Who would have thought it?

So in all my wondering and theorizing (not particularly reflected in this medium) about why my health insurance prescription benefit has run out sooner this year than in the past -- and that even after switching to a generic medication -- it never occurred to me that the explanation might be the fact that the generic medication costs the same as the brand-name: so my lower co-pay just eats up the insurance money faster.

It works out to be the same annual out-of-pocket expense, but with the generic, it comes pretty much all at once.

That's vexing.

Also, my fingers are cold.

Hoplites!

http://www.hoplites.co.uk/
Work-safe.

A reenactment group.

I'm a little dubious about some of the argumentation in the little PDF essay about Scythian warrior women, although I'm prepared to accept that they existed. But there comes a time when it's just better to let the 21st-century reenactors of either sex put on the armor and go at it without the tedious justifications.