Late night Wednesday

Not a long post here.  Just thought about when the last time I was at work, without the trip up to El Dorado and back for nothing (I will get paid for that but I'm not really counting that as work).  \

My last day was the 14th and today is the 29th. 15 days off.  Unbelievable.  

I asked for any available vacation hours and I got nothing in reply.  The manager is still sick and this is getting old fast.  

And then the idea that I will have to pay out of pocket if I go through the normal government healthcare portal to get insurance.  This was from this lady that I was talking about the last post.  I gave her a polite but to-the-point earful.  I ended it with: "I am not in the mood for threats".  I was going to say a LOT more, but I bit my tongue and boy was it bleeding. 

Metaphorically anyway.  It is a threat.  You are telling me that if I get healthcare through some other means than what you want it done - that isn't working - I will have to pay all of that myself.  No.  No. And no.  These people are begging for a lawsuit. And I'm still tempted to try the wage theft route.  There are still 3 Texas government agencies I could go through to make life miserable for them.

Why not? They certainly haven't done me any favors.  At all.  

It's going to be hard to get back into the groove of trucking but I have been oh so tempted to quit this job altogether after another day of this bullshit with the insurance crap.  What is the point of working like this if I don't have health care insurance?  It's fully half the reason I have a job at all at this point. 

I really, really wanted to tell that lady that if she wants to threaten me with that, you can just have that truck, I will go over in the morning and get my stuff out of it.                       

I didn't do it mostly because I don't have another job lined up. I'm one of those people that wants to have another job first before just outright quitting, but with this company? They keep pushing it and I may just say screw it, goodbye.  Permanently. Keep your pile of shit truck, your mismanagement and your bullshit and dump it on to someone that hasn't been exposed to your version of what amounts to employee abuse.  

It's just one of those things where I may not care if I don't have a job lined up, just do it and then find a new job.  But, it doesn't look too good on your resume even tho most trucking companies won't care anyway. They really don't. They are more interested in your driving history, tickets, accidents, is your medical current, is your CDL current, ok, get that truck over there and start driving it. Please. 

 Wednesday - afternoon

Yep, I'm still sitting at home waiting for this truck that was supposed to be done "around noon".  These people wanted me to go over there and wait, apparently.  No thank you.  It's a repair shop, they said they had to tear the entire dashboard out to find a short somewhere.  That in itself is a huge job.  There are a lot of things connected to that dash and taking and I can't even imaging taking that whole thing out of there and then attempting to find a short somewhere.  Good luck!

Hey, they may get it done "around noon" yet!  It's 12:30 pm, that's "around noon". But I have ample experience with truck repair shops giving estimates - and that's all it is, an estimate - to have something done only to have them take many hours or even days beyond what they thought they would accomplish.  They must be sick of working on that thing by now lmao.  I still wonder what the bill is going to be for that thing, very very high, I can only imagine. 

But, our repair shop didn't fix things when they should have and had the opportunity to and that guy quit anyway.  He always was taking shortcuts to get things done fast, but they wouldn't be done right.  Any shorts were ignored, he would find a work-around that might work but also would leave some systems non-operational. If they ever get done with this thing, I'm definitely asking for a print out of everything they did to it, I want to see just how much time spent and money in parts that it took to get all of that huge list of things I turned in done and over with.  

Now, if this thing isn't done soon, just how long do they expect me to be out trying to do a run today?  From there, it's going to be 8 hours total.  Get the truck, go over to Haughton, pick up a trailer and get down to Lufkin.  Right now, I'm looking at probably 9 or 10 o'clock tonight getting home if I left right now.  It's 45 minutes to an hour over there, get the truck, pre trip it, then over to Haughton, get the trailer, pre-trip that and then over to Lufkin - provided the trailer is actually washed out. Nope, adding that all up it's around 9 hours.  Yes, it's 10:00 pm leaving right now. 

I don't like to do night driving anymore and I don't see any reason to be getting loaded today if this wait goes on for even a few more hours.  However, I would like to get the truck today at least and not have to deal with that tomorrow.  

