Luka from E.R. came to fix the spring on my garage door last week.  I kept thinking he looked familiar, and then I would realize it was because he's Luka from E.R. disguising himself as a man named Chris.

Man I hate these guys.  Not just garage door guys... any "specialists".  They judge you and your stuff and tell you why your stuff sucks and you need something new.  Dude.  I don't want a new garage door, no matter how crappy you think this one is.  Even if it had a giant hole in it, I'd still be all... yeah, we'll throw some plywood over that, a little duct tape.  I'm not buying a new garage door right now.  You are competent at what you do, and I respect that.  That's all I want.  Just fix the dang spring.

Something that's been on my mind since my insurance company called me last week and my father-in-law and I were talking about it last Sunday... Obamacare.  Basically, my thoughts boil down to this.  Yeah, it sucks.  And yeah, it's going to need some fixing.  Actually, they're going to have to scrap the whole thing and move to single payer health care.  Do I want the government running health care?  Hell no.  But it's the only way to do it in today's world to ensure that everyone is covered at a cost that doesn't bankrupt us individually and as a nation.  Bottom line.  Sure it sucks.  I don't like it.  What's the alternative?  Go on the way things are?  Can't do it.  Rely on charity care?   Not a solution.  Let people go uninsured and take care of them in the emergency room?  Contributing to the mess we're in now.   I said to my fil that if Obamacare were to be repealed, I'd be in big trouble.  I have a child with diabetes, and my insurance company would love to dump me if they could.  My fil said... well, they could write the law so that insurance companies couldn't exclude people for pre-existing conditions or cancel their policies when they get sick.  Ok, I said, that costs the insurance company tons of money.  Makes health care costs soar.  Well, he said, they would have to spread the costs out through the population.  Yes, I said, that's the insurance mandate that has so many people up in arms.  Look, bottom line... you can't keep the parts of the Affordable Care Act that are popular without having the parts meant to bring costs down... the parts everyone hates.  I am not unaware of the problems with ACA.  I'm not happy about it.  But in the words of the infamous Mick Jagger.... You can't always get what you want.

We went up and mowed the lawn at the cabin on Friday afternoon and the kids played in the river.   The weather up there was so cool and nice.

We had a bird nest in one of our backyard trees, and the eggs hatched a bit ago.  The birds were so cute sitting up in there.  It's been fun watching.  I guess they flew the nest last night or early this morning... and ended up in the window wells.  One of them was in Brittney's and it woke  her up squawking at 6:00 this morning.   They couldn't fly out, so Sean went out and lifted them out with the end of the hoe.  Don't know where they are tonight.  I hope they learned to fly.

Our garden sucks this year.  It's just too dry.  And the weeds.  Oh the weeds.  So many weeds.  But there are lots of potatoes, so that will be good.