APPLIANCE UPDATE For the stunning conclusion to the broken dishwasher epic. I know, riveting saga...
Highly paid and anticipated electrician arrives; tears the machine front apart; lays on the floor and reaches in to.......put the plug back into the outlet-ARRRGGHHH. I know, I know we're paying for him knowing what to do first. The biggest hassle was reseating the dishwasher, with it's insulating coat wrapped around it, back into the teeny tiny space. He then says, so what else can I do for you today? Fortunately we had an outside light that needed to be replaced so that huge bill felt a little less foolish.
Good News-we now know how to tear the front off the machine and put the plug back into the outlet. Expensive week as I asked him back to re-situate an oddly placed light switch in the garage. Using it always forced one to edge around the screen door in the dark to reach the switch on the opposite wall tempting a tumble down concrete steps.
PEOPLE WIN What a good couple weeks for the good guys. Passed the Vet bill to cover their service related medical issues; chip bill passed bolstering domestic production (which rankled McConnel no end); successful slice and dice of al-Qaida leader Ayma al-Zawahiri; passed the first gun reform laws in decades and passage of a medical/climate/tax bill (which rankled all Repubs no end). I always wondered why Medicare, as the biggest payer of prescription drugs, never used it's buying power to obtain better prices. Businesses have created group policies forever for the same reason, not to mention other countries providing health care. Big duhh there. One also has to wonder why the repubs constantly stand against anything that helps their own constituents (all but the wealthy). They are certainly making hay over the infrastructure bill which is happily funneling money into their districts even though NOT ONE republican voted for it. Again duhhh.
To show how far the crazy has gone. Election deniers running for office are claiming victories before the votes are counted; claiming fraud when they come in fourth forcing recounts and my own relation warning us not to be conned at the recent drop in gas prices. In her reasoning, it was $2 cheaper two years ago - you know during the pandemic...when no one was driving. It runs deep.
VIVA LA DIFFERENCE Back to Medical costs. I had a lot of exposure to local doctors when performing workers' comp duties and was privy to the avarice (greed) that some doctors and employees were not ashamed to reveal in benefitting from a work-related injury. One already degreed person wanted us to fund a Doctorate so they could become a lawyer (to fight for further bennies I guess). This was along with the demand for a hot tub prescribed by the doctor-I'm not kidding. You want to know why medical insurance is so expensive? Claim an accident or injury as work related and see how high the bills climb. There are literally different cost charts for work-related incidents compared to other causes of injury. That is why I became the Queen of locating light-duty assignments. One emp was such a frequent injury-flyer he wanted me to make him supervisor of the injured workers I had assigned to light-duty jobs. Now that is what I call chutzpah. I have paid for shoes, chairs, alternative therapies, weight loss programs, masseuse', etc. in the quest for return-to-work. I just hated to give in, which some folk did not find especially laudable.
MORE MEDS! Running out of my anti-inflam script I got from the meanie surgeon consultation I requested it from my personal doc. I get an answer back within minutes that I needed to go to the person who prescribed it. As meanie surg was a one and done and my personal doc and I had spoken about the pill's effectiveness I knew the person who answered had not even talked to my doctor. I wrote one of my famously (read between the lines) complaint letters and got a response within minutes that my script had been called into the pharmacy. Pays to complain "constructively". Was someone trying to save the insurance company from paying my script? But then again my medical issue is not work-related.
AUGUST RAIN DOTH NOT HAVE THE SAME ROMANCE Both the OH and I have had our deluge moments this week. The August weather has been bizarre going from brain-boiling heat and humidity to monsoon. No gradual build-up. As the OH was in Home Depot when one hit, he happily perused the aisles until the all clear was imminent. Upon returning to the truck (which unfortunately was parked next to a drain) he was forced to wade through six inches of water. You know it took three days for those shoes to dry out. My own moment came shortly after I realized my sunglasses were no longer necessary as the fluffy white had turned to black and funnel shaped. Unfortunately I needed to use the ATM and the 20 foot run to the door was exhilarating to say the least and wet t-shirt competitive to say the worst. Note: Curly hair gets frizzy when wet without benefit of hair products and dryer. Oh well, bad style is better than no style I think.
Also, though only at the Lake for 24 hours, Fisherboy Joe managed to catch six channel cats, two nice sized bluegills and an "amost" legal bass. PEACE OUT....💙💛💙💛
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