Anyway, it's 1:00 pm now and in my book, way too late to just get started on a run.  It's the loading time for the second run, I would be somewhere around 5 hours away from that - at least. 

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Something happened to the speakers on my computer overnight - I think there was an auto update. Whatever it did, I spent hours attempting to fix it with the help from AI which had endless - literally, seemingly endless - prompts to try this and that. I have no idea what happened.  The speakers work, the audio is being sent - somewhere - but it isn't playing.  I always try to fix this stuff myself before getting help - help is expensive and I really don't want strangers going through my PC.  

In this case? I guess I have no choice. 

There's a couple of places in town that are good at working on them and I'm sure an expert could figure it out quickly, I would like to hope anyway. I certainly am not an expert and don't claim to be one.  

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Several hours later.  I'm now wrapped up in this Bavvy catastrophe shit again.  UNBELIEVABLE. I have someone from corporate in OUR company who is completely incensed about this entire situation and actually called BAVVY "obnoxious".  Yes, that is the polite way to say it.  I can't go into all that just occurred, it infuriates me too much.  I don't need to be getting that pissed off.  I can say that  this lady from our company says "I WILL take care of  this, I'll call them when I get done driving and I WILL deal with this" and that she will call me back after she gets confirmation.  

Also? The truck isn't even going to be done today.  They have had to trace wiring through all kinds of nastiness to find out what is shorted. I don't even know what system it is applying to, but I'll guess the engine brake and the cruise control, those both went out at the same time. 

Oh, the lady at our company, sorry to backtrack here, but she said they hadn't even contacted her about this email I got from BAVVY and that she is even further pissed off. She's a professional, you can tell by her demeaner, it doesn't sound like a person normally acquiesced to losing it.  "Trust me, you have been heard corporate wide about this situation, we have taken them off of our "preferred vendor list".  They've heard from me because I haven't held any punches about my feelings about this once I understood the depth of the incompetence and arrogance that is going on with this Bavvy company.

That's it for now. I just have to put that Bavvy nonsense out of mind. I had been doing that until I got this notice yesterday of a window of time that is almost out to shop and select for a healthcare premium.  Like an open wound that is bleeding profusely and hasn't been treated at all, it just started all of that all over again.  

I am not working today and tomorrow - well who knows? That's in God's hands as far as I'm concerned, He tells us not to worry about what will happen tomorrow, there is enough for today.  

 Tuesday - late

Tired and sleepy.

But who cares I guess, the truck still isn't done and it's starting to irritate me the way the company is dealing with it.  The fact that it isn't done isn't the issue, the fact that they leave me hanging ... is.  I don't get information and I have to prod and pry to get it, we aren't talking intra-company info that is nunya for me, we're talking when is the truck going to be done because you know I need to coordinate a ride over there. 

Earlier today was just one of many examples.  They kept telling me that they would have the "part" late afternoon. Ok? So are they going to have it done today? You want me to work tomorrow but the truck isn't done, what are you thinking here?  My manager still isn't back from sick leave so everything is left up to this person who really just doesn't have the caliber of wisdom to be able to handle the job effectively. 

There is too much thrown at her at once, such is the job description, and I guess she just has a hard time dealing with it.  Well we'll find out this afternoon. Well please let me know when you find out anything. Oh I definitely will!

She definitely did not. Supposedly we could go get thing at 5:30.  At - 5:30, which is way too late to head over there, it's 45-60 minute drive over there depending on traffic, I texted her and basically gave a mild rebuke. I can't leave this person that is going to give me the ride over there hanging like this.  I NEED TO KNOW THE INFO WHEN YOU FIND IT OUT, NOT ME H AVING TO PROD YOU FOR IT. 

