ifixtrains

My dad and his girlfriend spent the weekend with us. She had some kinda teacher test to become "highly qualified". It seemed to go ok, she was done three hours early anyway so assuming she passed it's an instant $7000 a year increase in pay for her. That means my dad can finally go back to school to get his teaching degree. This morning when they are getting ready to leave, he tells my brother and I that they are getting married at christmas. It's a really good thing. She's smart and tough enough to deal with him when he is being an asshole and cares about him, and for him helping to get his diabetes under control. So if she is going to stick around brother and I can relax a little about his health. We had looked into buying health insurance for him to get him through the last year of college and with no way to put him on my health coverage from work we were looking at about six or seven hundred a month out of our pockets, and that was just for mediocre coverage. but with him as a spouse under her teaching contract it is only gonna cost them about $100 a month. and they can do that on thier own. in other news, I HATE MY MOTORCYCLE! it is a big pile of parts right now and I am ready to buy a new one.