Naked brutality for TotP!
+1 to what Ashe wrote in the other thread.
EDIT:Also to CJ.Srsly why is that still open?
To give this old treant a proper swan song. Heck, if you're gonna walk away from Paizo and its boards you should do it with style, guns blazing.
And, LT has friends at the company. Friends that are happy to ignore his trolling. Sad thing, is that they alienate part of their customer base by supporting it. We know how that turned out for another company. :(
EDIT: This eulogy sux as ToP.
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I baked that question into a PIE with no results.
Having one of those days where I just want to find somewhere to curl up and cry. Ugh indeed.
I did enjoy the brief reappearance of Jiminy though. :)
Having one of those days where I just want to find somewhere to curl up and cry. Ugh indeed.
I did enjoy the brief reappearance of Jiminy though. :)
I'm sorry Lynora. It sounds like we all are indeed having one of those days. Here's hoping that tomorrow's sun rises on a better day.
Today was Jude's first day of daycare, and my wife's first day back at work. Let's see how this goes.
Everyone cheer up. There's troll baiting to do.:)
Arrrrgggghhh!!!Hey I only have one alias.:) But it did allow me to trump FHDM.:)That'll teach that troll and his lack of an arsenal of aliases. Noob. :)Thread dumps are fun, and a necessary part of a healthy system.Agreed and well done.
~taps foot while holding a baseball bat.~
Excuse me....
Sorry to hear that everyone is having it so rough. :(
But some of us like it rough.
Joss wanted me to say:
Rocks fall, everyone dies.
Today was Jude's first day of daycare, and my wife's first day back at work. Let's see how this goes.
Everyone cheer up. There's troll baiting to do.:)
AWWWW!!!! It must be hard to leave him...
I refuse to have a bad day. This weekend sucked for me, to be sick on Thanksgiving, I'm going to have a good day gosh darn it~!
AWWWW!!!! It must be hard to leave him...Today was Jude's first day of daycare, and my wife's first day back at work. Let's see how this goes.
Everyone cheer up. There's troll baiting to do.:)
Well I have been working for weeks so that wasn't to hard for me. My wife on the other hand I will see. ;)
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Well I have been working for weeks so that wasn't to hard for me. My wife on the other hand I will see. ;)AWWWW!!!! It must be hard to leave him...Today was Jude's first day of daycare, and my wife's first day back at work. Let's see how this goes.
Everyone cheer up. There's troll baiting to do.:)
Just wait until Jude can reach for you and scream for you to take him with you. :/
Solnes still gets choked up when our little one daes that.
Well I have been working for weeks so that wasn't to hard for me. My wife on the other hand I will see. ;)AWWWW!!!! It must be hard to leave him...Today was Jude's first day of daycare, and my wife's first day back at work. Let's see how this goes.
Everyone cheer up. There's troll baiting to do.:)
Just wait until Jude can reach for you and scream for you to take him with you. :/
Solnes still gets choked up when our little one daes that.
Definitely looking forward to and dreading him growing up.:)
I refuse to have a bad day. This weekend sucked for me, to be sick on Thanksgiving, I'm going to have a good day gosh darn it~!~E-mails nude pictures~
Hear ya go! :P
O_O
That sux. No idea, but I'll holler if anyone around here has a suggestion.Anyone around here know of any competitive family insurance plans that's usually geared toward self-employed individuals and/or when insurance isn't offered through your place of employment?
Two missing checks; one recently returned - no fault of my own as I used Bill Pay (but they're being sent out as checks rather than being issued electronically) and COBRA dumped us. No chance for reinstatement. Nada.
Needless to say, I'm scrambling around. :S
Tried to get back with Anthem, who I've been with for over a decade. First it was $230 and change for the two of us. The only issue I had was that the first three non-well visits were $35, then it's 40% of the visit going toward deductible. I need to see a psych monthly for meds management as I'm still trying to find the right one. My woman has preconditions for hypothyroidism. I asked if they had one that was more friendly toward office copays. Says he had an unlimited plan. Comes back with $420. I freaked. Asked if he had something in the middle. He said no, and faulted it for the prescriptions. I countered that the issue was the office visit frequencies. Then he turned it right back around and said it was the diagnoses.