It turns out the truck isn't going to be done until noon.  Yeah, who knows when it will be done? I surely don't.  I will probably just call the Peterbilt dealership tomorrow morning and ask them myself, I'm tired of these half-assed answers that basically tell me nothing.  If I have to start at noon, meaning being over there and leaving right then, I might be done by 7:00 pm tomorrow evening.  Maybe it will be done at noon, maybe it won't be done tomorrow at all? I am wondering what the humanoid freakosis it is that they are working on on that thing that is taking them so long?

I'll take a stab at it. Either the ac system was so messed up with the wiring that it's taking them forever to figure out that night mare - or - they had to remove the transmission to fix the shifting issue.  Or a combination of both. I can't imagine any of the rest of my list taking more than a few hours at most to fix.  But those issues? Yeah, could be a nightmare.  

After the lawn mowing man came over last night and helped install the new ac unit?  My room is as cold as I want it to be. I think I had it too cold last night and hence I didn't sleep well. Turning it up to warmer temp a few degrees tonight.  Just take some tweaking to get it right.  Just glad. It's not near as noisy as the old one and probably will suck down much less electricity. 

Well, this is a short one. I'm tired and I need to go to bed.  I know, I don't have to get up early but I'm trying to keep some kind of hours that aren't too late because when i start working again, it's going to be 10:00 pm bedtime every night. 

Oh, and finally....I did the test strip thing again this morning and there was light purple on it, meaning ketones are in the system. Didn't really need it tho, I am back down almost to where I left off when I started the vacation. I was at 215 this morning, I left on vacation at 213.  25 pounds is the minimum amount of weight I need to still lose.  I'm not necessarily saying I'll get there - I want to yes but who knows? I'll try my best.  The diet gets easier as time goes on and you get used to it.  Getting down to 200 would be a wonderful milestone, going to give it my best shot to hopefully, eventually, get there. 

G'nite. 

 Monday - morning

Last night, signs of ketosis were evident on the test strips.  Not much, but enough to motivate me.  This morning? Gone, lol. How do I lose ketosis overnight? Not sure about that one ..... but....my weight is back down to 217 and counting.  I was up at 223 after I got back.  So, whether it shows it on the test strips or not, it's definitely showing on the scale.  Perhaps today it will start showing again.  Otherwise, I might be forced to go ahead and do a shorter version of a water-only fast.

I haven't done one since I returned from vacation because I simply haven't felt like it.  

I'm going to have to start working out again as well.  Yep, haven't felt like it. Vacation took it all out of me.  I was wiped out by the time we got back and the older you get, the slower the recovery.  

I've still got quite a bit of flab/fat on my gut and thighs, hence I am going to continue on with keto hopefully for as long as it takes. I say hopefully because after a while being on the severely restricted diet, you want to eat your potatoes, pastas, rice, beans, etc. You want to take a break from it even tho you know what's going to happen: weight piles on quickly.

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It's now Tuesday  night. Not a peep from work, don't care really, I've lost this much money in non-working why not some more?!! The truck isn't done. I have no clue what is taking those people so long to fix a truck that has been sitting there what, 10 days? What is the repair bill going to be on that thing?  I want to know just for the fun of it. 10k? 15? At what point do they decide the old junk isn't worth repairing and let's move on to newer equipment?  I didn't say brand new, just something within, say, the past decade anyway? 

I mean, driving up there Sunday for nothing really got me going and not in a good way.  At least I slept QUITE well last night. I'd love to hope for more. 

But you know what's keeping me awake more than anything, now that my room is cool again? Yes, that!

My room ac quit working some time ago and tho it isn't hot in here, it isn't sleeping cool either.  Yes, they replaced the central ac a while back and while they did it, they also replaced the old ductwork. Doesn't matter.  They either didn't put insulation in the walls when they build this carport into a room or they obviously put ineffective stuff in it, because it gets warm in here in the summer. Well, at least if the room ac isn't working. I have it down to 68 degrees in here.

The funny part? I've had a brand new AC sitting in the living room for what, 2 years now? I bought it when the one I had was making funny noises. I dunno why I didn't replace it, but the fan motor was making a HUGE amount of noise and hasn't been pumping out cold air at all.    It feels so good in here.

