head in sand. check.

[erastes]

 

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I am now double tracking on the residential care fees and have gone back to the default stage of worrying. The thing is they don’t say whether the fees are monthly or weekly. I assumed monthly, but now I don’t know. It seems not enough for monthly, too much for weekly. If they are weekly, we are snookered as Dad’s pensions won’t cover them. argh. I have ostrich-in-the-sand-itis now, because I don’t want to ask for clarification. I’ll wait until i get another brochure and hope they are clearer. It was nice to have no weight on my shoulders for half a day, anyway. Dad of course, had no memory of asking me to ask for brochures and got half annoyed with me this morning as if I was about to shove him into a home against his will. Oh joy.

If anyone has a relative IN  a residential home, would you mind privately sharing with me (via email or PM) how much the fees are? I’m trying to save his house, you see—I can rent it, but don’t know how quickly I’d be able to do that in a crisis.

I am going to be unpopular saying this, but that hoo ha about the New Hampshire paper who is refusing to print a gay wedding announcement—well, it’s annoying, but that’s what newspapers do, choose their own political agenda. There ain’t no sich thing as a free press, if someone owns it, and someone runs it, then they decide what goes in. Forcing them to do otherwise makes a mockery of the whole bloody idea of free speech, although that’s a concept that people like to think they have, when really they don’t. or they do, but you have to take the consequences of it.

Words done, at least. And now I can’t get onto LJ or to Google. Great.

Comments

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

And here's yet another reason why the intarwebz aren't nearly as free as you thought. This link came from kylecassidy, who's the user rep for lj.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/more-privacy-headaches-for-facebook-gay-users-outed-to-advertisers.ars

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. The idea that there is anything private on the internet--except, to some degree, credit card transactons--is just wishful thinking. I use half a dozen diffent birthdates and maiden names, just to reduce the risk of some website being hacked.