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Morning folks. It is cold and cloudy here. We are supposed to get to fifty today.

On insurance: I worked for the railroad and I don't get normal Medicare, it is called Pamletto. My cost for Medicare and supplements for Sherry and I are about $12,000 a year; however, with that I basically have no deductibles. My hip replacement in 2019 was $2.00 out of pocket. Part of my cost are picked up by the railroad in some sort of deal that they have with Aetna and Mutual of Omaha. Thank God I got hired by the railroad.

My daughter is COO for Medicaid in Kentucky at Humana, plus she deals with Ohio and Georgia on an as needed basis. The state is a hard thing to figure out. They keep moving all the goal posts on a monthly basis. She complains about it all the time and goes to Frankfort often to have negotiations, but because of that she has a high paying job trying to keep the rules manageable. I tried to switch to Humana this fall and found it nearly impossible.

On scheduled surgery: I was supposed to get my left hip replaced on March 23, 2020. They cancelled me three weeks before to cancel the operation. The doctors office advised that they would call back when they could reschedule it. To date they have yet to reschedule it.

I just stay pissed most of the time. I never really understood how one little virus that kills less than one percent of the infected could shut down a damned country, but it has.
 
I might have told Sawnee this months ago when he was first mentioning his back surgery, but my youngest son has a titanium (I'm pretty sure) tube/cone in his back. Picked something up one day...took about 4 or 5 steps and went down. By the end of the day he was in the hospital and couldn't walk. Don't remember all the details but they had to take out several disks in his lower back and replace them with it. About 7 inches as I recall.
If that wasn't bad enough...he lives in Atlanta and it happened in New Jersey right across the river from Philly. Was in the hospital there for about a month if not a little longer. Through an old connection I got him in a hospital in Atlanta that specializes in spinal problems. They flew up and got him and he spent about another month there.
Still has some problems and he's supposed to have another procedure done...but I'm not up on exactly what they want to do. He's 39 so my fear is is that as he gets older he'll have more and more problems. Hate to think what it might be like in another 20 years.
Doctors kind of thought that he might have had a weak back from playing football in H.S., but of course they didn't know for sure.

I played football in HS. I sprained an ankle and screwed up a knee in that time. I still have the effects from that knee injury. I loved football but if I had had a son I don't think I would have encouraged him to play football.

I also boxed a couple of years in the Golden Gloves tournaments and that may help explain why I am accused of being addled (and a Trump supporter).
 
I played football in HS. I sprained an ankle and screwed up a knee in that time. I still have the effects from that knee injury. I loved football but if I had had a son I don't think I would have encouraged him to play football.

I also boxed a couple of years in the Golden Gloves tournaments and that may help explain why I am accused of being addled (and a Trump supporter).
My brother had both knees replaced when he was about 60. Both screwed up from football. Kidney operation when he was 19-20 from football. Quite a good player...still remember Woody Hayes in our living room. Doctors told him not play college ball due to H.S. injuries.
My son was a very good player too. Had several small/mid-level college offers and then a number of large schools started looking/recruiting him till he tore up a knee and ripped his hamstring.
Great sport/memories if you don't have lingering medical issues.
Me? I was too chicken to play football. 😊
 
My all-time favorite version of You Win Again. That piano work on this song is magnificent.

This was my daddy's favorite version and mine too, of You Win Again. Johnny Cash had a good one but not as good as Jerry Lee. Johnny Cash is my favorite country singer so that is a mouthful for me.

My daddy said Jerry Lee Lewis played the piano like a Pentecostal preacher. He might have been right about that. It sure sounds like some church services and gospel singing back in the 1950's.
 
This was my daddy's favorite version and mine too, of You Win Again. Johnny Cash had a good one but not as good as Jerry Lee. Johnny Cash is my favorite country singer so that is a mouthful for me.

My daddy said Jerry Lee Lewis played the piano like a Pentecostal preacher. He might have been right about that. It sure sounds like some church services and gospel singing back in the 1950's.

Jerry Lee, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley are all first cousins... A couple are double first cousins however that works...
 