Meh. If there's any good to come out of the mess that is the insurance plan overhaul next year, it's that you can no longer be rejected due to a precondition. But they're certainly going to f# you with the premiums. *sighs*
Any heads up are appreciative. Until I get this remedied, I'm in the dog house. And she just got herself a new contract job, too. It was not pretty at Urizen Mansion last night; let me tell you that. :S
When you have a ton of fans bemoaning what you're turning a beloved character and story into, stuff like this is bound to happen. My only gripe is that Bono & The Edge did the soundtrack. As much as I love U2, I hate thinking they did it for the money...
Oh the humanity!
Nada that I can think of. Sorry :(Anyone around here know of any competitive family insurance plans that's usually geared toward self-employed individuals and/or when insurance isn't offered through your place of employment?
Two missing checks; one recently returned - no fault of my own as I used Bill Pay (but they're being sent out as checks rather than being issued electronically) and COBRA dumped us. No chance for reinstatement. Nada.
Needless to say, I'm scrambling around. :S
Dumb question: don't you and Treppa even have medical insurance? I only wonder since she's a small business owner and you're essentially an employee.
Give me a few minutes(although considering I'm about to run group and go to lunch, a few hours)- what state are you in?Anyone around here know of any competitive family insurance plans that's usually geared toward self-employed individuals and/or when insurance isn't offered through your place of employment?
Two missing checks; one recently returned - no fault of my own as I used Bill Pay (but they're being sent out as checks rather than being issued electronically) and COBRA dumped us. No chance for reinstatement. Nada.
Needless to say, I'm scrambling around. :S
Ohio, Central.
*Walks into thread, sees crotch mirrors deployed, walks back out*:P besides if I post crotch mirrors Urizen posts in FAWTL.
Funny how things work, eh? :P
lol. i think i need to make a new alias.
If you do, make it much less complicated. You're still the 'Juicy One' to me. XD
I refuse to have a bad day. This weekend sucked for me, to be sick on Thanksgiving, I'm going to have a good day gosh darn it~!~E-mails nude pictures~
Hear ya go! :P
Psst. You blind copied me, right?
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Dumb question: don't you and Treppa even have medical insurance? I only wonder since she's a small business owner and you're essentially an employee.Nada that I can think of. Sorry :(Anyone around here know of any competitive family insurance plans that's usually geared toward self-employed individuals and/or when insurance isn't offered through your place of employment?
Two missing checks; one recently returned - no fault of my own as I used Bill Pay (but they're being sent out as checks rather than being issued electronically) and COBRA dumped us. No chance for reinstatement. Nada.
Needless to say, I'm scrambling around. :S
Nada here either. We're paying out of pocket right now. What's amazing, with the financing programs that many hospitals have for payment you'll find yourself possibly paying less than you expect. It's still more than not having insurance. Just try not to get hurt, walk it off, and take a salt tablet!
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Kind of depressing...
Just had a meeting at the girls' school. Ostensibly, the meeting was to discuss her problems with being bullied. The school took swift and effective action on that and the problem, amazingly, seems to be handled.
Unfortunately, once we were all in a group with the school principal, guidance counselor, nurse, teacher, and psychologist, we realized we need to focus on her odd behavior (nail and lip biting until she bleeds, giving herself hickies on her arms, etc.) and fixation on the most morbid details of things she sees in books and on TV...to the point where she puts herself in stories about being kids being killed or makes up stories about kids dying. Just to be clear, these are things she's seen on History Channel or other shows. It's not like I'm letting her see horror movies, although she has seen some shows about paranormal activities on the History channel.
Her use of those stories and talking about herself as being hung or killed in other ways in response to the bullying was the first indication we had that she might be having serious problems at school.
She can be such a happy, bright little girl, most of the time, but she gets caught up in "drama" and seems to crave constant sensory input, whether it's positive or negative.
Her mother and I see the red flags for things like cutting herself, drug abuse and other unsafe behavior waving furiously. If she can't get her need for that kind of stimulus under control, she's going to look for increasingly dangerous sources for it. Hopefully, we'll be able to work out some strategies and get some help, now, so we can avoid that kind of future for her.
Anyway...sorry to vent. Normally I don't dwell on it and things seem almost okay. But the meeting brought things into more focus than I'd had before. I'm taking a few extra hours off from work to pull myself together before I go back in, today. I'm just really worried about my little girl.
