Random Thoughts XII - This Thread Delivers

[CycloneErik]

One bad result of the vixen's job change: we have to go on new insurance. She had very good health insurance at her old job, so good that we switched over from my company's (who pays the vast majority of the premium). My company even picked up what we had to pay, since it was much cheaper than covering both of us in full. (I told you I work for a great bunch of people!)

But now we are looking at higher premiums, higher deductibles, higher out-of-pocket, etc. I'm just hoping I can make it to Medicare before this whole thing implodes. (Of course, Medicare will probably be defunct by then.)

Wow. That's really amazing.
We have insurance that's roughly a rent payment per month for Rev and Z. It covers annual checkups and nothing else unless we reach a deductible high enough that we'd be homeless. In other words, it's a total sham on our end.

 

[BCClone]

Wow. That's really amazing.
We have insurance that's roughly a rent payment per month for Rev and Z. It covers annual checkups and nothing else unless we reach a deductible high enough that we'd be homeless. In other words, it's a total sham on our end.

I have something a little similar. Myself and the three kids have a 3500 deductible. Annual physicals and immunes are covered otherwise nothing else until 3500 then nothing else out of my pocket. It's a little over a grand a month. If I went to my wife's family plan, she has single covered, it would be 1300 some/month for the premium. Have to stay on by ourselves.

 

[SCyclone]

Wow. That's really amazing.
We have insurance that's roughly a rent payment per month for Rev and Z. It covers annual checkups and nothing else unless we reach a deductible high enough that we'd be homeless. In other words, it's a total sham on our end.

Disliked cuz totally wrong, especially for families like yours. Sometimes I think socialized medicine would be the answer, but then I hear horror stories about people waiting for months and/or traveling hundreds of miles for treatment or diagnosis.

 

[SCyclone]

Twins canned molitor, how long has he been there? Two or three years? Seemed his rope was way shorter than gardy.

Yep, he was a victim of a perfect storm of underperformance. I think the Twins brass perceived that he really didn't communicate well with the younger players, particularly the non-Caucasian ones. (Sorry if that sounds racist, I really didn't mean it to.)

 

[BCClone]

Disliked cuz totally wrong, especially for families like yours. Sometimes I think socialized medicine would be the answer, but then I hear horror stories about people waiting for months and/or traveling hundreds of miles for treatment or diagnosis.

I know this was several years ago, but I had an uncle who was a trucker (up until he died) and he broke his arm in Canada. He went to the hospital and was told that they could work him in to have it set and casted in a couple weeks. He wandered back out to his truck, drove back to the U.S. and got it taken care of at the first hospital he found. Don't know if this was because he was from out of country or not. I know (from the ambulance) that country of origin means nothing for treatment time here.

 

[stormchaser2014]

Train car on fire just outside of town. 3,800 gallons of a flammable liquid.
Edit: Fire out, no explosions or anything.

 

[SCyclone]

Train car on fire just outside of town. 3,800 gallons of a flammable liquid.
Edit: Fire out, no explosions or anything.

What town do you live in, Chaser? Just curious.

 

[CycloneErik]

I have something a little similar. Myself and the three kids have a 3500 deductible. Annual physicals and immunes are covered otherwise nothing else until 3500 then nothing else out of my pocket. It's a little over a grand a month. If I went to my wife's family plan, she has single covered, it would be 1300 some/month for the premium. Have to stay on by ourselves.

I think it's 8800 here.
If we add me, we're actually homeless and we can't afford the deductible.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Ladies from the Netherlands have the cutest darn accent. I could listen to them talk all day.

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QFT.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Yep, he was a victim of a perfect storm of underperformance. I think the Twins brass perceived that he really didn't communicate well with the younger players, particularly the non-Caucasian ones. (Sorry if that sounds racist, I really didn't mean it to.)

If I was hiring a manager today I'd place a high premium on someone who was multilingual. Same for any pitching coach. Of course a lot of the players who don't interview in English still speak/understand enough for baseball game purposes but fluency in Spanish would really help build relationships and communications. One of Didi Gregorius's (Yankee SS) most impressive stats is that he speaks five languages.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Hope you made it home at a decent time! When I started college, one of the things that surprised me was the straightened of IACounty/rural roads. My part of IL is the same as WI, lots of curvy roads! I think maybe ne ia is similar because they are similarly hilly

SE Iowa, close to the Missouri border (boarder? ) is pretty curvy in places also.

 

[VeloClone]

SE Iowa, close to the Missouri border (boarder? ) is pretty curvy in places also.

As is the NE corner of Iowa. You get in the hills and it doesn't make sense to go out of you way to making straight roads.

Oops, now I see that I missed CG's post where she mentioned NE Iowa and the hill connection.

 

[VeloClone]

Twins are under new(er) management and they wanted their own guy so they were looking for an excuse to let him go. They would have done it last year but you can't let the AL manager of the year go right after he wins the award.

 

[jcyclonee]

Twins are under new(er) management and they wanted their own guy so they were looking for an excuse to let him go. They would have done it last year but you can't let the AL manager of the year go right after he wins the award.

Especially if he's a popular and likable hometown hero that used to have a cocaine problem and who's wife is a former stripper from Toronto.

 

[BCClone]

Especially if he's a popular and likable hometown hero that used to have a cocaine problem and who's wife is a former stripper from Toronto.

All that true?

 

[VeloClone]

For most of my life, I couldn’t parallel park. Once I moved to Hawaii, I didn’t have a choice. If you can’t parallel park, you’re going to be walking 5 miles from your car to your house if you don’t have designated parking. And in Minnesota it continued as I had street parking. So I’ve become such a pro at it that I can just whip right into spots without even thinking about it.

Tonight, it’s like I totally forgot how to do it. I kept pulling in and out of the spot trying to park probably two dozen times. It got to the point that I actually had to put my car in park and try to reset my mind. So freaking weird.

I can parallel park on the right side of a street with the best of them, but I have to think a lot harder on the left side of a street.

 

[CloneLawman]

All that true?

Does Aramis ever say anything that is untrue?

 

[jcyclonee]

All that true?

He's lucky he survived Wisconsin and Canada.

 

[jcyclonee]

Does Aramis ever say anything that is untrue?

I am but a simple man of the cloth.

 

[BCClone]

Had a neighbor who married a “dancer”. She was a very vulgar, nasty, mean woman. She was a school secretary.