Well, it is in the blood...him and Jimmy S.
And Mickey Gilley. All first cousins. They had a fourth 1st cousin who did not go into show business but he was also a wizard on the piano. I saw his obituary a few years ago. He was content to be a pastor of a church and minister to his local congregation in Louisiana.

Louisiana put out some great pianist back in those days. A whole bunch of them ended up on Bourbon St in New Orleans.
 
My brother had both knees replaced when he was about 60. Both screwed up from football. Kidney operation when he was 19-20 from football. Quite a good player...still remember Woody Hayes in our living room. Doctors told him not play college ball due to H.S. injuries.
My son was a very good player too. Had several small/mid-level college offers and then a number of large schools started looking/recruiting him till he tore up a knee and ripped his hamstring.
Great sport/memories if you don't have lingering medical issues.
Me? I was too chicken to play football. 😊

I never played football. By the time I was interested, my knees were already screwed up from playing basketball. Coach wanted me as a running back, and I told him my knees wouldn't last the first practice.
 
Kind of like 3rd cousin twice removed...????? Some of this stuff I've never been able to figure out.
First cousins share a grandparent, second cousin share a great-grandparent, third cousins cousins share a great-great-grandparent, and so on. ... So your first cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your first cousin . Your second cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your second cousin. Your third cousin once removed is the child(or parent) of your third cousin.

It gets complicated. I have a chart that spells this out that I refer to time to time. :)
 
First cousins share a grandparent, second cousin share a great-grandparent, third cousins cousins share a great-great-grandparent, and so on. ... So your first cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your first cousin . Your second cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your second cousin. Your third cousin once removed is the child(or parent) of your third cousin.

It gets complicated. I have a chart that spells this out that I refer to time to time. :)

I have that reference too, put to music: (Sir)

 
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Mentioned on here a few weeks ago that I got a Power Smokeless Indoor Grill on an early Black Friday deal.
Did some bone-in chicken breasts tonight. Did good...in fact a whole lot better than I thought it would. No smoke. Quiet exhaust fan (was expecting it to be loud...we have an air fryer that sounds like a small jet). Cooked really well. Beat standing outside in the cold with the sun going down.
 
I just saw on the NBC nightly news that after nursing home residents, and front line workers get the vaccine, the next in line will be minorities, since low income areas have been the worst hit. Does this surprise anyone?
No sir. Actually what I expected. My 88 and 89 years old parents, one who has copd, can’t possibly need this as much as a 65 year old healthy minority. But keep voting yourself into this crap America, you reap what you sow.
 
My brother had both knees replaced when he was about 60. Both screwed up from football. Kidney operation when he was 19-20 from football. Quite a good player...still remember Woody Hayes in our living room. Doctors told him not play college ball due to H.S. injuries.
My son was a very good player too. Had several small/mid-level college offers and then a number of large schools started looking/recruiting him till he tore up a knee and ripped his hamstring.
Great sport/memories if you don't have lingering medical issues.
Me? I was too chicken to play football. 😊
I was never a football fan. I actually started school in a one room school house. Not enough people to have a team, so I was never around it. When I finally got to a school big enough for divided class rooms, it was still to small for football.
 
Hey, Austin. What are you doing up at this hour, especially since you are an hour earlier than me?
I wake at 4:18 am CST every morning, Monday-Friday. Have been for years. No rush, no stress. Since this past March, I also run systems checks for my team no later than 5:30 am CST. Usually in bed by 8:30 pm Mo-Fr.
 
I wake at 4:18 am CST every morning, Monday-Friday. Have been for years. No rush, no stress. Since this past March, I also run systems checks for my team no later than 5:30 am CST. Usually in bed by 8:30 pm Mo-Fr.

I woke up thinking about a billing to a customer and couldn't sleep, so I got up and generated an invoice, before I forgot it.
 
I woke up thinking about a billing to a customer and couldn't sleep, so I got up and generated an invoice, before I forgot it.
Sounds good. Yeah, after system checks, I'll clean up and start hiking around 6 am CST. It's chilly out this morning. Normally, I'd walk to the bus stop and wait on the bus after dropping by the car wash, but working from home changed all that.
 
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