Where was this salvation a week ago, when I had to hear the O.G. about eight times per shift?
A combination minor rant and question. Among the handful of drugs I take every morning is Furosemide (Lasix) which I understand is supposed to aid with a water retention problem. It apparently does this by requiring me to frequently urinate. What puzzles me is this: Why is that after on some days after taking it do I have to make frequent trips to the bathroom, but on other days I don’t? There doesn’t seem to be any pattern to this. I have learned to defer taking it if I have plans to go out in the morning, just in case it generates a frequent urination cycle that day.
So I had to venture out for groceries to day. Headed to the local WalMart with heavy heart and aching back. I HATE to shop.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear?
A damn trump trailer selling merch in the parking lot? Advertising their famous black flags.
Uff da indeed.
I need to ask… and I honestly do want you to tell me if I’m over reacting.
This was dropped on my porch a few days before election day.
Is this an Ignorant MAGA’s idea of a noose…? Because it sure seems like it is.
Yes, I would say that is definitely meant to be a noose. I would recommend reporting it to the police, just to be on the safeside.
I made a call to the police… on the non-emergency… but I got stomped flat by my spouse saying I needed to “stop causing” trouble for the neighbors who regularly harass us.
I think this crossed a line.
That’s a threat, I’d of reported it too. Maybe it’s just kids horsing around but better safe than sorry.
Agreed.
An old friend morphed into a rabid maga type they live in an upscale gated community in palm beach county. We stay in text very little, she knows my politics I know hers. I never bring that shit up to her. So I reached out to wish happy holidays and we’ve been pleasantly communicating for a couple days. Until today.
She pulls out talking points from the “news” regarding “illegals” getting freebies how shameful and isn’t Chicago a mess these days.
Typical but to then append that poison message with how great it is to watch football on a Sunday with an order of take out pizza - life is good! Xmas trees Santa’s angels and kisses galore.
So let’s denigrate the homeless brown people while living it up in Palm beach? How does one respond to that crap? I’m not looking for reasoned advice I’m looking to blast it back to her. So I did in aa manipulative gas lighting manner. Merry fucking xmas lady! It’s been crickets the last hour. Her response is pending. lol.
I still have it.
Next door neighbor on one side is really right-wing creepy and he had a contractor doing work in his driveway most of that day. Of late, he has been sporting tight khaki pants with a small Glock sized triangle bump in his pocket as he swaggers out of his house. My guess is that someone didn’t listen too well at his CCW classes.
The other suspects were a couple walking down the street when I was checking for mail later in the day. They asked whether or not I was coming to The Block Party the next weekend with big smirks on their faces.
There IS no ending for the Kathy Bates CBS ‘Matlock’ reboot, is there…?
(She announced earlier this year that she was retired & not doing a Season 2, right?)
Was there ever a guessing contest for who forged the head of the firm’s signature?
( I think it was ‘Stuart’ his personal assistant… which still means the head of the firm authorized the documents removal. There’s now no way to prove it though. )
NFL Football: NY Jets at Buffalo Bills or Indianapolis Colts at NY Giants.
What? They couldn’t schedule 7th Cav Custer at Crazy Horse…?
I expect it shall turn up, right in the middle of the floor when you need to pee, barefoot, at night!
Lego’s don’t have a point, either.
Now I haz a sad. I have a picture of Batman with a PSA caption -
An important message from Batman regarding this time of year
I do not smell!
that I forgot all about posting a week or so ago. 
My rant - the town code enforcement dept sucks & does nothing! It snowed last Fri/Sat. As of this past Fri (one week later) there was two blocks that *still *had not been shoveled by any of the houses. Now the sidewalk is outside the fence of all of those houses & is either on the side or rear of all of them (on three different streets!). Given it’s outside their fence one could possibly assume that it’s not their property but that of the town. I opened a ticket for ‘property not maintained’ on the town’s website on Fri eve. They closed it out this morning with out any notes. I called them up & asked why it was closed. They told me there’s no more snow so there’s nothing for them to do (it did rain & was warm over the weekend). Ummm, can’t you notify those people that they need to clear it for the next storm? No, they don’t do that & it’s up to me to go past there & make sure that they haven’t cleared it in the next storm & file another complaint; they won’t even put it on a watch list. If the timing is again over a weekend, or even worse, a holiday weekend & it warms up in the intervening time they won’t do anything again. They won’t notify anyone, only fine them, if appropriate.
This is not my first run it with them closing out tickets because they’re too lazy to do anything about it. I think it’s time to go to a supervisor’s meeting & make them squirm in discomfort!
