Posts made by WrCombs

back was feeling better, meds were working enough to have me moving. but today getting the kiddo from school, I started to turn, hip and lower back popped and I about collapsed from the pain. back to square 1

troubleshooting a printer issue ... another one.

Just getting started for the day. coffee is made. now to hop in and help with these tickets.

Today is my "Sunday" last day of my weekend. I got pinged in our slack messages that they need help with some issues so I had to hop on. No idea how long I'll be on today.
Happy Monday!

working tickets. fixing printers (i hate printers)
coffee pot is full!

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol

Mostly it is just about math and looking at your financial outlook.

That's slightly helpful, but I'm confused when I look at this list. I don't know any of it works. that's my own fault though. I'm doing some more research on all of that when I have a chance. I have until 12/31 at 11:59 to enroll.

What you do not want is a 70%/30% or 80%/20% plan or worse. You want a 100% plan.

You then set the deductible as high as you are comfortable with comparing your monthly premium and your savings to handle the deductible.

Now, I say that knowing that this is basically the most expensive plan of the monthly premiums you can look at.

So then you start to look at costs and risk of having those costs.

The question then is do you understand what 80/20 or 70/30 even mean?

The 20% or 30% is how much, AFTER you pay your deductible, of any procedure you will still have to pay.

You are a bit young for this example, but it is a common once men hit 45, a colonoscopy.

Weird Fake number: $12k
Plan cost: $1600

Assuming you met your deductible already, you will still pay 20% of this, or $320. If you have not met your deductible, obviously, you will pay that entire amount of $1,600.

This is the kind of math and risk assessment you have to do when buying insurance in the United States.

Another example, my younger daughter crashed her bike and broke her wrist last year. It was a severe break and she had to have surgery. Those costs there were also more than $10k jsut for the one part of the treatment.

We paid $1k because she had not hit her deductible yet. Had she already had an event that hit her deductible, this would have been paid 100% by the plan, for $2050. If I had a plan that was 80/20, I would have had to pay $410 still./ Even though we had already made our deductible for the year.

A 70/30 is obviously worse in all scenarios.

that was entirely helpful, thank you.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

124 mile round-trip commute ended today. Fully remote gig starts on 12/12

Fully remote is awesome, I get way more done working from home then I did in the office. dont have to run calls that take away time from doing stuff

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol

Mostly it is just about math and looking at your financial outlook.

That's slightly helpful, but I'm confused when I look at this list. I don't know any of it works. that's my own fault though. I'm doing some more research on all of that when I have a chance. I have until 12/31 at 11:59 to enroll.

Working tickets and looking at the new insurance being offered. 12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol

Finally making coffee and going through tickets! Happy Friday

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today I begin the recovery from my rotator cuff surgery I had this morning. Today is mostly my wife sterning telling me to sit down and stop doing stuff... I'm way more restless than normal. ug.

ouch.. hope you heal up quickly!

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

As for @William issue - I would definitely consider making an appointment with a chiropractor. I too hurt my back 20 years ago... and a few weeks at chiro made all the difference in the world. Since then I've gone back a few times here an there as pain came up.

At a minimum, considering how long you've dealt with this - it sounds like it's time to expand your treatment options.

As Scott said - most 'doctors' dismiss Chiropractic care. there's two general reasons for this - they are trained to dismiss it during their education as - non medical, and two as Scott said - it takes money out of their pocket.

That second reason is the main reason why I would consider a national healthcare situation as a good one - take the incentive away from doctors making more money because they see more patients. Their desire to make money is in direct conflict with your desire to feel better.

tagged the wrong person there Dash. I'm looking at chiropractors today for consultations, hoping I'll find one that can help

@scottalanmiller said in PlayStation Game Drive; wont read on PlayStation or computer:

@WrCombs sounds like it might have died. Do you have a Linux box to plug it into? If so, plug in and do a lsblk and lsusb and see what shows up.

I do not, at the moment but I have an old PC in my work area I can throw linux on and try that. I just heard it beep a whole bunch so I think your right.
I'll have to work on that another time, but Thank you!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

dealing with some of the worse pain i've experienced in about 6 years since my accident. my back gave out on me Sunday morning. Can barely move, and the pain stops me from doing much of anything, the numbness in my feet make it hard to stand up sometimes.. so Sitting at my desk about an hour before I'm supposed to be on desk for work because I can't keep making trips up and down the stairs. I was lucky enough to get down here today.

IT related; I'm trying to get a PlayStation game drive to be readable- currently it's in my device manager as unknown and I can't find the driver to get it to be seen. been fighting with it for a friend over the weekend as much as I can

Oof. Hope your back gets better! Might be time for a(nother?) trip to the bone crackers.

funny enough, never been to one, my doctor said it could make some of the symptoms worse.

Doctors always say that. They lose money if there are alternative fixes. As much as I'm not a strong believer in either, this is a case of clear conflict of interest and the doctor has no proper ethical ability to really comment there.

That's fair

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

dealing with some of the worse pain i've experienced in about 6 years since my accident. my back gave out on me Sunday morning. Can barely move, and the pain stops me from doing much of anything, the numbness in my feet make it hard to stand up sometimes.. so Sitting at my desk about an hour before I'm supposed to be on desk for work because I can't keep making trips up and down the stairs. I was lucky enough to get down here today.

IT related; I'm trying to get a PlayStation game drive to be readable- currently it's in my device manager as unknown and I can't find the driver to get it to be seen. been fighting with it for a friend over the weekend as much as I can

Oof. Hope your back gets better! Might be time for a(nother?) trip to the bone crackers.

funny enough, never been to one, my doctor said it could make some of the symptoms worse.

My buddy has a PlayStation Game drive from seagate - 2Tb drive that after his move he can't get it to load up. I plug it into my computer, and nothing happens. Game drive turns on, but I'm not seeing it in my device manager or disk manager.
Checked for Drivers to install and installed 2 tool kits and a seagate driver that matches the model number. still no luck. It's USB only so I can plug it into a different computer as the hard drive to see if it boots up. I'm not sure what else to do.
Any suggestions?

dealing with some of the worse pain i've experienced in about 6 years since my accident. my back gave out on me Sunday morning. Can barely move, and the pain stops me from doing much of anything, the numbness in my feet make it hard to stand up sometimes.. so Sitting at my desk about an hour before I'm supposed to be on desk for work because I can't keep making trips up and down the stairs. I was lucky enough to get down here today.

IT related; I'm trying to get a PlayStation game drive to be readable- currently it's in my device manager as unknown and I can't find the driver to get it to be seen. been fighting with it for a friend over the weekend as much as I can

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Forgot how long it takes Vultr to take a snapshot

OMG, you have time to make s'mores while waiting for that.

And I mean time to...

Drive to a campsite. Find a tree. Cut it down. Cut it up. Make a bonfire. Wait for it to die down low. Then start roasting some marshmallows.

Realize you forgot chocolate and go back to get the chocolate. Come back, then realize that you dont' have graham crackers, and go back to the store and get that too ?

Sounds about right.

Congrats @gjacobse and @EddieJennings on the new gigs! may the odds be ever in your favor with the new opportunities!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

working this fine Sunday Morning, coffee and filtering tickets form overnight

Fun

Had my daughters baby shower (daughter coming soon) yesterday so I switched shifts with someone