Oh, the funny part, well not funny, just out of the ordinary.  You see, it got so bad in here today that I had to open the door all the way and put a box fan in the door to blow the heat out. When the didn't work, I tried it the other way. Yeah, neither worked - at all. I'm like, I have that new ac sitting out there, why not put it in? Oh,  yes, because it's very heavy. 

Just so happens we have that lawn mowing dude and he is a totally upright guy, a very hard worker and doesn't play games. He'll help with anything if it means money in  his pocket.  I sent him a message saying I need help installing an AC  unit, but I didn't intone I needed help right now. It was 9 pm!  I didn't see his messages back or the phone call, I must have had the ringer off, I do that after I get so many spam calls, I don't want to hear the phone ringing anymore.  I must have had 15 of them in a row tonight. 

The next thing I know, the 9 year comes running into my room: Jeremy is here! Huh?  Jeremy! Ohh, well tell him to come in. Surprising, yes. He just showed up lmao. I didn't want to do this tonight, I just wanted to see if he could come tomorrow - well today now, lol, it's a little past midnight. Don't normally stay up this late but that's what a good night's sleep does for/to me. 

I said oh, didn't expect you to come so soon! He apologized, thought I wanted it in tonight, he could come back tomorrow. NO NO NO! You're here, let's get this done!  We got that thing installed in 30 minutes, including taking out the old one, putting in the new one and putting in the insulation.  Turning it on - took a minute before that compressor kicked in but when it did, ice cold air started pumping out.

I was fretting that one.  After sitting so long, was it going to work? Or would I be out a substantial amount of money on a defective product? Or  product that might need to be used before so and so time? I don't think the latter is true tho. As long as the manufacturer had it right before shipping and no freon is leaking out anywhere, it will work. And work the new baby did and is doing now. 

It's much quieter and the compressor kicks in and out.  It's a work of beauty. It feels so nice in here now, it's amazing!

And it's late. Need to get offa here.

Good night. 

 Sunday - late afternoon

What it boiled down to was, yes, I went to work today.  I slept like HELL last night, it was going to be a long miserable day.  But that only came partially to pass.  

Why?

Remember when I said the dispatcher wanted me to go up there, to El Dorado, pick up a tractor, then head over to a town near Shreveport, pick up a trailer and then go down and load in Lufkin? Yea, all of that.  

So, I got up early, 5 am, not uber-early but that's early enough, especially after having been on vacation a total of 10 days and not sleeping well - at all - the night before.  Umm, it was still night when I left lol.

I drove up there in my pickup, got in the truck fired it up, started my log book, did a pretrip, transferred my drinks and stuff from the pickup  to the truck and then.....sat there doing my log book. I noticed the air coming out of the vents was not cold.  

I proceeded to take off - this leg of the trip was no trailer attached. I got a few miles down the road and still no air. Contacted dispatch.  Did you know the AC isn't working in this truck?  It was going to be in the high 90's today with real feel in the 100's, no thanks.  She replied, oh just give it a minute, we just had the ac fixed in it. 

She's a kind soul and very nice person, but half the time she doesn't know what she's talking about. If the AC is working, it starts working right away. It might take a minute for cold air to come out? Yes. But 20 minutes? NO. 

I kept driving just to make her happy, after another 10 minutes I pulled over to the side of the road and texted her again.  "It's not working I wouldn't have agreed to this if I knew this in advance"

She replied she wouldn't have asked me if she had known. She went on to how it was JUST in the shop and it was working fine after they were through with it.  Yes, well if it's leaking freon that badly, I thought, they should have at least looked for it, found the problem and fixed it. 

"It's going to be mid 90 heat, index in the 100's.  I really don't want to do this."

"I'll call the customer".  "I'm bring it back.".  I didn't ask permission. It was already hot and sitting in that hot truck literally all day long was a non-happening event.  Are any of the other drivers driving without ac? No.  Would  they? Probably only if it broke while they were on their way somewhere and would be demanding to get it fixed immediately. 

