Originally posted by jcoker007
13. Grim Reapers (1-3)
-- This one really hurts as Grim is not far removed from being a league powerhouse. Their running game is very good and their passing game is a wonderful complement to that. On defense they are simply underachieving as they are a much better unit than they've showed so far. The game against Reading coming up will likely be a swing game for both teams and vault the winner back up into the playoff race.
NFL team equivalent: Atlanta FalconsThings have been grim in Grim since my life turned into a C&W song.
Quintuple bypass surgery in January (I was awake and talking the day after surgery, but the hospital did an
"oops" and gave me meds that shouldn't be mixed which sent me into respiratory arrest & they had to put me back onto the respirator (but the nurse "forgot" to turn the damned thing ON, so my Mom raised 3 shades of hell after my oxy monitor kept going down.... down.... down...). Took them another 6 days to get me breathing on my own again.... which padded the hospital bill nicely, leaving me ~$50,000-$60,000 in medical bill debt as I later found out that my BC/BS $2500/yr maximum "out of pocket" was a complete lie.... Seems our parent company didn't really give us a BC/BS plan.... just a BS plan. (They wrote their own "policy" and just hired BC/BS to manage it.)
And speaking of my company.... after receiving multiple unsolicited reassurances during all of January & February to
"Don't worry, your job is safe!", I spent >$5,000 doing house repairs (hurricane damage + A/C ducting leaks which caused it to "rain" inside the house, right through the sheet rock), only to get laid off the 1st day I got back.... just as soon as they had my medical release in their hot little hands. (A classic case of age-discrimination, as they laid off the 2 oldest & highest paid in our dept., but kept the youngest & least proficient one, just because SHE made less money.... but no one enforces
that particular law, so what good is it? - Isn't the EXECUTIVE branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws? )
As complicated as Bort has made the AI's now-a-days, I haven't had time to devote to it much, as I've been preoccupied with job hunting & trying to keep the wolves at bay.....
....Oh yea, after spending 8 hours & $504 at the vet's office early last week, my dog died in my bathroom that same night.
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