We have health insurance!
Just to be clear, we've had health insurance right along, but it's been a continuation of my employee coverage.  For the past year, we've been able to continue it at the low employee rates as part of my severance package.  That would have expired next month, and we'd have had to move up to the COBRA rates--about seven times as much.  So, we applied for health insurance from a local health care provider.  We just got the letter saying that we'd been approved.

The new insurance will cost about four times as much as what we've been paying, but it's very close to the amount that I budgeted for health insurance, back when we were first deciding if it would be practical to give up having a regular job.

This was really the last piece that I needed to get into place to make this "full-time writer" thing work.  If we hadn't been able to get health insurance, I'd probably have had to get a job (or, at least, try to).  Now, though, it looks like we're set.

It'll be nice if Obama can get health insurance fixed before either of us gets so sick that our new insurance drops us.  It'll also be nice if the economy can hold together well enough for my investments to hold most of their value.  And, as long as I'm listing nice things that I'm kind of doubtful of getting, it'll be nice if the supply of fossil fuels continues to support the really essential stuff, like food production, home heating, and some electric generation.