I also think you did right. What’s wrong with so many people that all they can think of is “lawsuit! compensations! free shit!”? I sure don’t want to be that person. I’m glad you weren’t. And if anyone in your group thinks their food has never been touched by bugs in their home, well, denial’s not just a river in Egypt, no?
Ditto times eleventy. I am generally very sympathetic to businesses, even large ones, where small mistakes happen.
FTR, I worry a lot less about bugs in the food in other peoples’ houses than I do about pet fur, especially cats. No offense to the cat lovers out there (I am one, although allergic) but if you aren’t careful and clean, bad things happen.
Roddy
My mom just started using the Working Hands stuff. She sews for a living and the ends of her fingers get deep cracks in them that bleed sometimes. She says it’s working pretty well.
Wrist still hurts. I asked the doctor to put me on standby if anyone cancels before my appointment in three weeks. I’m about ready to go to the doc-in-a-box to get it x-rayed. Driving is difficult, writing is damn near impossible.
Okay, I’ll look into that brand, too, if my problem continues.
I did the Vaseline thing last night. Today the skin on the back of my hands looks better – smoother, less irritated – but my real problem in the skin on my fingers, both the tips and around the knuckles, and that doesn’t seem changed. Today I was reading a magazine and realized I was leaving bloody fingerprints behind. 
BUT a friend actually brought over some of that Zim’s crack crème, and she swears its strong point is dealing with the thickened skin that is why your skin cracks, so tonight I will give that a go. Spray, rub in, and top with some other lotion to keep it from rubbing off too soon.
Fingers (painfully) crossed.
Bah, quote didn’t work.
I rarely have trouble with my fingers cracking, but the skin on the soles of my feet give me hell sometimes. I will get a tiny crack and next thing I know I have a .5 cm x 1 cm divot out of the bottom of my foot. Funky thing will actually divot out following the ‘fingerprint’ lines in the sole all the way down to bloody fresh skin. I really hate to remove any skin from my feet to get the calluses off but the cracking sucks and all the moisturizer in the world does nothing. As long as it isn’t happening between my toes I guess I am fine with it, so far they always seem to heal fast. [diabetic, I worry about foot damage. Oddly enough I have never had athletes foot in my life, nor a vaginal yeast infection. My endo thinks that is seriously odd. :dubious:]
Forgot to add - my podiatrist seems to feel that the thin sheet of callus is harmless as it is a result of my preferring to walk around the house barefooted and not because of rubbing of shoes.
One day I hope to get a free cat that is actually free.
George has been hanging around work for about a week. I had been planning on dealing with him this weekend anyhow, but when I saw him limping yesterday I put the grabs on him.
George was going to go to adoptions, but he somehow managed to find his way into my heart while he was at the vet.
I’m not sure if it was the purrs, or the headrubs on my hands or the way he looked at me and only me while the vet was looking him over. I think it was probably the way he reached for me while he was getting taken off to get bloodwork that did it.
He’s already a $150 cat and he still has his balls. That will be fixed shortly. (I was going to say rectified but had to make the bad joke. Damn, I just crack myself up sometimes.)
Anyhow, George is 9 months to a year old. He’s about 12 pounds, dark orange stripes on light orange background and he has such a ready purr. Its not just a purr, its a PURR.
From the looks of him, he has been on the streets for a while. He’s been fighting, but managed to avoid getting FeLV or FIV.
Steve the feral cat has been hanging out on top of George’s cage. I have no idea why, but George doesn’t seem to care and Steve isn’t hissing. I’m hoping this is a good sign.
Lovelovelove this story flatlined! esp this part:
Hope George has a long and happy life with you! <3
flatlined, George sounds really cool. 
Sounds like our new girl (who not only fishhooked the vet on the lip when he went to take her in the back to do the fecal test and bloodwork, but also just exploded out of both ends earlier this evening, thankfully in the litterbox). She has the loudest purrbox I’ve ever heard, and it’s non-stop.
Congrats to you and George!
Me, too.
And, flatlined, you haven’t posted pictures of ANY of your cats. There’s no excuse for that, and I demand to see pictures of them all!
And Buttercup.
Not that anyone asked, but this is my housetiger!
Green stink bugs are the uninvited guest most likely to come bundled into my laundry or Mom’s; second most-frequent are brown spotted ones - the reaction of most kids upon first encountering one is along the lines of “oh, that’s a cute big bug”; the “stink” part makes them a great tool for teaching catch and release techniques.
Dumb as shit, too, or maybe dazed by the trip: you can get them to walk all over your hand and arm (tickles!), they won’t try to fly away unless you move suddenly. If that little one had come by my table, it might have been used as entertainment…
flatlined, you specifically owe us a pic of Steve atop George’s cage.
And the poofy wedding dress!!
Four light bulbs shot in 3 days. Two in the same fixture. Bah! Outside of the bathroom light bank, I only have six fucking light bulbs in my apartment.
Probably, the first two were to soften you up for that last, so you’d accept your role as his new Mommy. 
(And yeah, any/all of the above would turn me to a pile of goo, especially the reaching for his human while being carted away.)
Congratulations on the new family member! Hope sibling relations sort out quickly and without bloodshed.
I second this. We NEED kitty pictures.
Are the fixtures to blame for this, or are you just really awkward around the apartment?
'Cos if it’s the fixtures, you can hold the landlord financially accountable for repairing them so they’re functional and safe.
Two bulbs in the torchiere (50-100-150 3-way, and 60w side bulb), one in bedside lamp, one in kitchen ceiling (holds 3, maintained at 1). So no, 2 of the 3 are my lamps.
I notice we’re having some minor power fluctuations quite frequently lately, probably the cause of it.
So cute!