Nada here either. We're paying out of pocket right now. What's amazing, with the financing programs that many hospitals have for payment you'll find yourself possibly paying less than you expect. It's still more than not having insurance. Just try not to get hurt, walk it off, and take a salt tablet!Dumb question: don't you and Treppa even have medical insurance? I only wonder since she's a small business owner and you're essentially an employee.Nada that I can think of. Sorry :(Anyone around here know of any competitive family insurance plans that's usually geared toward self-employed individuals and/or when insurance isn't offered through your place of employment?
Two missing checks; one recently returned - no fault of my own as I used Bill Pay (but they're being sent out as checks rather than being issued electronically) and COBRA dumped us. No chance for reinstatement. Nada.
Needless to say, I'm scrambling around. :S
Heh! If held that philosophy with the five hospitalizations and four surgeries within a calendar year, the money required to pay all of that out of pocket and resorting to finance programs with hospitals ... I would have been worth more dead. :P
Kind of depressing...
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Wow, Paris. I really hope that you've caught it early enough to prevent things from escalating. That's really rough. You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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** spoiler omitted **...Wow, Paris. I really hope that you've caught it early enough to prevent things from escalating. That's really rough. You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Thanks, taig. Things have gotten better in the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately, this year has been pretty stressful for all of us. She seems much happier since she talked to the principal and has faced the bully situation head on. I'm thinking that, as things change around the house, she'll pull out of most of this.
I'm hoping we're not making a mountain out of a mole-hill, but the consequences of ignoring the problem are so serious that we have to go down this road.
Kind of depressing...
** spoiler omitted **...Wow, Paris. I really hope that you've caught it early enough to prevent things from escalating. That's really rough. You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Likewise. It's good that you're being an attentative parent that you are addressing the matter now rather than to just sweep it under the rug or put their head in the sand and chalk it up as a 'phase'.
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I'm glad you're getting some help for your daughter Paris, it's important that you're protecting your family and commendable. Make sure to take care of yourself too, problems like that have a way of affecting people without them realizing the extent to which they've been affected.
We're all pulling for you.
Heh! If held that philosophy with the five hospitalizations and four surgeries within a calendar year, the money required to pay all of that out of pocket and resorting to finance programs with hospitals ... I would have been worth more dead. :PNada here either. We're paying out of pocket right now. What's amazing, with the financing programs that many hospitals have for payment you'll find yourself possibly paying less than you expect. It's still more than not having insurance. Just try not to get hurt, walk it off, and take a salt tablet!Dumb question: don't you and Treppa even have medical insurance? I only wonder since she's a small business owner and you're essentially an employee.Nada that I can think of. Sorry :(Anyone around here know of any competitive family insurance plans that's usually geared toward self-employed individuals and/or when insurance isn't offered through your place of employment?
Two missing checks; one recently returned - no fault of my own as I used Bill Pay (but they're being sent out as checks rather than being issued electronically) and COBRA dumped us. No chance for reinstatement. Nada.
Needless to say, I'm scrambling around. :S
We have the same problem, really. SP could get himself a major medical policy fairly cheaply because he has no preexisting conditions, but I can't possibly afford insurance.
However, I have found so far that hospitals and doctors are willing to reduce charges for uninsured people, to the point of being actually affordable and less than insurance premiums for routine and slight emergency care. Plus they will set up time pays, no interest, for larger bills. PLUS they will waive fees if you can show hardship.
Did you look into any government programs? I haven't, probably should.
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Likewise. It's good that you're being an attentative parent that you are addressing the matter now rather than to just sweep it under the rug or put their head in the sand and chalk it up as a 'phase'.Kind of depressing...
** spoiler omitted **...Wow, Paris. I really hope that you've caught it early enough to prevent things from escalating. That's really rough. You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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Thanks, guys. It's good to have a friendly ear (eye?) to share things with.
These girls have been a challenge since before they were born, then arrived 3 months early. We've been dealing with minor issues of varying degrees of seriousness for the whole time. I'm sure we'll get through this, too.
I'm glad you're getting some help for your daughter Paris, it's important that you're protecting your family and commendable. Make sure to take care of yourself too, problems like that have a way of affecting people without them realizing the extent to which they've been affected.
We're all pulling for you.
+1, and hugs for tackling this now. My 16 yo daughter needs to learn to deal with this stuff better.
