Are you sure?? I’ll deliver anywhere in the North American continent!
On another platform, a cousin commented that commercials for Mother’s Day indicated that diamonds were on sale for $3000.00. He also mentioned that commercials for Father’s Day indicated that Men’s cargo shorts were on sale for $11.00.
One of his friends commented that he should ‘grin and bare it’, which I took exception to.
"Sir, I believe that you mean ‘grin and bear it’.
The other would be called ‘mooning’ and would not be well received, no matter how many diamonds you bought her on Mother’s Day…"
I was in the ER yesterday after waking up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain in my upper abdomen*. As a 70-year-old male (heart attack risk), taking blood thinners (pulmonary embolism risk), and having two people in my life die after ignoring severe digestive disorders for too long, I immediately hied myself to the ER.
I’m not complaining about the cost of taxis too and from (I was pretty sure I was in no shape to safely drive for even the 5 minutes from home to the hospital), or the multiple tests (EKG, CT scan, ultrasound, blood draws), or the cost (sensibly prepaid via taxes), or even the clearly disturbed patient who shouted continuously and incoherently for the whole 6 hours I was in the treatment area.
No, I pit the near impossible to remove sensor pads stuck onto my torso for the heart, etc. monitors I was connected to for part of the stay. Holy Jeebus those things are apparently intended to be attached for life. I think I lost half of my chest hair when I finally removed them after getting home.
*(No idea what was wrong - the doctor couldn’t identify any cause and the pain gradually faded from worse than any of my multiple kidney stone attacks to nothing over the course of my stay. He said if it happens again, though, please come back immediately.)
I’m glad you seem to be OK and hope it doesn’t happen again.
I did an EEG study years ago when I was a college student and the psychology department would pay us to do overnight sleep studies. I had long hair back then and getting those sensors off my scalp the next morning was … challenging. I was in the shower for about an hour.
I’ve also had a couple of hospitalizations where I was still finding EKG leads on myself a week later. They stick those suckers everywhere, it seems.
You tell me if I’m being unreasonable.
I’ve been sort off the boards a bit lately for various reasons but one of which is that mouse wheel is sticking and it’s driving me crazy. So I ordered a new one - via same day shipping - from Amazon and it’s still not here. This is the third or fourth order I’ve made for overnight or same day that didn’t show up same day or overnight. In fact, I just had to cancel an order for some coffee that I ordered two weeks ago that no one knows what happened to it.
So I looked for some sort of feedback button at Amazon, but they’re useless - the only thing they have is canned “Did that help?” buttons. So I have to bait them through Twitter to get some sort of action. Granted I was a little terse in my initial Tweet - there was an F-Bomb dropped - but I did get a rote response from Amazon about please DM us through Twitter and we’ll see what we can do. This is the message I sent them:
I don’t understand why you guarantee overnight delivery, when that guarantee means nothing. When I order something overnight or same day it’s because I need it. My latest order, a mouse that I need, was “guaranteed” for same day delivery and it’s no where in sight. So what does that guarantee get me? Good feelings? I either want some sort of discount or gesture of a gift card or something. This is unacceptable.
And they sent me back another canned response about, ‘delays happen despite our best efforts…’ So I told them their best efforts suck if they never work.
So now I’m just stuck here sitting in it, wondering if I’ll ever get a mouse with a wheel that works.
Well, META/FB just crashed…
Is this a problem specific for your delivery location? We order stuff from Amazon all the time. I’m a Prime member. Whatever delivery date they give us, they always meet their promise.
Who knows? It’s not like I don’t live in one the 25 largest cities in the country.
I must say, they’re trying to appease me with bullshit right now and I’m having fun abusing them in DM’s - politely, but pointedly. This is my latest missive, after thanking them for nothing:
The link you sent me sends me back to your customer service site, which is useless, which is why I had to bait you on Twitter in the first place, so expire that link to your heart’s content.
Did my taxes. Due to my retirement last year, ended up with a stupidly high refund.
Use HRBlock software, they have a tax planning tool, let’s use that.
First it tells me to wait until March because they are still finalizing it. OK, that’s cool, should definitely be one of the last things they finish up.
Download the update, start planning.
Complaint #1: My 2023 taxes are loaded, why aren’t you importing (or offering to import) my cap gains, dividends, interest, etc from last year as a starting point? It’s going to be an estimate in any case, and using last year’s numbers seems like a reasonable one.
Complaint #2: This is the real one - my wife is still working, but since she is over 70 has also started her Social Security payments. Due to our tax bracket, this money is going to be massively taxed. There is no where to enter it.
Complaint #3: Similar to #2, I have a pension. There is no place to enter it, or the tax withholding that is applied to it.
Complaint #4: I tried using their online chat to see if I was missing something obvious about #2 and #3, and after (relatively easily so positive points there) reaching a real person, they said to wait a minute while they researched. Presumably after finding there was no place to enter the info, they dropped me without so much as a goodbye.
Complaint #5: I tried to use their feedback tool to register the above complaints, but it will not actually send the complaint - “System message: Forbidden”.
Well, I’m mightily pissed off. I’ve been so happy with my super-reliable Dell Optiplex business desktop – solid as a brick, I’d say to myself. So today I go to wake it up and … nothing! I look at the power button which is normally flashing when it’s asleep, and it’s off.
