Last night I woke up at 3am and grabbed Jack Jaxon's Comanche Moon to read until I got drowsy. Which didn't happen until 8:30am. But I got intrigued again by this story of Quanah Parker [link]

Like a dummy, just as a last thing before I was going to sleep at 10pm, I started looking up Quanah Parker descendents. And got to a page with a listing for a lot but with a really really bad layout so like a SUPER DUMMY I fired up Reunion and started writing down his family tree. Fascinating stuff but man, it's 2:40am and I'm on this bad cycle again. And my hands hurt more from typing.

Serial:

I've created a family tree with 131 people in it in 5 hours. I am nuts, N-V-T-S, nuts.

The personal finance books I've been looking at lead me to believe that I don't totally suck at my finances, which is always a surprise because I assume there's some secret grown up trick that I don't know about.

This, exactly.

Thank you for the detailed answer, Sophia. It's kindda amazing, in my eyes, to see what the situation is like. We have here a totally different health program here.

ION - I got a very part time job thingy as a reader for a blind person. I hope it'll go well.

There Medicaid- for older people and disabled, and Medicare, which is for low income qualified people, but that is considered more "aid" than insurance

Scratch that, reverse it. (Medicare = senior citizens & disability; Medicaid = poor people.)

I see.

It is a truly wackadoo "system" that is all about money and luck, and being sick can disqualify you from coverage. Because sick people don't need medical care, right??

Also, my mother was saying that my grandmother can probably get hospice care under Medicare and still see her current doctors, etc, (did you know hospice isn't necessarily just for the very end of life??) and I was like, "OH! Death panels!!" My mother was like, WTF. I'm pretty sure that kind of thing was what they meant by death panels, right?

WTF. I'm pretty sure that kind of thing was what they meant by death panels, right?

Actually, I think they were thinking of this when they were thinking of Death Panels. Guess they forgot that the Texas Advanced Directives Act of 1999 was signed into law by George W. Bush.

I'd like to think that getting health services is a basic right for everyone. I can understand that the U.S. relates it to your ability to work as a kind of a strange incentive, but I always thought that the formula was "you need to be healthy in order to get a job", and not "you need to get a job in order be healthy".