We have a local wings restaurant. Mrs Magill, who went to school in Buffalo and “practically lived at Duff’s.” Approves of it.
In that case I stand by my original post. Those SOBs are putting in drumsticks in my wings container as they most definitely were dard.
Well my eyes are all fucked up right now. I’ve been trying to work on a new cross stitch project using a smaller point cloth and it’s done a fucking number on me. I bought some cheap reading glasses and those did a fucking number on me. I feel dizzy and headachey. The only thing I can stand to do right now is wear my regular glasses, but I can’t see up close with them. Usually I take them off to read and I can’t even do that right now. If I hold my phone 12" from my face I can read on my phone.
I was just trying to do a relaxing activity!
ETA: I would totally order wings right now if I hadn’t ordered pizza yesterday and I have too much dignity to order delivery from the same place two days in a row.
Don’t I?
My kids learned to swallow pills by practicing with the baby M&Ms they sell in the baking aisle for cookies. Well, they didn’t actually learn how all the way, but they got used to trying to do it without gagging or choking.
Oooh, clever! I don’t have little kids to deal with, but I can see some other uses for that trick.
We won’t judge you, go for it! To me it’s only undignified if you order the same exact thing two days in a row.
It’s Friday night. They’re too busy to notice. Go for it.
I always have a bag of pre-cooked wings (from Costco) in the freezer for emergency purposes. They are quite good when prepared in an air fryer.
mmm
Costco also makes these lightly-breaded chicken “chunks” that are extremely good in the air fryer.
So good. They do not just taste like nuggets.
I just walked down to the German bier place. They have decent wings in the standard flavors. Good sized & meaty not fatty.
The app order size turned out to be 7: 3 flat & 4 drumette. Hot enough & not too sloppy w sauce. And a few veg stix.
Nothing incredible, but hit the spot perfectly. Thanks all for the inspiration.
About to wander home; craving satisfied for a couple months.
There is/was a shortage of patches starting in late June, early July. They may be just catching up.
It might be worth your while to use the GoodRx.com website to find out which pharmacy chains have it at the lowest price. When I checked the generic Daytrana was more expensive by over a hundred dollars a month than the brand name at some pharmacies. Sometimes GoodRx ‘coupons’ make a script cheaper to pay for out of pocket than the copay would be with insurance. It’s all very inscrutable and ever shifting.
Digging in a bit deeper it seems the manufacturer of brand name Daytrana patches discontinued them early this year. Now only generic Daytrana equivalent patches are available. So now the generics can jack their prices up.
If it’s Xelstrym patches (newer and more $$$) that were prescribed and your insurance won’t authorize, they do have a patient assistance program available-your pharmacist should be able to tell you how to access that. Shoot me a PM if that doesn’t work, some pharmacists can’t be bothered. My 9 year old grand daughter, a triple exceptional kid like yours (very similar support level and school experiences) takes two different ADHD meds and it seems like getting her meds reliably every month without interruption is a part time job for the three of us.
I’d like to thank you for a really coherent explanation, as part of the “fighting ignorance” thang.
I know this ^^ stuff, but it’s good to re-explain occasionally, and yours was, as usual, succinct.
They usually rotate crew (esp delivery) so honestly, they’d probably only notice if you ordered 4+ times a week for months, and then suddenly disappeared, then maaayyybe they’d just worry a bit.
Or at least, that’s how we roll. No judgment, mostly (okay, Mr. Triple mushroom extra sausage, we cannot be friends) but you wanna order takeout 3x a week, you’re just fillin’ our paychecks.
Jean-Paul Satre had it right: “L’enfer, c’est les Autres”.
C’est tout.
(“Hell is other people”, and “That is all”)
I have another medical / Rx rant.
I am about to start on injectable GLP-1 for my diabetes; seems I’ve finally worn my pancreas down enough it needs more help than my existing meds can handle. I (mostly) don’t need the weight loss aspect, but anything that makes snacking or desserting less likely will naturally improve the low-carb orthodoxy of my diet.
