Evan went out on the town tonight.

He flirted with all the girls.

He ate good food.

He showed off for the crowd. When he spilled his drink, we knew he’d had too much.

Thanks Katie & Jon!

Let’s vote. New neighbor is wearing a cash crop leaf earring in his ear. Farmer or undercover policeman? Did I mention he has a German Shepherd?

If everyone has something to do tonight except for me and the two youngest,
then it must be Friday night.

Doug and Tommy are playing *D&D. Sarah has a friend spending the night. Noah just finished karate and is sleeping at the grandparents. I . . . am doing laundry. Wheeeee.

*I wanted to post a link to the cell phone commercial where the cool guy makes fun of the geeks for playing D&D but I couldn’t find it. Imagine it now.

I couldn’t think of any Easter songs, so Amy is singing Christmas carols.

just testing a new toy

What happened to Thursday? I blinked and it was night.

Okay, this is just too funny. I can think of half a dozen other silly ways to eliminate potential employees, coalition members, romantic interests, etc. Anyone who doesn’t use e-mail at all would be eliminated from my list first. Can’t use a search engine? Buh-bye. Do you forward urban legends to everyone in your address book? Take me out of your address book. What else?

Since tonight’s episode is focused on the two redshirts that just showed up this past season, I expect it to be a replay of things we’ve already seen from the perspective of the two who will probably die tonight. It doesn’t matter what their names are since none of our regular cast members have even spoken their names, let alone acknowledged them (”Who are you?”).

Orange slices in the disposal? Good
Orange slices in the washing machine? Bad
Orange slices on the porch? Acceptable
Orange slices under the dresser? Unacceptable

Doug and I are uninsured. Since I still see blog posts and news articles trying to dispute that many Americans are uninsured, I have to point out that we have tried to get private insurance and couldn’t. So far, we’ve been lucky. For the most part, we just don’t go to the doctor unless there is serious pain involved. When I fell down Sunday night, my foot and toe hurt, a LOT. I tried to sleep and couldn’t. I even called the podiatrist and tried to get them to tell me that there is nothing you can do for toes. They talked me into having it checked. Because my file said “self pay” on the cover, for less than one hundred dollars I got worked into the doctor’s full schedule, two x-rays, an exam, drug samples (which I can’t use, grrr), my toe wrapped, extra tape to keep my toe wrapped and a very ugly orthopedic shoe. If I had insurance, I know that the x-rays alone would have cost more than a hundred dollars.

Not all doctors work this way. Hospitals certainly don’t care if you have insurance. A lot of medical providers refuse to see the uninsured. The doctors who charge the uninsured less are our lifeline. I recognize that many people see them as part of the problem. Charge me less and charge you more does seem unfair. Except, you still pay less and get more preventive care. Your insurance gets billed more, though. I’m the bad guy in the government’s eyes. It is the uninsured who are to blame for high insurance and medical care costs. In the long run, it seems like we have created a program of natural selection to kill off the poor. Then again, I’m much less pessimistic when I’m not the patient.