Tag: benefits

Life in These Here Now United States (health care mix)

My health benefits provider (Blue Shield California) sent me a nastygram in the U.S. Mail saying I was cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. I looked on their website, saw that this was not so, and didn’t panic.

Then TriNet, who manages our benefits, sent an apologetic email saying the cancellations were their mistake and were being rectified.

Finally, they just now sent another email saying that they typed their customer service phone number wrong and were even sorrier.

“The persons responsible for sacking the previous persons have been sacked. And now, llamas!”

The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans: CD set with benefits

Music fans with some extra bucks to drop might consider Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol’ Box Of New Orleans, a 4 CD set of classic N.O. music. Through the end of 2005, Shout! Factory Records is donating their profits from this one to the Red Cross.

Oddly enough, I found this while talking to torgo_x about his friend Chuck Taggart, who, it turns out, wrote the musical liner notes for the set. Chuck is an expert in Louisiana culture who’s done a radio show here in Southern California forever. Looking at Chuck’s site I discovered that the other writer of the liner notes is my old college friend Mary Herczog, who has written the Frommer’s guide to New Orleans and is a serious student of the city.

It’s a tiny ol’ world. Oh holy crap I just noticed that Mary wrote “California for Dummies” too. Now i have to find that.