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I had a thing on my back.

It hurt.

I called the doctor’s office, they scheduled an appointment for the same day.

I showed up at my appointment time. I was seen at my appointment time.

The doc cut a hole in me. My back hurt more.

The doc gave a prescription so the hurt would not come back.

I went to fill my prescription. The medicine was free.

Not covered by insurance. Publix has a whole list of medications they provide for free.

That’s awesome.

I love our healthcare in the US. I hope no one wants to change it.

There are plenty of laws on the books which are there for no other reason than to pander to idiots. This article is about proposed legislation which will become another one of those laws (should it pass, which it will because we are increasingly becoming a larger nation of idiots). The morons in DC want to pass legislation requiring companies to pay for sick-days. I get paid sick-days at my job but apparently nearly half the nation does not (should you take this article for face value).

This law is pointless and will do nothing. Every employer puts a dollar value on the role your job provides to the company. That dollar value becomes the budget for your total compensation package. I say ‘package’ because that’s exactly what it is. Your salary is not your compensation package. It’s merely a component along with payroll taxes, insurances, costs, vacation time, or any other benefits they may provide. Paid sick-days will simply become part of that package and as anyone with basic math skills to tell you, when you add two things together, you get a bigger result.

Should this legislation pass and employers become required to offer paid sick-days then everyone impacted by this will suddenly find they no longer provide as much value to their company (monetarily speaking) as they did before. Do you think companies are going to sit idly by and “eat” this cost? Of course not, they have shareholders to please and dropping profits are not very pleasing.

So what happens? Employers will either cut salaries immediately or wait till annual review time comes around and give the employee nothing. Eventually things will level out as does everything. Equilibrium is a bitch, huh? The result being people are paid less but get these magical paid sick-days and politicians everywhere can run around saying, “Look what I did for you!”

And what did they do exactly? Nothing… other than use the power of the government to force make you like them better and keep them in office even longer … pandering to more idiots.

I just saw a news report stating something about Hillary Clinton saying ’sexism’ is the reason she lost the Democrat Nomination. I assume had Hillary won and Obama lost, he would be calling ‘racism.’ Must be nice to be in a minority. You can never fail at anything. It’s always the rest of the world’s fault.

Hillary, it wasn’t ’sexism’ which caused you to lose, it was ‘cuntism.’ People don’t like/trust you.

I wonder if the same people complaining about the environment and specifically our carbon emissions are also the same people complaining about high gas prices. I saw an article today (forget where) about how much less people are driving now because of the increase in the price of gas. Isn’t this exactly what environmentalists want? Less driving = less carbon emissions = happy environment, right?

For some reason the phrase about people wanting to have their cake and to eat it, too comes to mind.

Came across this 25 Ways to Tell You’re Grown Up and figured I would run them down, one by one. I shall substitute Grown Up for Old in my scoring.

1. Your housplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.
Houseplants? WTF? +1 for not old.

2. Having Sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
At this point I’m taking sex from wherever I can get it. +1 still young

3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
Seriously? +1 young!

4. 6:00a is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
It’s more like 7a but damnit… +1 old

5. You heaer your favorite song in an elevator.
Damn Debbie Gibson selling out to the elevator greatest hits collection. +1 old

6. You watch the weather channel.
If it’s not in HD, I ain’t watching. +1 young!

7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of “hook up” and “break up”.
My friends marry. I hook up (rarely, true). even split.

8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
I have 24 days of vacation by my calculation that means it’s only +0.913793 old.

9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.”
Still rocking the jeans. +1 young

10. You’re the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won’t turn down the stereo.
I’m typically too drunk to hear the stereo. +1 young

11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
Unfortunately +1 old.

12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
Who care? The Krystal outside the Pony is open 24 hours! +1 young

13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
If you keep hitting shit with your car your insurance does NOT go down. +1 young

14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonadl’s leftovers
It’s Iams but damnit… +1 old

15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
After a drunken night the couch is so enticing. It’s also some quality time with Dog. +1 young

16. You take naps.
Hate naps. +1 young

17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
Dinner and a movie is normally a 4th or 5th date kind of thing. I never make it that far. +1 young

18. Eating a basket of chiken wings at 3a would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
Wings, anytime of the day, are the most awesome food I can consume. Alas, a 3a feeding of wings would destroy my diet. +1 old

19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
Aleve and condoms? even split?

