My thanks to San for presenting me with this lovely Gratitude with Attitude blog award:
There are now 34 unduplicated awards on the sidebar to the right that have been presented to Nick’s Bytes. I have been sadly negligent in passing them on to deserving blogs. So…please give me a hand: if you see a blog award among those 34 that brings to your mind a blog or a blogger, please contact me naming both. Yes, I am looking for nominations! I already have several in my mind from among the 284 feeds I have on Bloglines but I’d also appreciate your opinion! (As Alex says, “OK?”)
If the response of Vaughn is indicative of some of the younger readers of Nick’s Bytes, my suggestion in yesterday’s Monday’s jokes post that the above lol cats picture reminded me of West Side Storywasn’t understood. So, with the aid of You Tube, I present the scene that the pic brought to my mind:
Unfortunately our insurance agents may not be as knowledgeable about our PPO as they could be ~ Humana Representative, March 27th, 2008
The above isn’t an exact quote, but it is the gist of what I was told by the human I finally reached at Humana this afternoon. Unfortunately, as a former insurance agent, I already knew that! During the months I worked for Liberty National Life Insurance Company as an agent selling life and health insurance, I received no training and very little information on the policies I was selling—other than how to “entice” (my word) people to purchase them.
I may also add that none of the several books that Humana has sent me since I enrolled with them through the Social Security Administration says that I have no dental coverage. Rather, the book that lists the in network providers has a long list of available dentists and dental specialists. So… if there is no coverage, why in the hellacious ways of the U.S. health insurance industry are they listed?
After my conversation with the Humana rep, I decided to attempt to obtain my need met via another channel. I undertook the long process of calling, pushing buttons, and being placed on hold that it takes to reach my Veterans Administration primary care nurse practitioner. Of course, when I did get through, I wasn’t permitted to speak with her directly; I was able to speak with her nurse. The result was that a referral will be made to the VA dental clinic and I will be informed of the appointment not later than (NLT as we used to write in the army, which is also my initials) the beginning of next week
Introducing Vaughn
As I have previously written, Vaughn has replaced Tasha as my VA homemaker since Tasha gave birth to her son. Yesterday Vaughn gave me permission to share with you his photograph (below) as well as his “celebrity look-alikes that we obtained yesterday. As with my look-alikes, we had problems recognizing the similarity between him and them.
Becoming Serious About the Oppression in Tibet
I wonder why the nations of this crazy world do not say to China “Either back off from Tibet or our athletes will not attend the Beijing Olympics?”
