long time, no bitching...

Well, it had been a while since I actually complaigned about something. Not that I'm lacking cause to be angry, I just haven't felt the urge to type.

Several years ago, I finally got a decent medical plan. My wife and I could go to the doctor for only $15/a visit or even the emergency room for $25/a visit. This was through "Blue Cross/Double Cross" but oddly enough, they weren't trying to give us sperm enimas. Well, they recently changed! The local "Blue Cross" plan merged with another plan. They were supposed to give all the old "members" a monetary kickback. They didn't. They did raise our payments and require us to make $250 deductables per year. Given that my wife and I are fairly healthy, we won't use this up!

I was writing my youngest brother to tell him about our lovely home around the time he was born. It was rather cathartic {sp} but painful to relive the worst of the memories of my growing up. It also may help me overcome the stress of not allowing myself to remember the more painful times in junior high. (There were bullies in junior high and my father's method of instilling "good behavor" often involved a butt beating with his belt. They put parents in jail these days for leaving bruses; my precious father would have done time if today's standards occurred back then. But my father died about seven years ago so we're suppposed to overlook the bad and deify him.)

So I guess I'm just suffereing a bit of the Christmas season rage...