Happy Valintine's Day

       My  Wife has had a ruff year taking care of and putting up with me and my illness . I use this for a screen picture this time of year I stole it from Phil's blog many years ago.

     

    I tell my wife in my mind she looks as good as this pic to me. She says she loves my lying ass but I need my eyes checked and to talk to a shrink . I know what she thinks of when she imagines me .

     I guess it could be worst. I still love her !!!!

Government promises aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

      The First Circuit Court affirmed last week without a doubt that government promises aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. In a ruling that a state can change its retirement payout regardless of past promises.

link here     it sets a President at state and Federal level

      

Check out this artical on SOTUS aproval .

      Try as they may he is winning over a lot of dems and independent's.

tunning out celebrities

       

This is one for Harry Flashman

   Found it here H/T daily timewaster  

11 nations in one

      Look an see how you got labeled on this map. I am about 5 miles in to the Deep South according to this map.

II nations

Money sources isnt always obviousin in retirement.

    When I had to quit working and filed for disability I knew it wouldn't be the income I was use to. Not to say I had a high income but I had a weekly income and if my expense's went up I had  the option to work a bit more. At this time my ability to earn income even off book is zero. So while I was healing I did some research on benefits we qualified for besides just SSI.

      As me and the wife never have got Married to each other and have separate addresses . I filed for each of us food stamps .At our  income we each got 102$ a month. Then we got the Phone for free that saves us 40$ each a month. The phone was an upgrade compared to what I had to. ATT has a low cost internet for those that have low income. I applied and my internet cost have dropped from 60 to 10$ a month saving us 50$ more. A lot of people wouldn't have applied for these benefits as not worth the trouble inadvgaly but combined  in our case our income increased 334$ a month. 

       My wife is 65 and had to pick an insurance provider for her Medicare . The man we dealt with was good. At her income level she qualified for our state Medicaid to . When it was all said and done the state picked up her Medicare premium's and zeroed out her co pays. This  gave her 134$ Medicare back a month plus did away with 70 or more in co pays. So with a little due diligence we have increased income by almost 550$ a month or 38% over what we had.

The news has improved.

  First of thanks for the kind words and wishes from everyone. I hope everyone had a good holiday season.
     My last post may have been a little pessimistic :) . I saw the surgeon  a few weeks back he says he got it all and my lung doctor says their clean. The surgeon says his partner is a gloomy Gus always looking for the worst . He thinks I will be fine but no guaranties in medicine . My neck is almost healed. I have one of those round inserts for my stoma hole in my neck. I find it fits best in my pocket :) damn thing chokes the hell out of me when its in my neck.

     The best news to post is I can talk a little with the valve they put in between my trach and esophagus . Its a course croaking sound but its understandable. The speech therapist says I should be talking good in 6 months with what I can do now.  I will be posting at least weekly from now on but I have to decide what direction my life and blog will be taking.