I've just adjusted my time zone settings on Blogger, so no you aren't hallucinating. The times all did just jump back one hour. I finally decided I'd had enough of the times being 1 hour ahead of the actual time. It's the penalty of living in Arizona. We don't switch on Daylight Savings Time. So right now, we are basically in the PST Zone, Not MST. Go figure...

I'm at work today. Location: Classified...even to me! I hate days like this. I never know where I'm gonna wind up. Right now I'm at the warehouse but that can change is an instant. I probably will hit every store location today (that's 5 total!)

My parents and brother came up to visit yesterday. We went to the baseball game and watched the D-Backs lose the whole series to the Giants. Not that I'm a big sports fan mind you, unless you call crowd-watching a sport. :) It's kinda of hard to get to into that though when you've got your entire family with you that has no clue that you play for the "other team." Pun intended. :) Anyway they came up adn only stayed for the day before heading back home. It was fun at the game, even if our team did lose. At least there was lots of eye candy around. I know, I need to get out more. Oh well...

You know, one thing is I am accomplishing a lot. I guess that could be the positive side to all the negative crap happening in my life. Granted I pretty much brought a lot of it on myself, but sheesh. When it rains, it pours! Anyway, I did get the MVD matter settled, after a totally unpleasant experience with this old guy who really could care less about the world around him, just as long as he finishes you're business with the MVD and gets you away from his window. I handed him the note from the court saying I paid my ticket and tried explaining to him what I needed done when he interrupted me and asked for my license. He punches a few things in his computer and then simply says, "Goodbye, Jon." I was all like, "That's it?" He just stamps the paper I handed him, files it away, and says "You're done." I thought, 'You have a nice day too, prick." :)

Anyway, got that taken care off, got a gas cap for my truck (which someone had ripped off a few months ago), paid off my cell phone bill, started setting up new online accounts for a new business I'm starting up (more on that one later), and still got plenty of stuff done at work. And see? after typing all that I'm feeling positive and uplifted again. Yeah for me. ;)

Almost forgot the double whammy part. In addition to my lovely medical bills, I get a letter from the MVD (Motor Vehicle Division) saying my license is suspended cause I didn't pay a traffic ticket! (Yeah, I got a ticket...speeding. Happy now?) I paid the ticket like four or five MONTHS ago! It's taken them this long to get a hold of me? I called the court where I paid the fine and they said, "Yep. MVD is backed up about four months." Sheesh....what a way to run an operation. Anyway I had to go back to the court, get a document that said I paid this already, then take it to MVD and stand in line to talk with someone about re-instating my license which should have never been suspended in the FIRST place! Why me?

I don't know why I bother to check my mail. It is incessantly depressing. Today I got a double whammy. No one knows but I became pretty sick back there for a couple of weeks. I actually knew what was wrong, an abcessed tooth (one which has an infection growing at the root, thus requiring a root canal). I didn't do anything about it however. Just took some Motrin IB for the pain at nights so I could sleep. I knew I would have to see a dentist eventually but I was too busy at work to get some time off. Then on my second week, the pain got to be too much. I knew going into the weekend I would need to see the dentist first thing on Monday. So I thought to myself, 'One more weekend, then I'll be on antibiotics and the pressure will go away.' Can you tell I've done this before? :) Anyway, Sunday rolls around and I can't take it anymore. I'm in so much pain I basically started shaking and was starting to feel feverish. Before I lost all my motor skills, I drove to the ER and saw a doctor. I was running a fever of 105 and my blood pressure was elevated, due to the fever I was told. In any case, the doctor saw me and said the infection had grown so out of control (by me putting it off), that it was now endangering blood vessels which supply blood flow to the brain. The doctor and nurses told me they were pretty concerned about it since it was so close to the brain, and immediately put me on Pen VK (Penicillin) and a great Pain-Killer. I couldn't take than until I got home cause they said within a half an hour I'd be out. I was. Totally dead to the world.

Why did I tell you all this? Well, here come the good part....I got billed from the Hospital ER. I knew I would. I didn't have insurance so when I got that bill I wasn't surprised and paid it. Then today, I got another bill from some Medical Associates Group. This one almost equaled that of the ER bill. I was like, 'wait a minute, I already paid $150, what gives?!?'. So I called the up and found out this is the actual Physician's Bill. The other was for the ER. The doctor saw me for like 5 minutes. That was it! The rest were admitting nurses or discharging staff at the ER. How come he gets $120 bucks, and the other five people who I saw get to share $150? I realize he is a doctor and all but Sheesh! Health Care is such a rip off.

I just noticed this on the Blogger home page. It looks cool. I just wish I could've caught it sonner so I could have signed up to participate. Anyway, the trick is to blog for 24 hours straight, placing one entry every hour hour. And it's all for a good cause. Several causes actually. Check it out! The 24 Hour Blogathon!