Hi all! Midafternoon as I wander into the MMP for the first time today. I have read and processed everyone’s comments but will only feed back on a very few.
Congrats to all the good, and boo to the various vexations. Fortunately, it sounds like nobody here is having a crisis today. Yaay for that!
It’s amazing how much smoother commerce goes when the participants are willing to lie to the authorities about any inconvenient features of what they’re doing.
And that Polish language tee-shirt is great. Awesome find!
These were the exact same letter, just different dollar amounts. I think they sent the first, then by coincidence the very next day they processed my IRMAA numbers, changing everything, so they sent out a new one to revise the old one. Any bureaucracy is subject to the same kinds of timing risks, this was only funny / frustrating because it was a day apart, not 4 weeks later or whatever.
Yayay for both of you!! Now I just need some of that ambition to echo around over here. I did get some walking in.
“HBCU” is what now?
We’ve had shorter two-person “loveseats” for years; no room for a full-length couch in our TV-watching spots. My late first wife was 5’3" as well and loved sleeping in the love seat. New wife is even smaller 4’10", but could no more nap than flap her arms and fly.
As to me:
Was up pre-dawn balconatin’ and catching up on reading & such. A bit post-dawn went beaching (Great day for it) and returned 3 hours later to find Her Ladyship still asleep! Took my shower in the other bathroom and shortly thereafter she emerged. She sheveled then dual breakfasts right at the crack of 12 noon. Had a short talk with my PCP’s insurance billing lady because Medicare rejected my very first claim. Not a great omen. She wasn’t much concerned, said it sometimes takes a month or two before they realize your employee insurance has ended, so now they need to shoulder the primary burden. I’m chill as long as the PCP is.
Afterwards I launched off to do a mini-groc, the CVS, and to pick up my new spectacles with the revised prescription. Ref FCM’s complaints about Food Lion, there was a series of ginormous displays of Halloween themed cookies, pastries, candies, etc. obstructing the entrance to the groc store. Had to be 30 distinct SKUs of sugary evil. Quite the gauntlet to get past unscathed. But resist I did.
Last time a couple days ago they got to me for a bag of the pumpkin-shaped Reese’s peanut butter cups. More for Her Ladyship than me. I hope. 
Now home & slothin’ ‘til it’s feedin’ time agin.
Like Nellie’s experience, my new specs are a big improvement. Yaay us. My doc cranked up the reading correction to 2.5, which is probably about all you can get in progressives; to see for distance I now have to look aggressively out the very top of them to avoid looking through the beginnings of the close-up part. Between that and the astigmatism, there’s a lot of swimming in my peripheral vision when I turn my head. Going to be some getting-used to, but there always is. Overall, color me happy about the glasses, but less than happy about the unending march of age-related far-sightedness.
It grayed up and sprinkled a bit then has switched back to partly cloudy. Some chance of t-storms later, like almost always around here. A pleasant flavor of warm.
Now casting about a bit for an evening plan. It’ll come to us.
Cheers all!!