Tuesday Randoms

[maudefindlay]

So the massive Douche Canoe who lost the school board election is at it again. He posted on a community page about a large list of books in our school libraries requesting help to look them over for appropriateness. It's not going the way he thought it would. I live in a red state and often hate people here, but today I am proud of my community. They are letting him know he is not wanted here in droves. He swears he isn't trying to ban books...but yeah he is. My favorite is that multiple people point out The Bible has incest, rape, etc and should they be banned and Ole Douchey says there is a difference between something bad happening in a story and a long drawn out descriptive erotic scene. Guy responds back that The Bible does a lot more than just stories about bad things happening like advocating slavery, stoning, eternal damnation etc. He says if he wants to scare or offend his kids he skips "Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging" and goes straight for The Book of Leviticus. I could read these comments for days. They are just ripping him apart.

[beerlover]

Feb 7, 2023 13:51:48 GMT -5 Nonny said:

I placed an order for some travel stuff this morning, and Amazon offered me a $2.25 digital credit to do the Amazon Prime shipping day where they group your order, which is fine because I don't need any of it urgently. But somehow doing this actually gets it to me 2 days earlier than if I let them just send it how they were going to ship it otherwise, which make no sense.

Also, my car repairs were supposed to be done by EOD yesterday, but the dealership has now had my car for >24 hours and they still haven't called. I'm annoyed, but I haven't called them yet because my H isn't ready to take me to go get the car yet anyway, but WTF is taking so long.

This annoys me so much. Repair shops NEVER call when something is done. So then I wait too long and sheepishly call them and be like "sorry to bother you, but is my car done?" and they're always like oh yeah its been done for hours. Assholes, just call me when you said you were going to.

[1confused1]

Feb 7, 2023 11:39:40 GMT -5 cville said:

A few weeks ago I accidentally followed Gritty on insta. I think I hit the follow button while watching a reel?

Anyway, brings me great joy. Highly recommend.

Eta: do not live in and have never lived in Philly

I follow Gritty on TikTok and they are absolutely some of my favorite videos. Also have never lived or even been to Philly.

[dochas]

Feb 7, 2023 11:25:37 GMT -5 sameoldstory said:

I’m still in Jackson, WY on vacation. My brothers are skiing today, but one day of skiing was enough for me so I’m just laying low at the resort. We did a snowmobiling tour in Yellowstone Park yesterday and it was one of the, if not THE coolest things I’ve ever done. Aside from the amazing beauty of it all, we also got to see Wolves, and that was amazing.

I think I mentioned doing that on one of your threads. It was amazing. We saw wolves too. I don't think it was too long after they were reintroduced and it was our guide's first time seeing them as well. He was like a little boy!

[1confused1]

There is a portion of my job that I am indirectly responsible for. That portion is failing miserably and I came up with a plan to help make it successful again. I gave the plan to the person who could implement it and he basically said thanks but I’ll do what I want. It is so damn frustrating, I’m probably going to have to go above him and I’m not excited about that.

[chilerellanos]

I was a guest on a podcast a few months ago and it just dropped this week, and I’m listening to it and i was kind of dreading listening to my voice but it really isn’t as bad as I was expecting.

[jinkies]

chilerellanos, very cool! Was it work related?

[chilerellanos]

Feb 7, 2023 14:13:33 GMT -5 jinkies said:

chilerellanos, very cool! Was it work related?

Yeah. About what happens right after you deliver your baby (the first two hours).

[cville]

Feb 7, 2023 12:45:11 GMT -5 cereal K said:

Is it some special skill to be able to reply to an email completely?

I send email that says "please tell me A, B, and C", and get a response that says "Hello! Answer B is blah blah. Let me know if I can help with more!"

YES. YES YOU CAN. YOU CAN TELL ME A AND C, TOO!!!

Yesssss.

This hosebeast sent me an email today like "I am waiting on blah blah from you" and, because Whitney taught us all nothing is true without receipts, I was all per the attached and yadda yadda, to do this thing you first had to do this other thing which I asked you about, among other questions, ON JANUARY 4TH, so, you know, ball's in your court. Jackass.

