good neighborsSo over two years since I first applied for SSDI (that would be Social Security Disability payments, for the non-US folks here), and was turned down, and appealed, and was turned down, I had my hearing last week. My long term disability insurance co., that's been paying a large part of what I'm (barely) living on arranged for an ( Read more... )

Good thing I took those pics this morning. There's a new door, gleaming white and fully functional. My wonderful neighbor C_____ knows the guy next door to him very well, and that guy and his brother are in the--can you guess?--garage door business. And C_____ actually paid him and called and said the work was done, and I could pay him back ( Read more... )