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Yeah, ok. It’s been utter hell. I’ve been turned down by several companies at this point. My last hope is a “Traditional Indemnity” policy with Independence Blue Cross, hereinafter known as “IBX”. This plan should accept proof of previous “creditable coverage” as they call it – under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) – and waive the pre-existing condition exclusion. If Blue Cross doesn’t accept me, I be X ‘d. The policy is going to cost over a week’s pay every month. If I were on SSDI I wouldn’t be able to afford it or my meds. IBX is my last commercial option. I’ll know next week whether I’m covered. If not, well, the Dept of Labor says I only have 63 days to get a plan under HIPAA . Time is running out. If not, I’ll have to take a couple of days off work walking around town trying to get into county public assistance. That won’t w...

—– Original Message —– From: Kathy To: Leslie Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 7:56 AM Subject: engineers in the kitchen The authors of the recipe seem to think that the reason engineers don’t write recipe books that their recipes look funny. I think that if this is how engineers write recipes they definitely should stop, since (1) they think that brown sugar is unrefined, when it is not; (2) they leave open the addition of green peas instead of chopped peanuts; and (3) because they seem to think you can get chocolate chips through a cookie press. And why anyone would substitute pure gluten for flour is strange. Using a cookie press for a soft dough is strange too, though technically no harm done there. The eggshells are a problem, come to think of it… crunchy! What do you think? Is it that the recipes are impossible for end users to work with, or is it because the engineer cookie makers have zero knowledge of the properties of the materials that th...

Some of the folks on Pendulum and The Bipolar Planet may remember back in 1999/2000 when my employer gaslighted me. Things like writing me up for being unable to get to work during a flood. Refusing to provide reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that would have improved my productivity. No, really, what I asked for was a little cubicle at one end of the very noisy computer lab to cut down some of the fan noise and block the visual stimulation of people wandering in and out of the room all day. And that instructions be sent via email instead of verbally, and that stated task priority be filtered through my supervisor to assist my then-lithium-impaired memory. And that I be allowed some leeway in the time I start my day because of a co-morbid, or perhaps drug-induced, sleep disorder. All told it may have cost about $1000 for a couple of cubicle walls. Not a hardship for them. Perhaps it would occasionally inconvenience an engineer who wanted ...

YouTube – Line Rider – Jagged Peak Adventure A new game. If I did drugs I might waste a year or two playing this game.

If someone figures out how to “cure” genetics, let me know. You can’t exactly pick up a bottle of Grecian Formula for Brain at the local pharmacy. Remission is another thing altogether. That simply means that you are having an extended symptom-free period. Given that the DSM-IV bipolar criteria only require that the patient have ONE episode of mania or hypomania, some folks may remain in remission for the rest of their lives even without meds. Science *is* empiricism. I would like to suggest that a large percentage doctors are not particularly careful in their application of the science of medicine. If they were scientific, they’d test and retest the bipolar patient’s continued need for meds instead of following the bizarre rule of thumb that once you’re on meds you need them forever. The killer is that as long as the illness is masked by drugs, it is impossible to practice “evidence-based medicine” as they disparagingly call it. Non...

Follow up to https://intothevoid.us/2005/07/09/talking-to-dog/ There is this thing called the religious experience. This is where you feel the presence of something larger than yourself, and know your place in the grand scheme. Sometimes you only get a glimpse of it, but it’s enough to change your opinions completely. Uh, epiphany, that’s what it’s called. Epiphanies are associated with the amygdala and certain brain chemicals which I don’t care to look up right this instant. Organized religions cannot allow their laypeople to have religious epiphanies. Why? Because they are exploiting that divine revelations to exert power over us. What if Dog told one of us to stop following the kosher laws or to take down the graven images in the church, or whatever your particular religion requires? I can hear the Elders now: “What’s that? Dog told you that the church must allow rape victims to obtain abortions if they want so that they aren’t troubled by ...