[shinyhappy]

Feb 7, 2023 10:09:42 GMT -5 TR said:

PSUGrad - I loved Come From Away!

This was my absolute favorite play. They just stopped showing it in NYC but it’s fantastic

[hannahgruen]

In September, my van suddenly went from 6 cylinder to 4. My husband , who's a master car mechanic, said he thinks he can fix it. He hasn't done it. It's still sitting in front of our house. This is like the cobblers kids who have no shoes!

[Nonny]

Feb 7, 2023 14:04:02 GMT -5 beerlover said:

Feb 7, 2023 13:51:48 GMT -5 Nonny said:

I placed an order for some travel stuff this morning, and Amazon offered me a $2.25 digital credit to do the Amazon Prime shipping day where they group your order, which is fine because I don't need any of it urgently. But somehow doing this actually gets it to me 2 days earlier than if I let them just send it how they were going to ship it otherwise, which make no sense.

Also, my car repairs were supposed to be done by EOD yesterday, but the dealership has now had my car for >24 hours and they still haven't called. I'm annoyed, but I haven't called them yet because my H isn't ready to take me to go get the car yet anyway, but WTF is taking so long.

This annoys me so much. Repair shops NEVER call when something is done. So then I wait too long and sheepishly call them and be like "sorry to bother you, but is my car done?" and they're always like oh yeah its been done for hours. Assholes, just call me when you said you were going to.

I tried to call a few minutes ago and it just rang and rang and rang. No one picked up and I didn't even get voicemail. So I'm going to try again in a little bit, because it's either that, or wait an hour in the queue for scheduling. 

[mysteriouswife]

Every system I need is down. I suspect it’s related to the huge Microsoft outage. I have spent today crafting at my desk. While I love building field goals for decorations and reusing items around the office I’m stressed the fuck out. I have commodities sitting at ports waiting on me. I cannot access my email to call the customer. So now I’m drowning my anxiety in Mexican food. I started to order a margarita but was afraid one wouldn’t cut it. I can’t drink and work anyway

[macmars45]

Feb 7, 2023 14:04:02 GMT -5 beerlover said:

Feb 7, 2023 13:51:48 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Also, my car repairs were supposed to be done by EOD yesterday, but the dealership has now had my car for >24 hours and they still haven't called. I'm annoyed, but I haven't called them yet because my H isn't ready to take me to go get the car yet anyway, but WTF is taking so long.

This annoys me so much. Repair shops NEVER call when something is done. So then I wait too long and sheepishly call them and be like "sorry to bother you, but is my car done?" and they're always like oh yeah its been done for hours. Assholes, just call me when you said you were going to.

Back in December when my car was in the shop for the majority of 3 weeks every.time.I.called the guy would say "I was just going to call you." Sure Jan.

[bex1973]

Feb 7, 2023 13:51:48 GMT -5 Nonny said:

I placed an order for some travel stuff this morning, and Amazon offered me a $2.25 digital credit to do the Amazon Prime shipping day where they group your order, which is fine because I don't need any of it urgently. But somehow doing this actually gets it to me 2 days earlier than if I let them just send it how they were going to ship it otherwise, which make no sense.

Also, my car repairs were supposed to be done by EOD yesterday, but the dealership has now had my car for >24 hours and they still haven't called. I'm annoyed, but I haven't called them yet because my H isn't ready to take me to go get the car yet anyway, but WTF is taking so long.

Unrelated to the post I'm quoting but I feel like you have neglected to keep us updated on the peanut butter of the month club!

[aprilsails]

Feb 7, 2023 10:06:06 GMT -5 PSUGrad said:

I'm working until noon then I'm officially on PTO until after Presidents Day! FINALLY! I have a mani/pedi this afternoon, then we're staying downtown tonight because we have an early flight tomorrow. My H surprised me with tickets to "Come From Away" in Philly tonight. Tomorrow, we fly to LA and spend Wed/Thurs there, then we're taking a cruise down to Mexico and back. Can't freakin' wait!

