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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

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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.....

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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.

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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

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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.

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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 :)

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