Pre Order

My friend, Lish, has a book coming out this fall and it's available for pre-order at Amazon. I encourage everyone to order it as she is a great writer.

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Another New Blog

I've been switching gears a little bit lately. I'm trying to focus more on the baby and getting our debt paid off. So I already have my debt blog. I started a new blog that is just about Elliott. I will probably not write in this blog as much from now on. There are obviously things I may want to vent about from time to time, but I don't see the need to mix that with my account of Elliott. I transfered some past blogs that were mostly about him (or stuff we did as a family) and I will weed out and tranfer the rest of the past blogs that were just about him in the future. You can check it out here.

The Chronicles of Elliott Action

A Day at the Beach... And the Cheese Factory

We drove out to the Tillamook Cheese Factory today. The tour was short, but interesting. I got a bag of fresh cheese curd which is the tastiest thing in the world. I don't like plain cheese. I put cheese on stuff but I can't eat just a chunk of cheese. But this fresh cheese curd they had was fantastic. And unfortunately I think you can only get it there. They don't sell it at the store so we'll have to go get more some day.

After that we drove up 101 and stopped in Cannon Beach. We got some pizza and walked down the little main drag with all the shops. We got some candy in a decent sized candy shop. I also got a sweet business card holder that has a picture of Spock on it and says "Live long and prosper". Too bad I'm out of business cards, but it reminded me to order more when I got home. I can't wait until they get here.


Then we walked out toward the beach where a friendly bunch of ladies took our picture for us.


And here is a video of Elliott being Elliott.

Eyedrops Made of Pure Gold

I got something in my eye the other day and kept bothering me for a couple days and then this morning I woke up and couldn't keep my eyes open. I went up to the walk in clinic and they told me a I had a pretty good scratch on my cornea and gave me a prescription for eye drops. I went to the Fred Meyer to fill the prescription because they have $4 generic prescriptions and honestly, how much could a little bottle of eye drops cost. They told me they didn't carry the generic (of course) and that the name brand would cost $104. FOR A TINY BOTTLE OF EYE DROPS! Do what you want to force everyone to have health insurance, here lies the real health care problem. Just like my $304 tetanus shot, these medications don't cost anywhere near that much to produce. And the Pharmaceutical CEO's are taking home record salaries.

Ultimately we were told a different Fred Meyer carried the generic version, so we went there where it was going to cost $80! For generic? What happened to your $4 generic advertisement. The pharmacy ended up calling the doctor to see if they could give me a different but similar eye drop that did have a $4 generic version. The doctor said fine which begs me to ask, why the expensive one was even prescribed in the first place?

I don't know about this broken system we have. And it doesn't look like it's going to be fixed any time soon. Now that the health care bill just passed it will create the illusion that we are working on the problem when we are doing absolutely nothing to solve the REAL problem with health care costs in our country.

So I will solve the problem on my own. I wear glasses, but debris always seems to get in behind the lenses anyway. I mean, they're not safety glasses, they are just regular prescription glasses. Safety glasses have two problems: they aren't prescription and they still don't seal to your face so stuff gets behind them. I have a pair of clear plastic safety goggles, but they don't fit over my glasses very well and they fog up. So I order a pair of prescription safety glasses. They are like regular glasses but they have a foam seal around them so they actually close up around your eye so stuff can't get back there, and they are prescription so I'll still be able to see, plus I opted for the optional clip on sunglass lens for summer time.




So now I will stop getting shit in my eyes.