Oh! And we have reservations at SUR (dinner) and Tom-Tom (drinks) Thursday night (those that are VPR fans will know what these places are).

I hope you enjoy Come From Away. It was a very fun but also emotional show.

[macmars45]

My house cleaner is moving to TX to help care for ailing family. I'm sad both for her family situation and myself.

[starburst604]

I just completed a dumb adulting task - my H totaled his truck in December and has since bought a new one. But the other day I got an excise tax bill for the old one. I flagged it in my email and contemplated just not paying it, surely they would figure it out and just send us a new bill for the new truck, right? But the adult in me kept nagging not to expect that much out of the town hall, so today I called the number on the bill and explained what had happened. The woman was very helpful - said I just needed to email her the cancelation of the old license plate and letter of total loss from the insurnace company. I was thinking crap we were supposed to cancel the plates? But it was an easy process to do online and miraculously my H had an email with the total loss letter. So BOOM I sent them both to the town and await their response. How lame is it that I feel so much accomplishment over that? It wasn't a huge bill, around $90, so I wasn't THAT motivated to figure this out but yet I did anyway.

[Nonny]

Feb 7, 2023 15:06:17 GMT -5 bex1973 said:

Unrelated to the post I'm quoting but I feel like you have neglected to keep us updated on the peanut butter of the month club!

LOL! Well, that's over now, and looking through my old pics I didn't actually snap photos of them (if you are interested I can dig through my fridge and pantry and take them). I think got two more peanut butters and two more jams since my last post.

One was a roasted natural peanut butter, it's unsalted, but it has pretty good flavor, and a cherry jam that I don't really like the texture of. The other is a crunchy PB that I haven't opened yet, and I don't remember the flavor of jam (it's not open either).

[Nonny]

Feb 7, 2023 15:02:46 GMT -5 macmars45 said:

Feb 7, 2023 14:04:02 GMT -5 beerlover said:

This annoys me so much. Repair shops NEVER call when something is done. So then I wait too long and sheepishly call them and be like "sorry to bother you, but is my car done?" and they're always like oh yeah its been done for hours. Assholes, just call me when you said you were going to.

Back in December when my car was in the shop for the majority of 3 weeks every.time.I.called the guy would say "I was just going to call you." Sure Jan.

I called again and got ahold of the service guy, and he had the audacity to sound irritated with me because like he said, "it was going to take until EOD" and then he got all surprised and apologetic when I was like, yeah, but I dropped the car off YESTERDAY MORNING and you told me it would be done by end of day YESTERDAY. He said he was going to call down and yell at his tech and "call me right back." That was almost 20 minutes ago.

[meanie]

Feb 7, 2023 14:21:36 GMT -5 cville said:

Feb 7, 2023 12:45:11 GMT -5 cereal K said:

Is it some special skill to be able to reply to an email completely?

I send email that says "please tell me A, B, and C", and get a response that says "Hello! Answer B is blah blah. Let me know if I can help with more!"

YES. YES YOU CAN. YOU CAN TELL ME A AND C, TOO!!!

Yesssss.

This hosebeast sent me an email today like "I am waiting on blah blah from you" and, because Whitney taught us all nothing is true without receipts, I was all per the attached and yadda yadda, to do this thing you first had to do this other thing which I asked you about, among other questions, ON JANUARY 4TH, so, you know, ball's in your court. Jackass.

*chef's kiss* THIS is the shit that gets me through the work day

[ssmjlm]

So they redid our retirement website and wiped everything. New login, new beneficiaries, etc. They kept your portfolio, but that was it. Talk about a mess.

I finally just requested my new login. My choices were upload a pic of my driver's license or get one by mail. I chose mail.

