The other day at Publix I saw these Tide-to-Go Instant Stain Removers and bought one. Got home and looked at the fine print: Works well on these stains:TeaWine Grape JuiceChocolate SyrupBBQ SauceKetchupCoffee …okay, well I do drink tea, and occasionally have ketchup I guess. Does NOT work well on:GreaseBloodInk …huh, lets just say that as … Read more
I had gathered enough information…statistics about public transport and congestion costs in L.A., and price quotes from the guy at the tracking company, to support my great idea. I decided to find an authority to share it with. But what are people who know about these things called? I surfed around until I found my … Read more
I told friends about my idea, but few seemed to see its brilliance. “What if you get in a car with a psycho person, or a bad driver?” they asked.“Well, obviously you’d have to have police records and driving records…and you’re being tracked on GPS, so there would be an alert if someone started to … Read more
My Dream: I walk out of my apartment in Palms and don’t get in my car to go to the dentist’s office. Instead, as I walk toward Sepulveda and Venice Avenues, I pulls out my PDA and enter my location and the address of my destination in Sherman Oaks. At the same time, Ginger Tompkins, … Read more
Here‘s an interesting article from the L.A. Times about individual health care coverage after cancer.For all of my three years working in Chicago, and three of my six years in L.A., I was a free-lance contractor. Among other things, this meant I was responsible for my own retirement plans and insurance. Then Paul and I … Read more
Trying to do a little planning ahead–like when and how and where we’re going to move after graduating in the spring, and how we’re going to afford it. And then, jobs? More school? No jobs? Plans need to be made, but it’s not the most pleasant mental place for me. A lot of the future … Read more
As the lady in billing said, “You’re paying your insurance company to do the shopping.” But when I asked for price breakdowns from various vendors, my Aetna representative declined to do the research and recommended that I go to the Aetna Navigator website in order to see “a rough estimate for the cost of this … Read more
It’s that time of year again, when I get to arrange for a tests to make sure I am still cancer-free. One of these is a colonoscopy. Our school’s insurance provider has changed (again) and we now have Aetna (again). My current G.I. (that’s gastro-intestinal I think) doctor is not in my network. If I … Read more
So tonight as I walked into Miller’s Alehouse to meet a friend I was talking to Paul on the phone. “We need to get toilet paper,” he said. I knew this, I had said the same thing to him this morning, hoping he would go buy some during the day. I had no desire to … Read more