interesting discovery

as it turns out, i have very little to offer

This is a good thing.

iConcertCal

OK so you go there and you follow the directions under how to install.

Then you open iTunes and check it out (under visualizations). What this thing does is look through all of your music and tell you if any of your artists are playing anywhere in a certain radius of you, also it will tell you when any of your artists have new CDs coming out.

All kinds of useful.

a book

do yourself a solid and take a scroll around this map

its pretty funny, and theres a book if you agree


"The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cozy half truth" -MF (plus there is bound to be something about making people laugh)

Venting . . .( like relaxing but with a whiny attitude)

This is the latest in a long gripefest about the bottom rung health insurance the UT system supplies (read: requires we pay for) if we are no longer supplied insurance through our parents.

{Logical point being made by many: You could sign up for any insurance you want, they simply suggest that one and only require that you have something.
Logical counter: True, but the max govt. funding for students on loan is calculated using this insurance as the model and other private insurance policies (that are worth a damn) are more than 400% more per year.}

Anyways the policy provides 1,000 smackaroos per year for prescription coverage, this is probably fine for most but does about a third of the job for someone who may or may not be insulin dependent. So I hit this limit, not a large shocker to anyone who has talked to these people that they care very little for any inconvenience (read: hospitalizations) this may cause. So last year when this happened I was working in an Endo. office and the doctor offered to supply me with medications for the summer until my limit reset. Only one small problem the ladies in charge of the fridge of supplies do not like the look of a white/male/Caucasian/in a white coat mooching off their supplies that are normally meant for those less fortunate than I, I cannot say I blame them.

So this year there is a new plan in the works: drug companies, because no-one feels bad about taking from these a-holes (and they have to give away X amount per year for tax purposes). They merely require my 1040 (supplied proving I made a whopping 900 dollars last year) and a sheet from the insurance company saying they are no longer providing me with prescription coverage. Easy.

My phone tells me I was just on the phone for 2 hours and 11 minutes. During this time, I talked to upwards of 6 six different offices, multiple layers of management, I used varying degrees of anger/frustration/despair/civility/outright disbelief in my voice and got absolutely nowhere. There was a thrilling conclusion when Karen from MedCo Management told me that I had been incorrectly transferred to her and that in fact the people I had just been talking to would help me and she would be happy to transfer me back to them. At this point I begin "I am afraid they told me the same thing . . . ." I then hear the transfer button pushing and sigh to myself . . . . then . . .dial tone. She accidentally hung up on me after over two hours of getting nowhere.

Good God Almighty, why on Earth does this system exist.

Point being that these companies will tell you until they are blue in the face that their policy does not provide the help you need, what they won't do is put a piece of paper in your hand that says that is the case. Leaving the whiny to whine to their friends who care plenty but are really quite tired of the very similar stories being spit out for weeks on end.

Here's something funny to make up for all for all of that you may or may not have just read.