I ran
I ran yesterday. 3 miles. It was better than the other day in that I didn’t stop. I still was exhausted at the end though. The humidty is still pretty high but since I ran in the morning, it was not quite as hot, even though it was very sunny.
There’s a small dairy farm that I run past. Its been there since early 1800’s, although some of the land has been sold off now to build houses. I can’t believe those people have wells on land like that but they do. The farm is close enough you can smell it at my parents’ house if the wind is right. They used to have chickens too but the henhouse is empty now.
The cows all watch me when I run by and I just know they are thinking “Look! There he is again. What an idiot!” The funny thing was that for the first time ever, I saw a milk truck there, picking up the milk. You’d think I would have noticed one there sometime in the past 40 years or so, but this was the first time. I had always wondered what they did with the milk.
Not much else to say this morning. Another work week begins. More phone calls during the day to the agent to find out if somebody out there really wants to sell that house. More calls to my old health care provider trying to get them to actually pay the old doctor bills that they need to pay. Care Choices has been a royal pain in the ass under COBRA. And by the way, COBRA really sucks. I was on it for one month and it does indeed suck.
July 17th, 2006 07:46
Cobra does indeed suck. All insurance companies suck. I hope you get the info about the milk farm you want.
July 17th, 2006 08:29
“I always wondered what the did with the milk…”
My father, a retired dairy farmer, would have fun with you - he loves picking on “city slickers”. His neighbor once allowed a couple men from NY City to go deer hunting on his land - they shot a cow thinking it was a deer…
Good job on the run, keep it up!
July 17th, 2006 08:43
man, i hope this doesn’t turn you off NY!! yeah, milk goes into milk trucks. Who knew? good job on the run. You’ll be back in shape before you know it.
July 17th, 2006 09:57
oh yeah! I forget that you guys can’t just up and go see a doc. You have to like PAY for it and shit. Wowser.
Have you been looking at other houses at all?? Just in case the mold is still there?
July 17th, 2006 12:39
COBRA is awesome! It is a law, not a company. You may have a crappy COBRA provider but the fact that you are entitled to keep health insurance at group rates is a lucky thing, indeed. Have you ever looked at what it costs to get health insurance as an individual? Not good. So don’t worry - be happy. The bills will get paid and it will cost you much less than if you didn’t get coverage under COBRA.
Hope you get into your house soon!
July 17th, 2006 14:53
Quick COBRA story - getting out of the Navy, the wife and I do the calculation - COBRA until we get covered under the new job is going to cost quite literally an arm and a leg. We’re both healthy, the baby’s been to his 6 month checkup and isn’t due again until 1 year, so we decide to forego COBRA in favor for three months of big deductable catastrophic coverage at about an eighth the cost.
Two weeks before real insurance kicks in again - I get bit by a poisonous snake and spend three days in the ICU. Getting the temporary policy to pay was a PITA.
Although, in hindsight, it still ended up being cheaper.
July 17th, 2006 16:29
We be Canadian and don’t have to worry about health care! What ARE you going to do if the mold is still there???
July 17th, 2006 17:59
We have a load of dairy farms in our area and my husband always mentions how the cows watch us when we run by. We were even chased by some of them!
July 17th, 2006 19:04
you know, when they sell off all the property and the cows are all gone, all the employees of the businesses will take their place, thinking, “look! there he is again. what an idiot!” hehe
July 17th, 2006 20:02
The title of your post made me think of A Flock of Seagulls and that stupid song is running through my head now. I am punishing you by envisioning your hair gelled up in that silly pompadour with horns.
Say….you look kinda hot that way.
July 17th, 2006 22:39
“Its been there since early 1800’s, although some of the land has been sold off now to build houses.”
Sigh, I hate that!
There is a dairy farm in my town that was about to be turned into a 20 house lot division, but the town raised money and saved the land for agriculture reasons Only! I love that!