That is the garage, courtesy of our spiffy new digital camera. Hard to believe we finally joined the twentieth century when it comes to photography. (I hear that internet thing is going to be big, someday, too). We no longer have an excuse not take pictures. The daughters are psyched about the new toy but they will have to be patient for a little while longer.
As you can see, the garage is packed to the rafters. Must give credit where credit is due. I was certain that there wouldn't be enough room to fit everything from the storage, but the proof is in the camera. The Bride did a fantastic job organizing the place. (BTW: the people at Staples are helpful, but their greeter is much too perky. She was scaring people with her loud cheerfulness when they came in the door.)
Fairly productive day for being on annual. Took a one-mile ride to the Kinkead building to pick up the truck and took Trina's bike into the Shop so The Bride can use it. It'll have a new seat and a bike computer because she deserves the best. Spent some time at the college to try to fix the book order thing and found they're as organized as usual. Got some blood drawn by an excellent vampire (felt nothing from the needle) and had Chinese with the Bride.
The health insurance debate is important but never really took center stage with me because I've been lucky and have stayed out of the hospital. Last February, I had an emergency appendictomy and got charged (not kidding) $20,468.62 for the experience. This includes pelvic and abdominal CAT scans ($2,381), an overnight stay in the OB ward ($1,249), some time in the recovery room ($1,143) and, oh yeah, the operation itself ($11,371). The anesthetic and other mind-numbing drugs were extra. Got the bill today for all of this with the insurance taken out: $249.53 or about one percent of the original charges. Considering everything that could have happened, I'll pay this bill without (much) grumbling.
[Pause in blog writing while I work on the OFFL web site, run errands, and generally chill. Also need recovery time from Chinese food buffets...bloated...bleh...]
I let a nitwit under my skin this afternoon. He's a fellow owner in my fantasy football league and has the maturity of....ah, there I go again. It's always better to take the high road. I put the little snot on my spam list and his email will go straight to the dumper from now on.
Bill King is the voice of the Oakland Athletics and there are times I know he's not watching the same game the rest of us are seeing. Listening to him on the radio, he once said the A's are 4-51 when entering the ninth inning and behind in the score, which in his opinion was "pretty good," even though that means the A's lose 92% of the time. Tonight he was talking about a Mariner batter who crowds the plate and struck out on an outside pitch, which he amended about three seconds later to say it was an inside pitch. The man is a goof on the mike.
Madison Week 1 lineup:
QB Carr
RB Holmes
RB James
WR Givens
WR Johnson, Andre
TE Johnson, Eric
K Feely
D/ST Jets, Jets, Jets
Distance: 0.90 miles
Time: 00:05:35 minutes
Six Weeks Until the USN
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