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Mar. 1st, 2014
Seenyore Sneaky
Mar. 1st, 2014 06:52 amToday's adventure will be to get proof of the promise of old age. My Medicare advantage insurance includes a Silver Sneakers card which, supposedly, gets me into a huge number of gyms and athletic clubs for free. According to the Sneaky Seniors website, I will be able to walk into the Olympic Athletic Club in Ballard and use their facilities at no cost to me. The Olympic Athletic Club has two swimming pools - one of which is a 24 hour lap pool.
I am skeptical of the whole Silver Sneakers thing in a too good to be true way. But, I'm going to find out for sure this morning. My plan is to be there about 8:15. I should be able to find a parking place easily at that time. If my let me swim for free scheme fails - yeah that Silver Sneakers thing is a scam we don't really honor - the city pool not far from there has lap swimming from 9-10 so I'll go there.
So that's the plan.
This afternoon's plan is to add a wifi adapter to my new desktop so I can drop the network cable that crosses the living room. Then there is a ballgame on the radio and stuff on TiVo and bears to knit.
Sometime this weekend I need to line up the bears for their photo - delivery day is Monday. I still have the rest of the bathroom to finish cleaning out. No hurry.
I am skeptical of the whole Silver Sneakers thing in a too good to be true way. But, I'm going to find out for sure this morning. My plan is to be there about 8:15. I should be able to find a parking place easily at that time. If my let me swim for free scheme fails - yeah that Silver Sneakers thing is a scam we don't really honor - the city pool not far from there has lap swimming from 9-10 so I'll go there.
So that's the plan.
This afternoon's plan is to add a wifi adapter to my new desktop so I can drop the network cable that crosses the living room. Then there is a ballgame on the radio and stuff on TiVo and bears to knit.
Sometime this weekend I need to line up the bears for their photo - delivery day is Monday. I still have the rest of the bathroom to finish cleaning out. No hurry.
fail and fail but what.ever
Mar. 1st, 2014 12:24 pmSooooo turns out that overnight (literally, because I checked it yesterday afternoon) Silver Sneakers changed their website. And, coincidentally? dropped most of the gym/pools that were available here. The only thing left really is 24 Hour Fitness which has tiny pools, a really bad reputation for scuzzy locker rooms and tiny, not-well-maintained pools, and in the location closest to me, parking that would cost me $15 a swim.
When I went to the gym in Ballard this morning, I was told by the receptionist that their agreement with Silver Sneakers ended at midnight last night. Ha. "Well, how much does it cost to join without Silver Sneakers? Oh, the membership group doesn't come in until 9 and I'm not allowed to give out that information." Ok then...
So onto the city pool. Ballard has one of the small city pool and I had heard it was crowded... But, they have a YMCA with a pool, AND this gym with two pools, how crowded can it be??? Turns out REAL crowded. At one point my lane had 5 swimmers in it, 2 with boards (meaning VERY slow).
BUT... I did fine. Honestly, I was a little afraid that after having swam only 1 time in a week, I'd have lost my pool mojo. But, nope, just the opposite. Even though it was crowded and the water was too warm, it was still great. I got in an hour without stopping and it felt good. The locker room is tiny and it was way too packed. My pool re-opens a week from Monday. I will be soooooo ready.
I hauled assed home to wait for FedEx. I made myself some breakfast and checked the tracking number to learn that mere minutes before, FedEx had declared my home a business and not only that, a business that was CLOSED and moved the delivery to Monday. I placed a WTF phone call to FedEx. The nice lady said someone would call me. I shot an email to Amazon asking for a refund of the $8.99 surcharge I had paid for Saturday delivery.
As I finished my breakfast the phone rang and an honestly really nice guy from the local FedEx called VERY apologetic and said that he would put it on a truck for delivery today but it might be late and he was sooo sorry. "This is all a FedEx error." He said that if I wanted it earlier, he could pull it and hold it for me there. 'There' was their office a very easy 3 miles south of here. So I thanked him and hopped in the car.
Now I am home and listening to the baseball game and getting ready to install my new wifi card.
All is good. I am clearly getting better at dealing with annoyances!
Oh and while I was at FedEx, I got a note from Amazon saying that they had refunded me $9.84 (no clue why the extra $.65 - maybe for the inconvenience? Whatever. I don't care. I'm good.
When I went to the gym in Ballard this morning, I was told by the receptionist that their agreement with Silver Sneakers ended at midnight last night. Ha. "Well, how much does it cost to join without Silver Sneakers? Oh, the membership group doesn't come in until 9 and I'm not allowed to give out that information." Ok then...
So onto the city pool. Ballard has one of the small city pool and I had heard it was crowded... But, they have a YMCA with a pool, AND this gym with two pools, how crowded can it be??? Turns out REAL crowded. At one point my lane had 5 swimmers in it, 2 with boards (meaning VERY slow).
BUT... I did fine. Honestly, I was a little afraid that after having swam only 1 time in a week, I'd have lost my pool mojo. But, nope, just the opposite. Even though it was crowded and the water was too warm, it was still great. I got in an hour without stopping and it felt good. The locker room is tiny and it was way too packed. My pool re-opens a week from Monday. I will be soooooo ready.
