Scrambling to get things finished up; we're inducing labor on 12/26 at 7 PM and our daughter (my girlfriend and I) will be here before the new year (it looks like)
Posts made by WrCombs
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ended up in the ER until 3 in the morning, got there at 7:30 ish. after waiting in excruciating pain in a wheel chair (cause I could barely walk) for almost 3.5hours I got back to a room, another 2 and i finally got meds, Doctors are thinking it's a slipped disc, but I refused to do an MRI for couple reasons, 1. there were 12 people in front of me, (roughly 9-hour wait) and 2. I'm not paying out of pocket for an MRI that's just too much money. the doctor even said it's expensive. Home with new "how to care for this issue" paperwork and waiting to hear back on follow-up appointment happy friday eve
Damn, just saw this
it wasn't a fun time that's for sure. stil in a lot of pain
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RE: JAMF - Thoughts?
@gjacobse said in JAMF - Thoughts?:
@WrCombs
Can't say about JAMF,.. but Microsoft Intune maybe an option. Once enrolled you can deploy apps, update, reset, remote wipe.for Apple products?
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JAMF - Thoughts?
Hey, I know there was a thread opened in 2017 about this but are there still people using https://www.jamf.com/ apple management software?
Got a bunch of sites that use iPads right now and we're looking for the best way to manage them without having a client in front of the ipad all the time. -
RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ended up in the ER until 3 in the morning, got there at 7:30 ish. after waiting in excruciating pain in a wheel chair (cause I could barely walk) for almost 3.5hours I got back to a room, another 2 and i finally got meds, Doctors are thinking it's a slipped disc, but I refused to do an MRI for couple reasons, 1. there were 12 people in front of me, (roughly 9-hour wait) and 2. I'm not paying out of pocket for an MRI that's just too much money. the doctor even said it's expensive. Home with new "how to care for this issue" paperwork and waiting to hear back on follow-up appointment happy friday eve
Yeesh. take it easy there cowboy! Seriously though, get to feeling better and if the doc contacts your insurance and pre-approves it, will they pay? (I ask because some will and some won't).
I'm in-between health insurance at the moment
Oof. Owch. Take three of these and call me in the morning.
hahaha
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ended up in the ER until 3 in the morning, got there at 7:30 ish. after waiting in excruciating pain in a wheel chair (cause I could barely walk) for almost 3.5hours I got back to a room, another 2 and i finally got meds, Doctors are thinking it's a slipped disc, but I refused to do an MRI for couple reasons, 1. there were 12 people in front of me, (roughly 9-hour wait) and 2. I'm not paying out of pocket for an MRI that's just too much money. the doctor even said it's expensive. Home with new "how to care for this issue" paperwork and waiting to hear back on follow-up appointment happy friday eve
Yeesh. take it easy there cowboy! Seriously though, get to feeling better and if the doc contacts your insurance and pre-approves it, will they pay? (I ask because some will and some won't).
I'm in-between health insurance at the moment
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
Ended up in the ER until 3 in the morning, got there at 7:30 ish. after waiting in excruciating pain in a wheel chair (cause I could barely walk) for almost 3.5hours I got back to a room, another 2 and i finally got meds, Doctors are thinking it's a slipped disc, but I refused to do an MRI for couple reasons, 1. there were 12 people in front of me, (roughly 9-hour wait) and 2. I'm not paying out of pocket for an MRI that's just too much money. the doctor even said it's expensive. Home with new "how to care for this issue" paperwork and waiting to hear back on follow-up appointment happy friday eve
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
back was feeling better, meds were working enough to have me moving. but today getting the kiddo from school, I started to turn, hip and lower back popped and I about collapsed from the pain. back to square 1
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troubleshooting a printer issue ... another one.
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Just getting started for the day. coffee is made. now to hop in and help with these tickets.
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Today is my "Sunday" last day of my weekend. I got pinged in our slack messages that they need help with some issues so I had to hop on. No idea how long I'll be on today.
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working tickets. fixing printers (i hate printers)
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol
Mostly it is just about math and looking at your financial outlook.
That's slightly helpful, but I'm confused when I look at this list. I don't know any of it works. that's my own fault though. I'm doing some more research on all of that when I have a chance. I have until 12/31 at 11:59 to enroll.
What you do not want is a 70%/30% or 80%/20% plan or worse. You want a 100% plan.
You then set the deductible as high as you are comfortable with comparing your monthly premium and your savings to handle the deductible.
Now, I say that knowing that this is basically the most expensive plan of the monthly premiums you can look at.
So then you start to look at costs and risk of having those costs.
The question then is do you understand what 80/20 or 70/30 even mean?
The 20% or 30% is how much, AFTER you pay your deductible, of any procedure you will still have to pay.
You are a bit young for this example, but it is a common once men hit 45, a colonoscopy.
Weird Fake number: $12k
Plan cost: $1600Assuming you met your deductible already, you will still pay 20% of this, or $320. If you have not met your deductible, obviously, you will pay that entire amount of $1,600.
This is the kind of math and risk assessment you have to do when buying insurance in the United States.
Another example, my younger daughter crashed her bike and broke her wrist last year. It was a severe break and she had to have surgery. Those costs there were also more than $10k jsut for the one part of the treatment.
We paid $1k because she had not hit her deductible yet. Had she already had an event that hit her deductible, this would have been paid 100% by the plan, for $2050. If I had a plan that was 80/20, I would have had to pay $410 still./ Even though we had already made our deductible for the year.
A 70/30 is obviously worse in all scenarios.
that was entirely helpful, thank you.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
124 mile round-trip commute ended today. Fully remote gig starts on 12/12
Fully remote is awesome, I get way more done working from home then I did in the office. dont have to run calls that take away time from doing stuff
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol
Mostly it is just about math and looking at your financial outlook.
That's slightly helpful, but I'm confused when I look at this list. I don't know any of it works. that's my own fault though. I'm doing some more research on all of that when I have a chance. I have until 12/31 at 11:59 to enroll.
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Working tickets and looking at the new insurance being offered. 12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol
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Finally making coffee and going through tickets! Happy Friday
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Today I begin the recovery from my rotator cuff surgery I had this morning. Today is mostly my wife sterning telling me to sit down and stop doing stuff... I'm way more restless than normal. ug.
ouch.. hope you heal up quickly!
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
As for @William issue - I would definitely consider making an appointment with a chiropractor. I too hurt my back 20 years ago... and a few weeks at chiro made all the difference in the world. Since then I've gone back a few times here an there as pain came up.
At a minimum, considering how long you've dealt with this - it sounds like it's time to expand your treatment options.
As Scott said - most 'doctors' dismiss Chiropractic care. there's two general reasons for this - they are trained to dismiss it during their education as - non medical, and two as Scott said - it takes money out of their pocket.
That second reason is the main reason why I would consider a national healthcare situation as a good one - take the incentive away from doctors making more money because they see more patients. Their desire to make money is in direct conflict with your desire to feel better.
tagged the wrong person there Dash. I'm looking at chiropractors today for consultations, hoping I'll find one that can help
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RE: PlayStation Game Drive; wont read on PlayStation or computer
@scottalanmiller said in PlayStation Game Drive; wont read on PlayStation or computer:
@WrCombs sounds like it might have died. Do you have a Linux box to plug it into? If so, plug in and do a lsblk and lsusb and see what shows up.
I do not, at the moment but I have an old PC in my work area I can throw linux on and try that. I just heard it beep a whole bunch so I think your right.
I'll have to work on that another time, but Thank you!