RANT Took my baby daughter to a pediatric pulmonologist. Thankfully everything is well and she's ok. They charged me my normal $30 that I have as my copay whenever me or anybody on my policy sees a specialist. No biggie. Well, they failed to inform me that that office is actually a branch of the hospital, just an office branch. They are out of network. I get billed the full amount $350. No record of the $30 with my insurance. Bad move. I have all the documents. Never should have taken that money from me if they were filing that way. RAVE My insurance was on a three way call with me and the physicians office. The insurance is covering it and counting my $30 as a regular copay as it should have been. I would have been screwed if they never charged me the $30 in the first place. Plus, a formal complaint is being filed against the office. Probably won't do anything, but fuck them. Assholes. Trying to double dip. RAVE BCBSNC really stepped up again helping me with this. I bought my own policy since I don't work for a big company and am a contract employee. It's the best health coverage I've ever had. I truly feel safe and covered by them. Time and time again, they have made things right when others have tried to do wrong. I'm shocked to hear myself praising an insurance company. I don't pay too much, have low deductibles and great copays for office and prescription. Weird rave, but my health insurance is great.
Rant & Rave: The state of Texas has a law in its Education Code whereas, if a student who is a minor has 5 "unexcused" absences in a 6 month period, the student is required to attend a Saturday session of school, as is one of the parents or legal guardians. A "sick day" is only classified as an excused absence if proper documentation is provided from a healthcare provider. So, even if it's just a cold or an upset stomach, unless the child is seen by a healthcare professional and a note is obtained, the absence is classified as "unexcused." (10 or more "unexcused absences" in a 6 month period warrants a court appearance. Seriously. Take this a little further--what if the family doesn't have/can't afford health insurance?) I understand the TEA is attempting to crack down on truancy, but this methodology fails to take into account academic performance and student character. In the three years my daughter has been in middle school, she has brought home one B, and the rest have been A's, and she is in either accelerated or advanced placement classes (credit her mother's genes). That is the rant. My daughter has 6 absences that have been categorized "unexcused" and she and either me or my wife have been instructed to attend a Saturday school session. I told my wife I would be happy to take this one. That is the rave. Why? Recall the prison cafeteria scene in "Watchmen" when Rorschach says something to the effect of, "What you don't realize is, I'm not locked up in here with you. YOU'RE LOCKED UP IN HERE WITH ME!" I'm guessing we'll be out of there in less than an hour.
Rant: When I went to work at 5 this morning it was a little icy but that was it. When I got off work at 10 there was a good 6 inches. I took me 15 minutes to clear my car off and get out of the parking lot at work. I almost landed in the ditch on the way home (all of 5 or 6 blocks.) I finally made it home and the snow is up to the bottom of my car. I think it's safe to say it's not going anywhere for the rest of the week, especially since my driveway is an upward slope. Ranter: I think it's coming down harder now than it has been so far today. I'm supposed to leave at noon to make my daily trip to Springfield. It's not worth the $100 a day, fuck a whole bunch of that. Last I heard semis couldn't even make it down 13 Highway because the plows hadn't touched it. No way in hell would my little Focus be able to handle that. Rave: I'm not stepping foot outside of this house until tomorrow morning, if I can get a ride to work that is. Looks like a day full of watching movies. I also need to get the dishwasher running and my laundry washed in case I lose power. Fuck snow, fuck it in its stupid ass.
RANT: Stupid passive aggressive shit. I need to either say something directly or not at all. RANT: Back at work. RAVE: I have Friday off for the motorcycle show in minneapolis!
Rant: Sweet Jesus. They are predicting snow for the Houston area around Thursday and Friday. These people can't handle that kind of thing.
Rant: In the next 24 hours they are predidcting something retarded like two feet of snow for northern Indiana! We have already had more snow than Alaska. Fuck this area of the world, as soon as I get some money together I am moving my ass back to Florida, or Puerto Rico!
Rave: I can see the sun for the first time in a month. Rave: Insurance money came in. Payday this Friday. Tax return next Friday. $1 bills smell like poor people now.
Rant: We have at least 6" of snow with the experts saying we are in for 10-24 more. This is on top of the 18-24 already on the ground. Fucking northeast. Rave: Tomorrow's Chem Lab is preemptively canceled and I have an eighth sitting in my room. Guess what I'm doing for the next 48 hours?