Great meme!
Now is still during the 12 days of Christmas, so you’re still good enough. At least for me. 
Kind of a pissant rant, but…
Why does PayPal, when I’m buying something or making a donation online, tell me at the end of the process that they’re sending me back to the vendor or charity to complete the payment, but when I’m returned to the site it tells me the transection has already been finished and gee thanks?
By this time I know what’s coming, but why does PayPal engage in this deception?
Seems to me that’s Paypal trying to say
We don’t know exactly what that e-stores processes are, but our collect-your-payment function is now done and we return you back to them to do whatever else they have left to do. Which might be something, or might be nothing.
They just chose a sloppy shorthand way to say it.
A different explanation is they wrote the text of that message from the programmer’s point of view, not the user’s. Which is a common failing in UIs.
Paypal is sending you back to the vendor. And in a way you can’t see, informing the vendor the money was collected successfully. Which vendor computer will do something you can’t see in response, and then show you a success screen that you do see. What you did not see, but what did happen on your behalf, was the vendor site taking note of the successful payment and updating their info accordingly to start you purchase towards fulfillment. It’s the completion of that process that Paypal’s dev was talking about when they wrote the message text.
Q for you … you said
Are you sure they said “payment”? Or was it the “transaction” or “purchase” that’ll be completed when you get back there? Those words would be better but it’s still a message written from their POV, not the user’s POV.
Not Sure If I Already Ranted About This
With the new desk and shelves, I have space to display some things. Combined with other things, I have more motivation to unpack now. So, I unpacked a few boxes.
Most of my stuff came through two moves fine. However, this was because it was inherently durable. Most of the team that packed and moved my stuff did NOT know how to pack. I found a box of things from one of my display cases. Each item had been wrapped in a single sheet of paper. That was it. No other attempt to protect these items had been made. Radox (a robotic pterodactyl I bought in the 80’s) had suffered cosmetic damage. My Bride Of Frankenstein model (I painted and assembled it myself! Considering my low manual dexterity and hand tremors, I think I did a great job) is broken in many many places. I haven’t done a thorough inspection. But, it looks like most of the breaks were in places where things had been glued together in the first place. I can fix it. But, it should not have been broken in the first place.
I already ranted about this on Facebook. My SIL said I should have unpacked sooner. I would have if it had been possible. For a few months aftr my stuff was moved, it was in a storage facility in Pennsylvania. I was temporarily living at my GF’s apartment in New Jersey. When we moved my stuff into my second apartment. There was no room to unpack. My first apartment was roughly 750 feet. My second was 500.
One relative said I ‘should just get rid of the broken stuff.’ and that I ‘do neet need a house full of collectibles’ . I thought she actually knew me. Apparently, she does not. I would only get rid of the Bride and Radox if I could replace them with ones in better shape. It is far faster and cheaper to repair the ones I already have.
I now have a pile about 4 feet high of stuff I will donate. I just want the two friends who live a few blocks away to inspect it and be sure there is nothing they want.
I have a smaller pile of stuff I am sure my friends will want- A Dr Kildare board game, Dark Shadows novels, a He-Man hardcover story book, and the Transformer Jetfire (missing his bomb/gun and in need of a metal pin). I have two TSR mini board games I meant to give to Howard when he came over to assemble the desk. Oh well.
I would hang onto Radox too because it’s awesome.
I agree! Besides a few of the regular size Zoids/Robostrux, I have Badox (A battery-powered mecha gorilla) packed away somewhere.
Two Mini Rants
I hate, loathe and despise the receptionist at my psychiatrist’s office. He is surly, rude, lazy and incompetent. I called and got an answering machine. Then, I got a call back. From what he said, the receptionist had not listened to my message. He just used *69 or some other method to call me back. He immediately asked who I was and why I had called. I said I wanted to know the date of my next appointment with the psychiatrist, and if I had any refills left. He asked if he could call me back in a few minutes. I said he could. I was in the middle of explaining that my lunchbreak may have ended by then and if I did not answer please leave a detailed message, when he hung up on me.
He called back a bit after my break ended. He left a voicemail. My next appointment is on January 28th. He made no mention of my second question. I will have to call back about refills as I am running low on some meds and want to get them refilled before I go to Florida to visit relatives.
Rant #2
I often get spam bearing the name of my beloved. The title of the e-mails promises pictures. As my beloved has been known to send me pictures in e-mails, I always open these e-mails. A quick look at the sender’s address confirms that they are spam and not pictures from the woman I love. Still, I feel the need to check every time just to be sure.