IT'S FLAT ASS HOT OUTSIDE.  IT GETS MUCH HOTTER INSIDE OF THE CAB OF A TRUCK THAT HAS NO AC. 

I wasn't wasting any more words, I drove straight back to the yard, did a post trip inspection, noted the ac isn't working, got my stuff out and drove home.  I actually was so tired I had to stop and take a nap for 15 minutes - which made me feel fine and the rest of the drive home went without any issue.

Well, except: The AC in my pickup isn't working correctly either! I'm taking it into a shop probably tomorrow. I'm guessing the semi will be done tomorrow as well and I will try to get a ride over there to pick it up.  I'll guess beyond that that I have to work on Tuesday - but who knows? They often times get the beginning days of the week covered in advance. 

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Many hours later.  I kind of think that truck having broken ac was a gift from God. It would have been an incredibly miserable day trying to drive that long and get all of that done with so little sleep.  I am not working tomorrow - they have Mondays covered by the previous Friday because they don't like to work weekends doing scheduling stuff.  Allegedly the truck will be done sometime tomorrow.  I dunno, but if I drive down the road and the ac quits working, I'm turning that truck around and taking it right back to the shop.  

BTW, the truck they wanted me to drive was a very junky truck, older than the hills and had a 10 speed in it. I'm used to a 13 speed which can handle the loads much better.  

There are other things to discuss, but I have to keep my mouth zipped on some of it for now.  A revelation came out about a situation going on here that really was incredible. Incredibly bad, maybe incredulous is a better term for it's amazing this has now happened the second time. I wish I could go into details. 

I don't really know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's so hot I abhor going outdoors.  I've been keeping up with politics to some degree but I haven't really been discussing it too much.  The hate and anger coming from the left is something I just don't want to deal with.  I don't remember Republicans being so filled with rage and anger over Obama and some of the things he did, such as Obamacare - which he later admitted was designed to fail, so that they could initiate single payor healthcare system, otherwise known as full blown socialism.  

Trump is Trump and he makes me laugh the way he handles the press.  They treated him very poorly during the Russian collusion hoax - I don't really think many of those people actually thought it was real, they just didn't like Trump so they didn't care if they printed outright lies.

Oh, I got a 2 hour nap this afternoon lol. That's what I did now that I'm thinking about it. I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open, I just passed out.  That's what needs to happen - AT NIGHT TIME!

So I'm forcing myself to stay up a bit later than I should because of that and not wanting to set the conditions for waking up yet again and not being able to go back to sleep - too long of naps will do that.  

With that, however, I'm outta here.  

 Friday - afternoon

I have had a sore throat and headache for several days, it's not crazy bad so I haven't really said anything about it - I picked up something on the trip or I"m just that worn out, could be either or a combo of both.

I"m starting to feel better today, the sore throat is dying down and I slept quite a lot last night.  

My employer was wanting me to come back to work tomorrow.  No thanks. I didn't say that, I just relied on not feeling well - which definitely isn't a lie at all - for not doing it. This started yesterday now I've had 2 phone calls about it today.  I finally agreed to do a Sunday Arkansas run - the other part of this was that they were wanting me to do an Ennis run.

No clue why, I didn't ask and I have no idea what's up with my manager. He gets sick a lot but perhaps he's on vacation.  I know he's been stepping back from active dispatch duties but he is still doing the schedule for everyone.  I mean, what else is there for him to do if not scheduling? Manager stuff, I get it lol.  

Anyway we settled on the Sunday run but my truck isn't finished yet and allegedly not done until Monday.  You see, my manager would never ask me to do this ridiculous stuff trying to get a truck that is 2-1/2 hours away by car, he'd just go to plan B, C or D. He always has back up plans and I don't know why this dispatcher doesn't do the same.  