Rave: Wife is taken care of, classes are canceled, and I don't have fuckall to do. Plus, you call THIS a snowstorm? Fuck it, time to take a nap and then get up, make a pizza, get drunk, and play video games until the power goes out. Rant: Clearing my driveway Wednesday night before my wife gets home and Thursday morning before I go back to class. When we bought this house, I was psyched about having a 3 car garage and a 6-car driveway. Now, I'm realizing how much of a pain in the ass it is to clear the snow off of it.
Rant: The first day of the new year I got sick - lasted about a week. Double rant: It's the first day of February and I'm motherfucking sick again. Same symptoms. 2011 - 2 Me - 0 I must be shitting my immune system out at the end of each month like a goddamn bill is due. Can't wait for March.
Rant: My Playstation 3 just died. It was a 60 gig. First generation. I think that was the first generation. Now my PSP is going to get a ton of love because I have nothing to do for the next two weeks. I also will have to send it in with Infamous in the disc drive. So that also sucks. Hopefully it'll start magically working the next day, but I'm getting the yellow light of death.
Big Rant: Stupid fucking panic buyers. There is a cat 5 cyclone passing the coast later tonight about 3 hours north of where I live. Yes its the biggest in recorded history. Yes there is going to be a lot of wind and rain and flooding for Nth Qld. No that does not mean every retard has to go buy 15 loaves of bread at once and buy out shops because you won't be able to eat all that. All I wanted was one fucking loaf of bread. Is that really too much to ask. I could understand the panic if we were under its nose but we're not. Rave: The eye of the cyclone is meant to be around 70km wide and take over an hour to pass. If we're lucky some of the local retards will run out into it thiknking its over and vanish.
Rant: More snow. We have areas that are 4 feet deep already. Now, add another foot, plus some ice. Rave: My college canceled classes tomorrow. Rant: My kids' school hasn't canceled classes yet. Which means the phone will ring at 4 fucking thirty in the morning to tell us. Rant: I have been trying to do some yoga to loosen up my bad ankle, bad knee and tight back before my volleyball tournament on Saturday. Do you know how hard it is to do yoga when the puppy thinks down dog means "bite the top of your head as hard as I possibly can, Dad"? Rave: He's back to full puppy power, all 5 months and 70 pounds of him. His skull is now almost as big as mine.
Rant: 160 bucks to apply to two school. Still have two more to go. Fucking hell, when did this shit get so expensive. Rave: I'm still getting laid by the MILF. So, that's nice. Rave: Going to Montreal next week for a week. Hell yes, I'm going to do French things.
Rant: Theory of Structures II. Yes it is as bad as it sounds. No, I will never use any of this when I graduate. I can guarantee that because I don't understand anything going on in here.
Rant: Not knowing when you can mouth off to someone because they have the power to make your life hell. I'm walking back into the building from lunch. There's a path, and then around it there's gravel with some paving stones dispersed inside it. Being lazy, I declined to take the path and instead cut across the gravel. This is fine - in fact, it's what pretty much everyone does. That's why there's gravel and pavers there, not grass. "Hey Marine! I guess we're special, huh? Walking on my rocks like that." I turn around, and there's a staff sergeant glowering at me. I don't know him, so he's got to be one of the air traffic controller instructors. I have no idea whether he's just fucking with me or whether he's some motarded DI wannabe who honestly considers the gravel to be his (And yes, there are fuckers like that). Half a dozen retorts spring to mind, (Your rocks, huh? Do they have your name on them?) but then I realize that he can be an asshole if he wants and can make things hard for me. So instead I shrug, say "My bad staff sergeant," and continue walking inside. Apparently he wanted me to backpedal and freak the fuck out over getting talked to by a staff sergeant, so he decided to accost me again once I got inside and yell at me for not showing proper respect. I gave him my best Lance Corporal Dunno look and tuned him out, resisting the urge to say "Sorry, didn't get that. I don't speak dickhead." I'm not some boot fresh from MCT who's still scared of anything with rockers. Sure, I'll respect the rank, but I'm not going to panic when one of them starts talking to me in a less-than-kind way. Oh no, someone with authority is yelling at me. Whatever will I do? He gave up eventually, and I went about my day. Looking back on it, I did the right thing by not calling him out for being a douchebag, but that doesn't mean I have to feel good about it. That guy ruined my mood over nothing. Asshole.
Rave:Got set up with a girl by her mother, who works in the office down the hall form mine. Went on a date with her tonight. Turns out she's hot and really cool. We talked about our love of BBQ'ed pork products for an hour. Will definitely be calling back. Rave: Kacey Jordan, the porn star that was smoking coke with Charlie Sheen, went to my high school. My friends little brother knows her, and his friend took her V-Card. Apparently she was really shy in high school.