The little bit of digging I’ve done so far is that it got a bugcheck at around 1:30 AM last night and shut down. I also got a notice from MS Edge that it had crashed or not shut down correctly and did I want to sent Bill Gates the particulars, because apparently Bill is deeply concerned. I don’t know if this is just an artifact of the system shutting down for other reasons or if Edge was somehow the cause, but I don’t see how a user-mode program can cause a fatal bugcheck – it should only be able to hurt itself, not the whole system.
I’ve found it useful in the past to analyze the crash dump, but Microsoft seems to now require you to install a whole big SDK, or at least, to start the installation process on it and then uncheck everything except the dump analyzer, WinDbg. I guess I’ll wait and see if the problem recurs. I love this computer and the way I have everything configured and it would majorly piss me off if it had a serious problem.
This all happened on the same day that I got a big cheque from our noble government as a reward for doing my taxes. I could have been celebrating instead of fretting!
I wasted a couple hours of my life watching a movie I’d never heard of called Voyagers It is about a multi-generational space ship.
William Golding would be sad to see the movie, as it is just a piss-poor remake of Lord of the Flies, in a space ship…
ETA: spoilered if you haven’t seen it and don’t wanna know why the movie sucked.
No one else cares, but I am massively bummed by this.
My little 13-pound, almost 10-month-old dachshund pup took forever to train to come back to me on command. He’s a willful little fucker and pleasing me is not at the top of his life’s goals. Nevertheless, patience and lots of treats worked their magic and at last, he reliably comes back on command. This is wonderful, because no dog on the planet ever wanted to run his little heart out as much as Ollie does!
So for the past couple of weeks, our new routine has been to go around my heavily wooded property and let Ollie practice getting busy with running and sniffing and doing dog things, but coming to me immediately when I call him. Yesterday he was romping all all over and it was so good to see.
An hour later, I left to go visit a friend who is recovering from surgery. As I exited my property, a big cat leapt in front of my car and skedaddled up the gravel driveway before darting off into the woods. He emerged into my view from exactly where Ollie and I had just rambled. My knees went weak.
I think it’s a Canada lynx. It’s much too big to be a bobcat, a couple of which have literally crossed my path in the past. It’s the size of a small cougar but with huge paws, tufted ears and a bobbed white tail with a black ring around the tip. This is the second time I’ve spotted it. The first time was a few months ago when it crossed in front of my pasture on its way into deeper woods.
Canada lynx are not supposed to be in this area, but I’ve spent a lot of time looking at pics. The animal roaming around my place is a dead ringer for a Canada lynx and I don’t know what else it could be.
My worry of course is letting the little dog run free while this creature is hanging around. I have no way to explain to the little dog why his frolic time has ceased. We both really looked forward to that time. Now he’s just getting Zoomie Time in the house – a poor substitute.
I guess it’s back to leashed walks around the lake. My poor little fella!
There are no dog parks nearby and I’m not a dog park person in any case. Too many irresponsible owners.
Damn cat!!
Well, I’m bummed for you and for Ollie. Puppies need their exercise but of course you don’t want him to be cat fud. Here’s hoping the cat moves on soon.
Thanks. 
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful animal and it has as much right if not more to be here than Ollie and I do. If it is a Canada lynx, it’s a protected species in this area.
The weird thing was seeing the animal in the middle of the day. I’d never take the dog out for a run in the very early morning or at dusk, but midday, I figured he’d be safe from wilding creatures. Guess not. 
ETA: I suppose it could have been much worse. Might have been that my first clue that the lynx was still in my area was watching it carry my dog off in its jaws…
Is it shrink wrap?
I’m finally getting new glasses. Yay! I went to a place listed on my insurance thinking they’d have a large selection of frames. They do, but because of their prices it will cost me out of pocket… a lot. Boo! I poked around on line and found I could have gotten a pair l like much more for almost half the price and not paid out of pocket. Because of the ridiculous pricing of “extras” like the prisms I need to see, I could only choose the cheapest frames they had. Grrr! Next year I’ll try on line.
It’s food-grade plastic kitchen wrap on a very big 2500-foot roll made for the food service industry. It’s basically like Saran Wrap except that the latter isn’t very clingy since it was re-formulated, which makes it practically useless for my purposes; this stuff is very clingy. The stuff normally referred to as “shrink wrap” is a different product intended for packaging and shipping applications.
Update: the problem has not recurred. For now I’m going to assume it was just a fluke, maybe a cosmic ray hit, who knows. I haven’t bothered to install the crash dump analyzer.
I’m talking about kitchen prep shrink wrap. Used to wrap oh individual pickle wraps and other fresh food offerings. Comes in a roll like you describe.
Like this: VacPak-It WM-18 Single Roll Film Wrapping Machine - 115V, 750W
l know about the more heavy duty stuff too. Stinkin’ Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper/Seven Up who make commercials about recylcing every part of their bottles, now send 90 percent of their product in shrink wrap instead of reusable crates.
I hate the time change. I don’t care if it’s spring forward or fall back. It takes me forever to adjust. I don’t care if they leave it standard or savings. I just want it to stop changing.
I say split the difference, then LEAVE IT ALONE!!!