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Two down one to go

House insurance, check, resolved.
Health insurance, check resolved.

Car insurance, not so much yet...

Fun with insurance... this time car insurance

Fun with insurance, this time car insurance. Esurance sent me an email saying i needed to print new insurance cards (my insurance renews in October and i pay in full). Called them they couldn't find a reason for this notice so said ignore it. The next day got a notice they hit my credit card for 64.00, with no explanation. I haven't changed a thing on my policy, and no accidents or tickets. I called them and they said they never send out an increase mid policy (the net says otherwise). They said they will look into it and get back to me. From reading the internet reviews i am doubtful this will get resolved. Looks like I may be switching insurance companies again. The Justy becomes a classic this year (25 years in NYS) so I can get classic car insruance for it which will lower my premiums.

One down two to go ...

  NYS Atty general office called to inform me that Oxford will allow me to keep picking up my HIV meds at Walgreens. The only "but" may be that they use Wallgreens as a middle man, and ship from Oxfords warehouse. They wanted the address and phone number of my preferred pharmacy. It doesnt bother me as long as i know i can get them with 24 hours notice. Walgreens will even fedex meds overnight to where ever i am located.

Possibly 1st Tesla Cross Country Trip. In the dead of winter no less.

Interesting read, well, for not being interesting! Possibly 1st Tesla being driven cross country. What I do find interesting is the cold weather performance (even on 0 degree weather a normal car may have problems keeping the car toasty). Als this isnt a high capacity one either.

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/heading-cross-country

Its the little things that make videos special

 watch it twice, the second time pay very very close attention to the background, and see if you can find the 5 special moments

Fun with insurance... this time car insurance

  Esurance sent me an email saying i needed to print new insurance cards (my insurance renews in October and i pay in full). Called them they couldn't find a reason for this notice so said ignore it. The next day got a notice they hit my credit card for 64.00, with no explanation. I haven't changed a thing on my policy, and no accidents or tickets. I called them and they said they never send out an increase mid policy (the net says otherwise). They said they will look into it and get back to me. From reading the internet reviews i am doubtful this will get resolved. Looks like I may be switching insurance companies again. The Justy becomes a classic this year (25 years in NYS) so I can get classic car insruance for it which will lower my premiums.

i am SO over winter

  All i have to say is that there better not be a single fucking invasive insect left when spring comes. i am in pain and have a pretty bad limp (from a car accident spinal injury) due to all this cold. Whatever temperiture it is outside (either in manly Fahrenheit or girly centigrade) my left foot feels 50 degrees colder.

Let the power of Gay rain

Gays can make rain for good

Insurance games continue

   New York State Attorney General office called me today, we had a nice conversation. It turns out  that in NY it is illegal to force some policies (like mine) into mail order. the insurance companies found a loop hole by calling them "specialty medications" and not "mail order pharmacies". they are writing a letter to get me out of the mail order requirement and will let me know what happens.

  i called NYS ADAP, as they still don't have my paperwork (i will send again). After a nice chat they switched me over the the Pharmacy Department. i truly like NYS ADAP. They are friendly supportive people. They told me that if i ever have a problem getting meds to call them and they will pay for them and bill the insurance company. They also said that Oxford's mail order plan is actually one of the better ones to deal with. This may be true, but i would prefer my retail pharmacists over some warehouse.

GET THIS ARSONIST!

IRO has posted raw video from inside Neighbours nightclub, where police say someone poured gasoline on a flight of stairs and set it ablaze while about 750 people packed the gay bar for New Year's Eve. We hadn't posted the video on Slog yet—I didn't realize it was embeddable online until now—but take a look to see if you recognize this man:

Video of man who set fire to Neighbors Gay Club on New Years Eve

Squirrel appreciation day

Today the squirrel mafia decided to send me a warning.

Old Steam Engines

Forget the saftey aspect, look at all those wonderful steam engines of a bygone era.