I hauled assed home to wait for FedEx. I made myself some breakfast and checked the tracking number to learn that mere minutes before, FedEx had declared my home a business and not only that, a business that was CLOSED and moved the delivery to Monday. I placed a WTF phone call to FedEx. The nice lady said someone would call me. I shot an email to Amazon asking for a refund of the $8.99 surcharge I had paid for Saturday delivery.
As I finished my breakfast the phone rang and an honestly really nice guy from the local FedEx called VERY apologetic and said that he would put it on a truck for delivery today but it might be late and he was sooo sorry. "This is all a FedEx error." He said that if I wanted it earlier, he could pull it and hold it for me there. 'There' was their office a very easy 3 miles south of here. So I thanked him and hopped in the car.
Now I am home and listening to the baseball game and getting ready to install my new wifi card.
All is good. I am clearly getting better at dealing with annoyances!
Oh and while I was at FedEx, I got a note from Amazon saying that they had refunded me $9.84 (no clue why the extra $.65 - maybe for the inconvenience? Whatever. I don't care. I'm good.
Dental Woes and more
Mar. 1st, 2014 04:17 pmI have this tooth... It's had a hard road. About 20 years ago I broke a piece off of it. Because it was a pretty big piece and created a razor sharp edge and I was still hoping to conquer my fear of dentists (or really rather hatred of them), I took it to a the dentist who kind of semi fixed it. The razor edge was gone and he said that his fix might last a year, might last 2 or 3 but would some day absolutely have to be replaced with a crown or I'd lose the tooth. About 10 years ago, it was really kind of bugging me so I went back to the dentist and he took x-rays and couldn't find any issue with it at all. And over the next decade it was fine. Until about a year ago.
It started hurting. I finally figured out I was grinding it at night while I slept. It got so bad that one Saturday, I emailed the dentist for an appointment and then went to the drug store and got some numbing stuff and a mouth guard. By Monday, the mouth guard had worked magic and by Friday the tooth was healed.
About a month or so ago, the mouth guard trick started only working sometimes. And now sometimes, it even hurts when I'm not chewing or messing with it with my tongue. The other night I ate a few sliced of toasted designer bread (hard crusts) and my tooth really hurt when I went to bed but was WAY better in the morning.
The bottom line is that I need to bite the bullet (using the other side of my mouth) and go to the damn dentist. Now, of course, I have no insurance so it's a double whammy. One day it's going to get so bad that going to the dentist will be better than putting up with it.
---
And speaking of insurance I do not have... Turns out - with my tax return, I learned that my taxable income in 2013 was $30,000. I told the insurance finder that it was $12,000. So I think I pretty much broke the law by getting and using medicade. But my month is over and now my medicare and medicare advantage takes over. Meanwhile medicare is all hosed up because my coverage won't auto renew (because I hit 65 years of age) and they keep sending me snail mail every day telling me I have to renew manually. They offer me no option to cancel. Neither does their website. So today I called. I waited on hold for 30 minutes and quit. I sent an email but their auto reply says they won't answer to anything that requires personal identification so I think calling is going to be my only out.
I feel guilty about cheating and I want to quit costing them mailing money.
---
The computer is all put together, wifi card in, ethernet cable gone. It is a nice computer. I'm so spoiled by the Chrome OS that it's hard to get excited about a Windows machine but if I were going to, this would be the one. And, since I do still have to have a Windows machine for some things, at least now I have an amazing one!
It started hurting. I finally figured out I was grinding it at night while I slept. It got so bad that one Saturday, I emailed the dentist for an appointment and then went to the drug store and got some numbing stuff and a mouth guard. By Monday, the mouth guard had worked magic and by Friday the tooth was healed.
About a month or so ago, the mouth guard trick started only working sometimes. And now sometimes, it even hurts when I'm not chewing or messing with it with my tongue. The other night I ate a few sliced of toasted designer bread (hard crusts) and my tooth really hurt when I went to bed but was WAY better in the morning.
The bottom line is that I need to bite the bullet (using the other side of my mouth) and go to the damn dentist. Now, of course, I have no insurance so it's a double whammy. One day it's going to get so bad that going to the dentist will be better than putting up with it.
---
And speaking of insurance I do not have... Turns out - with my tax return, I learned that my taxable income in 2013 was $30,000. I told the insurance finder that it was $12,000. So I think I pretty much broke the law by getting and using medicade. But my month is over and now my medicare and medicare advantage takes over. Meanwhile medicare is all hosed up because my coverage won't auto renew (because I hit 65 years of age) and they keep sending me snail mail every day telling me I have to renew manually. They offer me no option to cancel. Neither does their website. So today I called. I waited on hold for 30 minutes and quit. I sent an email but their auto reply says they won't answer to anything that requires personal identification so I think calling is going to be my only out.
I feel guilty about cheating and I want to quit costing them mailing money.
---
The computer is all put together, wifi card in, ethernet cable gone. It is a nice computer. I'm so spoiled by the Chrome OS that it's hard to get excited about a Windows machine but if I were going to, this would be the one. And, since I do still have to have a Windows machine for some things, at least now I have an amazing one!