Monthly Archives: November 2013

It turns out Kaitlin took a sleep class when she was in college, and she had a chance to observe and analyze a sleep study. The idea was to have two students be the subjects and the rest of the … Continue reading →

Friday night Andy went to bed around 9 at the sleep center, and he got up about 5 yesterday morning. He says with the aid of a sleeping pill he got about 5 hours of sleep. It wasn’t restful sleep, … Continue reading →

The frames came yesterday, and Andy verified that they meet his specifications. With any luck they will start installing them on the roof next week. We may yet get our radiant heating working this year!

How do you feel about sleep? To me it’s one of life’s great luxuries. I had insomnia for years and was usually sleep-deprived. We would go to bed between 10 and 10:30 each night and would set the alarm for … Continue reading →

The Obama administration has now declared that the Affordable Care Act is not a federal health care program, so the federal anti-kickback law doesn’t apply to it. That means rebates, kickbacks and bribes will be perfectly legal. I thought it … Continue reading →

It was sunny and warm Monday, but not quite so nice yesterday: Joe and his crew didn’t come up either day — we’re not expecting them again until the machine shop finishes the frames for the solar heating panels. And … Continue reading →

In a comment on yesterday’s post, Dixie said her local store is advertising, Spend $75 dollars before Thanksgiving and get 50% off of your Thanksgiving turkey. I think that’s refreshing. Our store used to put Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in … Continue reading →

  FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND TAX PURPOSES — NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION Words such as these used to be on Social Security cards, presumably to reassure people that the government wasn’t instituting national identity cards — a worry after our World … Continue reading →

Obama is rightly being creamed for his lie about the Affordable Care Act, but Andy and I aren’t shocked about the matter. We were both independently disillusioned in May, 1960, when President Eisenhower lied about the U-2 incident. We didn’t … Continue reading →

Do you celebrate anniversaries? Andy and I mostly don’t but — once we realized it — last Wednesday was special. We both took an early retirement package in 1993 and our last day of work was October 31st. Wow! 20 … Continue reading →