Well, we agreed on a Sunday run but I then asked how I'm getting to El Dorado to get the substitute truck? Well don't you have a friend that can bring you up here? LOL!  I replied no in the absolute definitive.  Yes, my friend took me to Shreveport to drop off the truck but she isn't going to drive me clear up to El Dorado  for a sub truck, that's 2-1/2 hours!  She was offering money and such and I just said no, she won't do it and besides, she has plans tomorrow.  I wouldn't ask her to do that much as it stands. She likes to drive but she just go done driving the entire trip we went on (and yes, I offered to help but she said she was fine). 

My statement that I can't get a ride up there put her into a conundrum, apparently she assumed I could just "find a way" there.  It isn't down the street and around the corner. I can't even imagine someone asking another person to do that without a plan on how to get that person there.  I really dislike when my manager isn't available, this is the kind of nonsense that ensues.  

So now, she said well I don't know, I"ll have to figure something out.  Yes, please do and that was the end of that.  They must be hurting for drivers - I would have thought they would have pulled someone off OTR to cover for me.  I have been driving 6 days a week, surely my manager had figured out how to cover it? Not like this was a last minute vacation request, I put that request in many months ago.  

See, even if I get a ride somehow up there, there is still dropping that truck off up there and getting back down here. They have never asked me to do this before, just weird.  

Changing the subject, I am still dealing with this insurance middleman. 

 Thursday - afternoon

We got home yesterday around --- 7 ish?  No a little earlier than that.  We emptied out the truck completely and I put everything away that wasn't clothes/personal items related.  

I've very tired, as I expected would be the case after getting home from a fairly long vacation starting on Thursday and ending on Wednesday.  Which is why I took today off as well, but really, I need a couple of days recuperation time.  

My phone has been ringing off the hook for hours now.  All kinds of things, one of which came in about half an hour ago.  My truck isn't done yet, it's going to be completed either tomorrow or Monday.  I really thought they would have had that thing done by now, it's been in there what, 9 days now? I wonder what that repair bill will be. Well, there are multiple repair bills - everything is billed separately as is their habit in truck repair centers. The AC repair is separate from the oil leak repair, which is separate from the engine brake repair - well you get the picture.  

Anyway, one of the messages was about them wanting me to take another truck to use tomorrow for a Ennis run.  First off, how am I supposed to get up there?  I am not asking the lady of the house to drive me that far, that's 2-1/2 by pickup if you take the shortest direction, which you would obviously, but that isn't available for trucks with weight restricted bridges.  I think about that anytime I'm doing anything in a vehicle lol, even when it doesn't apply.  

This dispatcher is a nice person but when it comes to doing schedules, she isn't very good at it. The manager wouldn't likely ask me to do such a thing.  I don't want to go up to the yard, pick up what truck in who knows what condition, drive over the Crossett and drive home and then have to drive to Dallas and then what? Drive back to the yard?  I'm not driving my personal vehicle and frankly, I was at the point of telling them I'm not going to work again until the insurance problem is solved.  

Annnnndddd then. Another phone call. I'm not answering my phone because I'm busy getting post-vacation stuff done. There is a lot to do. I'm just taking a break because of this particular phone call.  I've had to wash my bedding - they left my dog in my bedroom most of the time. We came home yesterday and yes, I remember now, it was just before 6 pm and he was in my room.  I knew the dog would pee on my bed, just a granted at this point, he doesn't do it anymore because I don't let him.  He stays outside when I'm not home - excepting vacation obviously.  

He has to be able to come in at night and not bark all night long plus have a retreat from the outdoors. It's still quite hot out and tho I keep cool water out there and he has plenty of shade, I do like my dogs indoors at night and sometimes during the day depending on what's going on.  Today? Nope.  

Oh, well the dog peed on the bed, I could feel it wet so that was all washed in hot water heavy soil mode.  I vacuumed the carpet and just got finished going over the carpet multiple times with a carpet cleaning machine. I'm thinking of having a professional carpet cleaning company come out and really get the carpet deep cleaned. 

Anyway, this "broker" calls. They deal with our company and they deal with the Bavvy company in getting stuff done like our benefits.  How many companies have to be involved with this? I didn't even know about these people.  

