Oct
22
I found old money with the State of Florida Bureau of Unclaimed Property
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I read an article about a First Coast woman that just received a check for over $28,000 from the State of Florida Bureau of Unclaimed Property.
I knew this existed, but I leave the search for windfalls to my wife, who takes care of things like joining class-action lawsuits and filing for insurance claims for us. But, it was early, I was awake, and I was bored.
I went to the site and did a search for my last name. I found 4 accounts in my late grandfather’s name, all stock. Two of the accounts were for the same company, which I recognized. I recognized a second company, also. Both are tech companies. The third company appears to be a bank.
Oh well, more money for my father and uncles to claim. Sigh. Maybe they’ll give me a finders’ fee?
Oct
3
Secure health insurance quotes
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My father gave us a health scare this past summer. Or, to be more accurate, his doctors and hospital staff screwed up and gave us a scare. He wound up spending the better part of 6 weeks in the hospital. I blogged a bit about my frustrations with the situation back, in June, when I was commuting to Brooksville every weekend.
He retired last year, and took his COBRA benefits which were still in effect this summer. However, they expired last month, and he’s sitting here with a pre-existing condition and ineligible for Medicare until next March. He’s had a horrible time finding health insurance, and even the lousy policy he did find isn’t going to pay for the surgery he should be having in the next few months. Now, he has to wait until Medicare kicks in to do the follow-up surgery.
He’s hunted high and low with agents and over the internet. I’m sending him this health insurance site, so he can continue looking for a better, more affordable policy.
Sep
4
Only in FLA: Nub City
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Man, this is weird, even for Florida…
Seems that back in the 1960’s a bunch of the men in town blew off hands and feet for the insurance money. You simply HAVE to read this story at tampabay.com!
Here’s a couple teasers for you:
Once upon a time, the Panhandle city of Vernon was a national laughingstock. Its people were ridiculed as bumpkins and cranks, freaks willing to shoot off their own hands. Then things changed. Time and hard work helped bury the past, and now Vernon has reclaimed some of its dignity. If only that were the end of the story.
Hmmm… tell me more…
The characters are not heroes. They are not even villains. They are merely conniving mercenaries with a tolerance for gore.
No shee-ite, y’all ain’t gonna believe this…
How does a town become known as Nub City? Why did more than two-thirds of all loss-of-limb accident claims in the United States in the late ’50s and early ’60s come from the Florida Panhandle? What was the first event in the bloody chain that led a national insurance investigator to Main Street in Vernon, to sit in a parked car on a hot summer night, watching the maimed walk by in a shuddersome parade?
Ok, I’m not going to steal this guy’s thunder, it’s a great story and you gotta go over there to read about the amputees of Vernon, FL. However, here’s a list of things you can find in Vernon, FL that you can’t find anyplace else:
- A REAL second-hand store.
- More one-legged women named “Eileen” per capita than anyplace else.
- The original IHOP.
- Every parking spot in town is a handicapped spot.
- Wheelchairs with mud tires and lift kits and gun racks… up on blocks…
Aug
29
Moving to Florida?
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There are plenty of guides to moving available, but they are either buried deep inside a very large website, or they are just some reworked junk thrown together to make a little Adsense cash.
Relocation.com is neither. The guides are at the heart of this website, readily available, and gloriously free of Adsense. By browsing the extensive site you can find information on Real Estate, Mortgage, Moving, Apartment Hunting, Insurance, Careers, and Home Improvement. You can also reach those large database-driven sites from within Relocation.com - it is designed to be a portal for all of the relocation needs one might have.
The company also runs some closely-related sites as well. Carmovers.com is similarly designed to be a portal for your auto shipping needs, something many of us need when making moves in multi-car families, or across long distances, especially during corporate moves. Another site they run is Internationalmovers.com, where you can get quotes from licensed international movers. For me, this would definitely be the place to start the planning process for an international move, because honestly, I am clueless about what it would take.
I also expect to need these services shortly, as I have purchased the winning ticket in the $320M Georgia lottery this Friday night. Oh, they haven’t drawn it yet, but I know. It’s a feeling. Then it’s goodbye Florida, hello Belize!
Apr
17
Going in for surgery
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If you’ve read my diet blog or poker blog, you know I’ve had some health issues lately. My doc called this morning to confirm that the HIDA scan said my gallbladder was not functioning and surgery was necessary. Going for a surgical consult later this week, with an eye to removing it at Baptist-South in Jacksonville in a week or so. Sucks on a lot of levels, not least of which is I’m in a new job – I’m ok on insurance, but not ok on personal time-off hours and I don’t qualify for short-term disability. So, let’s hope for a laproscopic procedure instead of an open procedure - the difference in recovery time is 1 week vs. 4-6 weeks.
