It\’s one of those really bad deals you make with parents. They always sound good up front but when payment comes due, you realize that the gain was never worth it. It may surround eating good food, playing less vids, or the mother of all bad deals…participating in the school talent show. Mom still has […]

Some geeks are fun, light, and loveable. Others border on the creepy side and Chester Downs definitely fits the latter description. He\’s not a bad kid and he\’s pretty impressive in the Fantasy Geek game on Facebook with impressive scores across the main categories but there are some personal traits that are just hard to […]

Enter Diggs…the ultimate momma\’s boy. Yes, we\’ve heard the term of momma\’s boy but Diggs takes it to a level just short of the Bates Hotel mom/son dynamic. We\’re not saying that the extreme relationship still held by grown man and his adoring mother contributed to his exceptional geek status but it sure doesn\’t help […]

When you\’re young, privacy is a luxury that\’s seldom achieved while living in your parents house. This is true for all teens and young adults but especially so for those of the geek persuasion. There\’s just too much to hide from prying mother\’s worried about all the time you spend in your geek lair to […]

Studies show that it takes 10,000 hours or 10 years to master a given skill whether it’s playing the piano, learning French, or playing basketball. If you started playing basketball at around 6-7 which is on the young age, that puts you squarely in high school before you start to remove errors from your game. […]

You see it every day…a total lapse of sanity in the face of today\’s social media\’s tools. The most common surface around people free use of Facebook to vent or just record what occurred on a really bad Friday night as if on one outside their close friends will see it. Even with the stories […]

Our goal is simple…break down the world of California Medicare options into easy and straight forward language so that California seniors can make an informed decision about their options. That\’s it. Towards this goal, we plan on looking each aspect of both traditional Medicare and California medigap options as well as the general landscape out […]

We\’re blessed in California with not only extensive shoreline and a beautiful State but with an extensive and sophisticated health care infrastructure. Some of the premium hospitals and physicians in the U.S. call California home. Just think of UCLA, UCSF, Stanford, and Cedar Sinai to name a few of the prestigious medical facilities available. This […]

The California health insurance market is always changing and now more than ever. Some plans fall out of favor while others mark themselves as good values. One thing is for certain the costs keep rising will only continue going forward into 2014 as we\’ll describe in a separate article. For now, let\’s focus on current […]

It\’s now been over a year since health reform or Obamacare was passed and there have definitely been some changes with more to follow. Let\’s take a quick look at the more consequential changes we\’ve seen so far and look at what can be expected. We\’ll keep it strictly politics free and just look at […]