I promise they’ll get harder… but for now:

WHO AM I?

Previously.

(Truth be told, I’d enjoy solving these things more than making them, so feel free to play along yourself. If you make one and post it on your site, be sure to post a link here in the comments or something so that we can see it too.)

Bumper sticker I saw today:

“Eschew Obfuscation”

Insurance update:

Despite being pretty much against personal injury lawsuits and whatnot, the other insurance company wants to convince me to sign away my right to sue the (really nice) girl who accidentally hit me. He was successful in outlying some reasonable things that I shouldn’t feel bad about being compensated for, and did a fair deal towards convincing me of some things that I still might feel bad for.

I’m meeting with him on Friday to discus things and come up with a dollar amount, so my question for y’all is:

What is a REASONABLE dollar amount to compensate me for sitting at the hospital from 7pm til Midnight on a weeknight, where I had to suffer through copius amounts of offensive television — such as American Inventor and that American Idol-type show where people compete with really awful celebrity impersonations — and unbearably stinky and sick people?

Keep in mind that I just want the compensation they’re insisting I deserve, not to participate in the unreasonable exploitation of insurance that ensures we all have to pay too much for our premiums.

Two things:

1) my love/hate relationship with google continues. Once again, google reader’s mobile interface is borked up, meaning I have nothing to read. (I wrote this yesterday morning; reader mobile is working again now.)

This brings to mind the point that I’m reluctantly participating in their scheme for world domination, and really ought find another option that won’t both leave me in the lurch and use me as a tool for advertising. Maybe this will be the push I need.

2) I hate insurance companies/lawyers. The insurance company of the girl who rear-ended me contacted me over the weekend, asking that I give a recorded statement.

What no one seems to understand is that I’m not out for a settlement or something, and that the only reason we even filed an insurance claim¹ is because I was worried that she’d get stuck with a huge medical bill in the event that I WAS injured. So anyway, they asked whether there were any prior injuries or conditions that could simply be “aggravated” by this accident. I suspect that I would probably have been within my legal rights to not answer it, but I did anyway; I said I have had neck problems, even went through physical therapy to deal with it. This really seemed to please the insurance tool.

I understand that they have to look out for themselves in the event that someone tries to screw them over, but it really pisses me off that as someone who is never going to screw someone over, I still have to deal with this crap. In the event that I DO have problems, I’m sure they’re going to try to weasel out saying “oh no, he had that BEFORE, we’re not payin’.”

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1: she was really scared of the process of making a claim and having her rates go up. She wanted to pay for the damage and any medical bills herself, but after explaining that medical bills can get REALLY high, she reluctantly decided it’d be best to file a claim as a protection in the event that I were injured. She still wants to pay for damage to my vehicle herself, which I think is kind of silly, but not something I’m opposed to.

WHO AM I?

Previously.

(Truth be told, I think I’d enjoy solving these things more than making them, so feel free to play along yourself. If you make one and post it on your site, be sure to post a link here in the comments or something so that we can see it too.)