Stuology

I just did my benefits enrollment for next year, here are some numbers for coverage for me, Mac and Ada for the year 2006. There number are just the cost of the benefit and does not include co-pays and deductibles: Medical: $11,338.34 Dental: $680.68 Vision: $185.90 Life Insurance: $211.58 Spouse Life Insurance: $91.20 AD&D Insurance: [...]

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Only slept 4 hours (again), woke up in pain, couldn’t keep my eyes open the ride into work, lost my id badge, stabbed my hand with a fork, my network account keeps getting locked out at work and the automatic reset system isn’t working for me, and a toilet just exploded while I was in [...]

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Let me run something down for you: 1. My car is in the shop for a total of $500 2. I have a presentation on testing in a few minutes, and my machine is freezing and crashing. 3. Ada was up every two hours last night crying. 4. My dog ran away. So, let’s not [...]

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I was so tempted to just hit reload and get another one. I mean, WTF? Oh well, from chernobylred. Your Sexy Halloween Costume Is Sexy Trekkie What Sexy Halloween Costume Are You? Hmph.

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Pulling Ada duty all weekend so that Mac could get plenty of sleep to shake his cold, I was exhausted last night. So exhausted that I could not even reach for the remote commander to change the channel when the local news came on. I was finally motivated to get off the sofa and head [...]

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So, not only did I not get paid for part of my maternity leave, I have to pay my workplace for taking the time off because they don’t cover my benefits for that period of my maternity leave. So, add another $225 onto the medical bills. Or, I could not pay it and have my [...]

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Today has turned out thus far to be “one of those days.” Small annoyances are compounding together, mixed with my only 3.5 hours of sleep, and knocking my mood down the bottom rung of the mood ladder. It is far from my worst bad-day-a-thon, a day that started when I set myself on fire and [...]

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As is typical, I fed Ada in bed with me early this morning, so we both ended up falling asleep and not getting up until 12:40–yeah, about 25 minutes ago from this post. I was carrying her into the living room when lo and behold, I see that Oldsmobile that was in our cul-de-sac on [...]

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So, after a nice afternoon, well a hot afternoon, of movie viewing a cool treat and a visit to see Tess’s new house, I come home to this. Just in time for me to be driving to work and wanting to spend money on a fence since the insurance situation just got cleared up. Vaffanculo–faccia [...]

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I found out yesterday evening when I logged into work to check e-mail that once again, IT was re-aligned. This is not new. We just went through this right before I left. I have yet another new boss, or rather, a different boss. This person was my boss when I first went to work for [...]

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