Project Xerxes Enters Alpha Stage!

[walbourn]

So the story starts with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act¹... When the news refers to "Cadillac health care plans" they in fact mean my Microsoft health benefits. There was a big presentation last year put on by our HR department explaining that Microsoft was going to change the health plan in significant ways come 2012 to avoid being hit by the excise tax. This started a little count-down timer in in our mind, so cuddlyeconomist and I started enacting "Project Xerxes"...

Today I'm proud to announce that thanks to the magic of modern medicine (fully covered by my current "Cadillac plan" so I give a nice shout-out here to Stevie-B: "Thanks for the approximately $5000 in drugs, some of which were made out of PURIFIED NUN'S URINE. Sweet!"), we are expecting to provide Rhys with a sibling in August. We've officially entered into the second trimester, and everything is on-track and the baby looks very healthy and normal. We had allowed time for several IVF cycles and various other delays, which it turns out we didn't need any of... so there's plenty of time for one of them "maternity" wedding dresses.

We are both excited and are looking forward to hitting Beta "on time and on schedule" (that's a little PM humor)!


1. For those of you who only get your news from FOX, I am referring to the "Death Panels To Kill White Republicans/Job-KillingMaiming Health Care Act" (i.e. Obamacare) created by the Kenyan-born Hitler-figure Pretend-President to turn us into the socialist hellhole that is Canada (or Sweden, I forget).