Family deals with a home invasion (Funny Games)

Various people accidentally discover kinks. (The Little Death)

So I'm imagining something like a "lean-to" sitting on top of an air gap. Imagine 2x4 as "skids" and the floor laid across those skids, now there's an air gap under the floor. Air in itself is insulating.

You could use shag carpet, or old blankets/jeans/sweaters to create more air pockets inside to help with the insulation.

Then one "wall" is actually your house wall, so heat that leaks from the house will go into the cat house. You can put a kind of "baffle" inside the cat house, near the door, so there's a "room" that is cozy and doesn't have exposure to the wind. I think a heating pad, or a bulb that gives off heat, would be a good idea, but make sure any electrical stuff is rated for use outdoors.

My dog house was more or less this design (though it had four walls). And I put foam weather stripping along all the gaps. But I live in Portland, OR, and it doesn't get super cold here, so keep that in mind as you think about my suggestions.

Here's a photo of my dog house: https://imgur.com/a/ooAiM1n

Is she old enough to have lived through last winter?

> Call the office back and ask why you’re charged as medical?

I did that when I originally got the bill in the mail, because I was very confused. And they said the procedure I got was a medical exam, so the billing was correct. I don't recall the exact words, but they told me I should have asked for the regular exam.

It seems to me that the person behind the counter should have been a lot more careful to make sure they understood why I was there and what kind of appointment they were setting for me. I had no idea there were two kinds of eye exams, and I've been wearing glasses my whole life.

At the time, I had no complaint. I just needed a routine exam so I could get a new prescription (and determine if I needed progressive lenses yet). The exam resulted in no Dx either.

I have a high deductible plan, so they billed my insurance, and I still had to pay. When I called the clinic to question the bill, they said "it was a medical exam, there's no billing error". And even though I told the person behind the counter exactly why I was there, they didn't clue me in there there are two different kind of exams. And the exam they gave me was not the kind that VSP would pay for.

How are people supposed to learn all these nuances?

I could have gone to JC Penny and paid nothing.

I have a High Deductible plan. They billed, yes, and there was a very small discount. But I had to pay the rest out of pocket. If I had known/understood they were giving me a medical exam, I would have declined and gone to America's Best.

At the time, I had no idea there were two different kinds of exams you could do, so I didn't even know enough to ask the right questions or say the right magic words.

I made the mistake of going to my regular clinic to get an optical exam for new glasses. I told the person at the counter I was using VSP, and that nothing was wrong with me, I just needed new glasses.

They still set me up for a medial eye exam, not a regular one (at the time I didn't know there was a difference). VSP doesn't cover that. And since I had in fact gotten a medical eye exam, I had no recourse. I was so pissed off at having to pay for the exam that I was expecting to get for free... (and a medical exam costs a lot more than a regular one)