Domestic Geek

After reading Joelle lamenting about needing to see a dentist havng no dental insurance and many of her fine commenters recommending she look into Delta Dental, I did as well (we all know what fine shape my teeth are in). Even if I do manage to get health benefits from this company, there is no dental offered here at all. Well, I'm confused. I can't find anywhere on that site where one can actually get a dental plan. There is a reduced fee plan, but it's not insurance. Do I need to find an insurance agent or something? Maybe somebody more together than I have been lately can figure it out and let me know.

Edit: Nevermind. I went to the main Delta Dental (not Colorado's) site and individual insurance is not offered in my state. Booooooooo. I'm moving. I still need to find me some dental somewhere.

Marcus sold my old Green Subaru today. He put it on Craig's List last night and people were jumping all over it. I bawled while I took the license plates off this morning. I told Marcus that I felt like I was abandoning an old friend. That car and I spent more time together in the last few years than Marcus and I had. *sigh* Oh, well. I hope the new owner can make it run and get many more years out of it. I feel better about this than just taking it to the crusher. That was the next plan if nobody would buy it. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving my new Baja to pieces. I still feel sad.

I guess I should go home for the day. I haven't done squat here. I did find a really cool font that I MUST BUY! If I'm going to get into the t-shirt biz apart from working here, this Ballpark Script font will be invaluable. It even comes with the swashes that go underneath.

"A goal without a deadline is just a dream."

OK, not going to do this in the near future, but I'd better post a link to remind myself. I saw a show on HGTV once that put a beta fish in a vase with a plant. How cool. Once Marcus and I get around to either moving to a house or putting our house on some land, I'd like to do that. Here's a page about beta vases at the DIY Network site that explains about the process.

I remember seeing the trailers for it and thought it looked like an extremely stupid movie. I was setting things to record on my PVR the other night and came across it in the guide. "What the heck?" I thought. If I hate it, I'll just erase it. Turned out I really, really liked it. What movie is this? Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. I laughed, I enjoyed, I ended up with a general warm, fuzzy feeling. Not the greatest movie in the world, but I was entertained and that's all that matters.

I spend a good portion of my time at work trying to identify fonts that customers have used in the past in their designs/logos. One of the best sites for this is WhatTheFont at MyFonts.com. You upload a picture and their program tries to match lettershapes with known fonts. If that is unsuccessful, you can leave a message in the WTF Guru Forums and font freaks try to identify the fonts you need. They're pretty darned awesome, I must say.

Anyway, after I post a pic there, I try to see if I can identify any of the other posted pics. I can never figure them out before a guru does, though. There was this one guy today that wanted to know what the "love is..." font was from those Love Is cartoons. A guru had already identified the font (the guy was in luck because it was even a free font!), but the guy couldn't figure out how to use it. I figured I'd be helpful and post a couple of links about how to use fonts and he still didn't get it. I gave up. I figured if he couldn't figure out how to install fonts by reading those two links (one Mac, one PC), then he shouldn't be trying to use fonts at all. Go read the guy's posts...he's a hoot. I wonder if he ever figured it out.