority the Subject lines were red and I was able to move them back to the inbox.

I’ve had two ginnintonics. For dinner, I boiled some peeled shrimp with Old Bay seasoning. Mrs. L.A. made cocktail sauce out of catsup and horseradish.

Rebooked our sail on Lady Washington out of Bellingham for the 20th.

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So I was on smalls, in Irregs, and bounced back and forth between 2 PDCs loading package cars. They are getting so dependent on me saving the day, the hub may burn now on my vacation in a week and a half. Negroni tonight, with Italian chicken and cheesey potato rounds and rosemary garlic green and yellow waxed beans.

Then we’d both get sauced. :wink:

Youngster. :stuck_out_tongue: (dogbutler, who turned 50 in Febuary)

Wordy, eek for overlygirl.

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I got lucky - I talked with someone who figured out pretty quickly that I’m better off keeping my retirement insurance because the supplemental plans available in Merrylande would be more expensive than what I have with worse coverage. So when FCD gets his application done next month, he won’t have to figure things out like I did.

His second knee will be covered under Medicare. So there’s that.

Almost bedtime. I’m ready…

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Evening all. Worked out with the soccer coaches and managed to fall down (dribbling a size 3 soccer ball with is about 60% the size of a regulation soccer ball is not as easy as it looks). Not hurt but a bit sore in a couple places, need to take a larger soccer ball with me if I keep going to these. Came home to fix some soup-n-sammich so I am well-stuffed for the evening.

FCM, I am doing the same thing, keeping my Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage from work along with my Medicare, and it seems to have been working well. Of course, I haven’t needed to have anything replaced…yet.

flyboy, glad you were able to recover the data. Can still remember some nightmares from work.

gotti, you’re really into this leather thing, aren’t you?

nellie, glad you have the Medicare stuff done.

wordy, hope overlygirl’s bruises is all the damage done. Thought for a time about getting a bike for my retirement, but not to thrilled with falling…

Oopsie, you’re still a young’un here (68 myself).

swampy, glad to know Old Tom is safely ensconced in his new (and final) home.

VanGo, born in Ohio, lived there and in Indiana, Missouri, and Abu Dhabi but been here since 2003. And hope you climb up the valley you’re in…we’re her for you.

OK, need to shred a pile of paper and get the garbage out for the Thorsday pickup, so all y’all take care.

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Like you would never imagine. I used to be a tailor at the big leather shop in San Francisco. My “thing” there was being able to make a pair of 501-style leather pants in four hours.

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Everyone needs a hobby, right gotti? I, personally, only do needlework which just takes thread and canvas. It doesn’t take a lot of room and isn’t really terribly costly unless you use fancy thread and fabric. Not at all like hubs’ Harley Davidson hobby. That takes up an entire building and one fender costs almost as much as my latest stitching project.

I has a sad for poor overlygirl, skinned knees and no candy. Plus, now mom won’t be so willing to pretend she doesn’t notice the little overlies “sneaking” off for candy next time.

My tech toys are a rather argumentative bunch and don’t get along well. The latest issue is printer breaking up with comp. I loaded the patterns on a flash drive and took them to the library to be printed. The nice young lady printed them and told me that because of the COVID surge, the library was closing its doors again tomorrow and if I needed to do anything else now would be a good time.

That also gave me a sad.

George makes us laugh so much. VBC needs her name to be changed to VGC because she is so good with him. Today, 5 lb George pounced 15 lb VBC and she just fell over while he tried to tear her neck out. She is a very bad actress, that was the hokiest fall I’ve ever seen.

We’ve been laughing a whole lot more now that we have a kitten. Of course, we have been yelling GIT DOWN a lot more as well, but that comes with the territory.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and mostly clear (slightly murky?) with a predicted high of 91 and cloudy(ish) with maybe rain this afternoon. Or not. TWPTB are once again all willy-nilly. The big plan of the’ day is to assist with mowage over to the church house this mornin. Other than that much sloth is planned. Sup shall be my world famous Eyetalian Chikin, green beans, scalloped N.O.T. and rolls.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I shall make myself presentable enough to head over and mow. Fortunately grass does not expect one to exactly be purtified.

Happy Thursday Y’all!