In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Paperwork and bureaucracies ... especially health care/insurance bureaucracies ... ugh. We had a bad contact number recorded in our file at the doctor's office, and I can't tell you the number of times we tried to correct it at chec-in (you know, whne they hand you a piece of paper and ask you if all of the info is correct, and you keep pointing out the error.)
Then we went to the scheduling desk and had THEM try to correct it, but for some reason their main database would never update and kept burping up the wrong #. That caused us to miss several important phone calls from the doctor's office. Eventually they fixed it, I don't know how, but it must have been bad software.
My Medicare bill comes so late in the mail, it's impossible for me to make payment on time, so I'm always in arrears. I just put it on autopay.
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Plodding thru at this end. My yearly paperwork filing has been interrrupted by all sorts of things, but we DID manage to go to the lumberyard and pick up supplies for garage shelving, which hubby desperately needs to make his workshop functional, and supplies for a bed platform, as well as "shorts" ... samples of wood (cedar, cherry, red oak, hard maple, sugar pine) for hubby to work on- see how they cut, plane, and chisel.
Also saw our lawyer to make progress on the legal/financial aspects of setting up our dear daugher's future.
As I mentioned in the coronavirus thread, we have suspended our weekly restaurant outing and dear daughter's gym exercise program, which she JUST started. That was to help dd practice her social skills and increase her comfort level with being out of the house, not with mom and dad. But when we explained our concerns to her case worker, she was VERY understanding. Unusually so, as if she herself has the same concerns. I think in a month we'll know whether this was a useless decision, or a very smart one.
So, onward thru the fog. Absent any crap-seeping toilets or other emergencies I'm going to focus on sorting out my filing in-between other stuff, and interviewing potential fiduciaries/trustees/conservators.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I remembered today why I hate going to the largest mall on the Lower Mainland. Too many people and the place confuses me. Got mixed up trying to find a store looking for one item. Then got tired and decided not to go looking for the other item I wanted.
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This Saturday could be the last time BC changes its clocks. We here are getting tired of waiting on Washington, Oregon and California to get their collective sh&t together and deal with congress.
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Starting Tuesday we have the possibility of a change of weather... the chance of rain for the foreseeable future.
BRENDA, how fares BC with the coronavirus? You might have ANOTHER reason not to go to malls!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
This Saturday could be the last time BC changes its clocks. We here are getting tired of waiting on Washington, Oregon and California to get their collective sh&t together and deal with congress.
Good for you guys.
I'm envious of those in Indianapolis who don't change the clock. So stupid that half our state does and the other half doesn't.
I'm going out to help my friend again today. It's supposed to hit 60 degrees for the first time this year, so that ought to be nice.
Unfortunately it looks like it will be at least another 2-3 weeks before it gets this warm again, but at least spring is coming.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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lol...
I just now put two and two together and realized that it was daylight savings time here too.
Good thing my buddy is a late riser on the weekends. I've still got plenty of time to get ready and get out there when I said I'd be.
Hopefully he remembered and I'm not going over there and waking him and his fiancee up. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I think the coronavirus marches on, as predicted
case
case
case
cluster
cluster
BOOM!
For me, the next signal for personal concern would be a case detected in my city, or the city next door (since I live near the border). That would be a step up, and probably prompt me to switch to an N95. We are actually sanitizing packages and mail as they arrive with 70pct IPA (hubby is profoundly concerned) so I have a spray bottle and sanitizer at both doors, and masks at one. Have elimianted restaruant and gym, not churchgoers, and reduced the number of shopping trips and go when less crowded, wearing procedure masks and sanitizing our hands and phones on the way in. Beyond that, as far as I can tell there's nothing else we CAN do, aside from getting good sleep and generally trying to stay healthy, which I always try to do anyway.
So we have put the pedal to the metal on getting a special needs trust, and all related legal and financial issues, completed. That won't end our efforts to get dear daughter situated after our death, tho. We still need to make practical arrangements ... where will she live? Who will take care of her? Who will be checking in on her from time to time, making sure she is healthy and happy?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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In the meantime, I finally got about 75% of my yearly filing done. The way I handle the mail as it comes in is "recycling- bill to pay- other action- to be filed". The "to be filed" goes into a large wicker basket that I bought just for that purpose, but at the end of the year it's a ginormous pile. SOME of those records (like utilities) I keep for a year, others (like tax-related) I keep for ten, and others - product manuals I keep for the lifetime of the product. I keep "evidence of insurance" statements for the lifetime of the insurance too. The most complicated is the health insurance, since we are on different insurances and receive different statements. Those "explanation of benefits" I keep for about four years; I have had an inordinate amount of trouble getting the right insurance billed whenever we change insurances, which has happened more than once on the past three years. I figure if they haven't resolved their billing in that time, it's not going to happen. Boy, if anyone can figure out how to responsibly simplify, please let me know!
I've also consolidated and closed several small accounts to make things simpler for us and anybody who comes after us. I recall the mess that my parents left when they died ... a roomful (literally) of papers which I sorted thru, resolving into boxes and boxes of "this is not a bill" insurance benefits and many many account statements from closed accounts when dad was chasing the highest interest rates, along with a few important assets and some love letters from just after WWII when they first heard of each other. Don't want to leave that mess for anyone else.
My next step is to go thru the tax-related papers and make sure they're complete so that we can get our taxes done. But today, we are interviewing a potential conservator/trustee.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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I've eliminated my am restaurant coffee. I do have some at home, and I'm drinking half-rations for 5 days to eventually go without and not trigger a massive caffeine withdrawal headache. The first day - 3 days ago - I was SOOooo sleepy I went to bed at 4PM 'for a little nap' and didn't wake up till 7PM! I guess I was running on caffeine more than I realized.
Other than that I'm focusing on stuff inside the house.
Amazon packages are probably OK if they shipped from China. China's outbreak has gone down dramatically, and the time to your house would probably inactivate whatever virus might be there. The last step - which I think is out from Ontario, California, could be the most problematic, but not at this moment.
Anyway, if that info doesn't change your procedures, at least you have more of safety buffer than you realized.
Man, this AM I got RUDELY awakened (during a crazy dream) by what sounded like somewhat pounding on my front door. But it was just the neighbors doing some work inside the house. Not *their* house. b/c its a rental. There are very few owners left on my street. I wonder how that transition from owners to renters happened. Did house prices jack themselves up out of the reach of buyers? Or was this an undervalued neighborhood slumlords decided to mine? Or what? Something to ponder, maybe, at some point.
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Just when I thought that I had all the animals out of my house...
Say, did any of you know that a squirrel can and will gnaw a 4" diameter hole right through the top of your roof, shingles, plywood and all?
I didn't either.
That's what I was hearing upstairs in my attic a few weeks back, scurrying around up there. I banged on the walls, made a lot of barking noises, scared the piss out of it and heard it scurry away and never heard it since.
Finally went up there now that I had a free day that was decent weather to find a massive hole in my roof and the debris they left behind.
Did some makeshift patchwork up there that looks like shit and isn't going to hold very long just to have something done before it rains tonight and in hopes of deterring it from coming back in the mean time. My pitch is scary high and I have no business being up there. That's about the most terrifying thing I've done in about 10 years... and I had to do it twice... the second time with a bunch of shit in my hands.
Going to have to watch some YouTube vids about how to fix this.
Seriously, WTF animals. I'm about one step away from dumping toxic waste all over my lawn.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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