Who's Counting Anyway?

So we were eating, talking and laughing at the restaurant, and we counted up the number of vacations I took this year.

• 3 weeks in New Zealand
• 1 week skiing at Mammoth, California
  
• 1 week in Maui, Hawaii
  
• 1 week at the Lair of the Golden Bear in the Sierras
  
• 1 week tandem bicycling in the San Juan Islands
  
• 1 week in San Francisco Bay Area

In spite (or because of?) all this R&R, Mark and I were both shown appreciation at work. This is only my second cold of the year, par for a healthy person. A good year, indeed.

When Mark totaled up the medical flex-spending receipts, we didn't spend enough to recoup what we had set aside. In fact, I didn't spend enough on health care to justify the extra premiums for double coverage. But we both agreed that the true benefit of double coverage (with automatic cross-billing and coordination of benefits) is the ease of paperwork. We are double covering our entire family in 2009. Our health care delivery and tax systems were devised by lunatics or Machiavelli.

Happy New Year!