I am CuTRis

The effort to slow the US mail is completely successful! We received a Christmas Card yesterday that came 22 miles. It was postmarked on December 13 and arrived December 21. It's so awesome how the government can set a goal to reduce efficiency and then easily surpass that goal!

After watching a city truck and workers go down the block and dig holes, only to be followed minutes later by a second truck that filled the holes in, a man had to stop the second truck to ask what they were doing! That was when he found out that the guy who dropped the trees in the holes was on vacation.

I thought it was tough being one of 250 applicants for a job. Until my teacher wife was contacted to signup for a COVID-19 vaccination and was 8807 in line. I have to wonder if this is the best we can do?

So many things remind me of the show "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Because it seems that so often everything is made up and the points don't matter.

I applied for and later interviewed for a city job recently. Then the next week I received a letter telling me that I had not gotten the job. So I emailed the people on the letter—asking for any helpful feedback about why I was not selected. After two days the email reply told me that they were looking for more about “project implementation;” and I had not spent any time talking about that. So I replied thanking them for the helpful feedback because indeed I had not. I also included the job description and noted for them that “project implantation” was not referenced at all (not even once) in that job description. So I wonder what the real reason was then?

I found out that I still have money in an HSA from when I worked for the school district. I won't mention what school district because they were paranoid about my blog and tried to end my freedom-of-speech with intimidation when I was at the ALC. Anyway, the rules to getting reimbursed seem arbitrary and sometimes I need the Explanation of Benefits (and sometimes not) from the insurance company—even when the amounts paid and owed are already shown on the bills and receipts submitted. After my latest attempt to get reimbursed (the previous attempt went unpaid and had to be resubmitted), I was growing annoyed by the idiotic policies and so I sent this note with my EOB and resubmitted claim. Hi NAME REMOVED, After only 10 minutes on hold with INSURANCE COMPANY NAME, I was able to get the EOB for the claim that was denied. I hope this is all the documentation necessary to prove I am not trying to falsely get my money from my medical reimbursement account as outlined by SCHOOL ...