[renna]

Feb 7, 2023 13:13:57 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

I'm having another stupid argument with my husband about food safety. He is a highly intelligent human being but also will go to the MAT arguing that opening a jar does not impact the use by date. Today it's that a week ago Sunday, he went to Sams and bought $30 of ground beef, put it in one large freezer bag (why?) and pushed it to the bag of the fridge where I found it today, nine days later. He thinks it's still totally fine.

Oh my! 9 days??! 

Also, hugs for you, ((((circa)))). I thought of you a lot yesterday and was glad for you the service was happening and it was getting done. (I lost my mom suddenly last year and couldn't wait to be past the funeral. It was such a relief to have that part done.)

Your dad seemed like a really cool guy, and I am so glad you had him, and that you were able to celebrate him yesterday. All I can think of for the sobbing ex-SB wife is maybe she has had a big loss herself and your dad's service brought out a lot of stuff for her? Or something like that? I hope her sobbing was not a distraction for you and your mom.

[rhian]

Feb 7, 2023 14:04:02 GMT -5 beerlover said:

Feb 7, 2023 13:51:48 GMT -5 Nonny said:

I placed an order for some travel stuff this morning, and Amazon offered me a $2.25 digital credit to do the Amazon Prime shipping day where they group your order, which is fine because I don't need any of it urgently. But somehow doing this actually gets it to me 2 days earlier than if I let them just send it how they were going to ship it otherwise, which make no sense.

Also, my car repairs were supposed to be done by EOD yesterday, but the dealership has now had my car for >24 hours and they still haven't called. I'm annoyed, but I haven't called them yet because my H isn't ready to take me to go get the car yet anyway, but WTF is taking so long.

This annoys me so much. Repair shops NEVER call when something is done. So then I wait too long and sheepishly call them and be like "sorry to bother you, but is my car done?" and they're always like oh yeah its been done for hours. Assholes, just call me when you said you were going to.

This frustrates me so much at our mechanic, too! I'd be fine if they want the system to be, "call us after 3 pm and we'll tell you if your car is ready" ... but just tell me that! Don't tell me you'll call me when it's done, but then actually just wait for me to call to ask about it! 

[al dente]

I had an interaction today that I keep thinking about, which I typically don't ruminate on things. But omg I feel like such an asshole.

TW child death below...

There's a women I've met a few times socially, and I could've sworn she had three kids. Like I thought we had conversations about her middle being the same age as my kid. Today I asked if her middle kid was going into kindergarten and she was all "no my oldest is 7" and I was like "oh omg sorry I thought you had a middle kid too that was my kids age..." And then she says "oh we did have three kids but our middle child died so it's just the oldest and *points to young kid with her*" omg I wanted to crawl into a hole. And now I can't stop thinking about it and feel like such an asshole. Because maybe she did mention it and that's where I got the three kids thing from? Ughhhhh.

[gretchenindisguise]

L had an allergy appointment today. No environmental allergies, still massively allergic to all fish, but happily still not allergic to milk, which I was worried about.

We also talked about possibly having exercise induced asthma. They prescribed an inhaler and if it works she has it and if it doesn't, she doesn't. This cracked me up.

[isabel]

I did a five mile hike this morning, came back to my cabin and read for awhile, then decided I was bored and went out and did another four mile hike. I am laying in a big comfy chair trying not to fall asleep. I wish I had made my dinner reservation for the 5:00 time they offered instead of 6:45. Oh well, I should sleep well tonight and am not planning on setting an alarm in the morning.

Sedona is beautiful.

[isabel]

Oh, al dente, that’s terrible. I would be ruminating on that too. How sad.

[sameoldstory]

Whoops. I just put on a pair of shoes and they felt weird. Apparently I hid my stash of gummies at home in these shoes and forgot. At least they were in my checked bag.

[noodleoo]

Feb 7, 2023 19:10:49 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

We also talked about possibly having exercise induced asthma. They prescribed an inhaler and if it works she has it and if it doesn't, she doesn't. This cracked me up.

Well, that’s fascinating. Apparently I have exercise induced asthma then! That would have been really nice to know as a kid when I couldn’t breathe during gym class.