My husband just passed me some information from his employer’s HSA department saying that Senator Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia is trying to pass an amendment to the Senate Finance Committee calling for the elimination of Health Savings Accounts. We’ve had issues with our HSA from time to time but without it we would not [...]

A friend alerted me to this story out of Bozeman, Montana: Town Requires Job Seekers to Reveal Social Media Passwords.
As part of the background check process the town officials require their job applicants to list any websites, email and social media sites they are members of, including MySpace and Facebook and give their passwords. Their [...]

I just found this out about the economic stimulus checks and thought I would share. They’re going out based on your social security number, and varying in time depending on the last two digits of your social. Looks like we’ll be getting ours in June.
DIRECT DEPOSIT
Last two SSN digits: Payment will be transmitted by:
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OMG–to get there, though. We were just getting to 441 and I realized I didn’t have my wallet which has my green card in and we had to turn around and get back, meaning we were going to be at least 20 minutes late to the ceremony, they said we had to be there [...]

 
I had to share this because I read it and I was just…speechless. We’re a in a drought! We have hardly ANY water and our government does something like this:
 
Florida sells unlimited water-pumping rights in drought-stricken State Park to Nestle for $230
Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 10, 2008 1:13 AM |
The State of Florida [...]

I saw this article today and was just amazed. I know there are lots of interesting innovations coming from Japan, but wow…a skirt that turns you into a coke machine!

Can you imagine having that in your luggage? I wonder how they’d take that at the airport…although it might make an interesting Halloween costume…I’m still having [...]

One of our local news stations is running a program called I am the One geared at helping the local youth in our community. The goal of WFTV Channel 9 is to “champion issues faced by Central Floridians through volunteerism,” and they’re also offering a $1000 grant to help complete community projects which you can [...]

My sister is okay. I talked to her yesterday. They own three houses, as they earn money from rental properties, and all of them were within the “tornado zone” but none of them were damaged, and neither of them nor anyone they know was hurt. Her husband was out yesterday helping with tornado clean-up as [...]

Last night I was getting ready for bed because the power blipped out. I was about to go and got the strong feeling, despite the fact that the power went back on, that I should go get both my cell phone and the house phone, so I went and got them and put them by [...]

Wow, I just finally worked out how to use a feed-reader. It’s easier than I thought…but it’s taken until I’ve installed Thunderbird as my email program for me to actually do it. Seems to be working great, though, I’ve been going around adding a lot of people’s blogs to it so that it’s easier for [...]