20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good shit.”
Not a wine drinker but my drinking buddies tell me the Two Buck Chuck is some good shit so I’m taking their word for it. +1 young

21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
No time is a bad time for eggs and bacon. +1 young

22. “I just can’t drink the way I used to” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again.”
Are you kidding me? My tolerance is so high right now I should get +10 young … oh well, +1 not old!

23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
Only if assume I’m working 90% of the time I’m at the office … +1 old

24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
I drink at home because I can. Money never enters the picture. even split?

25. When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate them instead of asking “Oh shit, what the hell happened?”
+1 old

Final count: Young 14 to Old 7.913793

Woohoo! I’m not old!

I was fiddling around on the GSU student website today and was told I couldn’t do certain actions because of a hold on my account. That hold, as it turns out, was due to outdated Emergency Contact Information. Fair enough… if I stumble down the stairs after a mind-numbing lecture, I definitely want the ladies of the Pink Pony to know I will be late for our nightly scheduled rendezvous.

So I proceed to the Emergency Contact Information page only to find that in addition to the name and number of Trixie (information which cost me big money to get in the first place by the way), they also wanted her mailing address. Not email. Street address. Let me get this straight? If there is an EMERGENCY dealing with me on campus they are going to pop out the Georgia State University stationary, write little miss Trixie a letter, slap on a 42 cent stamp, and drop it in the mail box? I know the post office claims to be fast but damn, I hope if I’m injured this information will make it out sooner than 3-5 business days.

It’s really just absurd. Trixie can’t even read.

I don’t know what’s come over me but I’m a lousy blogger. Not that I was ever an exceptional blogger in terms of quality but I was fairly consistent at getting posts out on a regular basis. It’s not that I’m devoid of suitable content. Over the past several months there have been plenty of things happening in my life which I would deem blog-worthy.

I’m playing kickball with the WAKA organization and am having a blast with it. Although my team officially has a losing record, I’ve met some really great people in the league who have taken my alcohol consumption to some of the highest levels ever. We have even booked trips to Las Vegas for the 2008 Founders Cup (basically the Super Bowl of kickball). I cannot wait!

I went sailing for the first time in my life a few weeks ago. I was pretty petrified of the boat tipping the entire time but fortunately for me that never happened. We were sailing in a regatta and took home a 3rd place divisional trophy. How awesome is that for a first experience?

Today I start back at Georgia State to take a few business classes. Negotiations in the May-mester and then Project Management in the regular Summer session. It will be weird going back there after all these years gone but I’m kind of looking forward to it. Can’t wait to pick up my first Georgia State Football t-shirt from the Student Center!

My house rented out. I went through a management company to find a tenant and to handle all the paper work. So far, I’m pretty satisfied with how everything turned out. I knew nothing about my renters before they moved in except they had stellar credit, a dog, agreed to the rent I was asking and paid an absurd deposit. It’s so nice not paying a mortgage and rent at the same time.

I was at the Braves’ Opening Day. We lost but it was my first time at an Opening Day (regardless of what Brand Atlanta says). We had the all you can eat / drink tickets. I definitely got my money’s worth.

Along with APWBWGTTD founder mingaling, bobafred and I launched APWBWGTTD.com (or atlblogs.net) for all Atlanta Bloggers to join and participate. Right now it’s mostly just a feed aggregator such as the old site but we have some ideas to make the site an even better Atlanta Blogger community. Much thanks to the recently new member freecone for a kickass logo (which will debut as soon as we can figure out how to fit into the template).

I took a cooking class. That was interesting. It was via the Apron’s deal at Publix. All in all, wouldn’t recommend it. Not worth the money.

I went to the Orange Bowl. My motivation for going was Miami January has got to beat Atlanta in January. Not even close. It was the first time Miami had been in the 30s in 40 years or something. Rained, too. I’m glad I went and I had a blast. I just wish I had brought warmer clothes.

So there’s an update. Not funny. Not even interesting really. I hope to do better. Promise. Not that you care.

Ever since I saw the movie Gattica I thought its vision of the future was the most realistic. This legislation brings us one step closer to that prophecy.

If you haven’t seen the movie, check it out. Really good / scary.

After moving out of Alpharetta 6 months ago, I have tenants moving into my house today! The days of paying rent + mortgage + (2 x utilities) is over! How should I celebrate? Zombie Strippers with this dude at the Landmark followed up by 20 rum & cokes a few drinks at the Highlander should do just nicely.

Oh happy days…