The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real for it is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live

Friday, August 1, 2008

It's august 1!


And here's the latest view from the Freaking amazing 2008 ancient egyptian popup calendar.

Won't you be glad when December comes?

Hot Guy Friday!






Dave Annable, from Brothers and Sisters is today's subject. He's very cute, though thin in that way that tv people are thin. Which is to say a little more manmeat is needed on those cute little bones. Also, someone who should be terminated from their job had the terrible idea to manscape Dave in his first shirtless appearance on Brothers and Sisters. He looked like a rat. That face though...nothing but trouble. I like that.

I had an incident this morning that surprised me, in that it was kind of an obvious ripoff. I went to a new gas station in the new neighborhood on Tuesday and paid cash. The pump reset, not to zero, but to .08. Odd. I went back in and told the guy and "Oh! Sorry, about that, hehe. Try it again." This time it was zero. Well, machines malfunction, no big deal I thought. Then the pump clicked off as though my car was full and when I got in the gauge was 1/8 of a tank from actually being full. Again, I chalked it up to the heat, machines, liquids etc.

Then this morning I went back. I used my credit card. I went to a different pump. I didn't get any gas because this pump also reset to .08. I now have this feeling that this guy is making up for what all this craziness over gas prices is costing him .08 at a time. Not with my money though. Handily, the number for the state dept of weights and measures was on a sticker on the pump. I gave them a little heads up. I'll go back next week and see how things turned out. If I don't get shot, I'll let you know how it turned out.

Everything outdoors has to be done early this weekend. It's hot, and forecasted to get hotter. I am sooo looking forward to my first electric bill in four years. Two years taking care of that ingrate of an adoptive father, and then another year in the hellhole kept me from having utility bills. Now the chickens are coming home to roost, I fear. And as cheap as I am, I'll likely have chest pain when the bill comes.

Oh, speaking of chest pain and being cheap! I went to the dr about my sleep issues the other day and he said to try this different combination of my allergy meds which had no effect, and when I called to tell him he said that instead of trying a different medication, he wanted to send me for a sleep study. I got a call the next day from the lab and they informed me that even though I've already paid over $1400 this year, that Humana, those bastards, are only counting 40% of that toward my deductible and that I'd have to pay almost half the cost of the sleep study. Well, that ain't happening. So another call to the state insurance commission was in order. I've yet to hear from them on the subject, but I suspect the answer will be "tough shit pal, pay up or do without."

I am now a diehard advocate for universal health care. Insurance companies need to be dismantled and preferably banished. Who gets all the money we pay those bastards? It isn't the patients, that's for sure.

I think I'll spend the hot afternoons organizing kitchen cabinets and closets this weekend. I should be reading textbooks and making lesson plans, but somehow that doesn't seem like much fun. Maybe after I get all the fun cabinet organization done...woohoo. My life is just a whirlwind.