Going to be a long winter

The government shouldn't make the church do things, but it is for the church to tell the government what to do.

SHEMALE PORN ADDICTION

Heros ... who they are not.

  A thought for the day, we throw around the term hero at the wrong people. A hero is not someone who can throw or catch a ball for profit for stupid amounts of money, a hero is one who puts their life on the line to help others. Heroes are Soldiers, firemen (fire persons?), law enforcement, teachers (sadly now teachers do go in this category), the regular person who helps someone out of a burning building or saves someone from drowning or jumping off a bridge. These are heroes.

The Nut Job

As much as i distain fratenerzation between pups and squirrels, i thought this movie was a really funny. i saw it in 3D, and they did not use a single cheap 3D trick. Four paws up.

Saving Mr Banks

  Well the movers are here and i need to start unpacking. It will be a while before i decorate my new little corner of the net. Put up new wall paper, get to know the neighborhood, rearrange the furniture and such. The books will go on the shelves in no particular order, as that is how the mind works, in no particular order when it isn't tasked with anything. The baggage always seems to be put away in the closet, and yet there is always one piece to trip over, one random piece as we go on this journey around the Sun, the Universe, and time.

  Then that random piece of baggage opens up and spills all over the flow. We curse it and try to repack the bag, but funny how not everything goes quite back in...

  If you have not seen the movie, stop now. If you don't care about knowing the outcome, as the path is far more important, you are welcome.

  i was not prepared for this movie. This movie has been out for a few weeks, and i never really heard of it's subplot. i find movies painful to watch. Not to watch but, to be in a theater. It is rare i fond a movie truly enjoyable in a theater. i have a few theories, and it may just be that one piece of mismatched luggage that i don't want to open. Of course in this movie it fell off the shelf of the closet and cracked open a bit. It takes all my energy to keep from having an emotional breakdown  i leave exhausted.

  "Saving Mr Banks" (damn i am getting right to a spoiler already) is not so much about the challenge of getting the rights to P. L. Travers book, but about letting go, Letting go of the past and forgiving yourself. As with every Disney movie, the pattern is make you happy, tear your heart out, then put it back again for a happy ending. i went with friends, and the two of us came to the same conclusion, we didnt have enough time to enjoy the happy ending, the closure. i thought it was just me. The movie is built upon flashbacks of P. L.'s childhood, and how protective she was of her Mary (Poppins). P. L.'s father was a closet alcoholic. Through flashbacks the story unfolds, and the references are anchored to the past.

  This movie was psychotherapy boot camp.

  My Father drank. He was a closet drinker. i don't know if Mom knew how much Dad was drinking, it was beer. Growing up as a child, i did not know better. i have a brother and two sisters, i was a happy accident, so there is a rather large age gap. We are not a close family, and i regret that. The ages were far enough that i felt like an only child being the youngest. i also had a different set of parents then my siblings. Same flesh same faces, different people,
. i can't even vouch for when the drinking got worse, or Dad's system just would not allow the same amount of consumption as the years passed. As a child, very fond memories, but i always wanted the approval of my Father, it was very important to me. Mom was a stay at home Mom then went to work. Oddly i don't remember when that was, It had to be 6th grade. Dad was home in the early afternoon from work so it is a bit fuzzy.  Those were happy years. This sounds like a cliche, but there was no money, always food in the fridge, and a roof over our heads.

To be continued ....

Finally a day to be free ...

   If only for a few hours. It was in the 40's but the sun was out. i FINALLY got to get out on the trails, first time since November. i put weight on fast adn with the mountain bike i loose it quickly, as it is my drug. There is no affordable gyms around anymore as Sandy wiped them out. The trails were muddy, so technically closed. There were still trail users out. i only got 5 miles in today but it did wonders for my mood.  Since it was the first ride in months i was out of shape. It is the HIV thing, if i dont get exercise almost every day, i feel like i am starting all over again from scratch.

