quick hits

alright, i kept a browser window open to here all day yesterday thinking i'd take a few minutes and post a few tidbits. gotta throw it together now. here goes...

- peyton and the colts to the superbowl: woohoo!!!! i was jumping up and down when brady threw the int at the end. i figured the nfl was going to quickly create a new rule where the pats could kick an extra point after a field goal so they could get 4 points and go to overtime. i'm so sick of the pats. sorry, chris.

- we did absolutely nothing this weekend. literally. church was cancelled. the only time we left the house between friday night and monday morning was when i went outside and put a couple of netflix in the mailbox. (speaking of, i really wish the service would speed back up by a day or so. i must have had awesome connections with the woodbridge post office.)

- i got the hardball times annual 2007 with a christmas gift certificate. if you like baseball, need some offseason reading, and think stats can give us some more info about the game, then you'd like this book. a bunch of short articles that might be perfect for ... umm ... a particular setting for reading. buy direct from the publisher in the link if possible. they lose a ton of money when selling thru amazon or bookstores (sorry! i had a gift certificate!)

- i finally went to the local public library and got an account (card will be mailed). we have a cool library! they even have a lot of dvds and cds (including new releases!) that you can check out for 3 days (yes, for free). i checked out a couple of new political books that i wanted to skim, but had no interest in purchasing. barack obama's the audacity of hope and newt gingrich's winning the future. funny combo, eh? both have some interesting ideas of how we can fix some of the problems in our country, including healthcare which leads me to my last tidbit.

- i'm one of those 45+ million without health insurance right now. lindsay's work switched insurances to something that was twice as much for the family plan and gave them 1-2 weeks to take it or leave it (no, i'm not bitter). it was reasonable for the employee only plan so we had lindsay just get that after we talked to anthem (previous insurer) about getting private insurance (walk-up, no employer assistance) for me and jake. then, two weeks into january they counter offer with different (i.e. worse) terms and we feel like we're in limbo again. we've got it just about worked out, but it's incredibly frustrating. if anything happens to me and jake, we're technically covered by anthem since we're in conversation with them. however, that doesn't change the fact that something dramatic needs to be done about the sad, expensive state of healthcare in this country.