Letters to Grandma

Hi Grandma,

It was nice talking to you on my Birthday.  Please thank Skip when you see him.  Wow, it has been an amazing couple of weaks.  On the negative side, my car got hit when I was in a U-Turn because she couldn't see the other side of a truck also making a turn.  No one was hurt and no one got a ticket (well she did for missing a tail light but...) I was worried they were going to declare my car a total loss, but they were able to fix it.  In fact, they were also able to fix a mark that an idiot made in a parking lot on the other side of the car.  Progressive is a great company.

Then, as if that weren't enough, the Friday before last, I went to work and bit into some candy and swallowed my filling!!!! Needless to say that was a bit disconcerting.  What was worse was finding that our dental insurance didn't cover caps/crowns less than 5 years old.  What's the point of having insurance if they don't cover stuff like that? There needs to be a law, but good luck with something like that in this country.  It took a hundred years to even start on Health Care.  So I flew out to Atlanta at the last minute.

We also got really lucky with finding a moving company to take the table Skip had given us, along with three couches that my friend Wayne had given us.  Still, it took some time to run the logisitics to make it all work.  It was an interesting experience to say the least.  The movers were good people but three of the chairs (antiques) are in pieces and we're hoping they can be fixed.  I'm still assessing the damage.  The apartment is a good size but it can't easily store things we're not using since there isn't really a "crawl space."

We got a rediculously good deal on tickets to Pairs, so we got those three months early.  So, basically things have been a it tight this month money wise with all of that, but since we both have jobs we're relatively OK.  I had some bad luck with my podcast which is a bit like a radio show but with the internet.  I just can't seem to catch a break, and sometimes getting feedback from people who seem to have otherwise strong opinions on things don't want to...I dunno...not hurt my feelings or something? But that ends up being worse than no feedback at all.

Anywho, right now we're at the beach and Julia is watching tennis on a bar television so we can hardly complain too much.  In fact, last night we went to a FANTASTIC jazz festival so we're really enjoying Miami and the jobs we both have seem to be working out so far (So far so good) so I'm not complaining.

Love you and will write later.

Love,

Tom