Six-Zero Hour

Been there. Add in: What if I get cancer and have to miss more that the 3 weeks vacation and 3 days of paid sick leave I have from work? Never mind not being able to pay for treatment, given my basic insurance, I won’t be able to make my house payment, pay utilities, or buy groceries. Make note to ask financial adviser if I can make withdrawals from IRA without horrible penalties. I know I can after 59 1/2 yrs old–maybe I can go another 15 months before it happens. Grind teeth.

@Mistress Cynica: The way to get cancer is to learn it on a Tuesday, schedule the surgery a week later, then out in four days. That still leaves you with a $7200 bill after Obamacare, so make sure your insurance offers a no-interest 18-month payment plan. Works for me!

Does this have anything to do with your looming birthday? Feeling old? Yeah, I thought I was feeling old then, but what I wouldn’t give to be sixty again. (I’m not having any big problems with being 70 ; the indignities of decrepitude are still within the “manageable” range; it’s just that we’re expected to gripe about aging.)
Be well, chum, and note that the glass is always full — partly with water, partly with air.

@jhoughton1: Loomed and went. I’m ready for my ice floe, Mr. DeMille.