busybee

Yay, Furality is here! I don’t know how many people are coming here vs. to my music site since Furality doesn’t give me any dealer’s den click metrics or whatever, but welcome all the same.

I already posted a Furality-specific entry on the blogpuppet, but since this is what I consider my main website, I guess I’ll cover all my bases! So, here’s another little FAQ.

Just some random musings about the direction I’m going in for my various things

Whoops I guess it’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted anything here, how did that happen?

Well, here’s how.

Just sharing two software/workflow changes I’ve made recently, and why they’re improvements over what I had before.

There are a lot of times when the specification says one thing but common implementations do another. Here are some especially common examples to watch out for.

UPDATE (4/14/2026): I was wrong about the source of the issue that led to me writing this article, but it’s still the same issue! It just happened somewhere else in the chain than my investigations led me to believe. Which still emphasizes the point.

So, being unemployed, I have to pay my own health insurance. This is currently around $500/month.

This insurance uses high copays on medication in order to “encourage the use” of cheaper medications. I have four medications which are expensive and get a $100/month copay, so I’m still paying $400/month on those meds.

Two of those meds have copay assistance programs, which present their own set of problems, and insurance companies hate that they exist, because they’re a retroactive incentive to make it easier for people to swallow the high copays on the meds while insurance still has to pay the bulk of the price, and the pharmaceutical companies bake the copay assistance program discount into the retail price of the medicine anyway so it’s not like they’re hurt by it at all.

But if I had to pay out-of-pocket for these meds, I’d be paying more for them than for my house.

Just some quick medical updates.