I know it’s a joke… but 20 years from now someone might read this and not know that toner is highly poisonous. Then again, 20 years from now the only life left on earth may be cockroaches which might be able to chug toner and live.
Anti-rant: I love living in this commie socialist state of Canada! Aside from benefits from the Canada Pension Plan, which is indexed to inflation, and Old Age Security, which is also indexed to inflation, I just got a notice that because of my decrepit old age, my OAS has just been increased by 10% for no particular reason. 
Just got off a conference call with Medicare and Social Security. As I had suspected, when they set up my benefit payment account I was given a new Medicare account, with premiums being deducted from my monthly benefits. For some reason this was not linked to my prior Medicare account, so I wasn’t given credit for the premium payments I had previously made. Instead, they deducted over $14,000.00 in past due premiums from my retroactive benefits. This did cause an automated alert because of the excessive premium due, so an investigation was already underway.
I was also told that there was a payment issued to my bank yesterday for the back benefits less Medicare premiums. I need to check to see if it was received by the bank, and if not check my SSA account to verify they have the correct bank data.
Yanno, I love living in a country where I don’t even understand this stuff!
Hey, I used to work for Social Security and I still don’t understand how they managed to do this. I’m just glad I wasn’t dependent on these benefits to pay my bills.
E-Z Pass So in America we have an international road network. Anyone can easy and quickly go wherever they want for free, paid for by taxpayers. Unless you happen to drive on the few highways that predate this system and then you must pay for the privilege. The companies that own these roads want to maximize profits so they don’t stock the toll booths with many people so there are long lines or on off hours there is no one in the booth at all. If you lived in this state you’d have a EZ card for that State that you settle the balance on every month. If you don’t want to wait in long lines or cannot find anyone to actually pay it’s alight say the signs, you have up to 14 days to pay any toll fees online.
The fuck you do.
I got home from my road trip out east and set about calling the states I owed. They have no incentive to make this possible, they have the cameras so they got your plate, they WILL send you the bill with the additional late fees attached so you’re paying $68 on a $6 toll. But that’s one toll, for one state, it adds up fast if you’ve driven all over New England on vacation.
Thievery protected by a wall of willful bureaucracy and complacency.
I can’t focus long enough to complete my errands and prepare for my upcoming job interview, yet I can focus on debating with strangers on the internet for four hours straight.
Midwest Degenerate Gambler
-The devil is busy!
The best part of this April coming to an end ( other than Canada telling Rump to go f-ck himself ) will be flushing your post(s).
One more day of April. This evening in Western PA we had an intense microburst. Trees are down, power lines and poles are down, roofs are missing. It was incredible. Estimated 80 mph winds swishing around with some lightning and heavy rain. It almost blew my front door off. Will need to get that checked eventually but it seems to be working ok for now.
So I am getting ready for bed and look out my back window and there is a tree down in my yard! I have no trees so it’s from my neighbor’s yard. I called her and she said she would take care of it as I am leaving Thursday of Friday for a week long trip to Virginia.
Every time I plan a trip I have some kind of major or minor disaster. This is minor thankfully.
The last day of April tomorrow is our city-wide cleanup. I bid farewell to an old friend. A section of heating duct 2-3 ft long that has been in my basement since I bought this place 36 years ago.
Don’t throw it away! You might need it.
Just kidding. I find it so satisfying to jettison stuff I’ve owned forever “just in case”.
Ah, yes, the “just in case” syndrome. I have the extraordinary superpower of carefully hoarding things that turn out to be totally useless, while constantly losing things that are actually really important. It’s actually amazing that I’ve survived in this world as long as I have.
In terms of documents and information, computers have been part of my salvation. Here I can hoard useless junk to my heart’s content, but among the immense digital clutter will usually be stuff I actually need, though I may have to do a deep content-based search to find it!
36 years would be a record even for me! 
I recently was able to throw out two ancient desktop computers during electronics collection day here. Though I should mention that besides my three laptops, including one new one with Windows 11, I also have a really ancient one somewhere that I think was running the latest Windows at the time, I think Windows 3.0. Yanno, just in case!
Are you from the planet Krypton? Did you send away for & where you wearing those magic X-ray specs that were advertised in the back of comic books when I was a kid? If not how could you see the potential scars she had from back surgery or the possible herniated disc she was currently dealing with?
So someone who, according to you, was obviously from another country, who had a language barrier, & who may have different cultural norms didn’t clear sitting down with you she lost her place?
Maybe she didn’t get the memo that you’re in charge of society in this country. She’s not the only one who didn’t get that memo.
If she had sat, in line, on the (dirty) floor would you have also deemed her to have lost her place? What if she had a folding chair or one of those folding cane-stools; would that have negated her place in line, as well?
Nitpicking your nitpick; there used to be a wide east/west aisle between all of the north/south aisles & the cold stuff ringing the outside of store or the checkout lanes up front that is now filled with small areas of merchandise, which means there hardly anywhere to pass granny toodling along. The one up front is just a folding table with impulse purchase B2/G2 candy bars. Those are isles among the aisles!
Just why does a middle-aged woman who hasn’t been to the hair dresser in a while smell so bad??? 
I’m taking a class, 35 or 36 students. We had a 100 multiple-guess question test last night. I was the third one finished (not trying to brag, just painting the scene). The second guy got up when I was just getting to #96, so just a minute or two ahead of me; reasonable enough. The first guy? I was on question #61. WTF; did he even read them or did he just play Genesis’s ABACAB on his answer sheet?
More likely he was an ABBA fan. Their songs are much more up-tempo, and you don’t have to move your #2 pencil as much.
Fox News, proper news, and even Stephen Colbert should begin with this phrase.
“This is what our officials have done lately to divide us and the following is how I will make you anxious and upset in some measure in order to best profit from it.”
They are all not equal, but that they are all doing it is depressing.
At least I had my priorities straight. Multiple computers and TVs gone. But I saved one (of 2) broken coffee makers just in case. I CAN fix it if it comes to that.
New month of rants: