Word of the Day

Yumulicious - Extremely delicious.

Have you ever been given a total runaround followed almost immediately by finding yourself at the dead end of a dead end road? Bewildered frustration! That's what #1 Son has been facing as he attempted for the last year and more to get a doctor's prescription of some medication that he started taking in one form or another since he was in grade school. When #1 Son headed off to college, he figured that there wouldn't be any problems getting his medication at the college pharmacy. Right? You'd think. He really tried EVERYTHING to get his medication at college. The doctors on campus didn't know him. The doctors were demanding tons of expensive tests that #1 Son had already taken here in Arizona. The doctors kept sending him off to see this one or that one. Runaround. Dead end...because we refused to cough up the money for the very same tests that we already paid for in Arizona. Finally, #1 Son told us that he wasn't getting anywhere with anyone at college when it came to getting his prescription. Last summer, I got into the act because I just couldn't believe that #1 Son could possibly be having this amount of trouble over such a thing. After I got the same runaround and hit the same dead end, we decided to have #1 Son make an appointment to see the doctor he'd been seeing here in Arizona for most of his life while he was here on vacation. #1 Son had already had to do without his medicine for two years! Enough was enough already! Eureka! We've worked it out. No problem. #1 Son's doctor here in Arizona can write a prescription and the medicine can be sent to him. No tribble at all. I love it when things finally work out in a reasonable fashion.

Murphyism of the Day

Cheops's Law

Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Noteworthy Quote of the Day

"Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything." -Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel.