Leahs Cafe

If there is anything good can come out from the recent cancer scare, it scared the big boy into action! :-)

I have nagged and nagged about including me in his employer provided health care plan or get me  travel medical insurance before the health insurance kicks in. Since I am not there in IL yet and it never seems urgent, he just kept procrastinating it. Actually all he had to do just tell the human resource personnel about his intention and provide some basic data about his wife.

When the first pathologist’s report came back recommended further investigation of possibility of cancer, he sprang into action and got me on his health insurance plan within three days!

If we were gold coins collectors, we might be able to sell them to pay for the medical bills, but too bad we aren’t. Even a simple surgery and the subsequent diagnostic tests to identify malignancy has cost us more than 10k out of pocket. At least he knows cancer treatment without insurance coverage can wreck us financially and reason for many of the bankruptcy cases filed in America!!

How much would you pay for this toy car?

The big boy collects them, a few plastic containers of them. He just sold this one for slightly more than USD200.

Who would pay so much for a toy car?

Apparently, the Ebay listing generated quite a lot of bids. That means many big boys would pay this kind of money for a toy car!!

And, this boys all think they are savvy collectors! Crazy or not?

I have not yet seen the entire collection of toys that the big boy has as they were kept at the storage and now kept at his parents’ basement. Toy cars do not interest me at all, but I am more curious to know how much the rare coins that he has worth!

Was at the ATM machine withdrawing money, keyed in the PIN and amount to withdraw, got the beep beep sound and it said “wrong PIN” on the screen. Scratched head, keyed in PIN another time, got beep beep and “wrong PIN” showed up again.

OMG, I forgot the PIN numbers after not using it for a month. I dare not try another time, as the machine would swallow the card after three unsuccessful attempts! I would be in big trouble if the ATM card get swallowed, it’s not issued by a local bank and it belongs to the big boy !! I hope he remembers the PIN because he was the one who said birth dates are easy to hack and set it up with a string of hard to remember, unrelated numbers. :-)