Feels like a bad television ad. I spent the week trying to wrap up projects at work, and made good progress on that.

When I got down to the wire, two people approached my desk and asked if I had contacted the Office of Group Insurance (OGI). “No, why?”

I thought everything was taken care of for my looming retirement. I spoke with the pension people who were supposed to coordinate everything with the payroll people.

One of the benefits is that a portion of my unused sick leave can be used to cover insurance benefits. They won’t just pay it to me, but at least I am supposed to get something out of it. I was told, I cannot cover Medicare Part B from this account. (No idea why, seems stupid.) I can cover my United Healthcare rider payments from it. At least that’s something, and I thought it was all taken care of.

The HR lady gave me a direct contact over at OGI. Do you have any idea how this works at 3:00 on a Friday afternoon?

Yeah, nothing happened and I get to stew about it all weekend. I’m pissed. There really isn’t any kind of roadmap for the retirement process. I’ve been to dozens of places, private and public, just trying to make this all fall together. I’ve been working on it since October.

I sure hope someone shows up at OGI next week, because Friday is my last day.

In more interesting news, I had an idea. This will lead to an edit to add some material to Article V. This is the first time I’ve cracked my MS in about a month. My idea is too absurd not to run with. I’m poking fun at protestors in this chapter, and why not make it even more crazy.

Using the crazy edit to soothe my headache over the retirement process. Something tells me even after I sort this out there will be one more damned thing nobody told me at HR, Medicare, the pension office, and all the rest combined.

I also am the target of a hacker bot somewhere. They keep trying to access my Twitter account and my Apple phone. I have securities in place, so they’ve been unsuccessful. It’s just another thing to steal my time and effort right now. Them and the 25 calls a day telling me I have qualified for a loan that I never applied for. It seems like back during the Obama administration they cracked down on some of this.

I am dreaming that in one more week some of this will calm down. Probably not, but then I write fantasy, so the gene kicks in.