It's that time of year when many of us are offered an opportunity to review or maybe change health insurance plans. Many people do nothing, opting to stay under a coverage in which they are either satisfied or feel it's the devil that they at least know. Others switch providers to escape a policy with terrible coverage, or perhaps because their current plan will no … Continue reading Do You Have That in Something Other Than Blue?
Author: snakesinthegrass2014
This is a blog ostensibly about my taking early retirement after a 30+ year career as a law librarian. Since starting the blog in 2014, I have expanded the original scope from financial issues (i.e. pension, retirement savings, social security, divorce, alimony) to discussions of current events, culture, and primarily life's comical ironies.
I always try to return the focus to those serious issues that are germain to seniors, but my strong need for displays of irreverence and imbecility are often more dominant. So do join me as I encounter the highs, lows, pitfalls, and other challenges that will present themselves as we settle early into what I'm still told are the GOLDEN YEARS.
Your comments are not only welcomed but encouraged. Thanks for stopping by!
My Life Insurance Policy Will Be The Death of Me
It was my intention this week to write about health insurance. Today, however, the frustration level over a life insurance policy I own has reached such heights that the only healthy way for me to work though my annoyance is to write about it. As I learned from a previous posting when we explored the always fun … Continue reading My Life Insurance Policy Will Be The Death of Me
Sensitivity Training
My home is not in any danger for an invasion of unwarranted political correctness. I have not made any purposeful attempts to monitor speech or free expression, nor have I made it a desire to suppress original thought. Gorgeous does continue to keep a watchful eye on the gratuitous use of profanity and four-letter-words, however. Instead, what's surfaced is something even … Continue reading Sensitivity Training
Birthday Benevolence
This coming Saturday is my wife's birthday. We are currently wrapping out heads around how we'll spend the day and also what kind of present to get for her. She's already rejected going to a fancy restaurant for a meal that would exceed $100. I've since offered her an item off her bucket list for a present, along … Continue reading Birthday Benevolence
Neighborly Advice
I once had a professor who liked to joke about being grateful for his envious colleagues. He said that because of their own peculiar manners, they insured that no one one in close proximity could ever suffer from swollen head syndrome. He then explained how there was an unwritten custom in his department against anyone exhibiting the slightest outward display of pride or elation if one was fortunate enough … Continue reading Neighborly Advice
All Quiet on the Blogging Range
The no-spill laptop is repaired, but the blogging has been slowed by a nasty case of writer's block. Or maybe laziness. But I'm going with writer's block-- It sounds more intellectual. As I wait for irony, self-deprecation, and imbecile inspiration to again tap from my fingers, I notice that our favorite TV and film reviewer over at Just Me … Continue reading All Quiet on the Blogging Range
An Unscheduled Writing Break
At some point perhaps in the future, it might be fun to write about the blogger who learned first-hand of the dangers involving water glasses and laptops in close proximity. But for now suffice to say that said blogger is VERY grateful for the purchase of an AppleCare Protection Plan a couple of years ago. I am now in awe … Continue reading An Unscheduled Writing Break
Tattoo You
While watching the Emmy Awards last weekend, I was struck by the sheer number of tattoos on so many of the presenters, particularly the females. Men can hide tattoos by wearing long pants and jackets. Women, however, with their low neck lines and open dresses, display much more skin and therefore tend to show off their tattoos. Although body art … Continue reading Tattoo You
Irony on the Rocks: A Retort
That wickedly funny and creative blogger at Aging Gracefully My Ass has written a most provocative post on the merits, or rather demerits, of ice consumption. I say "provocative" because AGMA has broadcast her dislike for ice in direct and unambiguous language. But for those of us who not only enjoy ice, yet also consider it to be part of the … Continue reading Irony on the Rocks: A Retort
A Place to Call My Own
Once again, pictures in old photo albums conjure up memories. It was the first real place that I could call my own. I was all of 24 and had spent the previous five years living in either dorms, shared apartments, or group houses. I was free of the loose entanglements created by cohabiting with strangers, … Continue reading A Place to Call My Own
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