Why does American Express log you out after only 5 minutes of inactivity??? That’s just stupid
They do it every summer. In a few months it’ll change to something else.
I’m having a real fun time with my guest bed. I ordered a nice mission-style headboard for it for not too much. But it turns out that the metal bed frame was too narrow. The hunt for a new bed frame was long and exhausting. I finally get one at Walmart(!) which I hate going to. But I get it home, get it assembled (super-easy to do) and then see that it is also too narrow. I just about lose my mind when i realize that it’s adjustable so I widen it. Now the connection points are wide enough. BUT NOW THEY DON"T LINE UP VERTICALLY! So I put the headboard feet on a pair of bricks and that allows me to screw in one connection point on each side. Very rickety. So, I’m gonna have to detach everything, put the headboard on the ground properly, drill new connection holes, and attach it with wood screws instead of the machine screws and sockets that came with the headboard. I know I can do this, but I never have and so I’m nervous about screwing (ha) it up.
My bank does the same thing. Just about every time I log in it insists on texting me a code to verify my device.
my health provider, BCBS, does something weird. When I log on to my account on my desktop it asks me to verify my telephone number. It doesn’t send me a code to enter, though; it just tells me that my device is now verified for the next four months. Or the next day, whichever comes first.
Our home improvement project is stuck at 99% complete. On Friday one of the workers stopped to pick up some tools for another job site. When I walked by he said, “So, you do MMA, huh?”
Wow. I know what MMA stands for but I was totally blown away that he thinks I am involved in a combat sport. I eventually figured out it was my kayaking gloves that he saw me wearing. I have vitiligo and need to protect the backs of my hands from burning. He mistook kayaking gloves for MMA gloves.
Time to go beat the shit out of that lake!
What irks me is the ‘remember my device’ selection powered by ChatGoldfishGPT AI that constantly responds ‘This looks like a new unknown device…’ and ignores all of the autofill and preior login authorizations everytime I switch from phone, to home, to work, etc.
"Yes, and your boss needs to finish the last 1% of this job, or else … " { hold up kayaking gloves, which I did not know were a thing till just now, very threateningly }
Speaking of bank logins, I hate it when a financial website changes their login page without any announcement that it will change. This weekend, I went to log on my Vanguard account, and since I use a password manager with the URL saved, I am pretty sure that I am trying to open the same log in page as always. Except this time, I see the browser try to open the page, do a couple of redirects, and then show a page that isn’t what I am used to seeing. The security certificate looks ok, but there is some information that seems to be missing. Since what I was wanting to do wasn’t urgent, I just decide to not log on. I’m 99% certain that Vanguard just changed something on their end, but fuck them if they don’t warn their customers.
Day 1 of stimulant withdrawal. I was hoping to take most of the day off to do something fun, and to get a little work done this morning, but what I was able to do was marginal and I just slept for three hours straight, which is not exactly how I prefer to spend my time.
I don’t know why it’s so difficult for the pharmacy to keep this medication in stock when I’ve been taking it for years. It’s not like they have to guess when I’ll need more.
As an aside, my doctor just adjusted my meds upward to try to compensate for the long COVID brain fog, so God knows how much longer it’s going to take now.
Well, the Iceland/Glasgow trip may be off. I just found out that my request for a certified copy of my birth certificate acceptable to the passport office has been canceled. No reason given on the website, and when I tried calling customer service I sat on hold for over half an hour before giving up. At least they’re refunding what I paid for it. At this point it looks like my only option would be to fly to Chicago and get it myself.
I am not happy.
Aw, geez, thats truly terrible. Bureaucracy sucks. My sympathies.
Dumb question, but did you call first thing in the morning, like early Central time? Sometimes it helps.
To the old, bitter fuck in the park today:
No, I do not have to “leash that motherfucker”. The rules in the park, the giant sign you drove past to get in, merely state that us dog-walkers have to “control” our pets. You will have observed that my dog was quite well controlled, even though you approached the two of us and lunged at my dog yelling at her to “get out of the park”, then told me to do the same, and she did nothing but look at me quizzically (rather than, say, barking at you, let alone biting you). Perhaps you should consider leashing your undirected hate at the world, and maybe go to one of the many other parks our city offers that aren’t so dog-centric.
Cheerfully,
Fuck You.
Are you saying that we’re heading into another general shortage? So far, for about the past year I’ve had no trouble getting my prescription filled.
I’m pitting myself. Got confident on the start of summer at the gym and disregarded my back saying “”Hey, we’re twinging here!” Forgot that it usually takes a day for an injury to really kick in. Now it hurts to do most things and I’d happily punch myself in the face if that would make things better.
It’s kinda funny, the contractor is so swamped with work he can’t spare two men to put in an hour to finish our porch, after spending weeks doing our roof, tearing down the old porch, and building the new porch.
One hour of work for two guys and he gets the final check which is around $22,000.
My gf has accepted this since the money is earning interest.
< Pops Popcorn & waits for this new chapter of “Dog Wars” to begin >
I looked at my online medical records to see just how much weight loss had been documented. It’s a lot.
But I happened to scroll down and was bemused to find out that a) I have ADD, and b) I have psychiatric issues and am seeing a psychiatrist. Neither of these happens to be true.
I have to assume that doc, or transcriber, saw “Ritalin” and it was an automatic thing to say that it was for ADD. But it isn’t - I have a small quantity to improve alertness when driving; I use it maybe once a month.
The psychiatrist bit is completely out of the blue.
Reminds me of the time I had a sleep study, back in 2000 or 2001. The only diagnosis that came out of that was “hypnotic dependent syndrome” or some such - boils down to “uses too many sleeping pills, cannot sleep without them”.
Having, at that point, had ONE sleeping pill in my life, 3-4 years before, I’m pretty sure that diagnosis was wrong too. I really wish I’d written a nastygram about that but, yanno, I was too tired and brain-fogged from the reasons I needed the frickin’ sleep study.
I don’t know. This is an ongoing issue with my pharmacy. They usually fill it, just late.