Verify you belong

Socially, it's been fun, really. I have had the opportunity this week to see and be a part of some fun events, though I had only been able to be at a couple. Tonight there is a party for a friend that is moving to Denver. I would liked to go, but after being out a little too much last night, the body is not ready for another night, especially knowing tomorrow night I have some more entertaining to do.

Last night was fund raiser for the United Way and Kathy I went to the wine tasting event with some friends. Last year we went and enjoyed ourselves, you pay a fee to get into the door and they hand you a glass and you go to various stations to try the wines. This year they featured French Wines and built a theme around this with a Can-Can theme. They handed out top-hats and feather boas for you to wear. They also did a nice job trying to pair the light appetizers. Anyway after a few hours of trying wine we smartly drove home after we remembered it was a 'school night'.

At work there was some discussion today around a verification process that is underway to make sure the people we are claiming on our health care and other benefits are legitimate. I can certainly understand what they are trying to do, to eliminate extra costs that they should not be carrying. They even had a three week amnesty where people that knew or found out that some was not eligible could be removed from their benefits without any repercussions. This eliminated 200 people. So, the talk today was around the problems with the guidelines. Basically if you are married you send a copy of the marriage certificate and a bill showing you are still living together. The problem for some people is they just don't people each others name on their bills. In other cases such as the domestic partner provisions (we have a policy allowing people unmarried but living together in long-term relationship, but don't want to or are not allowed to get married, to have benefits) becomes difficult. They don't have a certificate for their relationship and for whatever reason were trying to figure a way to show the verification company that they should be on the plan. It was causing some worries around for some people. We did get notice that Kathy and I are legit, so we have that going for us.

I have fed the monster again, the sourdough starter, and I have pulled out a chunk and I am resting the dough overnight to start the process of making a couple of loaves of bread tomorrow, so that should be fun.

Music for these writings brought to me by Coconut Records last album Davy.