February 23

12:30 PM As i said i will come up with a list of those whom i saw yesterday at Chinook Winds. Not necessary in the order i saw them.

In the smoking area where i like to play poker the smoke smelled again weird. I won a little. I got self confident talkative with the guy playing next to me. Speaking very calmly like i am not used to. He kept saying "wilds, wilds!" when pressing the button with an almost polite tone.

I think that smoke got to me. I told him he spoke with a beautiful German accent and he was from Austria. He got kinda angry and spoke to me with a low voice in short sentences and the a decisiveness only a long military career would bring.

However i was not that wrong. He is from Hungary which used to be co-part of the Austro Hungarian Empire. He went to the American School in Budapest hence his almost native English. He came there hoping to make a fool out of me before the almost ready accident minutes after i left so he can claim responsibility. Also to cover a scandal with another scandal.

But the reality of 942 billions Medicare budget divided to 12 months and 68 million Medicare recipients cannot be changed by any other any scandal.

February 22

12:30 AM I could never understand until today how Medicare Advantage plans work.

For people with Medicare, the cheapest type of insurance seniors can have in the US through a life long mandatory contribution (until retirement) on their payroll, there is no coverage for medications prescriptions unless they enroll separately into what they call Medicare pard D and pay more and generally doctors run away from people with Medicare because they slash their bills more than a half, sometimes to next to nothing.

3% of gross salary is not much, some would say.

There are countries in the world where people pay more for mandatory state insurance (in the UK is called National Health System or NHS) but over there the privately insured are a minority and also health care cost less.

Healthcare for retired seniors in UK is free with NHS and for a supplemental private insurance the cost is around 150 pounds a month (about 200 dollars). Similar situations in other advanced countries like France and Germany etc. with universal health care.

And here come the MIB for profit Medicare Advantage plans, a "middleman" between the insured and Medicare. With those, you don't have to pay extra to enroll in part D (prescriptions), though there's a monthly penalty of maybe up to 100 dollars if you did not enroll into it (directly or through advantage plans) right when you got Medicare, per reason you deteriorated your health by not having it.

One of the Medicare Advantage plans is Humana, and they even used to give you back a monthly allowance on a card that kinda matched that penalty and everyone was happy.

However this year Humana cut that one while increasing all copays. At Humana, maximum allowable for insulin by example is 35 dollars a month which sometimes is enough and sometimes not though they pay without blinking for much more expensive medications like pioglitazone. 

BTW many people like me in the past think insulin is very expensive and delay using it which is devastating for your health. 5 pens of Lantus with 300 units each (i use up to 40 units a day) which in combination with other meds lower my BG to about 200, cost about 250 dollars.

Today i figured the mystery. The cost for prescriptions in Medicare Advantage plans is covered by huge government subsidies paid to them Medicare Advantage plans like Humana. Question. Why don't they pay those subsidies directly to Medicare so people could have prescriptions without the "middleman"?

And here's the answer. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (states run health program for those with low income) account for about 3 trillion of the total 7 trillion in 2025 US spending budget. Medicare alone accounts for 842 billions. If we divide it by 59 million number of retirees and 12 months we get...

To that we should add the premiums (185 + whatever, part D). Average cost for a private insurance in the US is...

Some states have on top of that health programs covered by their own budget. 

Songs I Hate Most

In fact there should be two lists. One of those i hate all the time and one that i don't hate all the time depending on the mood. No, three. One with those i like most. Four. One that i like most sometimes.

Songs that i hate most

1. The Wall - Pink Floyd.

2. In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins

3. Every Breath You Take - Police (Sting)

4. Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana

5. Daylight - David Kushner

6. Liar - Jelly Roll

7. Paint the Town Red - Doja Cat

8. Take It on the Run - REO

9. Billy Jean - Michael Jackson

10/ Like a Prayer - Maronna (describes oral sex)

11 My Life (Billy Joel).

12 We’re Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sisters

13 Unstoppable - Sia

14 Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears

15 Taste - Sabrina Carpenter

16 Go Easy on Me - Adele

17 Take it on the Run - REO Speed Wagon

18 Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis

19 White Wedding -  Billy Idol (describes incest)

20 You Give Love a Bad Name - Jon Bon Jovi

21 The Monster - Eminem ft. Rihanna

Songs that i like most. (In the order i remembered them). To see the lyrics press on CC.

