And now what did you do TODAY?

[VPI]

Still Wandering the streets of DC because Colin can't remember where he parked his rental car.

Edited November 14, 2012 by VPI

[Grahame]

Wandering the streets of DC because Colin can't remember where he parked his rental car.

A likely story. That's just the Ginger Gigolo scouting out a new territory

[Grahame]

Colin can't remember where he parked his rental car.

Isn't there an app for that?

EDIT: Yes there is

iDevice : https://itunes.apple...d390419489?mt=8

Android : https://play.google....catorfree&hl=en

Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/where-did-i-park/c7265d71-fd35-49d0-9252-e377128410ad

Edited November 14, 2012 by Grahame

[MexicanDragon]

What about Windows Phone? He works for M$ (sorta) now.

**BRENT**

[Grahame]

^ updated for completeness and Colin

[MexicanDragon]

Win.

**BRENT**

[Augsburger]

Still Wandering the streets of DC because Colin can't remember where he parked his rental car.

Dude, how hard is it to find a yellow Yugo in DC?

[Dusty Chalk]

Dude, no rental company with any sense would rent anyone a Yugo. That just don't make sense.

[Dreadhead]

I bet it is a black suv... There are so many in DC it is hard to keep track

[VPI]

Practicing, for the Zombies.

[skullguise]

Just found out today that surgery was good for an old friend (and current FB friend, though I haven't seen him in MANY years). He had some vertigo issues, and they found fluid and a tumor on his brain. Fluid removed yesterday, surgery today, and it's NOT cancerous! He's in recovery.....so very thankful, and realize how quickly life can turn around.....

[VPI]

Needed some .45

[MexicanDragon]

I Can't believe he Would take a 9000$ Jacket out shooting.

[CarlSeibert]

Annoying day. --- rant warning---

I went to the dentist, which went well enough, but I still feel like I've been punched in he jaw. The Novocaine gave me back the southern drawl hat I haven't had since I was about 25. That was kind of funny.

Then Sprint called to say they'll turn off our service if I don't pay them within 48 hours. Check the records to discover they hadn't bothered to send me a bill in the last two months. I hadn't, that I could remember, signed up for telepathic billing. I hadn't signed up for email billing, or more specifically, spam basket billing, either. They had slammed me into emailing billing without telling me. I was unhappy.

T-h-e-n I opened an EOB from the health insurance company. The lab was going to charge me $1,000 for the blood test for my annual physical. It was actually $300 worth of tests but since it wasn't covered, it would be a thousand. According to my policy, it was supposed to be zero out of pocket to me. (I have blood tests done at the same lab three times a year and have for years. There had never been a problem.) All this, according to the insurance company CSR, was because of a fantastic set of screw ups that could only happen in a system where healthcare is 18% of GDP and life expectancy at birth is 32nd in the world. The explanation/excuse was way too convoluted to recount here, but it's all OK because of "the system", and no, the insurance company isn't obliged to do anything to rectify the situation. That slides downhill to me and to my doctor, who is a nice guy and really doesn't get paid lavishly enough to have to deal with this kind of stupid shit. I was more unhappy.

I got to use my new southern voice to be either very sweet or really nasty, as appropriate, to a half dozen people.

And then I had to go to work.

[cutestory]

Heading out to the Aquarium of the Pacific with my wife, uncle, and *today* two-year-old.

Fun (hopefully)!

[shellylh]

Have fun at the aquarium.

Carl: I hate dealing with insurance companies/hospitals. I love when a hospital sends you a bill and doesn't even say what it is for. The sad thing is some people get bullied into paying these things.

[Dreadhead]

A few months ago I got a bill from the emergency room for my last visit that was quite a lot of money (don't remember how much but order $400) and it had already been entirely paid before. If I wasn't me and had not fought a bit the whole thing would have been paid twice and I know they never would have returned my money.

Edit: Have fun at the Aquarium

Edited November 15, 2012 by Dreadhead

[HeadphoneAddict]

Annoying day. --- rant warning---

I went to the dentist...

Then Sprint called...

T-h-e-n I opened an EOB from the health insurance company...

I got to use my new southern voice to be either very sweet or really nasty, as appropriate, to a half dozen people...

And then I had to go to work...

Yikes, that sounds like a sucky day.

In our case we took our wonderful sheltie to the vet for a dental cleaning under anesthesia and they found a cavity, a broken tooth, and an area of possible osteomyelitis or tumor on xray that's unrelated to the two teeth and needed to be biopsied. On top of that, she has a growing mass in her left rear leg for the past 4 years that was once thought to be hypertrophied muscle, but may be a lipoma or something more vascular that would be dangerous to biopsy. It's getting so much bigger that it's painful sometimes, and the vet thinks it may continue to grow until the leg might need to come off. The X-rays are being sent to a specialist, and she might need an ultrasound.

Snickers is 12 years old and otherwise in good health, but I'm frustrated that after close to a kilo-buck in expenses for medical care that we still don't know her diagnosis or prognosis for these two issues. I always said we wouldn't be one of those families that spend thousands and thousands of dollars to save a pet who has lived a good life, but we love her so much that probably over the next couple of months I'll end up doing just that, just in small increments that sneak up on us.

[Salt Peanuts]

Encountered my first problem with the Apple Maps while trying to get back from a training for work. It was bit amusing to see the map insist that I was somewhere else.

[CD44hi]

A very, very low key 10th wedding anniversary. Both girls are sick so no going out. Maybe next week when the grandparents are in town we can have a date

One thing that was very nice: Julie was able to convince the bakery that made the wedding cake, to make on short notice a smaller sized version of the opera wedding cake. It was funny to see the girls try to process the fact that we had a cake, that was not a birthday cake. The older could not fathom such travesty and kept asking whose birthday was it anyway. ha! We had a good time

[Emooze]

Met my commander's commander's commander's vice (3 star), saw an absolutely terrible and gruesome traffic safety briefing and was part of a base retreat ceremony.

[CarlSeibert]

We - as in at work we - discovered a few years back that one of our local hospital districts had a general ledger account for money that they bullied out of people who didn't owe it. They used it in their revenue projections. That's cold.

[Voltron]

Congrat on 10 years Juan, and sorry the sick kids held you back from a celebration away from home. Sounds like you had fun and good cake!

Edited November 16, 2012 by Voltron

[cutestory]

Aquarium was great. I'll post some pics tomorrow.

[CD44hi]

Congrat on 10 years Juan, and sorry the sick kids held you back from a celebration away from home. Sounds like you had fun and good cake!

Thanks Al! it was a riot with the cake