She left a book's worth of a message. The long story short: Bavvy screwed up, but I already knew this.  This lady said she's going to be dealing with this from here on out. She is in a separate company unrelated to Bavvy but apparently deals with them making sure issues are resolved. She said she was  totally sorry for the "terrible" situation - at least they admit that much - that I was put in and that Bavvy had sent me an email about permission to set up whatever that gives authorization to have the account set up for auto pay. 

That is obviously not my venue, I don't deal with that. I deal with trucks and glue.  I am not HR, they had no business sending me that email.  She then stated that my company was not at fault here, I disagree with that statement vehemently. I have informed my company since these late pays ending in no pay started and they did nothing about it. They bear at least partial responsibility.  Maybe not all of it, but certainly some of it lands directly on their heads. 

What I'm getting at here is that the problem was identified in Bavvy not following through with an email they sent to the wrong person and not ensuring that it was corrected.  I had no dealings with Bavvy at all until July 2, when I found out my insurance had been canceled on May 31st.  I never even heard their name before, I think I might have seen that email they had sent and I didn't know who it was or why it was being sent to me, I just ignored it. I did not ignore the emails from Christus telling me the payment is late for several months running and in jeopardy of having my insurance  removed. 

I don't know who did what here, but Bavvy is paying my company back the premiums paid this year, I am going to be reimbursed all of what I have paid - it's a chunk of change folks, it's not just a few dollars, I pay for decent insurance because I want and need that kind of coverage.  They are also going to pay my premiums for the rest of the year.  At the end of this ordeal - well we'll see if we are actually at the end or not - I am not paying a dime for health insurance this year at all.  

This is thousands of dollars. Close to 5k on my end of it, double that on my company's end. That's how expensive health care coverage is and I rarely use it, I just have it because that "something" that might happen, God forbid, but stuff happens to people all the time and age isn't really even a factor.  Kids, teens, young adults, middle aged, old.  If you want to be able to get the care you need in a time of need and not lose everything you own? You best have health care insurance coverage. 

It's a happy - well I'm a bit reserved on it right now for the fact of everything I've gone through with this ordeal, we'll see if they actually do what they're going to say - but  aside from the fact I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch - ending. Everyone knows I was pissed because the situation continued to escalate and I was pretty   upset when this Bavvy company dissed me, didn't call when they said they were going to, put me off on the phone.

The only thing I don't understand is who is covering me right now. Is it Christus or the company I found to give temporary insurance? That was not clarified.  I can't use the company I found until the end of the year, federal or state law prohibits it - I think it's Texas law but my memory is a bit foggy for all I have read and tried to absorb on this matter to try and get it resolved.  It's temporary health insurance coverage only intended to cover a person - well going through something like this.  I never knew such coverage existed and neither did my employer, I thank AI of all "people" for not only telling me about it but giving several links to find the coverage I needed and the thing was even imploring me to go ahead and get it with or without employer permission and get that coverage!

I didn't listen to it at first but after it became obvious this situation wasn't going to be resolved any time soon and I wanted coverage before we went on vacation? Yea, I did it even when they were trying to stop me from doing so.  I didn't care at that point, it obviously doesn't affect them, why should it matter if I have coverage or not to them? Obviously it didn't.  

A LOT of people got involved with this situation thanks to me contacting all kinds of people within my company, contacting Bavvy myself, calling a government agency and threatening to fill a complaint with the Texas Workforce Commission for theft of wages. It most certainly as theft as far as I'm concerned, they were taking my money and not giving the services it was supposed to be paying for.  They knew I was serious and I was contemplating contacting a lawyer.  That's very expensive, last resort type of thing. 

Anyway, I need to get back to the chores I was doing and then I am going to rest. This has been one of the most exhaustive vacations I've been on in quite a while. We did a LOT of walking in extreme heat.  Everyone else - people much younger than me - are also worn out and didn't want to go back to work for lack of energy.