Year: 2024
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Availity suck, and there’s nothing you can do about it
So I’ve got something weird going on with my blood. The doctors keep taking samples and telling me my “numbers don’t make any sense”. I’m not overly-worried, but their final attempt to find out what is going on is to give me a colonoscopy (and I’m glad they left this as a ‘last resort’…). This was scheduled at my last visit a couple of months back, and the procedure day is now rapidly approaching. In preparation for this (I assume) the service provider (my doctor) contacted my medical insurance provider (Aetna) to confirm I was still covered, and hadn’t changed… Read more
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Try tri, and tri again
Late last year, a good friend of mine took part in her first (sprint-distance) triathlon, and being the good friend I am, I went along to cheer her on. It looked like a lot of fun, and when she said, almost immediately after finishing it, that she’d do another, and asked if I was interested in joining her for the next one, I said, “Sure!”. I don’t know if it was over-confidence in my own level of fitness, or just that I didn’t want to lose face and admit I am old and ‘past it’, but I figured if she… Read more
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Drive-By Truckers, Houston House of Blues
Gig review: Drive-By Truckers at the House of Blues, Houston on 19 June 2024, on a VIP ticket. Read more