Hrmm do i have to move again?

May be too soon, but i don't want to get too far ahead, but i cant seem to find like minded peoples. Maybe wordpress?

More fun with Insurance.

  To be honest this is the most i ever had to talk to Oxford in 7 years. i received a scary invoice today. Invoices i ignore because they just mean that NY has paid the bill. The invoice was for 2 months and 2106.00 . i thought my insurance was 950 (where is this coverage that people say on avg is 300 bucks i would like to know).

   Found out NY had paid it last month at 1053, and this is just two months combined. the service rep said to just keep doing with these what i have been, pay no attention. i did ask her why is over a grand a month. She said that i had out of network (OON) coverage. SO now i have gone from POS to HMO back to POS and now OON (i made that one up to make life easy). The rep said that there had been some confusion even at the corporate level as to what coverage i can have. i thought that OON did not exist anymore. My old insurance had OON. Every time i get on this ride i get better coverage.

  Maybe i am being too nice, but from talking to Oxford Reps, i am right on top of everything. It seems NYS ADAP dropped the ball with some people, and there was confusion within Oxford itself what it could and could not offer. i get the feeling that is because the individuals did not take an active role in the switch over Jan 1st like they should have. Now if i can just get away from that God awful mail order pharmacy. Even the Oxford reps don't seem to like it.

Why can't flying be like this, every time i talk to a rep i get an upgrade.

Christmas fallout

  Good God i am tired of the one that has to keep the peace. i have been doing it all my life and all it has done is fuck me over.

  i forgot how Mom and i got on the subject of my brothers slight at Christmas (him and his family got Mom a gift, got the dog a gift and not even a card for me). Mom said she knows i was hurt by my brothers unthinking slight. She said he always has been an unthinking clod. i was so hurt i had to go outside and cry, and somehow Mom knew that. There are several reasons wny Mom wants to rewrite her will, this is another one of them. The other major one is that his wife wants to move to Alabama, and is in so much of a rush to do it you would think that the Sheriff was after her. She wants to move because of her mother (they are all from NJ go figure) and my brother keeps mumbling something about taxes. My brother and i were never close, and really this last Christmas, plus everything he didn't do with Moms illness, i could care less.

MAL Weekend

NOT!

  it is not my favorite event, but convient being only 4 hours away. however my Discover Card still has a balance from last years travels and bills from Sandy, so i am not going this year. Also i have too much Christmass cookie weight to deal with. The weather has not been conducive to mountain biking here. i can deal with cold as long as the sun is out, but is has been cold, damp, gray and just not motivaiting.

And it continues ...

  i called NYS Adap to see if they received my paperwork (no, grumble, will remail) and asked about being forced into a mail order pharmacy. ADAP are wonderful sympathetic people, but the only thing they could suggest was to appeal the decision, and if i run out of meds, to call them and they will deal with it. They also wanted to be kept in the loop for the outcome.
  Last night i did research on mail order pharmacies (nothing good about them at all) and discovered that NYS has a law against being forced into using one under most circumstances. For once i fall under most circumstances. Having an individual policy i can not be forced into one for critical meds. i called the NYS Attorney Generals' Health Care line (1-800-426-9071) and shockingly a person picked up on the third ring. She took all my information and said with personal policy i am covered under the law (from what I read last night Oxford is not very good following this law). She took down all my information (including insurance and doctro) and said a health care advocate will call me to discuss it.  Today is friday so i am not going to expect a call today, though i know ADAP returns a call the same day, not too sure about this.

