I was laid off from my job after 9/11 and lost my dental insurance. After several temp jobs, I finally got hired to a permanent position in April. My new job provides dental insurance, so yesterday I made my first visit to a dentist in about five years.
The net result is that I need about $6,000 in dental work done. My insurance maxes out at a $1,000 per year and my dentist cut another $1,500 or so off of the price, so I get to shell out $3,500. Fortunately I can pay it off over 18 months, so it shouldn’t be too bad. Still, ouch!
I am fortunate, though. After the diagnosis and the administering of smelling salts, the dentist was able to get right to work. My guess is that if we had a single-payer health system, there would be a long waiting list for all of the work I am getting done.
Anyway, here is a “nice” photo of what all the fuss is about: (more…)
Comments Off on What A $6,000 Dental Bill Looks LikeVia Enworld is a link to a nice random dungeon map generator. While there are several other such generators on the web, this one produces some cirucular rooms – a nice feature.
Comments Off on Gozzy’s Random Dungeon Map GeneratorI have uploaded the last six Succubus Club chats. The index page is here.
Individual Transcripts
June 8, 2005 Chat Transcript
I have updated the Cormarian Campaign Log to include the results of the Saturday, June 4, 2005 game session.
Comments Off on Campaign Log UpdatedThe Cormarian campaign is up and running again. I have updated the Campaign Log.
Comments Off on Campaign LogOne of the links in the Heroforge Mailing List referred to this Excel Name Manager. It is an add-in for Excel that makes is much easier to sort through and manage named ranges in Excel. I have barely tried it out, but it appears to be really good.
There are also a lot of other Excel utilities on their download page, but I haven’t checked them out yet.
Comments Off on Excel Name ManagerI have posted the transcripts for the last nine Succubus Club IRC chats.
Comments Off on Updated Succubus Club ChatsFinally got around to updating the Cormarian Campaign Log.
Comments Off on Updated Campaign LogWell, I have finally got around to putting up the transcripts of the last three chats. Here they are:
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