awkward segue

The definition of "affordable" varies depending upon one's available resources. A Coke is a Coke, but a generic cola is cheaper. I'm conditioned to love my Coke and to stick my nose up at the "knock-off" brands.

I didn't drink Coke growing up. RC or Big K were the brands of cola stocked in the fridge when we had something other than 2% milk, Old Milwaukee's Best/Natural Lite, eggs, butter, orange juice FROM CONCENTRATE and Parmesan cheese.

I remember  the contents of the old fridge vividly. I learned to stop looking and find other things to do than eat while my folks "slept" during the weekend.

I have avoided being online a bit of late. Things have happened that merit blog entries more so than other events sprinkled throughout this domain, but time isn't a luxury I have to reflect upon AAA tow truck drivers, ImproveIt repairmen, random mouse in the house, reconstituting the crib, Garmin GPS failure, FM/AM radio failure, premature car shopping (Mazda5 looks like a nice car for a family of five, doesn't it?), and threatening to sue CENLAR for mortgage fraud. I could easily do an entry about each of those matters, but a certain machine is old and slow.

I started a blog post which was to be about health insurance, but I lost focus since I started talking about my childhood and getting to the difference between Big K and Coke. The analogy I was working towards was essentially that the Affordable Healthcare Act was probably affordable to those in the beltway who think nothing of buying imported bottled water, thus consider tap water to be only good for flushing toilets and ban it for the good of all.