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The prescription people have four rules:

1. You can have only thirty days' worth of pills.
2. You may only order a refill twenty days in.
3. A prescription takes three to five business days to fill
4. and a further five to seven business days to ship.

It does not take a genius to spot that it's quite likely that one will run out of medication. Now, "maintenance medication" is exempt from this, you can have ninety days at a time, so fortunately you can stay alive.

My happy pills don't count as maintenance, even though without them I'm liable to become dysfunctionally depressed and certain to become dysfunctionally dizzy. Good thing I don't need to drive for e.g. my job, because I'd be crashing into things. Good thing I don't need to stand up a whole lot. Good thing it's a snow day so I don't have to go teach today.

Their response? "According to our records, you should have eight days left of your medication." Well, I don't. I don't have any. I am glad to have health insurance, but sometimes I wish that the executives who made the rules had the same insurance I do.

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The snow is very pretty! It is DEEP and WHITE and THICK and YOFI. Nice nice nice. So we had a snow day and stayed home (instead of teaching and going out to do the taxes); I wrote half a column of Megillah, finishing the column I started on Thursday. I'd normally expect to do more than half a column a day, but sometimes other things get in the way - last week it was tefillin checking eating up time, for eg.

Mar Gavriel came over for a quill-cutting and letter-forming lesson. It's nice to talk shop with someone who knows how to learn halacha - most of the halachically-minded people I know aren't into sofrut, and most of the sofrut-minded people I know aren't into learning.

Tomorrow I'm going out to Westchester to work on a Torah. The snow ought to be interesting - it's a half-hour walk from the station to the shul in good weather, what it'll be like in fifteen inches of snow is yet to be seen. But I like snow, and we haven't had much yet this year.