Back to crotchety . . .

Didn't come out perfect but I like this shot.

Can't believe that within two weeks I have gotten bills from two doctors' offices for a few bucks each. So I thought, what the heck just pay them. So I paid the first one only to have the check returned to me and was told they had made a mistake. Then the second one came in, different office, and I thought I don't think I really owe them anything. I called the office and was told they don't do the billing; I would have to call Boston because they have a billing agency that takes care of that. I called Boston and the girl told me. "Oh, it's a mistake, ignore the bill."  Now this is not right. How many people get billed for a few bucks and pay it thinking they owe it? How many companies or doctors ' offices keep the added money?  To top it off I was given a new prescription for toothpaste, yes toothpaste and CVS charged me $19.29. I asked how that could be because the last prescription cost me nothing. They said because one ingredient had changed I had to pay. I paid but called Caremark and told them the sad story of the newest toothpaste prescription. After 45 minutes on the phone the sweet lady told me to go and get my $19.29 refund. Good gravy. I was fit to be tied. It's a good thing Gampa drove me to the pharmacy or I might have run everyone off of the road in my pique.  That's too many minor medical billing problems in a week and a half. I miss the old days when computers were not involved, just humans and no errors were made because of wrong codes by people who don't know what they're doing. I had a similar problem this week with our Wifi. Our computer has been slow as has the iPad and I called Metrocast. The young man told me to unplug the phone and plug it back in and I'd be all set. Did it. Was not all set but I gave them a few days for this unplugging to work. Didn't work. Called again yesterday and a different young man told me that the previous young man was wrong and that he would reset the modem and call me back to see if our speed had improved. I think it's better now. Perhaps I should just unplug from this crazy society we're living in and stick to cash  payments and personal visits to pay bills! You know what? I bet you can't even go to a doctor's office and pay cash!

Did have a good visit with younger sister today and my inherited iPad now has a screen protector and new folio type, magnetic cover. Very nice; very nice indeed! Grampa set it up for me. Went to watch Kiddo's Sacred Heart JV team play St. Patrick's last night and was surprised that St. Pat's has about 15 kids on their JV team to our eight! Their coach put in his weakest platoon for the first quarter and our Kiddos went ahead by about 10 points. Second quarter St. Pat's put in the second platoon and they scored at will and went ahead by a lot. You can figure out how the third and fourth quarters went. We lost 38 to 32 and the kids played their hearts out. Definitely a learning experience. At least St. Patrick's didn't keep their super sized JV platoon in for the whole game! When I saw the varsity teams I almost died. Again St. Pat's had umpteen tall kids, I mean six footers to our much smaller team, number wise and size wise. I don't know what the score ended up being but I can't imagine it was in Sacred Heart's favor. Gotta give our kiddo's A+ for tenacity.

Grampa is on his way to a Yankee Flyers Club meeting. Hope the roads don't ice up. Okay, now that I've gotten all that merdeski out of me I feel better. Thank you blogosphere.

Quote:  He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to himself.    ____Goethe