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[17 Jun 2009|11:36am] |
I'm investigating post-graduation health insurance options and was thinking about getting the UW Alumni Insurance plan. That is, until I read the fine print. The following are some of the things that are NOT covered under this insurance plan:
Hazardous activities and extreme sports as listed in the policy
Dental treatment, unless a hospital stay is caused by injury
Routine physical exams
Over-the-counter drugs, or prescription drugs or medications
Oh but they will gladly pay for Dietary treatment of Phenylketonuria (PKU)! Or Screening and diagnostic mammography (**but only when ordered by a physician)! Or best of all, a "Diabetes self-management education program"!
So basically, I can get a free ride to the ER and they might pay for *some* limited hospital bills, but all of the things I actually *use* health insurance for (annual exams, birth control, prescriptions, shots, dental work, eye exams, etc) are NOT covered. What a racket.
NO THANKS.
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[03 Jun 2009|02:30pm] |
What kind of a moron tells the border agents that he's going to Seattle to "buy healing crystals" when he's got 27 pounds of E in his gas tank?
27 pounds of Ecstasy seized from Seattle-bound man
Posted by Nick Provenza
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have arrested a British Columbia man after 27 pounds of Ecstasy were found in the gas tank of his minivan. They say the man told them he was driving to Seattle to buy healing crystals.
Chief Tom Schreiber identified the man as 69-year-old Amar Dutt of Surrey, B.C.
A Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog detected the drugs. Schreiber says officers removed several vacuum-sealed bags containing more than 48,000 Ecstasy tablets with a street value of about $500,000.
Since the Friday evening arrest, the man has been transferred to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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| Writer's Block: Dream On |
[14 May 2009|09:35am] |
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I have a recurring dream about a particular house. It's an older three story victorian on a hilly street. The top floor is a big attic, the second floor has 3 bedrooms, and the main floor has a big kitchen and some other sitting room type spaces. I dream about this place maybe once every year or two. No idea where it is. I guess I'll know when I find it someday.
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[29 Apr 2009|01:57pm] |
I was just walking through U Village after grabbing some lunch at World Wraps - I happened to sneeze really loudly just as I was passing that one place where all the trophy wives exhibit their crotch fruit, and they all scattered like a herd of gazelles, covering their babies' mouths and giving me dirty looks.
Totally awesome!
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| Smoove. |
[13 Apr 2009|09:17am] |
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I was vacuuming out the Beetle this morning at the car wash and I accidentally sucked my latest parking ticket up the hose. Oh well. Does that mean I can just forget about it now?
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[09 Mar 2009|06:26pm] |
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omg woz is on Dancing With the Stars!
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| RIP dear brother |
[02 Mar 2009|02:32pm] |
This is my brother, Michael, who passed away this weekend. We both always had the same love of adrenalin - he chose motorbikes and I chose thoroughbreds. Go figure. I always had the better grades, but he had the room full of trophies and has been interviewed on TV more times than I. RIP Mike - love ya!
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| sounds yummy, part II |
[27 Feb 2009|02:34pm] |
In today's Inbox:
Hi all
I need two normal SD rats under 9 months old. Does anyone happen to have some they are planning to euthanize? I need two fresh aortas.
Jo Fleming
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| WANT. |
[27 Feb 2009|08:27am] |
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| carnation is the new ballard |
[26 Feb 2009|04:45pm] |
From the slog:
"It sounds like Ballard's beloved Madame K's—the pizzeria in a former brothel—will only be open for another month or so, to be replaced by another, as-yet-unnamed restaurant. This Saturday is Madame K's 10-year anniversary.
Madame K (a.k.a. Kirsten Burt, the proprietress) opened another pizzeria/honky-tonk out in Carnation called Lazy K's nine months ago."
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[26 Feb 2009|09:48am] |
I've been going through this phase lately where I just want to sell off all the crap I own. It all started the last time I went to Ikea to get something small, just one item that I needed for a specific purpose, and I saw these people walking around with their huge carts full of kitchen supplies, rugs, plant pots and wall hangings, and I looked down at the single item in my hand and thought 'I don't need any of this other stuff, because my space consists of a 12'x12' rented room and a travel trailer'. And it was kind of a liberating feeling, even though stuff is nice, and I do miss having an apartment that felt like my own place (if you've seen my house, you know that it definitely has its own vision and style, which I enjoy but did not have any role in creating and am not permitted to change). I just feel like we've become prisoners to stuff, and the hunger to eliminate empty space in our houses and apartments is driving us out to Ikea or Dania or Costco every weekend to spend our hard earned dollars on things that we don't need.
So here's the problem - I am so busy earning money (to buy more stuff, as it were), that I don't have the time to a) take pictures of things b) post them on craigslist c) wait for people to show up to cart off my $15 aquarium. Wouldn't it be great if there were a business that just sold people's crap for them? Like sellallmystuff.com or getridofmycrap.com. I know people do this for ebay auctions all the time but what about just stuff lying around that you want to sell that is too big or a hassle to ship? If I were unemployed I would totally offer that service to people for some extra bucks.
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| sounds yummy |
[25 Feb 2009|03:05pm] |
I just received the following on our department's email list:
Hi all,
Does anyone have charcoal stripped fetal bovine serum I could use for an experiment?
Thanks.
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| Overheard at the office |
[13 Feb 2009|11:19am] |
"Wow you look great, did you get your hair cut?"
"No, I just gave a damn this morning."
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[08 Feb 2009|07:55am] |
I kinda want to see this movie, Chocolate:
'Certainly someone, somewhere, must be offended by the premise of Chocolate. An autistic girl learns karate by watching kung-fu movies on television and then, after learning that her mother doesn't have the money for chemotherapy, she goes on a rampage to collect from debtors. Surely this autism-fu is insensitive—the American trailer says, "From the people who brought you Ong-Bak, comes a special-needs girl with a special need to kick some ass"—but it's also the premise for one of the best kung-fu movies to be released in America in recent memory.'
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[30 Jan 2009|10:35am] |
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Somehow the concept of "'90's night" just seems so.. un-fun. Did anything happen in the 90's worth remembering or reliving?
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| Awesome |
[10 Jan 2009|11:48pm] |
Here's some great video taken right out in front of my house on Carnation-Duvall Rd. I'm back home now. All's well. Whole town's a mess though. More pics tomorrow of the cleanup. I stopped at the farm today and waded in to check on things. The farm cat survived and the water came within 3 inches of the floorboards but didn't get into the house. However, a 50 foot tree and its associated root ball came flowing by, missed the house by about 10 feet, and took out the big propane tank, dragging it about 20 feet before the whole mess got stuck and is now sitting there, waiting to be chainsawed up into several log jumps for my cross country course.
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| the view from above |
[09 Jan 2009|12:23pm] |
I thought of doing this, but someone else beat me to it.. here is the tree farm, from way up on the top of the big hill right across the river. The house is right behind the tree branch, but you can see the barn and the rows of christmas trees. And if you look with a magnifying glass, you can see my green truck parked on the left side of the big barn.
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