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Nov. 2nd, 2011
The roller-coaster has left the tracks.
Nov. 2nd, 2011 10:52 amIn early October I got one of the periodic forms from California EDD to recertify my disability. Like a good drone, I took it to the Medical Secretaries office. They take forever to do anything; so I wasn't surprised that it took two weeks for the card saying "your paperwork has been mailed" to show up.
As an aside.. mail? Hand filled in forms? It's 2011!
A week after that I get a notice that my state disability has been terminated. Because it has been determined that I am able to do my "usual duties." Bullshit. I'm still on blood thinners, and my usual duties at every driving job I have ever held means bruising, bleeding, and fall risks. Extremely confused, I email my primary care physician asking WTF was going on. In response I got a two sentence reply that had four mistakes.. including the doctor misspelling his own name.
Even more perturbed (not to mention pissed off and frightened as all hell) I write back, and also contact my pulmonologist. Finally, I get some real answers. The PCP had told the state that I could resume limited work but not my old job. They ignored him. Dr. Butcher said that as long as I was careful I could go back to driving, but nothing like what I did at PODS or Lord&Sons. I figure that since my own doctor said "he can't perform his usual duties" I have pretty good grounds for an appeal. But out of curiosity, I check Craigslist to see who is hiring drivers. The second thing I see is an add for auto parts delivery. They want people with small open bed pick-ups. Which I happen to own, and they advertise a good starting wage. Call them, go through the overly perky automated system, get a call back. . .
I have an interview tomorrow at 1000hrs up in Belmont.
Uh, yeah.
As an aside.. mail? Hand filled in forms? It's 2011!
A week after that I get a notice that my state disability has been terminated. Because it has been determined that I am able to do my "usual duties." Bullshit. I'm still on blood thinners, and my usual duties at every driving job I have ever held means bruising, bleeding, and fall risks. Extremely confused, I email my primary care physician asking WTF was going on. In response I got a two sentence reply that had four mistakes.. including the doctor misspelling his own name.
Even more perturbed (not to mention pissed off and frightened as all hell) I write back, and also contact my pulmonologist. Finally, I get some real answers. The PCP had told the state that I could resume limited work but not my old job. They ignored him. Dr. Butcher said that as long as I was careful I could go back to driving, but nothing like what I did at PODS or Lord&Sons. I figure that since my own doctor said "he can't perform his usual duties" I have pretty good grounds for an appeal. But out of curiosity, I check Craigslist to see who is hiring drivers. The second thing I see is an add for auto parts delivery. They want people with small open bed pick-ups. Which I happen to own, and they advertise a good starting wage. Call them, go through the overly perky automated system, get a call back. . .
I have an interview tomorrow at 1000hrs up in Belmont.
Uh, yeah.
Sudden campaign idea.
Nov. 2nd, 2011 01:56 pmGood for a high-powered, high-level game.
Sometime in the past all the characters sold their souls to an infernal power. An even more powerful cleric has discovered a way to retrieve the contracts. The quest is in three parts:
There are of course some limitations. Since this is a quest for redemption, the characters cannot engage in grossly evil acts. Picking a lock to access a room? Fine. Slaughtering the 800 guards in that room for no particular reason? Not good. This applies for the first two parts; onces in Hell, all bets are off. If a character engages in too much evil activity, s/he will be unable to leave Hell at the end of the quest. Also, the rules are that the number of people able to escape Hell is one less than the number of qualifying characters. Someone is going to be left behind. Either in a heroic stand to buy time or as the result of betrayal, one person isn't leaving.
This just came to me. Itd be really fun to run. What do you do when one part of the key is the Papal Crown?
Yes, a lot of this was inspired by the Key to Time story arc in Dr. Who.
Sometime in the past all the characters sold their souls to an infernal power. An even more powerful cleric has discovered a way to retrieve the contracts. The quest is in three parts:
- Searching out the pieces of the artifact that makes up the key to Hell.
- Finding the Gates of Hell
- Fighting your way in and out again.
There are of course some limitations. Since this is a quest for redemption, the characters cannot engage in grossly evil acts. Picking a lock to access a room? Fine. Slaughtering the 800 guards in that room for no particular reason? Not good. This applies for the first two parts; onces in Hell, all bets are off. If a character engages in too much evil activity, s/he will be unable to leave Hell at the end of the quest. Also, the rules are that the number of people able to escape Hell is one less than the number of qualifying characters. Someone is going to be left behind. Either in a heroic stand to buy time or as the result of betrayal, one person isn't leaving.
This just came to me. Itd be really fun to run. What do you do when one part of the key is the Papal Crown?
Yes, a lot of this was inspired by the Key to Time story arc in Dr. Who.