I'm hoping we're not making a mountain out of a mole-hill, but the consequences of ignoring the problem are so serious that we have to go down this road.
No, you are absolutely right not to ignore it. She's 8, she's bright, and people are concerned. Now is the time to start teaching her coping strategies that don't involve hurting herself or retreating into dark fantasies. Stay the course!
pmg is great! he's currently turning my frown upside down just by being his usual awesome self.
I feel ridiculously lucky!
If you could put him in pill form, you could make a fortune!
I love it when someone proofreading my writing samples calls them "painful", "dull", and "sloppy".
Edit: Two days before I need to submit them.
"Thank you, sir! May I have another?"
Geez. You want a new proofreader, email me.
Heh! If held that philosophy with the five hospitalizations and four surgeries within a calendar year, the money required to pay all of that out of pocket and resorting to finance programs with hospitals ... I would have been worth more dead. :PNada here either. We're paying out of pocket right now. What's amazing, with the financing programs that many hospitals have for payment you'll find yourself possibly paying less than you expect. It's still more than not having insurance. Just try not to get hurt, walk it off, and take a salt tablet!Dumb question: don't you and Treppa even have medical insurance? I only wonder since she's a small business owner and you're essentially an employee.Nada that I can think of. Sorry :(Anyone around here know of any competitive family insurance plans that's usually geared toward self-employed individuals and/or when insurance isn't offered through your place of employment?
Two missing checks; one recently returned - no fault of my own as I used Bill Pay (but they're being sent out as checks rather than being issued electronically) and COBRA dumped us. No chance for reinstatement. Nada.
Needless to say, I'm scrambling around. :S
We have the same problem, really. SP could get himself a major medical policy fairly cheaply because he has no preexisting conditions, but I can't possibly afford insurance.
However, I have found so far that hospitals and doctors are willing to reduce charges for uninsured people, to the point of being actually affordable and less than insurance premiums for routine and slight emergency care. Plus they will set up time pays, no interest, for larger bills. PLUS they will waive fees if you can show hardship.
Did you look into any government programs? I haven't, probably should.
Considering I just got bounced from COBRA w/o any termination pending notice for late/missing payment, I'm kind of cynical with them right now.
She's working; I'm not. She's hoping she can get hired on after a month's trial, but insurance will still be a month or so down the road from the official full-hire status. But we're concerned that they may not have a domestic partner insurance option -- which is normally and increasingly becoming common in my locality.
She's working; I'm not. She's hoping she can get hired on after a month's trial, but insurance will still be a month or so down the road from the official full-hire status. But we're concerned that they may not have a domestic partner insurance option -- which is normally and increasingly becoming common in my locality.
The domestic partner benefit options I've seen have only applied to same-sex partners. Heterosexuals have to get married to qualify (in my old workplaces, anyway).
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I love it when someone proofreading my writing samples calls them "painful", "dull", and "sloppy".
Edit: Two days before I need to submit them.
"Thank you, sir! May I have another?"
Geez. You want a new proofreader, email me.
Could I take you up on that? I need someone to check my spelling, grammar, and style. (I'm less worried about content, which seems fine.)
Could I take you up on that? I need someone to check my spelling, grammar, and style. (I'm less worried about content, which seems fine.)I love it when someone proofreading my writing samples calls them "painful", "dull", and "sloppy".
Edit: Two days before I need to submit them.
"Thank you, sir! May I have another?"
Geez. You want a new proofreader, email me.
Sure! Post here when you email so I know to check.
Kind of depressing...
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The domestic partner benefit options I've seen have only applied to same-sex partners. Heterosexuals have to get married to qualify (in my old workplaces, anyway).She's working; I'm not. She's hoping she can get hired on after a month's trial, but insurance will still be a month or so down the road from the official full-hire status. But we're concerned that they may not have a domestic partner insurance option -- which is normally and increasingly becoming common in my locality.
That's messed up.
That's messed up.The domestic partner benefit options I've seen have only applied to same-sex partners. Heterosexuals have to get married to qualify (in my old workplaces, anyway).She's working; I'm not. She's hoping she can get hired on after a month's trial, but insurance will still be a month or so down the road from the official full-hire status. But we're concerned that they may not have a domestic partner insurance option -- which is normally and increasingly becoming common in my locality.