Well, last night we just stayed in. We went out to the Paradiso Restaurant in Springfield. Today, we're going to go out with Rebecca's friend Sarah, and Rebecca wants to make a real effort to see The Devil Wears Prada.

We also had a devil of a time ... we're trying to get long-term care insurance and one of the questions was, "Have you received disability payments in the past five years?" Well -- she has, since she is blind. This means she gets disability (I figure this makes up for her not being able to work a job such as a 7-Eleven and being pretty much restricted to "brain work.") But she hasn't been getting it since she started working for Northrop in April 2002.

Well yesterday they had one of their on-staff RN or LPN types call her, and they had a survey. They asked a weird mix of questions, which included "what do you do for entertainment?" (um, we go to concerts, plays, visit family/friends, that sort of thing?) and not "are you or have you ever been addicted to illegal drugs?" I guess there might be some legal reasons for this odd mix of questions, but Rebecca just felt weird. The lady was perfectly pleasant, she tells me, but she just felt weird.

Rebecca owes Helen Bloomingburg, a nice older lady from church, a call. Rebecca's been wanting to go out to lunch with Helen for some time now -- and we talked to her Sunday and she was agreeable to it. Also, she owes her sister a call so we can go out to dinner or lunch sometime (including my brother-in-law, too!) The latter I might do if I get tired of waiting.

I think next year, I need to sit down in February and plan out our vacation. We might go somewhere nice. Or, we might just do a few day trips. We'll see. If there's a baby on the way, we might do just what we did this year.

Spam count for today. I got like 12 Asian spams today -- I can usually tell them by the !@???!!??? type characters -- there is no image to help me figure if it is Japanese or Chinese. Some of the English words in these spams indicate it might also be Hindi -- I'm sure there might be Hebrew spam, too.

For today (48 total): Cheap stuff 17, Stock tips 9, Free stuff 6, Male performance 6, Loans 3, Self-improvement 2, Meet women 2, Porn 1, Casinos 1, Blank 1. Unknown Asian 12 (!), Spanish 3, Japanese 1, Italian 1.

Overall (597 total): Cheap stuff 109, Stock tips 106, Loans 102, Free stuff 93, Male performance 79, Self-improvement 31, Porn 25, Casinos 15, Blank 13, Meet women 11, e-scams 6, offline scams 6, political 1. Spanish 34, Unknown Asian 26, Chinese 5, Italian 5, Japanese 4, Portuguese 1, French 1.