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The weather has gotten very nasty today. One of Cordelia's friends got into an accident while driving to school (I'm pretty sure that the other girl has zero experience with snow because she just moved north this year). Scott left for work half an hour early and arrived late anyway.
Cordelia's school let out twenty minutes early which I think was meant to help keep the buses more or less on schedule for the middle school students and then the elementary school students as the same buses transport all three age groups, just at different times of day. I'm not sure if the early release gained the buses much time. Cordelia didn't reach her stop particularly early relative to the normal arrival time.
I'm not sure what the weather is going to look like tomorrow. I have an appointment with the LTD vocational counselor at 10:30, but if the roads are still bad, he may opt not to drive to Ann Arbor. My benefits run out on the 24th, and the only reason we're meeting is so that I'm compliant enough to keep them. I don't pay him; the LTD insurance management company does.
I would like to go to a FAFSA information night at one of the high schools tomorrow evening. I'm not thrilled by the prospect, but I doubt the one in December (at Cordelia's school) will have better weather, and the one in January will likely also be bad that way. The one in January is probably the best as far as bus access because it's the school closest to downtown. I wouldn't want to walk from downtown, but I could. There are lights and crosswalks and sidewalks.
I wanted Scott to go with me to one of these because he's the one who'll need to gather all of the necessary information. I just can't wait and attend a session next fall because, if it's not done by the end of July, it won't get done before December (or, more likely, February).
We're probably going to have to find a professional to advise us. I can't find answers for most of my questions via Google. Every mention I find of SSDI assumes that it's not taxed. Our family income is high enough that mine is. I also can't find anything that would apply to Cordelia's benefits, the ones she receives based on my disability. Those will vanish when she turns 18. I can't tell if my disability might affect our asset protection allowance. We have 100K equity in our house, possibly more, depending on the market. (We owe more on the house than we did when we bought it, but we still have more equity.)
I'm not sure how the reductions in our income due to Scott's job change will affect things (or if they'll be considered at all) or if it would matter if I lose my LTD benefits from the University of Michigan permanently.
I'm considering one of my UCon game scenarios done but for the printing. The other one is still far from done. Part of the problem is that I have an indefinite number of characters (2-6 plus whatever npcs I can manage) who are supposed to negotiate and brainstorm a diplomatically and legally binding solution to a global problem in the middle of WWII.
On one side, there's me assuming that the negotiations are going to leave out most of the planet in spite of affecting all of it. On the other side, there's years of research and scaffolding for the multitude of people who actually ought to be there and their cultures, agendas, and everything else. I can handwave to some extent the notion that only a couple of governments would be involved, but they're talking to an organization that actually is global in terms of where the members live and in terms of their ability to communicate with each other.
The only reason why the representatives from that organization should be from the US or Great Britain is if the organization is assuming that those governments won't take the representatives seriously if they look white and male and speak the right languages with the right accents. Which... Actually that makes some sense. Okay. Problem solved to some extent, but I'll need to make sure the background materials reflect that.
If I get players who have the knowledge/background to play folks from other places, I can let them modify their characters based on that. That is much better than me trying to write a paragraph or two to convey things that I don't know/understand well enough for players who equally don't to play the characters well.
ETA: And there will be no school tomorrow, so I can put off deciding about which FAFSA information session to attend.
Cordelia's school let out twenty minutes early which I think was meant to help keep the buses more or less on schedule for the middle school students and then the elementary school students as the same buses transport all three age groups, just at different times of day. I'm not sure if the early release gained the buses much time. Cordelia didn't reach her stop particularly early relative to the normal arrival time.
I'm not sure what the weather is going to look like tomorrow. I have an appointment with the LTD vocational counselor at 10:30, but if the roads are still bad, he may opt not to drive to Ann Arbor. My benefits run out on the 24th, and the only reason we're meeting is so that I'm compliant enough to keep them. I don't pay him; the LTD insurance management company does.
I would like to go to a FAFSA information night at one of the high schools tomorrow evening. I'm not thrilled by the prospect, but I doubt the one in December (at Cordelia's school) will have better weather, and the one in January will likely also be bad that way. The one in January is probably the best as far as bus access because it's the school closest to downtown. I wouldn't want to walk from downtown, but I could. There are lights and crosswalks and sidewalks.
I wanted Scott to go with me to one of these because he's the one who'll need to gather all of the necessary information. I just can't wait and attend a session next fall because, if it's not done by the end of July, it won't get done before December (or, more likely, February).
We're probably going to have to find a professional to advise us. I can't find answers for most of my questions via Google. Every mention I find of SSDI assumes that it's not taxed. Our family income is high enough that mine is. I also can't find anything that would apply to Cordelia's benefits, the ones she receives based on my disability. Those will vanish when she turns 18. I can't tell if my disability might affect our asset protection allowance. We have 100K equity in our house, possibly more, depending on the market. (We owe more on the house than we did when we bought it, but we still have more equity.)
I'm not sure how the reductions in our income due to Scott's job change will affect things (or if they'll be considered at all) or if it would matter if I lose my LTD benefits from the University of Michigan permanently.
I'm considering one of my UCon game scenarios done but for the printing. The other one is still far from done. Part of the problem is that I have an indefinite number of characters (2-6 plus whatever npcs I can manage) who are supposed to negotiate and brainstorm a diplomatically and legally binding solution to a global problem in the middle of WWII.
On one side, there's me assuming that the negotiations are going to leave out most of the planet in spite of affecting all of it. On the other side, there's years of research and scaffolding for the multitude of people who actually ought to be there and their cultures, agendas, and everything else. I can handwave to some extent the notion that only a couple of governments would be involved, but they're talking to an organization that actually is global in terms of where the members live and in terms of their ability to communicate with each other.
The only reason why the representatives from that organization should be from the US or Great Britain is if the organization is assuming that those governments won't take the representatives seriously if they look white and male and speak the right languages with the right accents. Which... Actually that makes some sense. Okay. Problem solved to some extent, but I'll need to make sure the background materials reflect that.
If I get players who have the knowledge/background to play folks from other places, I can let them modify their characters based on that. That is much better than me trying to write a paragraph or two to convey things that I don't know/understand well enough for players who equally don't to play the characters well.
ETA: And there will be no school tomorrow, so I can put off deciding about which FAFSA information session to attend.