Bears on tv, in full glory

http://deadspin.com/comcast-sportsnet-airs-our-version-of-cubs-mascot-with-1501633812/@Tom-Scocca

What a crappy day.

 i have been in such pain for the last couple of weeks due to the weather. i have been fighting to get out of bed every morning as everything just seems so pointless. i missed my shrink appointment today. i forgot about it. No big loss. 50 minutes to get there, 50 minutes back, and the session is eight fucking minutes. The sun was supposed to come out today, it never did. i was hoping to get some single track time in but the weather sucked for it.

 i thought i escaped the health care fiasco.

  i have HIV. Through good fortune NYS ADAP pays my health insurance premiums. All good. i have had Oxford for a while with no issues. In Nov they changed their pharmacy plan, i was suspicious, but i still got my meds locally all is well. Dec i filed the forms for the new plan since my old plan was canceled. i sent the forms into NYS Department Of Health, who pays the bills, they Ok'd them then sent Oxford a payment. the first week in Jan i got a call from them as i checked the wrong box on the form. i was only eligible for a HMO as opposed to a POS. i really didn't care as either one works for me. 

  My meds were up for refills. i hand not received my insurance cards yet, so i called Oxford and got my new membership number to refill my meds (luckily i have a few months of the hiv meds stocked up but not others). Let the fun begin!

  1- Call from pharmacy, there is an insurance issue. They needed my insurance number, issue solved.

  2- Call from Pharmacy, some medications now need pre-approval, others are on hold i have to call the              insurance company.

  3- Call Oxforrd get number for Pharmacy Company. i asked if this is mail order, she said she thinks so for          "specialty" medications.

  4- Call Pharm Company, she needed information to transfer (!) my scripts. At this point i asked more                questions and found out they are mail order. My Dr. hates mail order and its not great for criritcal meds.        They recommend calling Oxford to try to get a waiver.

  5- Call Oxford (Customer rep was really nice so this was all friendly conversation with people). Asked              about a waver and explained my HIV meds. One hadnt appeared on thier system yet which was                    worrying but it did by the end of the phone call. She was surprised that for critical meds (i played that            up) that it had to be through mail order. We filed an appeal to be able to get them where i have been              getting them for over ten years. Rep said i would get a confirmation letter in 5 days and a decision in 30        (!). Imagine if i didnt have three months of meds stocked up.

For the fuck of it i googled "New York State Mail Order Pharmacy". Much to my surprise in 2011 a law was passed that a NY insured can not be forced to use a mail order pharmacy. It was modified for medicare but not private insurance.

  6- Call oxford back, modified the appeal. Still have to wait 30 (!) days for a decision.

  7- Call NYS DOH and see what they can do about this, if they even know about it.

i am exhausted and drained.

  

Anyone know how to decorate this place?

This seems awfully black, though i do like black leather, would like a little more color here.

Just waiting for the Movers ...

  After a few years at LiveJournal, i watched it turn into Detroit. I wouldn't call it white flight, but flight none the less. My entire support network has left for parts unknown. So i canceled the lease and got one of those self packing cubes and put all my stuff in storage. i wandered downtown in Facebookland and found myself a nice sublet under Demented D Dingo. Well you know how city life is, all rushrushrsuh. There was nice eye candy, 500 people in my neighborhood i put up the odd bric a brac to make things homey. It is interesting, and here i may burn some bridges.You have the gym nuts, where all they basically do is talk about themselves and the gym. There are Title holders and Sash queens. TH have an agenda to deliver, a goal, education, uniting people. Sash queens are out to promote themselves and disappear into the dark once thier term is over. There are my leather friends, i wish more Masters and slaves, but lots of pups. Puppy groups that only wanted to hear about the strange and bastardized history to support puppy play. They are basing the wonderfulness of it on some (fictional till i can find a few sources) horrible incident out of WW2 or WW1. They really did not want to here about the history of the group as it got in the way of their self promotion. i wish them well, but real pups will stay on the farm and in homes to avoid having someone judge them in a contest.
  I have lost Friends in that facebookland, some by their own hands, some by thier own mouth.

 So here i am waiting for my cube to show up so i can unpack my thoughts, dreams, trouble the, bioplar swings, deep depression, and start looking for the love i lost over the last five years, New found joys to share.

so far i wait for the truck.