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One of the joys of my morning drive into work is a particularly tricky merge across 3 lanes of highway traffic to get to my exit. Most mornings I am in early enough that this is not an issue, however this morning I was in with heavy traffic and almost hit another car, but swerved at the last minute to keep from having an accident. My first thought was, "Holy Crap", but then I thought, today is going to get better from here!Car InsuranceThis is an interesting financial quandary these days. For me I have two older vehicles, the Honda that I drive is insured as minimally as possible for Ontario (I get no money for it's damage, but am covered for anyone I hit). The car's book value is $0 really (13 years old) unfortunately it's real value to me is the price of having to get another used car (at least $7500), but it is not worth insuring it for that value (it would cost too darn much).

My van is insured with a different company than my house, so I don't get a discount, but it is still the cheapest price I can get, because of the University I graduated from? Anything for a cheaper price. To quote Chris Rock:

You know what's worse than taxes? What's worse than tax is insurance. You got to have some insurance.

They shouldn't even call it insurance. They just should call it 'in case sh*t.' l give a company some money in case sh*t happens. Now, if sh*t don't happen, shouldn't l get my money back?

I really wish that was the case, but it is not, Mr. Rock.Employment Insurance Pay Outs UpStats Can points out that there was a 12% increase in July of folks collecting EI payments. What does this mean? In July? This could be a seasonal thing, but who knows? It was noted by a friend that it is interesting that when I was growing up it was Unemployment Insurance, but I guess that was far too Politically Incorrect so it got changed to Employment Insurance. I have managed to never draw from this fund (so far), I think I should get something to show for that too!

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