The med needs refrigeration and is shipped accordingly. Even with insurance it’s kinda pricy. I got a message at 9am Friday from the mail order pharmacy that it was delivered. No pictures, no info about which courier, no nothing.
The doorman crew at my building has no record of having gotten it. And they have a fridge especially for meds like that. Mine’s not there.
The place it was probably delivered is a building a half-mile away with a similar looking address if you don’t look too closely. Which has no doorman / reception staff. It could have been tossed nearly anywhere between their two lobbies, several outside doors, the hallway in front of their one mailroom the couriers can’t get into, or maybe thrown at an apartment door whose number they figured is close enough. My number doesn’t exist in that building.
There is a leasing office that opens later this morning, today being Sat. Sometimes they can help find a lost package from our building. And my building’s staff returns the favor to their residents.
Maybe I’ll find it. Maybe it’ll still have been cold enough to not have been spoiled by 24 hours sitting in its ver-warming coldpak. Maybe it’ll have some kind of indicator so I can know whether it’s good or spoiled, instead of guessing.
One thing I’m pretty sure of: if it is lost spoiled, I get to pay for the replacement. The idea that courier companies are not responsible for misdeliveries is one of my pettest of pet peeves. There oughta be a law.
GROWL!!
A couple of days at room temperature is generally not an issue for GLP-1s. I think most can even go several weeks at room temp and be fine.
I use an injectable med for my asthma that also ships with an ice pack and I flipped out the first time it was delivered early on a day I wasn’t home. Also turned out to be no big deal as that med can also go 14 days at room temp.
Thanks for that info. Both @liirogue just above and @Seanette just below. 
I’ve just spent an hour dealing w customer “service” who had access to delivery photos. Once I saw those I recognized it was at that other building. I’ve been there enough times to know it well. And the courier had taken a very nice pic of the front door it was sitting at. Whose apartment number bore zero resemblance to mine: like dropping apartment 123’s package at apt 495’s door. The good news is it’s indoors, so airconditioned. Our daily highs are still in the upper 80s.
I go over there, bother the leasing staff, explain the story, and once they have time between their customers they escort me up there. And there it was. Yaay!
Bring it home, crack the big styro cooler open and the boxes of meds are still cool; not fridge temp, but cool: 50s probably. The various coldpaks in there are totally soft, but cool to the touch.
I get to reading the fine print and the stuff can sit 21 days below 86F before going bad. News to me, but good news for sure.
So as you say, the fridge angst was mostly misplaced. At least now that our outside temps are not well into the 90s
A major name brand online/mail order prescription Drug Benefit (PBD) pharmacy using the cheapest fly-by-night courier service is not a good story. I’m gonna try to get note in my file to use USP or FedEx exclusively. I’ve never had a misdelivery here with them. Brand X misdelivers or flat loses about 1 in 8 or 10 of my online purchases. Most of which are low cost and negligble importance. Not this stuff.
Oh yeah, one more thing. The pharmacy texted me that the package was “just delivered.” At 9am on Fri. The courier’s info says they dropped it at that wrong door in the wrong building at 4:30pm on Thu. The package had already been sitting unattended for 16+ hours before I was notified it had been delivered (somewhere). Great. Just Great.
So bottom line: I got the right result (usable drugs) for the totally wrong reason (lotta effort on my part to do their jobs).
If it’s packed as well as my husband’s insulin is for shipping, it’ll very likely still be cold. Those refreezable ice packs they use stay frozen for a LONG time, and the insulator stuff (vinyl-covered foam) wrapped around it does a great job.
Well, I’ve managed to thoroughly piss off my real estate agent as well the LXW. She (the agent) was planning on replacing my aged couches in the family room with an expensive almost-new sofa that she got a deal on along with a matching attached chaise lounge – all very modern and upscale. I refused, for … reasons. I didn’t want to give up my comfortable old sofas by sending them to the dump, and storage was otherwise a problem.
Nor did I want to buy this new thing even for the rock-bottom deal that she got on it. She has high standards for staging and is not happy with my ratty old sofas. She is willing to bring a bunch of nice throw pillows and make the best of it but barely suppressed what I was sure was going to be a wisecrack about lipstick on a pig