1. More Than This, both versions (Roxy Music and especially 10000 Maniacs)

2. Live, Encore - Buckethead

3. You are the Woman - Firefall

4. Drive - Joe Bonamassa

5. Lily was Here - Candy Dulfer

6. Piano Man - Billy Joel

7. Say you Will - Fleetwood Mac

8. Sultans of  Swing, Dire Straits

9. The One i Love - REM

10 I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner

11 The Boys of Summer - Don Henley

12 Cu tine-n rai (With you in Heaven) (Crush + Alexandra Ungureanu)

13 Highly Strung - Orianthi ft Steve Vai

15 Operator - Jim Croce

16 Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez

17 Man of Constant Sorrow - Dan Tyminiski, George Clooney (song by Dick Burnett)

18 Încă o zi (One more day) - Spin

19 Don't Know Why - Norah Jones

Songs that i like most sometimes

1. Kiss Me - Sixpence

2. Jump - van Halen

3. I'll Play The Blues For You - Joe Bonamassa, Albert King

4. The Bug - Mary Chapin Carpenter (song by Mark Knopfler) (she speaks/sings real English)

5. Write this Down - George Strait

6. I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton (song by Bob Marley)

7. American Girl, Great Wide Open, Refugee - Tom Petty

8. Stop Dragging My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty

9. Sara - Fleetwood Mac

10 Get Back - Ludacris

11 Best Day of my Life - Dido

12 Hand in My Pocket - Alanis Morissette

13 Rock Star - Nickelback

14 You Really Got Me - Van Halen (song by The Kinks)

15 Fire and Rain - James Taylor

16 Rocky Mountain High - John Denver

17 All Star - Smash Mouth

18 Please Come to Boston - Joan Baez

19 Muzica te cheamă (Music is Calling You) - Carmen Rădulescu

20 That's Not my Name - The Ting Tings

21 Don't Rush - Kelly Clarkson

22 Always with Me, Always with You - Joe Satriani

Angela's favorites

Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project

Breakfast in  America - Roger Hodgson

All songs - Scorpions

Give me one Reason - Tracy Chapman

Always on my Mind - Willie Nelson

- lists will be updated - 

February 21

1:15 AM Apropo dacă văd că sunteți așa curioși, le dau o nota 10 onorifică tuturor celor care pot să se sustragă de la datoria fotbalului de iarnă și să ghicească ce legătură (cauzală) a fost între boala închipuită ca mai orice a Suveranului pontif și începerea intempestivă a lucrărilor parcului Las Casitas din Tualatin la începutul săptămânii, care era să mă și termine.

1:25 Călin file din poveste are o soluție și pentru asta.

11:15 PM How about this guy?

February 20

1:03 AM Two to tango. Old Johnson on new Trump. Capisci?

3:30 Ancient civilizations. Are those drones? How old is this painting?

12:24 PM Common values.

BTW i really don't understand how you can attack Police officers without committing acts of violence.

There is a small group of people that conspired to cancel second round of elections in Romania. One of them, the ex-President, quit. However most Romanians are afraid of pro-Russian crazy Călin ("if we make enough silence we could hear the nanobots") becoming President.

I believe nanobots are generally good for your health depending on design and programming however lots of people got crazy lately, lost their ability to reason, and i believe it's the cell phones. Though with Trump, though they were signs, it happened suddenly and that can be of other causes (alien possession).

1:30 În valea Gastein din Austria sunt două lacuri termale amenajate, dar probabil sunt mai multe în afara traseelor turistice. Dar nu e  nevoie de un lac termal. În lacul Klopeiner temperatura în noiembrie poate să fie și de 15 grade (59 F), și poți să filmezi dacă prinzi o ninsoare.

"It's winter, there are minus 6 degrees (21 F) outside and nearby their is a splendid lake and i shall swim in this lake because i am not afraid, i feel no cold because everything i do i do through God and i will communicate with him with my heart; i don't need Facebook, i don't need Internet, i don't need engineers, i only need my heart to understand his wisdom.

I trust my immune system because i fully trust its creator, God. My immunity belongs to the sovereignty of my being. Immunity is maintained and trained only in nature. Here is the reality, here is the information, not in a lab and because of that i have no fear, i feel no cold, i feel the power, i feel that i live, i am free (head down in the water)".

Trust me, i can recognize the composition because i come from Bucovina, an old Dacian and Moldavian territory, which temporarily belonged to Austria (for 143 years). It's 100% like home.

5:40 However the real thing is happening in Vienna.

8:05 Gaza. Giza. Grobian. What is grotesque. Grotto.

(To see lyrics of this song press Youtube).